I was migrating an e-commerce store the other day and I downloaded a directory of product images that were heavily nested in some nonsensical pattern of subfolders. The arbitrary and confusing subfolder system made no sense to the new method of hosting the product images, and made adding the image file list to the new [...]

How To Take a Screenshot in Mac OSX (Snow Leopard +)
I know I’m not covering any new territory here, but hey, sometimes I forget myself, so I putting my personal notes public. Take that public. Screenshots are a web guy’s best friend. Well maybe not best… but they’re useful. If you’re running a Mac, here’s a quick cheat sheet for the OSX screenshot hot keys. [...]

Secret Tricks of Designing & Debugging Website Layouts With Chrome’s Inspect Element.
Almost a year ago, I started transitioning away from using Firefox as my primary browser and started using Chrome. The speed and interface lured me in. In general, I largely embrace what Google’s working on when it comes to software and the cloud. However, as most web guys (and gals) know, Firefox has some features [...]

Sublime Text 2 Is Pushing Textmate Out Of My Toolbox.
Like many Mac-based developers and coders, I’ve got a couple standards in my toolbox. Mostly I use Coda to write code, but there’s sometimes that using Coda for simple changes or regular text files is like hunting squirrels with an uzi. For years I’ve been using Textmate, which is without a doubt, a great editor [...]
WordPress Ping List
I was just updating my ping list on a few of my wordpress blogs and I came across this pretty comprehensive list from Vladimir Prelovac’s blog. To use this list, copy and paste this list to your Settings->Writing tab in the admin panel.
Joining MP3 Files
I listen to a lot of audio books and since I recently got an android phone, I want to put my books on that. The problem though, is many of the audio books I have are formatted for CDs. This means I have a bunch of tiny mp3 files organized into folders labeled by disc. [...]
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- Low CTR on Facebook Ads March 29, 2011
- Polyphasic Sleep, huh? August 10, 2010
- WordPress Ping List August 10, 2010
- How To Find A Niche August 9, 2010
- Joining MP3 Files August 10, 2010
- Excavating Files from Subfolders in Mac OSX January 24, 2012
- How To Take a Screenshot in Mac OSX (Snow Leopard +) December 16, 2011
- Secret Tricks of Designing & Debugging Website Layouts With Chrome’s Inspect Element. December 16, 2011
- The Pomodoro Technique: Controlling My Personal Sh!tfit of Stuff. December 16, 2011
- Microsoft to Silently Upgrade all Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users to the Latest Version of Internet Explorer December 15, 2011






