Ewout A. Kozel

Make images square – batch script for Adobe Photoshop

eakozel — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:48:47 +0000

Use the following script with a droplet to batch ‘square’ images.

var savedRuler= app.preferences.rulerUnits;
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS;
var w = app.activeDocument.width;
var h = app.activeDocument.height;
if(w>h) app.activeDocument.resizeCanvas (w, w, AnchorPosition.MIDDLECENTER);
if(w //if w==h already square
app.preferences.rulerUnits = savedRuler;

Save it as resize.jsx for example and open it with Adobe Photoshop by going to File – script

Video tutorial on making Adobe Photoshop droplets

eakozel — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:45:23 +0000

http://tips.learnwebdevelopment.com/pstips/0208droplets.html

Replace text in MYSQL Table Field

eakozel — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:56:17 +0000

This code will search through every “post_content” field in the wp_posts table and replace the staging URL address (staging.server.com) with the production address (www.productionserver.com). The format is easy to understand and can of course be used with any MySQL table, not just WordPress:

UPDATE [your_table_name] SET [your_table_field] = REPLACE([your_table_field], '[string_to_find]' , '[string_to_be_replaced]');

What is the best Permalink structure for WordPress

eakozel — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:37:48 +0000

It is recommended to use a Permalink Structure as:

/%post_id%/%postname%/ /%year%/%category%/%postname%/

Speed up your Magento Store

eakozel — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:07:37 +0000

There are a few ways to speed up your Magento Store. Below you will find a list of changes you can make to get a great speed improvement

Find the following lines in your Magento .htaccess file and replace them with the following code.

############################################
## enable apache served files compression
## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip

# Insert filter
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

# Netscape 4.x has some problems…
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# Don’t compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary

# Make sure proxies don’t deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

# enable resulting html compression
php_flag zlib.output_compression on

How To Disable iCloud Photostream IOS 5

eakozel — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:51:56 +0000

In order to turn off Photostream (for whatever reason) you need to:

Settings>iCloud>Photostream
Flip the switch to the “off” position

Location of Magento Store Logos

eakozel — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:05:41 +0000

There are four different logo types which come standard with every Magento install. This gives you the flexibility of assigning appropriate logos to the different task. The following list tells you where the logos are located and their use.

Website Store Logo:
Used for the frontend of your store.
It’s located in:
your_magento_install/ skin/ frontend/ your_skin/ default/ images/ logo.gif
Email Logo for Email templates:
For automated emails to your customer’s.
It’s located in:
your_magento_install/ skin/ frontend/ your_skin/ default/ images/ logo_email.gif
Print logo version vs screen website logo version:
Used when you print a webpage.
It’s located in:
your_magento_install/ skin/ frontend/ your_skin/ default/ images/ logo_print.gif
HTML Invoice and Packing Slip logo:
For printing html version.
It’s located in:
your_magento_install/ media/ sales/ store/ logo_html/ default/
You can upload or update this image on your backend here:
System > Sales > Invoice and Packing Slip Design
PDF Invoice and Packing Slip logo:
For printing pdf version.
It’s located in:
your_magento_install/ media/ sales/ store/ logo/ default/
You can upload or update this image on your backend here:
System > Sales > Invoice and Packing Slip Design

Stop apps from re-opening everything

eakozel — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:40:54 +0000

Mac OS-X Lion’s Resume feature is handy, but not everyone wants applications to re-open all the documents you closed when you hit Quit.

You can disable Resume on an ad-hoc basis by pressing Option before you head for the Quit menu, which changes Quit to Quit And Discard Windows, or you can disable it globally in System Preferences > General.

Top 10 Word Cloud Sites

eakozel — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:14:25 +0000

Top 10 Sites for Creating Word Clouds

“A text cloud or word cloud is a visualization of word frequency in a given text as a weighted list (wikipedia).” This is a concept that is utilized a lot in education for: visualization, brain storming, and mind mapping.” While this can be done using paid applications such as Inspiration, there are a number of free sites that accomplish the same.

Top 10 Sites for Creating Word Clouds

Wordle - Probably the oldest and most popular of the word cloud creators. Word clouds can then be edited w/ different fonts, colors, and layouts, and even shared w/ others online.
Tagxedo - A great way to make word clouds from sites, different social networks, and then change shape to meet your needs (ie, star).
Tagul - Similar to Tagxedo, a very easy to use site to create different shaped word clouds.
Worditout - A nice site for making word clouds by just copying/pasting text.
Word Sift - A excellent site for making word clouds and then editing them by altering the criteria in how it’s created. Pictures are also generated to best represent your word cloud.
VocabGrabber - A wonderful site similar to Word Sift in making word clouds. However, the clouds generated are color coded for best displaying clouds.
Tag Galaxy - An innovative site that visually represents words in a galaxy style format. A must see!!!
Tag Crowd - A simple to use site for creating word clouds by pasting in text or a web page URL.
Quintura - Is a visual search engine where results are returned in a word cloud style format.
TwitterSheep - A fun site that generates it results by keywords found in bios from a user’s followers.

Disable junk mail filtering in Outlook for Mac 2011

eakozel — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:37:22 +0000

When you are connected to Gmail or some other email provider with great spam protection it might be absolutely useless to have Outlook do another round of junk mail filtering, especially when it moves important email to the Junk Folder.

Here’s a quick way to turn it off

Launch Outlook and Select Tools -> Junk E-mail Protection...
Select None
Press OK