Archive for the ‘Fixes/Hacks’ Category
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Posted in Android, Fixes/Hacks, Opinion | No Comments »
I have been disappointed with T-Mobiles schedule of updates (lots of posts out there say that Cupcake was scheduled for January 2009) and tired of waiting for the Over the Air (OTA) update, so I decided to take the plunge and root my phone so that I could update it with whatever I wanted, whenever. … These two demands are opposing forces in the software development world: a high-quality and bug-free update takes time to build, and then takes lots more time testing for compatibility with millions of users running thousands of different applications in millions of different ways.
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Posted in Android, Fixes/Hacks | No Comments »
Problem: after a few days, my Android phone transitions to the Home screen very slowly (sometimes taking >10 seconds). Other apps also seem to be slower.
Quick Answer: Try clearing some of the system memory.
The Whole Story
That is pretty much it. I have a moderate amount of Apps installed, and each of the 3 home screen ...
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Posted in Fixes/Hacks, Programming, Python, Web, WordPress | No Comments »
Problem: Recently I was writing an article where I posted some python code. Using WordPress, I was switching between HTML/Code view and "Visual" view. Every time that I switched, the WordPress editor would change some of my code, namely the quotes. I ended up with something that looked like this:
Solution: Not exactly sure, but it ...
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Posted in Apple/Mac, Fixes/Hacks | 25 Comments »
This goes over my experience with GlowWorm.app causing a boot error in Mac OS 10.5.1 Leopard, and what I did that fixed it.
Symptoms
You just installed GlowWorm.app
Your computer will not boot (or not reach the login window, but the mouse appears) in normal mode
You can boot into safe mode
You can boot into single user mode
The quick ...
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Posted in Fixes/Hacks, WordPress | 1 Comment »
I recently made a WordPress blog for one of our clients. Everything was setup fine in a directory similar to www.thewebsite.com/blog/. Then I decided that I wanted the blog to have its own subdirectory, www.blog.thewebsite.com.
The quick answer: export your data and reinstall WordPress.
The whole story:
So I used the cPanel interface of the web hoster ...
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Posted in Apple/Mac, Fixes/Hacks | 1 Comment »
This article covers an error with Adobe CS3 (Mac). The two symptoms that I know of are
“The help system cannot be launched because the help folder is missing. Please install the help folder or reinstall Dreamweaver” error message OR
nothing happens when you launch help from one of the apps (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, etc)
I ...
