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Drupal limits the character length of a node title to 128-characters for a old and antiquated limitations of early versions of MySQL. There is a way to get around this by modifying part of the MySQL tables used for nodes and increasing the value a title can contain to the limit of 255-characters. This is [...]

Continuing with the recent string of laptop related posts, I thought I should post a few of the disassembly photos I took of the Lenovo X200. Taking the laptop apart is rather simple – just remove the screws on the the laptop (depending on what you want to remove, you only have to unscrew certain [...]

Have you ever needed to install Windows on a computer that doesn’t have an optical drive? I ran into this issue recently when I needed to install Windows Vista on my newest laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad X200, and thought it would be useful to share the rather simple process here. You can do it from [...]

I’ve been a customer of Sprint’s Mobile Broadband service for quite a while and have wanted to whip up a how-to on getting it to work well on OS X for a while but never got around to it. However, since I’ve gotten intrigued with the idea of GPS, I thought it was time to [...]

Are you having an issue where the PwnageTool from the iPhone dev-team simply will not launch on your computer? For many, it just bounces in the dock for about three minutes and then does absolutely nothing (it sticks around in the dock except you will not see the open application indicator under it). This seems [...]

Keyboard shortcuts make everything easier, although some newer users don’t know how to start or see it as too arduous a task and just stuck to the trusty ‘ol Commnad+C and Command+V. This is a short tutorial to help you get started with some shortcuts that will make using OS X faster and more efficient. [...]

I’m very into the whole idea of digitizing every paper document I receive in the hopes of achieving some sort of paperless nirvana. As such, I scan nearly everything into my computer using Adobe Acrobat Professional onto my computer and then either throw it on the server for archiving or store it on my laptop [...]

With the newest release of the CoverSutra application (version 2.1.2), you might be wondering where the old menubar icon went. It has been replaced with a rather bland music note; for those like me who want the old ‘heart’ icon back, there is a simple terminal hack that you can apply to revert the change.
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