2016-07-03 Virtually Madeup for July 4th

I tried Makeup Plus to virtually make up this morning and “share” with my friends on my Android tablet. I don’t like makeup and it never likes me. So it is perfectly fun to dress up without really doing anything. Ha! The ad showed red, white and blue on a model’s lips and I thought there would be some wild and silly things to put on. I settled for a couple of stars. Then I used my tablet picture editor to change the picture. I still wanted more! I looked for images of flags and fireworks. I used these to layer in Art Rage and made a virtual me in celebration. Happy Fourth of July!

Art Rage for Android
Makeup Plus

P.S. Does it look like my tongue is sticking out? It isn’t.

2016-06-27 Chrome Most Popular Browser

I have been using Chrome exclusively for years now, but I did not realize that it was (by far) the most popular browser. From a development standpoint, this is good.  I can design to one browser standard.  So when you/we are learning to code, keep this in mind.
Browser Statistics
This is a test of canvas:



Source: Canvas Lesson(s)

Include the statement:

Your browser does not support the HTML5 canvas tag.

NOTE: Use the TEXT tab to cut and paste the script(s) and elements. You will have to preview to see the results. View the page source to find hidden paragraph tags that can prevent scripts from working. Note that the “cdata” tags for embedded scripts will show up (in WordPress).

2016-06-23 Menu, oh me oh my oh.

I finally deleted all the menu pages and then added a few pages back in.  This theme has other pages at the top which were not appearing.  They are working now?  I changed them and it lost the link, but they were still on the menu.  So I do not know why it was not working earlier.

I have added a plug in for side menus, which looks really great on the demo, like the ‘print’ icon that stays with the pages throughout the website no matter where you go, but I still need some time to learn how to use it.

 

2016-06-23 eBooks Free Due to Apple Settlement

I bought three books for around $6 yesterday because Amazon gave me a credit due to settlement over eBooks with Apple.  Hey, I didn’t even know what was going on, but apparently it is a big deal in terms of financials, because I can’t imagine that this credit times the millions of their customers didn’t amount to a pretty penny.

“If you purchased a Kindle book from Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, or Macmillan between 4/1/10 and 5/21/12, you should have some free money sitting in your Amazon account right now.”

https://lifehacker.com/apple-begins-paying-out-on-ebook-settlement-check-your-1782364135

Books:

WordPress Web Design For Dummies Kindle Edition by Lisa Sabin-Wilson

and cPanel User Guide and Tutorial Kindle Edition by Aric Pedersen

2016-06-21 Place Holder for PAS Related Posts

Using subdomains redirected with search results which fixes the URLs problem before production link.  What does this mean? If you use the category to select posts and the results have a url (link), the link is not clickable.  Therefore, I discovered a work around by creating a subdomain and redirecting the subdomain with searchable category in the redirect.

That works, but is only a temporary solution.  I have an FTP account.  Now I have to read up more carefully before I attempt to fix this problem by editing the PHP.  See related posts:

2016-06-15 Fix Search Result Links

2016-06-15 Fix Search Result Links

I used this URL to find the information to change the search template so that it provides the LINK address correctly. Now if I can just determine the editor for the theme.

You need to edit your search results template. It’s broken, as it’s missing post titles and links to the posts.

<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

adds the title and

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read more...</a>

adds a link to the post, when added to your search results template. [Mikko Saari]

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-links-to-results-in-search-results

2015-06-06 Time to review the condition I am in

Every once in a while I have to do a condition statement.  Yes, it’s a programmer’s joke.  If I could ever finish all these household projects, could I spent at least half a day writing? Would I want to or would I just get lazy (and fatter) instead of just older?  I have looked at lots of ways to make things simpler, but in the end, after all the tools, it just take time.  I have to go back through and read to catch up with myself every time I leave off for a while. Still, the output improves is better, because I took the time to think about it and I enjoyed it more.  Ah, maybe I will get it done someday.  In the meantime, I have household stuff to take care of.  Lucky me. Seriously.

Big Lebowoski “what condition my condition was in”

2016-06-06 Win 10 Refresh USB ISO

Yesterday, we downloaded an ISO file for a “bootable” USB of Win 10 (for recovery) of the HP Pavillion that doesn’t want to boot anymore. We managed to get it up and running (the PC) and I tried to get the USB loaded on my chromebook, but it failed to work. (Error on the download at the last of the 15 minute download.) So I used the machine to download and left on the flag to make it include machine specific requirements.  I had planned to use on other machines, but I have decided that they need one of their own.  It only needs an 8 G USB Flash Drive (64 bit OS), so I can do that. This is the link the to web site:

[What does ISO mean in this context: Image file.]

Everything went well with the prep, which took only about half an hour in total time to create, but we have not tried it on the machine yet.  It can be used to refresh the Win 10 copy, which I suspect on this machine is Win 10 corruption problem because the machine has a boot menu that sometimes comes up and sometimes doesn’t.  We also had some viruses on one of the external hard disk, which have been repaired, but I would not be surprised if the boot error is occuring as a part of the virus attempting to reload itself.  Sometimes the machine sits and says it is “loading the boot menu” which it is obviously NOT doing.  After powering off, the setup CMOS managed to get it loaded.  I hope this is not a hardware issue, but we are on the lookout for a replacement desktop.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

The machine does not have a CMOS option to boot from USB, so we redid the ISO on a DVD and this works.  It allows the bootup of the operating system from the DVD and you can work normally from there.  Obviously, there may not be a full load, so if the operating system had actually failed, there may be some features not available.  We are satisified that there may be some circumstances where this could prove useful.

P.S. I created a USB bootable for the other Win 10 desktop, but have not tried using it yet.