Price Drop on Awesome Note for iPad

I’ve been searching for the best note taking apps for the iPad and think I have found them in Notebooks for iPad and Chapters – Notebooks for Writing, however, one of my personal favorites Awesome Note for iPad has dropped the price of their excellent note taking app. For a very limited time they are offering a 40% discount and have dropped the price to $2.99. That is a great deal for this excellent application! Had Awesome Note come out before I made the purchase for Notebooks for iPad it would have been a real head scratcher as to which one to get. In fact it still is. I think both apps are simply fantastic (I have Awesome Note for the Touch). They both have some excellent features but they do target a slightly different audience. But either way, this is a great app and a very good price. If you’re looking for a solid and feature rich note taking […]

How to Password Protect Part of a WordPress Post

The question came up about how to Password Protect part of a WordPress post but still allow a description or some other explanatory text to be displayed. It seemed like a pretty straightforward request but it’s not something that WordPress handles right out of the box. You can easily password protect a post, but you can’t see anything so can’t give details about why the rest of the text is hidden. For example you want to provide links to family pictures that only your real family can get to. Or you want to offer photos or a download to specific groups. In searching around for a solution I came across multiple sites (all related I’m sure) that wanted to rip me off for $50 to $150 for a plugin that would solve the problem. Egad, are you serious?! They wanted to make some sort of user level management system within WordPress that would allow me to charge users or fleece […]

Rapid PHP 2010

As my final web development tool I have Rapid PHP 2010 which I got for a pretty hefty discount off Bits Du Jour. I do quite a bit of editing to both HTML and PHP files and wanted an editor that designed exclusively to handle multiple language types. Ironically, Rapid PHP looks and works in very similar fashion to Notepad++. Notepad++ handles dozens of file formats and has a slew of tools for cleaning up code, checking syntax and getting your code sorted. Not to mention it’s free. So how does Rapid PHP compare? Ironically they’re very similar. Rapid PHP is an excellent editor with a lot of tools to help get the coding done. You can create code libraries, you get a preview window to see how your code work, you can create projects with multiple web files and it has several verification tools to keep things in order. For example, if you forget the closing tag or don’t […]

Index Your Files is Refreshingly Good

I have a lot of files. I have so many files I forget about them sometimes. But I’ve been using Index Your Files for the past couple of months and I have it to be a brilliant app that locates files almost instantly. Yes, I know Windows can actually index files itself, but I have to say I’ve never been impressed with it. I’ve never really found it to be all that fast or accurate. But IDF really is that fast and accurate. I made reference to it before but it really does find files within a second on my machine. Plus it works very well with wildcards and partial file names. It’s very accurate in picking up the correct file with just bits and pieces of the file name. Once it’s found a set of matching files you can click on them to get a preview to see if it’s what you want. That goes for picture files, music […]

Search and Replace within WordPress

I was given an intriguing task today; replace a URL within every WordPress to an updated URL. It doesn’t really sound that hard you just replace Site A with Site B. But what happens when you have hundreds of posts? It’s not really that simple any more, but I found a fantastic and easy to use WordPress Plugin that took care of the job in mere seconds. Enter Search and Replace for your Database. The plugin is called Search and Replace and when activated gives you a simple screen of checkboxes on where you want to look for your search string. You can change the content of the post, the title, the Author and several other criteria. And then as you would expect you enter the string to search for and what you want to replace it with. Boom it’s done. This directly changes the database so the changes are permanent. As the instructions say, make a backup before you […]