Show Featured Image After Shareaholic - WordPress

Placing a featured image before the first content paragraph but after the Shareaholic social sharing links plugin. This is pretty simple, but just in case someone needed a quick solution, here is the code. In my case, my theme didn't support this, and I created a child theme so I could update without overwriting my custom changes. It's always smart...

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30-day Geek Challenge: Your Geek Inspiration

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Encrypting Evernote Notes

I use Evernote for just about everything. But one thing that I fear is someone breaking into my account, or their server, and accessing private data. I want to keep more personal info in Evernote because that's where most of my life resides. I wanted to share a quick way ...

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Today In Tech History - June 6: Tetris Is Born

Today in Tech History:Tetris comes to market June 6th, 19...

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Posting via Dropbox

Testing a new WordPress plugin that's let's you write a post using markdown, save it in a Dropbox folder, and WordPress checks periodically to see if there is a new file to Post via Dropbox pos...

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Posting via Evernote

Testing Zapier posting to WordPress with Evernot...

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After A Few Days With Amazon fireTV

Once the Amazon fireTV was turned on, and connected my Amazon account without any action on my part, I was excited to get right into it.The obvious difference between the fireTV and other streaming boxes is the fireTV is based on the Android operating system. The biggest difference with this box over others is the natural integration with Amazon Prime Instant Video. Just like the Kindle where books are the primary interface, Prime movies and TV shows are the primary interface, Netflix, Hulu and others are secondary apps.Finding...

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Why I'm Ditching Roku For Amazon Fire TV

I've been a Roku fan for a while, owning versions 1 through 3 and several variations. I don't have cable TV and use streaming almost exclusively, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu Pro are my main stays. But throw in Plex streaming from a local server and Roku struggles.The three things that sold me immediately on the Amazon FireTV (affiliate...

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Let Me Show You How To Spell WordPress Correctly

It's spelt WordPress. See the difference from Word(p)ress?Believe it or not, I typed in the title of this post into Google, and there wasn't a single post on the first page of results that was just about spelling WordPress correctly.The WordPress team has spent an incredible amount of time coming up with logo styling and use (here), and I see so many variations of the WordPress logo I can't imaging trying to police the problem. But when I am reading around the net, reading posts, articles, blogs, whatever, and people spell...

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Apple iOS 7 Translucent UI Needs Help

I installed iOS 7 on one of my iPads today. The first thing that struck me was the change in the way folders and the system tray looked. Honestly, I didn't spend a whole lot of time studying every aspect of iOS 7 so some of this might not have been surprising with a little digging, but this really caught me off guard. As you can see from the image...

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Guest Hosting The Unofficial KickStarter Podcast KickCast

@KTData invited me to guest host an episode of his KickCast podcast, which is all about KickStarters. You gotta love technology. Here is the video recording of the session. Watch live video from KTDataVision! on Justin....

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Review: Learning Java

This is a pretty decent book. I'm new to Java but have an extensive development background.I appreciated the exercises and examples. The only thing I really struggled with was Eclipse. I haven't used Eclipse in the past and so there was a steep learning curve for me.I think this is a great book to get a decent understanding of the basics of Java....

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Review: Bootstrap

As more and more opensource frameworks hit the market, few if any contain documentation on their use. The Bootstrap framework has a great website dedicated to the features and simple use. Most throw code in github and call it a day. For some people, a little instructional help or code example and they will be off and running.I recently completed Bootstrap...

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Ouya Is Still In Beta Mode

After spending a week with my Kicstarter backed Ouya, I must say, it's still in beta mode. I'm keeping in mind it's a $99 console, but honestly, I didn't want to have to do that. I don't want to make excuses for the device just because it didn't set me back $400.I let my Son-in-law who is a very avid gamer take it for spin this past weekend, and he...

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I'm Using WordPress, Now What? Starter Edition

Here is the PDF of the presentation on GitHub.The following is a list of plug-ins that we discussed during the presentation. All links are valid as of this post but not be in the future.JetPackWeb hosting with BlueHost (*affiliate link)Editorial CalendarSecuritySEOAnalytics - Clicky or GoogleCache - W3 Total Cache or WP Super CacheBackup - BackWPup or VaultPressSocial Shari...

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Use Ubuntu To Access A Failed Windows Hard Drive

My daughter brought me her HP laptop that was running Windows Vista, but now won't boot. Like many users, she had years worth of data and no backup. All she wants are the photos and a few assorted documents. After trying various hard drive utilities, with no luck, I decided to try and create a bootable Ubuntu (Linux) USB stick. I know from past experience...

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Opening Day For Microsoft Store At Citycreek Utah

People are lining up to be one of the first inside the new Microsoft retail store in Citycreek, downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. Here are a few pics.[galler...

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Article: Flipboard: Now You Can Publish Your Own "Magazine"

Would you use Flipboard to curate your own magazine? I think its kind of a cool idea. I'm not sure I would spend a lot of time building a magazine product, but I'm sure many will be using it to promote their content. Flipboard: Now You Can Publish Your Own "Magazine" http://readwrite.com/2013/03/26/flipboard-expands-platform-enables-users-to-create-their-own-magazinesLead...

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Mobile Cameras No Longer About Megapixels

A feature of the iPhone that is very annoying is the low megapixel rear facing camera. For the longest time I wondered why can't Apple fit a really nice 13MP camera in the iPhone. And they could. But maybe it's not about megapixels any more. I ran across this from HTC today, http://www.htc.com/www/zoe/, the Ultra Pixel Camera, which will appear in...

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Android 4.2.2 Arrives For My Nexus 7

This little message popped up when I turned on the Nexus 7 today. w00...

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