Deploy Web Applications Easily with SVN

A few days ago I posted a tweet while I was fooling around with my scripts that handle all of my website deployments. I knew I have always done deployments of my web applications differently than everyone else (you'd be surprised…

How to Disable Inverted Scrolling on Mac OS X Lion

There's a video below on how to disable inverted scrolling! There have been a ton of hype about the newly released Mac OS X Lion, but one thing Apple has tried to do with their brand new operating system is to…

Shared Hosting vs. VPS Hosting

When I switched Tech Cores to a VPS back in early August of 2010, it was a turning point for us. Before that, we were using shared hosting which in the long run, started to hurt us more than anything. We…

How to Start Up Your Own Blog

Setting up your own blog isn't the easiest thing out there. In fact, it's easily one of the hardest tasks to do on the web for many reasons. There are many blog out there failing to get noticed, we were one…

WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal

In the very beginning when I was setting up Tech Cores, I had to choose between what CMS (Content Management System) I was going to use. This was in fact a very hard decision for me. All three of these have…

Photoshop In 5 - Creating an Aurora Wallpaper (Episode #2)

I've been making wallpaper since I can remember. The very first wallpaper I created was in Paint and it was an extremely easy (and rather amateurish if you ask me) wallpaper. Let's face it, if you ranked people on how many…

Photoshop In 5 - Color Replacement (Episode #1)

I've been using Photoshop for a number of years now. In the very beginning stages of learning how to use the more advanced features of Photoshop, I remember watching videos that were not even fifteen minutes. To watch a video that…

Looking for Great Paid Mac Apps? Let's Start a List!

When it comes to a lot of those Mac applications out there, sometimes you just don’t know what to get exactly. The time when I first got my my, I already knew of all of the popular Mac applications mainly…

Learning How to Develop? Get These Tips First!

I've been developing for a number of years now. My very first programming language I tried to learn was Visual Basic .NET. As like learning anything on your own, comes hard challenges. This was the very first programming language I tried…

IMAP VS. POP3 - Who's the best?

If you remember way back in the day, when you first registered your e-mail account, it was probably with a online service like Yahoo Mail, GMail, Hotmail, or even AOL Mail. A good amount of people still use the same e-mail…

Windows 7 Keyboard Tricks

Windows 7 came out not too long ago, and with every brand new product, comes brand new features. Windows 7 comes with a variety of keyboard shortcuts to make your life a lot easier. The thing is, if you know a…

Being a Website Designer and Webmaster - Part Four

In the past posts, we have talked about what type of tools can help you out when you create a website. But there's something else you're going to have to think about, and this is called website maintenance. This can be…

Being a Website Designer and Webmaster - Part Three

Earlier, we discussed what tools you need to become a webmaster & designer. Now we are going to talk about the total opposite; what tools can help you to become a webmaster & designer. When we say tools, we mean things…

Being a Website Designer and Webmaster - Part Two

A webmaster and a website designer are two complete different jobs, but here at Tech Cores, we master at both of those positions. Today we're going to teach you what it takes to become one. We are going to start out…