Since I’m more into blogging now, it means I’m also into Wordpress; especially exploring it from the technical side. So don’t be surprised by more blogging about Wordpress. And with a more constant online presence, it allows me to explore and use a few technologies I haven’t had much exposure to yet, AdSense, Google Analytics, SEO, etc.. So, signed up for all my accounts and now time to integrate… hmm how to put the Analytics code onto every page of my blog? … Probably have to edit something… maybe a plugin exists? After a bit of searching, found the perfect, simple how-to on Trent Mueller’s blog … simple editing of footer.php..
Wordpress + Google Analytics
May 1st, 2008Automator
May 1st, 2008More fun stuff, played with Automator recently because I wanted to find a quick way to set image tags for multiple images. You can do it manually in Preview.app, but wanted a drag and drop solution. I guess I got inspired after watching a recent ScreenCastsOnline podcast (http://screencastonline.com/); as a demo, they showed building a workflow for scaling images by 50%. After a bit of searching, I found an Write IPCT Tags action on automator.us (http://automator.us/leopard/downloads/index.html)
With that action, can create static workflow, or can prompt for all the tags to set.
Wordpress upgrade
April 21st, 2008woo woo… managed to upgrade to wordpress 2.5, plus installed several plugins as I try to explore Wordpress a lot more..
Using Spotlight to find system files (Leopard)
April 15th, 2008Well, I just get done writing a happy shiny post about being on a Mac, and now I have to grumble a little bit..
It all started because I was trying to find the location of the apache root by searching for a file I knew would be there, index.html.. But no matter what I did, Spotlight would not show the files I knew had to be there…
After some trial and error and some Google searching, figured out this was because of something new in Leopard… Only way to search system files is via the finder:
- enter the search term on the finder window
- (after the search bar shows up) click the “+” to add search option
- In first menu, choose “Other …”
- Choose “System Files” from the list that pops up (and check to place in menu to avoid this step later), click “OK”
- Now back at the Finder, choose “include” from the second menu
Now you can use this to find all system files
Return to all things Mac
April 13th, 2008I became a Unix/C geek back in ~1983; before that, not much mattered, although I do remember by DG Eclipse RDOS days rather fondly. I purchased a Macintosh in 1985 and was fully entrenched in everything Mac both for work (development along with Unix/X) and personal use until about 1999. After that it was just occasional use as, although I continued with Unix/Linux, I eventually wound up Windows based — primarily to co-exist with various company IT. I picked up a used iMac (lime) in 2003 and loaded up OS X (Panther) and started to enjoy it a little bit, mostly hampered by the underpowered iMac. Can’t say I did much except use it as a browser and iTunes station (without any iPod) for most of the time.
But I finally got fed up with the lame Windows releases and convinced myself that a new iMac was the way to go… So, around Thanksgiving 2007, I bought a shiny new 24″ iMac 2.4 Core 2 Duo, 2 GB, 500G….. Ah, life is good once again! Can’t believe how I lasted this long — computer nirvana once again!