For me the key to being really proficient with it has been learning and using as many of the keyboard shortcuts as I can. One new keyboard shortcut that OneNote has added by default is for bulleted and numbered lists. I really like the default as it makes sense and is easy to remember. It is Ctrl + . for bulleted lists and Ctrl + / for numbered lists. The period naturally makes me think of a bullet and the slash is right next to the preiod and can also be remembered (at least for me) as a slanted “1″ which of course we would begin our numbered list with.

The only problem is this is not the default and not uniform throughout the office suite of products. Here’s how to remedy this (at least for the bulleted and numbered list keyboard shortcuts. In Word 2007 click on the “Office Button”

Next, click on “Word Options” at the bottom right.

Word Options

Then choose “Customize” on the left side

Click on “Keyboard shortcuts: customize” as shown below.

On the left side under categories scroll down until you see “all commands.”  Click on that and then on the right side under commands scroll down until you see “FormatBulletDefault” and click on that.  If that seems unintuitive to you then you are not alone.  You’d think it would begin with Insert…  right?

Format Bullet Default

Now you click in the “Press new shortcut key” input box and then actually press the keyboard combination that you want to assign.  Then click on “Assign” at the bottom left.  You’re done!

WordPress uses the “add_filter()” function to register or associate a custom function as a filter for a core wordpress function.  In the case of controlling the formatting of the <title></title> tag for pages, the “wp_title()” function is the core wordpress function that comes into play.

When a custom function gets registered as a filter for a core wordpress function the custom function gets added to an array that holds a list of the filters that are associated with the core wordpress function in question.  So, if we’re having a problem with the title tag not being formatted the way we expect it should be, then we should begin by getting a list of all of the custom functions that are registered as filters for the wp_title() wordpress function.

Thanks to t31os, we have a function that will provide the list that we are looking for.  Here is the function he provides.  Just in case that link goes down, I’m reproducing his code here:

Call it where you need it.

In our case, ‘the_content‘ is going to be ‘wp_title‘.

Here’s the output that was generated from this for a site I was working on:

I got this by adding the print_filters_for() function to the theme function.php file at the top.  ie.  -> /wp-content/themes/[your theme]/functions.php

And then adding the function call in the header.php template file somewhere where it would show up on the page (being sure to put “wp_title” instead of “the_content”).  Then I loaded the home page so the information showed up, then before I even looked through the array results I commented out the call to the print_filters_for() function and saved it so that visitors to the site wouldn’t be seeing the array output.

So the output that we get represents all of the functions that are registered as filters for the wordpress wp_title() function.  Any of them could be the culprit, but my attention immediately gets drawn to the last one -> [ts_filter_wp_title]

I’m sure there’s some way for the print_filters_for() function to also display the file where the function is defined, but I’m not going to take the time to figure out how to do that.  Because of that, we’ll just have to pull down all of the php files in the theme and search through all of them for the “ts_filter_wp_title” function.  It ends up for the site I’m working on that it’s in /wp-content/themes/[my theme]/includes/theme-function.php.

Now that we’ve found it, we just need to comment out the line where it actually registers the filter.

Yeah!  Now the yoast seo plugin works as expected.

Your mileage may vary, but this worked for me.  Just download this file and run it.

I actually did a google search to find the file online so I could point to it, but now I can’t find it.  I’m sure glad I did find it and that I kept a copy on my local pc.  Only problem is that some of you will probably be leery of running a program that you’re not downloading straight from intuit.  Nothing I can do about that except to say that I haven’t modified this file in any way and you’re just going to have to take a leap of faith and try it out.

Click this link for the file -> pdfix.exe

Good luck!  Hopefully it works as easily for you as it did for me.

All of the new features that google has added has broken other add-ons that I have used.  For it to work now I use two add-ons in conjunction with each other.  OH, three actually..

http://http://www.greasespot.net/

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11213

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googleenhancer/

The key to getting things working is to return google to it’s glory days when it didn’t have all of the extra stuff.  You can do that with one checkbox in the options for the google enhancer add-on.

You also need to install the greasemonkey add-on and then restart firefox.  After you’ve restarted you can navigate to the site where the greasemonkey script resides that will number the result for you.  You could also just turn on the numbering option in the GoogleEnhancer options

but it wasn’t working for me for some reason.  Also, when it did work, it would include numbering for the blended results which would throw off the regular numbering.

To install the greasemonkey script you click on this button in the upper-right-hand corner at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11213

Then you get happy results:

When the search results include a 7 pack, it does not number those.  But when we get blended results as in the image above, it does number those results, which is not the most ideal, but beggars can’t be choosers.

This was difficult information to find.  I searched for a method using Notepad++, Vim for windows, and a few others, but finally found the easy way to do this using – of all things – Microsoft Word.

I’ll spare you the details of the other methods I attempted and just give you the detailed answer of how to accomplish this with Microsoft Word.

