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A Child Theme in WordPress is a theme that takes all the juice out of its parent without doing much itself, pretty much like regular kids. This guide explains what a Child Theme is and how to create one for the latest version of WordPress 3.3.1. The core benefit of a child theme is that [...]

Help my disk is full! Where is all my disk space going ? My hard drive hardly has got any space left ! I am constantly running out of disk space ! If you are repeating the above statements about your hard disk space, you need a tool to show you what is going on, [...]

Once you have installed MySQL onto OS X / OS X server, MySQL will basically run OK under a light load. If you want to change some variables in the database settings via the configuration file you will notice that there isn’t one there, filed normally in /etc.  This is the default behaviour as a [...]

Updated post for upgrade to iOS 5.0.1 Jailbreak/Activate/Unlock How to upgrade a previously jailbroken iPhone to iOS 5.0.1 and preserve the baseband. The process of getting this job done requires a number of steps (but are easily done), which are downloading the official iOS firmware from Apple, upgrading iTunes to the latest version, getting the latest [...]

You can find out if  your iPhone 3GS is old boot rom by the 4th and 5th numbers in the serial number being below 40. How you get the serial number is on the iPhone: Settings > General > About > Serial Number However the above rule is not 100% accurate – there is debate [...]

If you have forgot, can’t remember or want to break in….. how to change the mysql root password from the command line in either Linux or OS X: Stop MySQL Start it in safe mode: This will be an ongoing command until the process is finished so open another shell/terminal window, log in without a [...]

On OS X to start/stop MySQL from the command line: On Linux start/stop from the command line: Some Linux flavours offer the service command too or Tweet

Yahoo Site Explorer is no more, it’s gone, no more, so long! You served us well, free access to backlinks on our sites, and on our competitor sites (didn’t they love that) to specific URLs or whole domains. Yahoo site explorer has now been integrated into Bing Webmaster tools, but really the functionality is just [...]

To change the the size in width or height or both of the header of  Twenty Eleven or Twenty Ten theme in WordPress you need to edit the ‘functions.php’ file in your theme or child theme – the preference is to make a child theme and create/change the  functions.php file in there. The reason for [...]

hmmmm… facetime  - there is no connected camera – error message on OS X Lion – the camera was working fine but now it can’t be used in Facetime, Skype etc But there is a camera and it was working!   Warning – Highly technical fix 1- Shutdown Computer 2- Boot Computer   A restart [...]