Again, for those of you who have tried to read the Apple’s Terms and Conditions on the small screen of your iOS device, here’s the iTunes version dated October 12, 2011. Please be sure to follow @mghtb in your Twitter feed! Continue reading →
iPhone 4S Siri Dictation Commands
I’ve collected a little list of commands you can use when dictating text using Siri on the iPhone 4S. One of the cool things I noticed was when dictating Japanese currency, I said “four thousand yen sign” and it correctly wrote “¥4ooo”! Continue reading →
Modifying the “About” Window When Overclocking a Hackintosh
If you’ve been following the trend of creating your own Hackintosh (or HackPro) computer, you may have noticed that, no matter what speed you overclock your CPU to in the BIOS, the “About” window in Mac OS X shows a maximum of 3.41 GHz. Continue reading →
Google Releases Chrome 13 – Doomsday Approaches
I can’t believe Google has reached version 13, when version 1 was released just a few years ago… I can remember reading about the first release while at the Las Vegas airport waiting for my flight back to Vancouver. Continue reading →
Basic PHP: ASP HTMLEncode Equivalent
For those of you coming from the Microsoft ASP or ASP.Net world, you may be wondering how to safely encode a string in your PHP output. In ASP, you would use the Server.HTMLEncode() function. In PHP, you would use the built-in htmlspecialchars() function. Continue reading →
Startup Key Options for Intel-based Mac OS X Machines
I thought I’d put together a post that explains all the different startup key options there were for Macs. Continue reading →
Basic PHP: Retrieving a Querystring Value from the Page URL
Introduction
This is quite basic, but could help someone who’s new to PHP and wants to grab a querystring value from the page’s url and use it in PHP code. Continue reading →
Mozilla Firefox 5 Released 3 Days Early
If you’re anxious to do some testing of the final release version of Mozilla’s Firefox 5, start your download engines! Visit the Mozilla FTP Servers and grab your platform’s version.
Setting Default Text for Optional Parameters in JSP 2.0 Tag Files
If you’re wondering how to set a default value for an optional attribute in your JSP 2.0 Tag File, here’s a simple technique. Using a JTSL Choose tag statement, check if the incoming variable is empty. If it’s empty, set your default text in the otherwise declaration. Continue reading →
Apple: Updated Terms and Conditions and Apple Privacy Policy
For those of you who have tried to read the Apple’s Terms and Conditions on the small screen of your iOS device, here’s the emailed copy you get that you can read before agreeing. Please be sure to follow @mghtb in your Twitter feed! Continue reading →