So I’ll use my scenario as the example for what you might want to use this for.

I had a bunch of html code from which I needed to extract every instance of anchor text between the <a href=”…”></a> tags.  In this particular case here is how you accomplish this:

Your needs will most likely be different and you will need to research a bit if you’re unfamiliar with regular expressions.  Even if you are familiar with regular expressions (as I am) you’ll still probably need to do a little research to get the exact expression that will work for you.  I’m sure there are regex gurus out there who dream in regex, but in my case I find that I always have to spend more time than I would like just coming up with the syntax for the regular expression that will provide me the results I am looking for.  Microsoft Word regular expressions.

Here are the results in my scenario (which is exactly what I want… well, not exactly.  I’d like to just get the text in between the <a> and </a> tags, but I don’t know how to do that in one step.  The only way I know to do it is to include the “> and the </a> at the beginning and end of the regular expression so that it captures what I’m looking for):

In the “Replace with:” field put this code -> “\1″ (without the quotation marks)

Make sure the “Use wildcards” checkbox is checked and then click “Replace All”

Kudos and thanks to Ivaylo for posting his workaround which led to my finding this solution and expanding on it here.

I could not figure out for the life of me why the QM overlay for modX was not working.  When you’re logged in as admin on the backend then when you preview a page you’re supposed to get what’s called the “Quick Manager” overlay at the top.  I was getting this when inexplicably it disappeared and I was only able to get it to come back here and there.  I could not figure out what caused it to work and what caused it not to work specifically.

Here’s some pics just to make this look nice:

This is without the QM overlay.

Here it is with the QM overlay before it is extended when you hover over it (the thin little darker strip at the top)

Here it is fully extended.

So, I went through A LOT to finally figure it out.  I tested it on valleywideplumbing.com with my firefox browser by backing up the DB and the templates folder and putting them into a fresh installation on that domain.  I avoided interrupting the production environment because right now it is set up statically with .html files and the apache web server is set to give precedence to .html extensions over .php.  The modX engine works beginning with the index.php file which is located in the root folder for your modX installation.  So, since there was an index.html file there it did not matter that the index.php file was there because the .html is what was displayed.  That’s how I was able to test this in parallel with the production site running.

Anyway, from my MANY different tests I was convinced there was something wrong with my firefox install.  I completely uninstalled firefox together with searching through the registry and removing any references to firefox and mozilla there.  I did back up my extensions, passwords, etc.  with MozBackup which I am very glad I did as it was a huge time saver.  After all of that I got it to work and I thought “problem solved”.  But then it went back to not coming up again.

**Tld = “Top Level Domain”

Finally I discovered the difference.  For Valleywideplumbing.com the mod_rewrite 301 redirect for valleywideplumbing.com -> www.valleywideplumbing.com was working correctly including for the tld**/manager/ folder.  For some reason the redirect was not working correctly for brinformation.com for the tld/manager folder.  I had worked on this extensively before and could not figure out how to get it to work.  It would redirect for the tld and other folders that were created via the “#friendly urls” mod_rewrite rules, but would not for manager.  Anyway, I copied what was set up for valleywideplubming and finally got it working for brinformation.

So, that was the problem.  You HAVE TO log in to the manager using the domain name that you have configured within modx.  Ie:  www.brinformation.com if that’s how it’s set up in modx, or just brinformation.com if that’s how it’s set up.  The [(site_url)] system variable is created via the config.inc.php file which resides in /manager/includes/ and is generated with the following line of code (within config.inc.php)

$site_url .= $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

So, it pulls it from the apache $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] variable which is based on what was requested by the user-agent (me in this case.. Or my browser on my behalf technically).  So, since I was putting in “brinformation.com/manager” and it wasn’t getting rewritten properly to www.brinformation.com/manager then when previewing the pages the url was being written correctly with the preceeding www. and so the http_host variable was different between the http://brinformation.com/manager and the http://www.brinformation.com/index.php?id=1 (or whatever page id we’re previewing)

Whew.  I think that makes sense.  Even if it doesn’t, it’s fixed!  Woohoo!

I found a few other posts through google of people having stability issues with firefox 3.6 in general.  But the particular fix for Move Media Player was to upgrade to the latest version of the player (of course).  But where do you find it?  I was trying to use the Move player to watch General Conference at beta.lds.org/general-conference.  As of 4/8/2010 the version they have you download is not the latest one offered by Move.

To get the most up to date one (again, as of 4/8/2010) you can click here to download.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc960646.aspx

Here is the relevant part from the post:

LmCompatibilityLevel

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

Data type

Range

Default value

REG_DWORD

0–5

0

Description

Specifies the mode of authentication and session security to be used for network logons.

Value

Meaning

0

Clients use LM and NTLM authentication, but they never use NTLMv2 session security. Domain controllers accept LM, NTLM, and NTLMv2 authentication.

