Category: devtools

Full screen is super annoying on OS X lately. I use SizeUp which gives me a shortcut for expanding the windows instead of using the green button but i’m still having random encounters with full screen mode because of the shortcut ctrl+shift+f. So here’s how to disable that..or at least make it harder to do… Continue reading Disable Full Screen Shortcut on Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite

If you need read only access to a google docs spreadsheet it’s much faster and easier to use an exported version. Just go to File > Download As > Web Page and it’ll open a new window with the fully loaded spreadsheet. Here’s a public spreadsheet if you want to try it out.

At Starbucks or McDonalds, on airplanes, at libraries or anywhere else they have free wifi you get popups asking you to accept terms and conditions and click a [Connect Now] button. If you ever have problems getting these screens to display it’s almost certainly because you’re using non-default DNS servers. The solution for me was… Continue reading Problems authenticating on public wifi

The VM for the Bitnami Ruby Stack doesn’t have the correct credentials for postgres anywhere that I could find. Incorrect credentials that I saw on the Bitnami site, in the docs hosted on the VM, or on the internet while searching for a solution: user: root pass: user: root pass: root user: administrator pass: bitnami… Continue reading Logging into postgres on Bitnami’s Ruby Stack VM

The save hotkey in Chrome needs to be changed for all the same reasons I disabled the Print hotkey. I hit it by accident a few times a week thinking some other application is active and then I have to wait for it to load to get out of it. It’s only a few seconds… Continue reading Disabling the save shortcut for browsers

If whenever you press the space key your mac shifts focus to a finder window you should be able to fix it by hard booting Finder. Open terminal and run: killall Finder

Brew is always saving the day. # Install p7zip brew install p7zip # extract 7z x file.7z

There’s a few plugins for hiding the WordPress admin bar that shows up on top of your site when you’re logged in but it seems like overkill. If you don’t care about preventing it from loading you can drop this in your stylesheet at wp-admin/themes.php?page=editcss to hide it. html { margin-top: 0!important; } #wpadminbar {… Continue reading Hiding the WP Admin Bar

Log into Facebook and go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps. Register as a developer if you haven’t yet This process is a pain and involves entering your phone number and receiving a confirmation text. Check for invites You should get a notification at the top about any pending invites. Click through and confirm.

“⌘ + w” in VMWare has been frustrating me for months. The situation goes something like this: I have a VM open and active I hit “⌘ + W” like an idiot My VM starts suspending, forcing me to wait for suspending and resuming to complete I needed a way to stop myself from accidentally… Continue reading A less frustrating suspend shortcut for VMWare Fusion