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An Awesome Light Painting Tutorial

Brandon Martinez — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:00:54 +0000

Light painting is one of my favorite photographic “tricks”. This guy takes it to an extreme; I really want to try some of these out

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OS X Lion Two Finger Double Tap on Dock Icons

Brandon Martinez — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000

Awesome little tip for Mission Control in OS X Lion: if you have a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad, double tap on a Dock icon with two fingers. Neat

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A Creative Use for Flash Triggers

Brandon Martinez — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:34 +0000

This is an awesome technique if you have a “bulb” mode on your camera and some strobes at your disposal

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Enable SSH Access on Western Digital’s My Book Live

Brandon Martinez — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:00:16 +0000

The reason I bought a WD My Book Live is because of a recommendation from Jim Cloudman, who posts an excellent tip to enable SSH access on the device

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Unhide Library Folder in OS X 10.7 Lion

Brandon Martinez — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:00:46 +0000

For some reason, Apple decided to hide the user’s Library folder in the Finder. Here’s a quick tip to keep it visible

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Always Check Your Bills

Brandon Martinez — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:34:16 +0000

For those of you that may have seen one of my latest tweets, you’ll know that I was drastically over-charged for my last electric bill. Well, here’s an update on the story

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Pro Tip: Liquid + Laptop

Brandon Martinez — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:40:51 +0000

Does not end well:

via Twitter.

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iPhone: Make Voice Control More Useful

Brandon Martinez — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:21:21 +0000

Since the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone has had the ability to dial a number or contact, start playing an artist or album in the iPod, and numerous other commands via Voice Control. After playing around with my new iPhone 4, I’ve learned a couple of tricks on making Voice Control work better for me

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Safari Tip: Remove Failed Pages for Accurate Autocomplete

Brandon Martinez — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:00:26 +0000

When I’m going to check my email or Facebook, I tend to type a little too fast in the address bar. Often I’ll type http://gma or http://faceb and hit return too fast. This can cause a lot of issues in Safari (or any other browser, I would assume), because it keeps these incorrect (and non-existant) pages in its history (my ISP is a DNS-hijacker). Now if I go to type the first part of the domain (e.g. http://gma) to have the browser autocomplete the address, the browser won’t because of that mistyped entry

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Financial Tip: Check Your Statements

Brandon Martinez — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:14:54 +0000

For the most part, I’m in no real position to offer anyone financial advice. Almost everything I live by financially has come from “common sense” point-of-view, or from learning from other people’s mistakes. However, I do have a tip to share: check your statements; credit card or bank, checking your statements can be vital to your financial security. Thanks to this fast and simple rule, I saved myself from some possibly-large financial trouble

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Grammar Tip: Who vs. Whom

Brandon Martinez — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:58:24 +0000

Of all the rules in the English language, the battle between “who vs. whom” is the one I dislike the most. These two words are so similar, and normally I would just fall back on who, hoping no one would call me out or notice. Well, it’s time to put an end to that

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: A Useful, but Little-Known, HTML Tag

Brandon Martinez — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:00:26 +0000

A little-known HTML tag can save a lot of headache when it comes to displaying file-paths, lines of code, or other long lines of text:

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Blackboard Tip: Have Messages Delivered via Email

Brandon Martinez — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:01:04 +0000

Ferris State University uses Blackboard (sadly) for its online classes. For a while, there were times that I didn’t know if I was receiving a message from a teacher or other student. After digging through the settings, I found an option to automatically forward all messages to my personal email account

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Terminal Tip: Symbolically Linking Wildcard Filenames

Brandon Martinez — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:41:04 +0000

I am currently researching a Dropbox-based preference syncing solution for Mac OS X. In my research, I came across a really handy terminal tip. If you want to symbolically link (ln –s source target) a file or folder to another location that follows a named pattern, such as com.adobe.*, you can supply the pattern for the link source parameter

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Mac Tip: Navigate Text by Word

Brandon Martinez — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:57:17 +0000

If you use a Mac, there are tons of text navigation tools at your disposal. One of the little known is navigating text by word:

Move your cursor between words: alt + Left or Right Arrow Key. This lets you jump between words in a sentence. This is helpful when you find that you mistyped a word earlier in a sentence, and you don’t want to use your mouse to move your cursor to the right spot.
Move your cursor between paragraphs: alt + Up or Down Arrow Key. This lets you jump to the beginnings and ends of paragraphs, and is very useful when navigating large amounts of text.
Delete the previous word: alt+delete. If you want to delete the last word you typed, this combination is handy.
Delete the next word: alt+forward delete (fn+delete on laptops). Similar to the previous tip, this deletes the word in front of your cursor.

Do you have any other text navigation tips?

Update: Added the paragraph navigation tip.

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WordPress: Remove Stuck Maintenance Message

Brandon Martinez — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:25:50 +0000

If your WordPress site is stuck at the maintenance screen (“Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”), this tip will clear the issue up really quick

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