February 2012
15 posts
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Wilson Miner - When We Build
Wilson Miner - When We Build from Build on Vimeo.
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Force Windows to forget a Network Share
Here’s the scenario, you’ve got a network share hooked up to a password protected drive, when you entered the login details for that share you ticked “remember password” so you don’t have to enter it every time you access that drive.
Times change and you need to use a different username & password, maybe it’s not your machine any more, sounds cool but...
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Hiding "Postgres" from Login on OSX Lion
After installing Postgres from official installer you’ll soon notice a new user on your Login screen, “Postgres”, to hide it perform the following:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array-add postgres
After your log-out and login again you won’t be presented with that user, to reverse this change do:
sudo defaults delete...
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Node.JS & CoffeeScript on OSX
Simple to do with HomeBrew
brew install node
After which you’ll have Node.JS minus NPM, the package manager. It’ll tell you how to do this by next executing
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
You’ll also need to add NODE_PATH to your .bash_profile (or .zshrc file if your using ZSH as a terminal replacement)
NODE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/node_modules
And as these modules...
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Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo.
Bio: Bret Victor invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis.
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Why Wordpress asks for FTP details →
Paypal - finding your API Keys
Paypal has to have the most cumbersome site design around, you’ll also notice that the US/Canada and UK sites all have different site layouts which unfortunately the help documentation doesn’t update to reflect this.
To find you API Keys on the US site:
Goto My Account
Then Profile
Then under Account Information, click Request API Credentials
Now you’ve got two choices,...
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Character Map for OSX
simple, Command-Option-T
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