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erics, November 18th, 2018
I installed an old version of Adobe software on my new Mac and as usual, it installed some daemons that are undesirable. Here is how I got rid of them via the Terminal. Note: Adobe installs daemons in the user context, so do this as your regular user login, not as root. shell> launchctl list […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Adobe, apple, daemon, Disable, howto, Kill, launchctl, MacOS, macosx, Shell, Stop, Terminal, tips, Unload
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Author:
erics, June 15th, 2018
remove_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ ); add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘smart_autop’ ); function smart_autop($content) { $post = get_post(); if($post->post_type != ‘post’) return $content; // if not a post, leave $content untouched return wpautop($content); }
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: add_filter, autop, Disable, howto, para, POST, remove_filter, tips, WordPress, wpautop
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erics, April 17th, 2017
If you are missing either your “Dashboard > Updates” menu choice, or the “Add New” button or menu choice in the Plugins section, do this to correct it: Edit the wp-config.php file, and change two lines to be false instead of true: For example, here are the two lines fixed: 1 2 define(’DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT’, false); define(’DISALLOW_FILE_MODS’,false); […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Add, Add New, Button, Disable, DISALLOW, DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT, DISALLOW_FILE_MODS, false, howto, Missing, tips, update, WordPress
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Author:
erics, June 15th, 2015
1 2 defaults write com.apple.Terminal no-bouncing -bool TRUE killall Dock defaults write com.apple.Terminal no-bouncing -bool TRUE killall Dock
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Badge, Bell, Bounce, defaults, Disable, Dock, howto, Icon, killall, macosx, Notification, Terminal, tips
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Author:
erics, March 24th, 2015
System Preferences » Keyboard » Text » Uncheck “Correct Spelling Automatically”
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10, apple, Check, Correct, Correct Spelling Automatically, Disable, Keyboard, macosx, Spell, Spellcheck, System Preferences, text(), turn off, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, November 20th, 2014
Enter the following command in Terminal… To turn it OFF: launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist To turn it ON: launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Disable, howto, macosx, Notification, Notify, tips, Yosemite
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erics, July 30th, 2014
Settings » Notification Center » Messages » Repeat Alerts » Never This will only give you the initial alert for a text.
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Alerts, apple, Disable, iOS, IOS7, iphone, Messages, Off, Repeat, SMS, Text Messages, text()
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Author:
erics, October 12th, 2013
I am tired of various programs taking control of my webcam, i.e. Skype, GoToMeeting and others… After searching for a while I found the following website with two awesome Applescripts, one for Snow Leopard and one for Lion. Open the script in the Applescript Editor, and do a Save As. Choose Application and save someplace […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Camera, Disable, Enable, howto, iSight, Limit, macosx, Stop, tips, turn off, WebCAm
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Author:
erics, October 2nd, 2013
List current iptables entries: iptables -L /etc/init.d/firewall stop ~or~ /etc/init.d/iptables stop ~or~ fwstop.sh 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 #!/bin/sh echo "Stopping firewall and allowing everyone…" iptables -F iptables -X iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -X iptables -t mangle -F iptables -t mangle -X iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Disable, howto, IPTables, Stop, tips, turn off, Ubuntu
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Author:
erics, September 18th, 2013
To enable backups: defaults delete com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled To disable backups: defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool YES
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, backup, Disable, Enable, Grayed Out, Greyed Out, howto, itunes, MacOS, tips
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