Google Chrome – Full Screen Kiosk Mode

Here are steps for running Google Chrome in full screen Kiosk Mode on a Windows PC: 1. Right click on your Desktop and go to New > Shortcut 2. Browse to the chrome.exe file (depending on your set up, it might be found here: username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe) and click Next 3. Type a name for the shortcut…

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Speed Up & Improve iPhoto ’09 Performance

Okay, since I updated to iPhoto ’09 (yes, I realize it’s currently 2010), I noticed a huge lag in performance upon opening the application.  Not only would it take long to load, but once the interface came up, if you tried to click around with your mouse, the rainbow wheel of death would start spinning.…

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Enable Multi-Site in WordPress

WordPress merging with WordPress MU makes an awesome software package even better. The issue now is, how do you turn on the multi-site functionality? If you are like me and find yourself forgetting that one line of code needed to kick off the setup of multi-site within WordPress. Then you made it to the right…

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Organize your dock by adding spacers in Snow Leopard

There is nothing like a shiny new mac and if you are like me, then you start with a fresh install rather then cloning your old machine. Since the dock on the new machine was not setup the way I like it a had to make a few changes and one of them is to…

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Backblaze Icon Missing from Menu Bar in Snow Leopard

Backblaze

Long story short, Backblaze is awesome!  Up until I lost my Backblaze icon from the menu bar in Mac OSX Snow Leopard.  I researched online a little and couldn’t find an easy method of fixing the issue.  With that nifty little icon missing, I worried if it were working at all – all those precious…

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First Impressions: Genesis Theme Framework

Lately I’ve been doing a lot more work with WordPress, and it’s given me the opportunity to work on lots of different themes and theme frameworks. Given the choice I would much rather start a new theme from scratch. Of course “from scratch” means using one of the many starter themes people have put together,…

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Displaying custom post types on your WordPress blog homepage

So you have created a great new custom post type in WordPress 3.0 but it doesn’t show on your homepage. To add your new post type to the homepage you could use the following code in your functions.php. As you can see this code sets all the post types you would like to have displayed…

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WordPress Hosting

Think2Loud had been on shared hosting for just under two years, before I finally decided to take the leap and set up my own server. A few months ago I was reading a blog post by WooThemes about their new hosting setup. After reading about their insane hosting setup, I started doing a little research…

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How to see if a Post in WordPress has an Excerpt

On the single post page for our posts, we wanted to display the excerpt only if one had been entered. Since the built-in WordPress function to get the excerpt for a post will automatically generate one for you, we couldn’t just put the function in our post loop like what was done below.

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