Mac tool to Root your Nexus 7

December 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment

If you have a Mac and want to root your Nexus 7, here is a tool that should be able to do it all.

The first option is pretty much an all in one:

Unlocks the bootloader, installs ClockWorkMod, and installs SuperSU. Just follow the instructions.

I will most likely update the tool with support for the Nexus 4 once I receive my order. This has been tested on Mac OSX Lion 10.8.2 with a stock Nexus 7 with firmware 4.1.2.

You must turn USB debugging mode on. On 4.1.2, you can enable this by going to settings, about tablet and keep tapping the Build Number at the bottom until it says you are a developer. You can then back out to settings and go to developer options and tick the USB debugging option. [Read more...]

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Getting a Google Voice Number in Canada

December 1, 2012 by 2 Comments

Since Google has recently enabled Google Voice to forward your US phone number assigned to your canadian phone numbers, it has opened up an easier way to allow you get unlimited north america calling.

There are a few caveats to get this running if you are living in Canada like myself. For one thing, you are not able to just signup for a google voice account simply by pointing your web browser to http://www.google.com/voice

There are also a few roadblocks to get google voice working perfectly as it would if you lived in the US. Here are a few work around that may help you get at least some functionality out of it. I will outline a few things that it can do and how to do it. [Read more...]

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Improving Nexus 7 Usability

November 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Using tablets can sometimes be quite a pain with only a touch screen. Especially when you want to use Linux shell commands/SSH to work on a server when you are not around your computer. I picked up a cheap keyboard case from Amazon which cost me about $8.50 (Just under $14 with taxes and shipping to Canada)

Nexus 7 Keyboard

Nexus 7 With Keyboard

The case is wired, not bluetooth and comes with a regular USB connection which will not plug-in directly into the tablet without a “USB OTG Cable”. [Read more...]

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Moving WordPress site to a new domain with low SEO impact

November 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment

This is a quick and easy method of moving your blog to a new domain with minimal SEO impact with no downtime.

In the case i’m describing, I will be setting up a new install of WordPress and importing the old posts in.

Installation

Install WordPress on your new site as per the instructions available on wordpress.org or your hosting provider.

Login to your old site and export all the posts by logging into your WordPress admin panel under tools and export. Select the option ‘All Content’

Now, login to your new WordPress admin panel and select tools and import. Click on ‘WordPress’ and follow the instructions to install the import plugin. Once completed, you can select the file that was generated when you exported your posts earlier. This will pull in all your posts/comments/attachments etc. You will be prompted to select who to assign as the authors of the posts. If they do not exist, you can create a new user for them, or just assign them to yourself. [Read more...]

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Make any speakers wireless Airplay enabled

November 12, 2012 by 1 Comment

If you are a techy like me, you probably have an older iOS or Android device lying around. One of the biggest reasons why I like using iOS devices has to be due to Airplay. It allows me to send any audio from my iPhone/iPad to any speaker in my apartment. I spend a bulk of my day using Spotify and listening to podcasts or audiobooks. Being able to easily send audio to whichever room is a huge convenience.

Gadgets

Retired Gadgets

 

I have been trying to come up with a solution that doesn’t require me to purchase a bunch of airport express devices or Bluetooth adapters since many people have unused devices lying around. This does require you to have an iOS device if you are planning on streaming audio from your phone/iPad as it uses Airplay. [Read more...]

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What does it cost to blog?

September 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment

I get a lot of requests for people asking for help on how to start a blog and how much will it cost. This is usually so they can either put up some pictures or they had heard they could make a lot of money by throwing up a few articles.

Starting a blog for the intent of only making money will probably fail. I mainly say this because after a couple of months, if it even makes it that long, it would not generate any kind of significant dollars you may have heard about. The successes out there are usually created out of passion in their niche, and not just creating articles based on high paying keywords.

However, I also don’t think people should be discouraged and should give it a shot. If anything they will learn useful skills working with publishing software and may discover they may even love writing and go off writing about what they love. A hobby that can help pay the bills is pretty satisfying. [Read more...]

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Vbulletin 4.15 Spoiler Tags

August 11, 2011 by 1 Comment

I have been using vBulletin with a spoilers tag addon which seems to be very popular on my forum. Vbulletin’s latest upgrade with the CKE editor seem to have broken that functionality and the add on was never updated yet.

This is what I have done to get around it for now:

in the BB code manager:

add:

Title:
Spoilers

BB Code Tag Name:
sp ( or whatever you want)

Replacement: (from the VSQ template)

[Read more...]

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Easy way to redirect www.domain.com to domain.com

August 6, 2011 by 3 Comments

Useful quick tip for anyone needing to redirect pages. Usually its something I throw into sites to redirect them from www.mywebsite.com to mywebsite.com. I have run into many issues in the past where the cookie handling in software is limited to either domain.com or www.domain.com which is very annoying to the end-user as www.domain.com and domain.com are seen as two different sites and can knock you out of being ‘logged in’.

To easily remedy this, you can throw this into your .htaccess file: [Read more...]

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Google Plus Invite Give Away

July 1, 2011 by 25 Comments

I just received my Google+ invite and will be inviting whoever wants to get in early and explore the features.

Post a comment below and I’ll get one out to you asap. All I ask is to send out a tweet / like this post and once you get your invite, spread it around to others who have not gotten one yet.

At the moment Google is at capacity so once they open it up to invites again I will send them out in order received. [Read more...]

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Make more money with your blog

June 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment

If you are already monetizing  your blog or forum with Adsense and are already receiving a decent amount of traffic you may want to look at adding in-text ads in your content.

In-text ads work by highlighting certain words on your site which users can mouse-over to produce an advertisement, the user then then click if interested or continue browsing your site. Depending on the ad, you may get paid just for the mouse-over. I believe you should be mindful of how many of these you ad to your content and keep an eye out on how your community feels about it as too many can get annoying and be a turn off.

From my experience one of the biggest benefits has been that comparing my stats against Adsense while using in-text ads vs not has been that it has not seen any drop in my Adsense revenue. [Read more...]

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