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Enable Google Hangout in Chrome

February 7, 2013 By Chad Ritchie

Can’t join Google Plus Hangout? Keep getting error?

If you are having trouble starting or joining a Google Hangout using Chrome on a Mac, this tutorial could possibly solve the problem.

Step 1

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Select Chrome Preferences

Step 2

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Select Show Advanced Settings

Step 3

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Scroll down to the Privacy section and select Content Settings

Step 4

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Under the Plug-ins section, select Disable induvidual plug-ins

Step 5

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If the Google Talk plug-in is disabled, select Enable

Enjoy!

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Google, Hangout

Create Web Friendly URL

January 17, 2013 By Chad Ritchie

In this video, learn how to create a web friendly URL with one click by setting up a Service using Automator.

Download Automator Service

Not-So Web Friendly URL

With all of the “%20” characters, this url is practically unreadable and would be almost impossible to tell someone how to find this page verbally.

Ugly URL

Web Friendly URL

This url is much more pleasing to look at, despite all of the hyphens in place of the spaces, you could decipher this url string.

Not-So Ugly URL

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: automator, Mac, url, web

How to schedule post in WordPress

January 17, 2013 By Chad Ritchie


Three steps to schedule a post in the WordPress dashboard.

Step 1

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Click edit

Step 2

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Choose date, click ok

Step 3

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Update button will change to schedule button

Filed Under: Blog, WordPress

WordPress Stuck In Maintenance Mode

January 14, 2013 By Chad Ritchie

If your WordPress site gets stuck in maintenance mode while updating your version of WordPress, a theme or plugin, here is a simple solution for getting your site back online.

WordPress maintenance mode screen

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Screenshot from browser

You will need to enable hidden files in your editor.

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Screenshot from Coda 2

In the remote folder, look for a file titled ".maintenance" and delete

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Remote folder view

Filed Under: Blog, WordPress

Play Classic Games in Terminal

January 11, 2013 By Chad Ritchie

Classic games such as 5×5, gomoku, hanoi, pong, snake, solitaire, tetris and a few others are part of GNU Emacs, part of GNU operating system, which can be accessed via the Mac Terminal.

Step 1

To access these classic games, type the command “emacs” into the Terminal to access the GNU Emacs then click Enter

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Step 2

Once you click enter the following GNU Welcome screen will display.

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Step 3

Continue with the key combination of “Esc + x”.

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Step 4

Type in one of these game’s names to start playing:
5×5
blackbox
dunnet
gomoku
hanoi
landmark
mpuz
pong
snake
solitaire
tetris

For a list of games on Emacs, visit http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryGames

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Step 5

Enjoy!

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Step 6

If you want to quit the game, use the key combination “Ctrl + x” followed by “Ctrl + c”

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Mac, OS X, terminal

Get rid of unused WordPress shortcodes

November 20, 2012 By Chad Ritchie

WordPress shortcodes—love em’ or hate ’em? Personally, I hate ’em and here’s why: Once you stop using a shortcode (for example when you switch to another theme) you’ll find shortcodes in full text on your posts.

Here’s a SQL query to remove them. Just update the code with the shortcode you want to remove. I’ve used [blue-button] in this example.

UPDATE wp_post SET post_content = replace(post_content, '[blue-button]', '' ) ;

An alternative to using shortcodes, consider using a plugin such as AddQuickTag.

This article was inspired by Steven Slack’s The shortfalls of [shortcodes]

Filed Under: Blog, WordPress

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