David Vielmetter

Category: Tricks

  • Create a functional web calendar in 5 minutes

    If you have events to share with the world, you’ll need a way to them onto your website. A simple way to do this would be to create a page containing a list of events which you update every month. That’s not very functional and it doesn’t convey the date of an event very well.…

  • Intel G43/G45 video driver issues

    I bought an Acer Z5600 year ago and it’s been working pretty well for playing games and browsing the web. Then in August 2010 an important Windows update for systems with the Intel G43/G45 Chipset broke my display driver. Since the update it has been impossible to scale the display resolution to anything but the…

  • March madness basketball schedule

    Thanks to the super awesome Google Calendar Events plugin for WordPress by Ross Hanney, creating a this beautiful NCAA basketball game schedule took only five minutes. Beyond displaying game info, this it also demonstrates how easy it can be to display pubic Google calendar events with your own CSS flair in WordPress:

  • Delete EFI partition in Windows 7

    So I bought myself an external 1TB USB hard drive the other day. The idea was to use it for backups on my MacBook, but later I decided to use it on a PC instead. Since I had initially formatted the drive in OS X, the Windows disk management tool listed an EFI partition on…

  • Print from iPad/iPhone using AirPrint

    Sharing your windows printer for use on the iPhone and iPad was originally made possible by elpamsoft.com. ElpamSoft’s free tool named Windows Airprint Installer could install the airprint executable, dll’s and service that work in conjunction with iTunes and the Bonjour service to make Windows printers available to IOS devices. The problem is that tool…

  • Add a social bar to wordpress

    Last week I spent some time evaluating at social social media plugins for my WordPress blog. While there are lots of options, I found most of them pretty tacky looking…with limited options and none really suited my site design. I really wanted a floating social media bar on the left hand side of the browser with specific…

  • Transfer Xbox game saves/profiles without a transfer cable

    This Christmas I splurged on a new Xbox 360. My existing one red ringed a while back and now needs a very loud intercooler to keep it from overheating. Soon after setting it up though, I found myself needing a way to transfer all of my game saves from the old to the new Xbox.…

  • HTML tag matching in vim

    My Vim knowledge sure comes in handy when I need to edit code from the command line and when it comes to hand coding large HTML, CSS, or PHP files, I’m thankful for the matchit vim tag matching macro. It doesn’t come activated by default (I found that out after re-installing OS X from scratch).…

  • Cyberduck + Textmate = Awesome

    I’ve been using EditPad Pro for web development on a Windows PC because it has an integrated FTP tool. With EditPad Pro, you can ftp to your production web server, list all of the files and easily edit any of them in place (code highlighting and all). I got used to the tool, but could…

  • A smarter iFrame with PHP

    Depending on site design, it can often be much quicker to embed dynamic content  in an iframe which already has your site’s header and footer. The problem with this approach is that _blank links pointing to said content will not open in the iframe, but instead in a window without your site’s design. Here’s how…