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Archive for February, 2010
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?
The webshop is currently not available. Please come back again later.
Feb 11th
This post is mostly for me, just a FYI.
Every single time that I upgrade my Yireo Magebridge for Joomla and Magento I get this error:
The webshop is currently not available. Please come back again later.
And every single time, I scratch my head wondering how I fixed this error the last time I upgraded Magebridge. So here are the instructions for me so I don’t waste time looking for this solution again:
The problem is with the magebridge.php file located in the magento subfolder. You need to change the permissions back to 644.