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Not Everything You See is True: 5 Tools to Create Funny Fake Screenshots

December 22, 2011 By 2 Comments

If you have been on a site like Lamebook or Damn You Auto Correct, you have seen amusing screenshots submitted by users who have seen funny things occur on their Facebook wall, on Twitter or though texts. They can be very amusing, sometimes cringe worthy and always entertaining.

But did you know that quite often they are fake? This is obvious from time to time, when little mistakes – or big ones – give it away. When that happens, you might be wondering how they went about making the fake ones in the first place. The answer to this is through tools that have been made to simulate these screenshots.

Here are five of the most popular tools for faking Facebook and Twitter wall posts, texts and even news stories.
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How to Disable Comments on All Images in WordPress

November 1, 2011 By 2 Comments

WordPress has long had a major problem, that has yet to be solved by the development team. Namely, the fact that there is no way to globally disable commenting on certain types of posts or pages – most notably images and media files.

Spammers have been attacking blogs for a very long time and targeting image and media file attachment pages. If you wonder what I mean by that, click on the thumbnail image above. You’ll see that it takes you to a page with a bigger embedded version of the image. Normally, those pages allow you to leave comments (you’ll notice that here on OMB it doesn’t).
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Tutorial: How to Fish Wire Through Your Walls Using a Magnepull

October 5, 2011 By 1 Comment

I fell in love with the Editor’s Choice Award winning Magnepull, a tool professional installers use for fishing cables through walls, and I wanted to give it a try. Since we figured this tool would make it easy for anyone to run wires – not just professionals – Mark Z. grabbed a camera and filmed me fishing the cable through the wall so you guys could see how easy it is to do.

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TUTORIAL: How To Run TV Power Cables Through Your Wall

July 28, 2011 By 4 Comments

In Wall Power Cable Wiring

In Wall Power Cable Wiring

Up at the office we had a TV that we wanted to mount on the wall in the reception area. Only problem is, the power plug is down at the bottom of the wall and we really didn’t want cables hanging down the wall looking all messy. So the solution was to route the cable through the wall.

While I was doing it I figured some other people might experience this need, so I made a little video to show you how simple the solution is. All you need is this kit: Datacomm 50-3332-WH-KIT Flat Panel TV Cable Organizer Kit (White)
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WordPress PLUGIN: Enable REL= and Other HTML in Author’s Field (for Google+ and Google Search Listings)

July 5, 2011 By 31 Comments

Avatar in Google Search Results

Avatar in Google Search Results

Google is beginning to roll out the ability to have your Google Profile linked to search results. This is an awesome new feature that my friend Trey Ratcliff worked with them on setting up. Do a search for “HDR Tutorial” and you can see what I’m talking about.

In attempting to get this working with my various sites I quickly discovered that WordPress is stripping all of the REL= language from any Author field. In other words, you go into your USERS area and try and enter rel=”author” along with a link in one of the Author Bio areas, but WordPress leaves the link and removes the “REL=” part.

Now, it does this to try and protect you from users entering malicious code in their bio area. But if you have a blog where you implicitly trust all of your authors you might want to enable the ability for them to put in a link to their Google+ profile. For this reason I’m releasing a very simple plugin that will “fix the glitch”.
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GeekBeat LIVE Hacks N’ Cheats Segment – How to Hack Your Homework

May 28, 2011 By 7 Comments

Hack Your Homework

Hack Your Homework

If you’ve got a big paper due, but you need to buy yourself some time, here is a dirty, sneaky, unethical trick that you should NEVER do. But if you do it and it works out for you, you can give me credit. And if you do it and it DOESN’T work out for you, well I told you not to do it!!!
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How to Search Twitter for Old Tweets – And How to Archive Them

April 27, 2011 By 8 Comments

John P's Brilliance on Twitter

Let’s face it. Every once in a while, you grace the Twitter world with your brilliance. Well, for some people…like John P….it happens on a daily basis. The problem is, when you want to go back and admire said brilliance, it can be difficult to find! Twitter only lets you search so far back. By some reports, it only shows you four days worth of tweets.

That’s just not enough when you need to find a link you or a friend posted, or look up a quote or a funny joke. There are many, many reasons we look up old tweets, and third party websites have come to our rescue! Let’s take a look at some options for searching old tweets and backing up your tweet stream.
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Tutorial: How To Do the Impossible “Nail-Through-the-Wood” Trick

March 9, 2011 By 5 Comments

Nail Through the Wood Puzzle

Nail Through the Wood Puzzle

Sometimes if you are at a craft fair you can find these impossible little puzzles, and people wonder not only how in the heck to solve them, but how in the heck they were made!

Well, here is the secret behind how the old “nail stuck impossibly in the wood” trick is pulled off. Its actually pretty easy to do if you’ve got a bandsaw, a drill, and some hot water handy. Take a look…
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Discount Coupon for Trey Ratcliff’s HDR Video Tutorial

November 26, 2010 By 305 Comments

Trey Ratcliff's Horse HDR

Trey Ratcliff's Horse HDR

Do you guys remember when I did the little video of uncrating that magnificent HDR Wall Art that my friend Trey Ratcliff created for me? Or maybe you saw when I posted his awesome video Japan: Heatbeats of Time? Or maybe you’ve just seen some of his awesome photography in general? He’s had over 44 million views on Flickr and 22 million on SmugMug!

Well, I’ve got some good news… Trey now has a NEW downloadable version of his HDR Workshop! And, thanks to the magic of friendship, you can get 10% off any version of the HDR Tutorial using the coupon code: “JOHNPISAGREATGUY“. So feel free to Order the HDR Video Tutorial Now! (Oh, and don’t bother looking for a bigger discount code anywhere. It doesn’t exist, so no need to waste time.)

What’s This All About?

This isn’t any old HDR Tutorial… this video was shot on location in Austin during Trey’s sold-out HDR Workshop which people paid $1,000 to attend. (And I should know… I shot it!)

And lets not forget that Trey Ratcliff is the greatest HDR photographer on the planet, and the first person to ever have an HDR hang in the Smithsonian Museum.
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