Paul Tocknell
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Joomla Breadcrumb
Mar 4th
I was playing around on a client’s site today, trying to figure out how to activate the joomla breadcrumb module. Everything I read said that Joomla 1.5.x has a breadcrumb module already pre-installed, but when I went to the modules administration screen, I couldn’t find anything that said ‘breadcrumb” so where the heck is it?
Turns out, Joomla does have a breadcrumb module, but you have to create it first. Here are the steps:
- Go to Extensions – Module Manager
- Click on the “New” Icon on the Right
- Click on “Breadcrumbs”, click “Next”
- Configure module like normal (title, position, class, etc)
See, I told you it was easy! Still don’t believe me, check out this video tutorial:
Copyright Keyboard Shortcut
Feb 17th
There are a couple of keyboard shortcuts that I’m always looking for when creating blog posts. I’m posting the shortcuts here for you (and for me).
The first is the © (copyright) symbol. To create the copyright symbol while typing press and hold the ALT key on your keyboard and then enter 0-1-6-9 consecutively on your keyboard. Again that is “ALT”+0169.
The second symbol is the § (section) symbol. I use the section symbol when refering the Code of Federal Regulations. For instance, let’s say I’m going to quote from CFI Title 14 Section 91. I would enter §91.xx for the regulation I am about to reference, see? To create the section § symbol, hold the ALT key on your keyboard and then enter 0-1-6-7 consecutively on your keyboard. Again, that is ALT+0167 for the § section symbol.
Now, if your last question is, where did you get that “keyboard font”, I downloaded the font “Keystrokes.ttf” from here:
http://www.coolfonts.info/font-5520-keystroke.php
You can also try these places for free fonts that look like keyboard keys:
iTunes Poster Frame
Feb 13th
So I recently imported a bunch of movies into my iTunes and quickly found out, I had a problem:
As you can see, iTunes automatically picked the “Poster Frame” for all my imported movies. The poster frame is the video frame iTune automatically chooses to display the movie thumbnails when sorted in the grid view mode. The problem is that the poster frame was the same for each movie. Instead, I’d like it to be the title frame so I can quickly identify the title of the movie before playing it. So the question is of course, how do you change the poster frame to be the title frame of my imported movie?
You can do this easily in 3 steps:
1) Click play
2) Pause the movie at the precise frame or time you desire
3) Right click on the movie and choose “Set Poster Frame”
4) Done!
You can return to the library, to see the updated thumbnail of your movie!
Watch this video tutorial if you have any questions:
Gmail Date Search
Feb 13th
I love gmail. I’ve tried EVERY webmail service out there and gmail is by far my favorite. However, there are lot of gmail features that are “hidden”. One such feature is the search by date function.
To find a gmail email on a particular date you can just enter the date in the search field in YYYY/MM/DD format. So let’s say you want to find all emails on March 19, 2009 you would enter in the search box:
2009/03/19
Screenshot:
You can also use the search terms “before” and “after” combined with a date to find all emails before or after a date:
after:2009/03/19
or
before:2009/03/19
You can even combine those into 1 search term to find all emails between a date range:
This search would return a result of all emails between February 2, 2009 and February 28, 2009.
Pretty neat huh?