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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Installing Piwik – Real Time Web Analytics – WordPress Joomla and Drupal
This is a tutorial on how to set up and install Piwik – an alternative to Google Analytics – with Piwik the data you have is stored on your server and not accessible by any other party. Piwik is an open source easy to use web analytical tool which provides stats in real time and …
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The iphone ipad could not be restored. This device isn’t eligible for the requested build.
If you are getting the error message in iTunes on a restore or upgrade of an iOS device; “The iphone ipad could not be restored. This device isn’t eligible for the requested build.” or “The iPhone Software Update Server could not be contacted”. or “Error 3194” “Error 1600” It may be because the machine has previously …
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OSX Lion InstaDMG First Boot Part 3
After tutorials Part 1 & Part 2 with InstaDMG which deal with doing a basic OSX Lion 10.7 build and then introducing a user account and clearing the set up assistants, time to tweak some preferences on OSX 10.7 for the first time boot to include elements such as computer name, network, time zone and set …
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Extend the Twenty Eleven Theme Menu Navigation to FullScreen
How to get the WordPress Twenty Eleven Theme Main Menu Navigation to go full width screen like the page below. Both the CSS and ‘header.php‘ files need to be edited, the issue is that the theme is fluid and the ‘nav‘ div sits inside the div of the page which has a max-width of 1000px. …
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Recover and Restore iPhone 3GS with Error 1015 stuck in Recovery Mode in iTunes
If you accidentally try and upgrade your iPhone 3GS through iTunes after having previously jailbroke it, it will get stuck in recovery mode and fail to restore to the official Apple firmware bundles IPSW. You will get a whole bunch of iTunes errors like 1015. The iPhone needs to be restored with the custom IPSW …
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