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Show and Hide Hidden files on a Macintosh
You have a lot of hidden files on your Mac, which is a good thing — mostly. Seeing them all the time would clutter your experience. However, sometimes you really need to see them. Here is how you can show/hide files on OSX. Show Hidden files Launch the Terminal Application: Finder –> Applications –> Utilities….
Experience the power of a bookbook™
I loved this. I thought Ikea did a wonderful and funny job on this parity video to market their new catalog.
The True Cost of using Comic Sans
If you are a designer, you know we hate the font Comic Sans because of its overuse, readability and a dozen other reasons. What you you may not know it is that Comic Sans is costing you money to use it compared to other fonts. Via PixartPrinting
How Do I Make My Website More Popular?
How do I make my website really popular? I get this question a lot. There’s not a easy answer. Or at least not a quick answer. There’s lots and lots of ways to help your website gain visibility on the Internet. Some of those things will cost you money, some those things will cost you…
Lena Gets a New Fancy Schmancy Web Site
After months of working between projects, I am finally done with the new website design. Well, as done as is possible for someone who can’t stop noodling with their website. I get a lot of questions about how clients can improve their own websites. And while I wrote a nice article about how to make…
Wish you understood Net Neutrality? Hilarious!
Net Neutrality can be confusing. You might think it doesn’t concern you. This John Oliver video is a very entertaining way to understand it.
How to embed a Vimeo video into your WordPress site
If you’d like to share a Vimeo video on your WordPress website, it isn’t hard to do. Just follow the instructions under the images…
Correcting an illegal string offset error in Thesis
Some clients have been reporting an error when trying to update or create a new post with sites using an older Thesis framework. (1.8x) This can happen on servers that have upgraded their php. Newer versions of PHP (correctly) throw an error when the [‘type’] field contains a value instead of an array. The error is something…
Entrapornography – Are you an addict?
ODing on GTD? Too many productivity blogs? Constantly reading Paul Graham essays and Seth Godin books? You might be an entrepornography addict. Take this test to find out if you’ve gone too far with productivity porn.
InDesign: Powerful Search and Replace Examples
Wikipedia says… Grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression. Grep was originally developed for the Unix operating system, but is available today for all Unix-like systems. Its name comes from the ed command g/re/p (globally search a regular expression and print), which has the same effect:…