Insightly ~ Another Way to Rename Tags
I've had some issues lately whenever I'm trying to rename a tag in Insightly. (If you haven't heard of Insightly yet, have a peek at my review earlier this year). Usually all I have to do is click on the Tag that I want to see the contacts for, then click the Rename...
How to Prevent Indexing of a Directory (but still allow public access to the files)
Have you ever needed to have some files on your server available to the general public? Perhaps some useful downloads that you've created for your clients and potential clients? But, you don't want everyone to be able to see the entire directory willy nilly. Here's...
How to Center All Text in a TablePress Table
I discovered a quick and simple way to make all of the text centered in an entire column of a TablePress table. Definitely saves time so that we don't have to make each cell in a column centered! This is how you take care of it all in one fell swoop - add this bit of...
Lajkó Félix: My New Music Love
My sweetie, Damian, recently featured Lajkó Félix on his Simple Soulful podcast, and I discovered my new love! Lajkó Félix is a Hungarian violinist, zither player and composer, but that description does not do him justice, have a listen for yourself:...
How to Compress MP4 Files Without Losing Quality Using Handbrake
Have I mentioned before how much I love Handbrake? I can convert so many things with it, it's saved my butt many, many times. And it's free! Recently I had the need to compress an mp4 file but of course it was very important to not lose any quality either. Handbrake...
How To Change the Default Application for a File Type on Mac
I know this is a simple thing to do but I keep forgetting, so here are the instructions again: 1. Find a file that is the file type that you want to change the default application for (eg. jpg, mp4, pdf, etc.) 2. Command-i to see the info about this file 3. In the...
FS Contact Form ~ Passing a Value to a Custom Field
If you're wanting to pass a value to a custom field in one of your Fast Secure contact forms (the plugin for Wordpress), the format has changed: now you need to use the tag of the field, not the field number. For example, let's say you want to pre-populate a custom...
Mac Mountain Lion Feature ~ How to NOT Restore the Last File When You Open a New One
This one has been bugging me for a while and I kept forgetting to check if it was a new "feature" of the Mountain Lion OS for Mac. At first I thought it was only happening with one program, but now that I'm paying attention I can see it's the same with everything....
The Best of 2013 with Simple Soulful
I've you've never listened to the radio show/podcast Simple Soulful, now is the time to start. Soulful music, excellent poems read by Damian (the host of Simple Soulful) and through spoken word recordings. I just love it! Check out one of the last episodes of the year...
How to Change the Look of An Ordered List in WordPress
Sometimes you just want a different format for your ordered lists in Wordpress, or even the unordered lists too. Discs instead of squares, upper-case roman numerals instead of numbers, lower-case letters instead of upper-case ones - you get the picture. If you are...
WordPress 3.8 ~ How to Change the Colour Scheme
If you've recently updated to Wordpress 3.8 you'll see there is a whole new look, and included with that is a whole new colour scheme for the admin side. Unfortunately I'm one of those folks with pretty bad eyes, and I don't really like the white text on black...
Introducing ~ Kim Larocque a.k.a. “Lady Spectra”
As owner, CEO, and all-round Grand Poo-Bah of SMac To The Rescue, I'm so happy to announce that we've got a new team member on board! Meet Kim Larocque a.k.a. Lady Spectra. Kim is a certified internet marketing and product launch support specialist, which means she...