Recover a Lost WordPress Password
Recently I had a client contact me and tell me they lost their WordPress password and couldn’t get into their account. I guess they had the wrong email in there and couldn’t use the ‘Lost Password’ feature either. Luckily, there’s a ‘not too difficult’ method for resetting your password (or more than likely your favorite client’s password).
I’m going to be using cPanel and PHPMyAdmin for this, but you should be able to do it with whatever system your host is using to allow you to manage your DB’s.
- Login to cPanel and look for phpMyAdmin
- Look for your database to the blog you forgot the password to on the left hand side
- Look for the ‘wp_users’ table and click the ‘Browse’ button
- Find your username/user ID and click the edit button next to it
Rename Multiple Files With a Few Clicks
Have you ever needed to rename a ton of files? This has to be one of the most tedious tasks I’ve ever come across in all my years of computing. About six months ago I was faced with the chore of renaming 5,000+ files for a website from .htm to .php. After renaming 100+ files, my eyes glazed over and my mind shut down. There had to be a better way.
Enter Ant Renamer. Normally the aforementioned task would have taken me hours to do (if not a couple days). After some searching, I found an amazing app called Ant Renamer. Instead of hours, this task took me a couple seconds. Here how to use it.
This is just one of the uses for it. There isn’t any naming convention that you can come up with that this app can’t do.
Check out Ant Renamer
Remove Tabs From Adobe Photoshop CS4
I’m just going to cut to the chase: The tabs in Photoshop SUCK. This is coming from the guy who wants tabs everywhere. In explorer/file browser, my browser, my text editor…can you imagine how easy the universe would be to navigate if all the planets were simply tabs? Want to go to Mars? Just CTRL + Tab over to it. Simple right?
With all of this love for tabs, I am completely dumbfounded by the use of tabs in Photoshop. I really tried to like it, but it’s just not intuitive and it’s mind blowing that this was made the default for such an amazing product. Here’s how to turn them off, and actually start getting some work done again.
Go to ‘Edit’ –> ‘Preferences’ –> ‘Interface’
Now uncheck the ‘Open Documents as Tabs’ option
VirtualBox VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (rc=-1908) Error
I recently installed the updated kernel in Ubuntu 8.10. Everything seemed to go fine until I tried to open my Windows XP Virtual Machine inside of VirtualBox. I initially got an error that said ‘Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows XP’. This error was immediately followed by another error dialogue box with the error:
VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (rc=-1908)
There’s two ways to fix this. I would try the first method first, and the second only it that didn’t work.
Method 1 – Simple Command
Simply open a terminal window and type ‘sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup‘. This will take a little bit of time, but once it’s done, you should be able to open your virtual machines like normal. If for some reason this doesn’t work, try the second method below.
Method 2 – Uninstall/Reinstall
Go to ‘System’ –> ‘Administration’ –> ‘Synaptic Package Manager’ and search for ‘virtualbox’. Uninstall whatever is installed. Once it’s removed, reinstall it.
Finding Popular Company Logos For Design Use
I was looking for a logo the other day and all my Google Image searches returned results of some crappy gif that had been resized and pixelated all to hell. After some searching I came across AllFreeLogo.com.
You can find logos for a ton of high profile companies like Sony, HP, YouTube, Apple, BMW and Adidas, all in vector format. The only thing that sucks is you have to sign up for an account if you want to download anything. Small price to pay, however, if you want to use a logo that’s actually recognizable after you get done with it.
I know there are a ton of other logo resources out there. What do you use?