1

Clients use LM and NTLM authentication, and they use NTLMv2 session security if the server supports it. Domain controllers accept LM, NTLM, and NTLMv2 authentication.

2

Clients use only NTLM authentication, and they use NTLMv2 session security if the server supports it. Domain controller accepts LM, NTLM, and NTLMv2 authentication.

3

Clients use only NTLMv2 authentication, and they use NTLMv2 session security if the server supports it. Domain controllers accept LM, NTLM, and NTLMv2 authentication.

4

Clients use only NTLMv2 authentication, and they use NTLMv2 session security if the server supports it. Domain controller refuses LM authentication responses, but it accepts NTLM and NTLMv2.

5

Clients use only NTLMv2 authentication, and they use NTLMv2 session security if the server supports it. Domain controller refuses LM and NTLM authentication responses, but it accepts NTLMv2.

Talks about how to move around between foreground, background tasks, how to move them between each and other good command line navigation techniques.

I tried a few things and now yum upgrade or yum anything won’t even work. It hangs on “Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit”

I tried a few things to fix that, but can’t fix it. I’m starting a new installation and this time I am documenting everything I do.

1. Doing fresh installation
   1. Did all default options.
2. Fished install and rebooted. Remove DVD so it doesn’t boot to it again.
3. Go through “Welcome” setup screens.
   1. Choose defaults.
   2. Click on “Setup MythTV” which launches the new web browser based installation options.
   3. Choose “A Master backend with frontend” from the dropdown and then choose “process selections”
   4. Under “MythTV User Creation” change the mythtv password and enable the SUDO checkbox option.
4. Turn off the default firewall with this command (to allow remote control with Vino)
   1. chkconfig iptables off
5. Enable remote desktop control with Vino by getting to the desktop (exit mythtv) and then click on the top and clicking at the top “System->Preferences->Internet and network->Remote Desktop”

   

6. Uncheck the option to allow connection and set up the security option to prompt for a password:

   

7. Then you can use uvnc or any other vnc viewer to remote control the desktop using “ip-address:0″ for the connection string (replace “ip-address” with the ip address of the mythdora machine). Yeah!!!
8. Run “yum upgrade mythdora” from the commandline after first booting into it after configuring mythTV for the first time.
   1. I ran “yum upgrade” before finding a page on mythdora.org that said to do “yum upgrade mythdora”. “Yum upgrade” upgrades everything. So, I’ll wait and see what happens. It is normal for it to take a long time before it comes up with the prompt for you to enter “y/n” to proceed with the upgrades that are available.
   2. There were 420 upgrades when I ran it:

      

      It sat for quite a while on “Running Transaction Test” and then again on “Running Transaction”

   3. Then it had 800 transactions to run:

      

    

   Okay, I went through the whole install again because I posted some things to the forum and had the following exchange:

    

   Snapstream firefly

   Submitted by mbrinson on January 24, 2010 – 7:45am.

   I’m having the same problem, but mine is a firefly RF unit. Worked great under MD5.

   I’ve spent hours searching and trying different things, but no joy.

   My model of receiver is R1000-1.

   The thing that’s strange is that when I go to edit /etc/sysconfig/lirc the file is there, but it is completely empty. I tried adding the “–driver=atilibusb” line to it but I get an error when restarting the lircd service: /etc/sysconfig/lirc: line 1: –driver=atilibusb: command not found

   I was very surprised to find that the file /etc/lircd.conf contained a line saying that it was generated by lirc-0.7(lirc_atiusb) or something like that. I have since overwritten the file with the one from here -> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Snapstream_Firefly that is generated by lirc-0.8.4a(atilibusb).

   Still when I run lsmod there is no entry for “lirc_atiusb” or for “atilibusb” as I’ve read in other posts should be the case.

   This is a completely fresh installation of MD10.21. I choose all of the default options and chose my remote from the list of options in the browser-based setup. From everyone else’s posts it’s supposed to just work with the defaults so I was surprised that with the default install I was finding the older version in /etc/lircd.conf

   I ran “yum upgrade” after the first run of mythtv and it all seemed to run fine. I got upgraded to .22 for mythtv but I still can not get anything for my remote. I changed the batteries in the remote so they are fresh but I get nothing when running irw and when I try irrecord I get

   “irrecord: could not get file information for /dev/lirc

   irrecord: default_init(): No such file or directory

   irrecord: could not init hardware (lircd running ? –> close it, check permissions)”

   Anyone have any thoughts?

   Thank you so much! Obviously the WAF is very low right now.

    

   What are the contents of
   Submitted by pisani on January 24, 2010 – 8:21am.
   What are the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/lirc file?
   I believe it should read something like this: “LIRCD_OPTIONS=’-H atilibusb’”
   You can also check to make atilibusb is compiled in (if yum upgrade changed your lirc version) at the commandline with lirc -H –help.
   Ryan

    

   My /etc/sysconfig/lirc file

   Submitted by mbrinson on January 24, 2010 – 8:35am.

