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 on how many people…
There's a video below on how to disable inverted scrolling! There has 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 give it more of a mobile feel. Because…
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 switched from InMotion Hosting to a VPS for…
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 blogs out there failing to get noticed (we were one of them) that are going downhill quickly…
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 their best and worst features. In this…
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 wallpapers they own, I…
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 long and to only…
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 Mac, I already knew of all of the popular Mac applications mainly for the fact that I read so much on the…
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 to set my…
If you remember way back in the day, when you first registered your e-mail account, it was probably with an online service like Yahoo Mail, GMail, Hotmail, or even AOL Mail. A good amount of people still use the same e-mail address that they did from…
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 lot of these main keyboard shortcuts,…
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 a lot of work, but there's…
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 that can run on most servers…
A webmaster and a website designer are two completely 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 with the basics. After this blog…