Apple will release their new operating system OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on July 25th 2012. This is a faster development cycle than normal, but the upgrade is not as drastic in terms of getting used to a completely new OS, more like the move from Leopard to Snow Leopard. What they are doing is …
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Optimising MySQL on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion with mysqltuner.pl
Once you have installed MySQL onto OS X / OS X server, MySQL will basically run OK under a light load. You can see what tweaks you might need to make with a fine tuning MySQL script aptly named mysqltuner.pl, this script can make suggestions that you need to load into your MySQL configuration file. …
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How to change the header size in Twenty Eleven and Twenty Ten
To change the the size in width or height or both of the header of Twenty Eleven or Twenty Ten theme in WordPress you need to edit the ‘functions.php’ file in your theme or child theme – the preference is to make a child theme and create/change the functions.php file in there. The reason for …
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Facetime there is no connected camera – OS X Lion
hmmmm… facetime – there is no connected camera – error message on OS X Lion – the camera was working fine but now it can’t be used in Facetime, Skype etc But there is a camera and it was working! Warning – Highly technical fix 1- Shutdown Computer 2- Boot Computer A restart …
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Re-flashing the 06.15.00 iPhone 3GS BaseBand
Only for 3GS users with 6.15.00 bb or those that want 6.15.00 and know about potential loss of GPS. Very Important that you have old boot rom – new boot rom may/will likely kill the GPS functionality on the iPhone. If you accidentally tried to upgrade your iphone 3GS to iOS5 through stock official IPSW …
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Can’t download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X
An installation error occurs sometimes for when upgrading from OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Lion “Can’t download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X” – Check your network configuration as the install needs to pull down software over the internet. But the network configuration is OK.! Check that Software Update can …
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Adding a Footer Menu to Twenty Eleven Theme WordPress
To add a menu to the footer of the WordPress Twenty Eleven, Twenty Ten or other themes, you need to register an additional menu, create it, position it and style it. This is best done in a child theme as when the theme is updated then any changes you make are lost but if you have …
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Easiest Way to Make an Image or USB bootable Copy of of OSX Lion 10.7
Without a doubt the easiest way to make a copy, clone or image of your Mac OSX Lion 10.7 computer that you can boot from, is using a product called Carbon Copy Cloner, using this application is straightforward and avoids any work in the Terminal and been around for a long time and is simply …
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