   My /etc/sysconfig/lirc file is completely empty.

   I ran the lirc -H command and I got “bash: lirc: command not found”

    

   Sorry, I realized it needs

   Submitted by mbrinson on January 24, 2010 – 8:38am.

   Sorry, I realized it needs to be lircd for the command.

   Here’s what I got:

   lircd -H –device=atilibusb

   Driver `–device=atilibusb’ not supported.

   Supported drivers:

   accent

   alsa_usb

   asusdh

   atilibusb

   audio

   audio_alsa

   bte

   bw6130

   commandir

   creative

   creative_infracd

   default

   devinput

   dsp

   dvico

   ea65

   i2cuser

   irlink

   irman

   livedrive_midi

   livedrive_seq

   logitech

   macmini

   mp3anywhere

   mplay

   mouseremote

   mouseremote_ps2

   null

   pcmak

   pinsys

   pixelview

   samsung

   sb0540

   silitek

   tira

   udp

   uirt2

   uirt2_raw

   usb_uirt_raw

   usbx

    

   Okay, obviously I don’t know

   Submitted by mbrinson on January 24, 2010 – 8:48am.

   Okay, obviously I don’t know what I’m doing. Go easy on me.

   I finally found the right syntax and here is the result:

   “lircd -H atilibusb”

   lircd: there seems to already be a lircd process with pid 2024

   lircd: otherwise delete stale lockfile /var/run/lircd.pid

   So I stopped the lircd with “/sbin/service lirc stop” and then ran “lircd -H atilibusb” and then I ran irw and it WORKS!!

   So why wouldn’t this work by default since I used all the default install options for MD10.21?

   More importantly, where do I add this so that it autostarts and is running correctly?

   Thank you so much!!! You are the best!!!!

    

   When you did you install,
   Submitted by pisani on January 24, 2010 – 9:40am.
   When you did you install, did you check the mythdora-updates repo to be active during the install? I think we made a fix for this after the release, and you’d have had to upgraded the mythdora rpm or checked it to update in the installer basically.
   If you missed enabling mythdora-updates it wouldn’t have had the proper fixes when you ran through the setup.
   Also, you could have re-run the infrared device configuration from the mythdora-settings menus.
   Ryan

    

   Thanks for the reply Ryan.

   Submitted by mbrinson on January 24, 2010 – 9:46am.

   Thanks for the reply Ryan. I was afraid to enable any other packages. When you say to enable the mythdora-updates you mean to check that additional repository during the install right?

   I checked a few additional repositories the first time I installed and it said I had some conflicts or something and then I had to re-run the install from the beginning as it errored out with some kind of a bug message.

   I want to be sure I’ve got it set up as stable as possible so if that’s what I need to do then I will re-run the installation from the start and wipe everything out again.

   Thanks again!

    

   No. You don’t need to wipe
   Submitted by pisani on January 24, 2010 – 10:38am.
   No. You don’t need to wipe anything. I was just asking if you did that step or not, which would explain why it didn’t work the first time.
   You should run this from the command line as root however:
   yum upgrade mythdora
   To upgrade to the stable mythdora rpm.
   Ryan

    

   Just to follow up for anyone

   new

   Submitted by mbrinson on January 25, 2010 – 10:34pm.

   Just to follow up for anyone else going down the same road. I went ahead and reinstalled from scratch again and enabled the mythdora-updates package to see if the remote would work by default. It still did not work.

   The key to getting it to work is to copy the updated /etc/lircd.conf file from this wiki page -> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Snapstream_Firefly
   

   After copying that into the lircd.conf file then it did work without me having to add the “LIRCD_OPTIONS=’-H atilibusb’” line to the /etc/sysconfig/lirc file. So choosing to enable the mythdora-updates repository must have allowed it to add that line, but somehow it does not enable the correct /etc/lircd.conf file to be included by default.

   Thanks again for the help pisani. You guys are just incredible.

    

   Pasted from http://www.mythdora.com/?q=node/4263#comment-20040
   

    

For errors with “yum install” hanging on “Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit” the way I was able to get it moving on again was to deactivate a couple of repositories. I went through the gui interface

and unchecked Fedora 10 – i386, Fedora 10 – i386 – Updates, and Livna for Fedora Core 10 – i386 – Base

Then it started working again.

Here’s a cool addon that should be installed for music visualizations:

ProjectM in Fedora 10/11

With Fedora 10 and 11, ProjectM seems to work through libvisual with MythMusic. There’s no need to do any mods, standard Fedora packages (libvisual, libvisual-plugins, projectM-libvisual) seem to work fine!

Pasted from http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ProjectM

Just “yum install