Have you been using photoshop and the brushes tool just stops showing the size and only the cross-hairs?  You know you did not go into the preferences and change it to show cross hairs. You have restarted photoshop and its still not the right tool setting. Don’t panic,  Its a simple fix. You have the CAPS Locks button on. So no need to check the preferences nor to restart the computer. Just click it off and resume work.

If that did not solve your problem then here is another fix. If your brush is just not showing up completely then you can try this. Go into the control panel and under Display > select Settings > then click on the Advanced button > and then go into the troubleshooting folder.Adjust your  slider under “Hardware Acceleration” one or two notches to the left. Then your brushes display should work normally. Hopefully you will not notice much, if any decrease in performance.

I hope one of these solutions works for you.

Finder Empty Trash Preference

Have you been emptying your trash on your friendly Macintosh and it seem to take a friggin’ eternity to empty especially if you are deleting a lot of stuff. It took me a while to find it but I knew there was a setting somewhere for secure delete. I finally found it. It was in the Finder preferences. Click on the advanced tab and change the setting. If its checked then un-check and problem solved! The solution to this problem was so easy that I forgot about it at first, so I hope this post is helpful to those of you who are in need of this deceptively simple fix to the slow trash emptying problem.

After dealing with a lot of .htaccess files in connection with several websites. If you uncompress a .zip or transfer the file from a web server to your desktop via FTP, the file never shows up. Thus making very difficult to edit.

A file that starts with a period is one of the files that OS X hides by default so that you don’t accidentally delete and or alter it thus messing up your file system. However, there could be times that you want access to those hidden mac files. Strangely Apple has not made easy as toggling a menu item in the Finder.

Here is a simple and free solution for you to follow the following few steps. After writing a line or two of code you’ll be able to use Apple’s Automator software to create a plugin that you can use to toggle the view of hidden files from within Finder.

After opening Automator, select Automator from within the Applications Library on the left-hand side. You’ll now see a number of different built-in actions that are available to the Automator application.

Select Run Shell Script from the list of available actions, and drag it into your workflow.

Type (or paste in) the following code into the Run Shell Script text box:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder

Is your mac connecting to the wireless router but giving itself a self assigned IP address and not connecting to the internet. Is it a 169.x.x.x address? Let me save you a ton of time.

The fix is:
A. Go to System Preferences -> Security
B. In the Firewall tab, choose either “Allow all incoming connections”

This should solve your problem.

Do you have a new Joomla theme and its showing your site title “Welcome to the Frontpage” in the main body area?  And you have checked all the articles and modules but I can’t find this title.

Folow this path: joomla admin > menus > mainmenu > home > parameters (system) and set page title to hide.

So you have some Links and or buttons that do not work correctly. This is common problem and the primary solution is to switch your SEF URL’s off. Then make sure you have the right URL set under Admin-> Configuration-> Site(TAB)-> Site URL and Secure URL. You should also make sure that your configuration file also has the right URL. You’ll find it under JOOMLAROOT /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/virtuemart.cfg.php. Don’t forget the trailing slash. Also make sure you have a menu item linking to VM component and the mod_virtuemart module published.

VirtueMart does not work very well at all with Joomla SEF URL’s.  If you think that this doesn’t apply to your install, then you should reconsider; this is the first thing to do when you have some sort of linking issue. Actually they say you should never have enabled it until you are done with your site. If you want SEF URL’s, its recommended get one of the third party extensions for SEO links.

If your add to cart is not working. Then switch off your AJAX add to cart. This function is known to have major issues with other javascripts, like the ones that may be implemented in your template or in other various modules or extensions.  LOCATION: Joomla backend-> Components-> Virtuemart-> Configuration(under Admin TAB)-> Site(TAB)-> Layout(section)-> Configuration

Here is one of those little known details that can make Adobe’s InDesign CS3 or CS4 such a pleasure to work with. Otherwise its can be frustrating. Nearly all designers want a shortcut to switch to the Selection tool while you’re working inside a text frame. You can not tap the V shortcut because you’ll just end up adding the letter “v” to your text.

Now when you are finished editing your text, just hit the ESC key on your keyboard. This is the quick-and-easy way to jump out of an active text box and switch directly to the Selection tool.

Now I just need to find the same thing for Photoshop.

How to enable and switch on legacy mode in Joomla 1.5? In early beta release of Joomla! 1.5 (e.g. beta1 and beta2), option to enable and turn on the legacy mode is part of the Global Configuration. However, in the latest RC release of Joomla and final gold release of Joomla 1.5, the legacy mode support has been moved to the plugin manager. Thus to enable the legacy mode, simply follow steps below to publish the Legacy Mode plug-in.

1. Login to Joomla 1.5 Site Administrator panel.
2. Mouse over Extensions in the main horizontal menu, then click on Plugin Manager.
3. Locate plugin named System – Legacy, and then click on the check box in front of it.
4. Click on Enable button.