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Mark Chouinard / January 15, 2013

Use two Dropbox Accounts on One Computer

I found this today.  What makes it extra awesome is that I didn’t even know I was looking for it. http://theterran.com/blog/2012/6/14/use-two-dropbox-accounts-on-one-computer.html Don’t have a Dropbox account yet?  Signup using this link and you & I will both get an extra 500MB of storage space.    

Mark Chouinard / January 15, 2013

Re-locate Nav Menu Right of Logo

I’ve been using Woothemes‘ Canvas a lot lately.  One thing I’ve found myself doing often is moving the navigation bar from its default location.  With a few simple lines in functions.php and a quick addition to style.css, this is a breeze. functions.php add_action( ‘init’, ‘woo_custom_move_navigation’, 10 ); function woo_custom_move_navigation () { // Remove main nav […]

Mark Chouinard / January 15, 2013

Display Dropbox Folder Using Custom Domain

I wanted to use my own domain name to display a public Dropbox folder.  I had no interest in IFrames or HTML framesets so I turned to PHP. It only takes a few quick lines of PHP to tackle this.  First use file_get_contents() to retrieve the page. Then use html_entity_decode() to clean up the results.  […]

Mark Chouinard / January 15, 2013

Use Custom Domain with Dropbox

I wanted to be able to share links to files in my Dropbox using my own domain instead of http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1234567/… I created a subdomain, dl and pointed it to a directory on my hosting account. In that directory I placed an .htaccess file with the code below. Now I can share files from my Dropbox […]

Mark Chouinard / December 26, 2012

Run Samba Config from Command Line

sudo system-config-samba I was getting a Password not Valid message when trying to launch Samba from the desktop.  This was a way around that.  I’ll get back to that problem at a later date.

Mark Chouinard / December 24, 2012

Ubuntu, XAMPP, Samba, Plex

Set this up today.  We’ll see how it works. As of 12/25 Plex seems to be working well. 12/28     Movies are freezing.  Short freezes, but frequent.  Restarted PS3, restarted server, no change.  Had to move to USB stick.  Fudge.

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