Patrick Coombe
Our internet went down last week which put our operations to a grinding halt. Ah, first world problems. Rarely does this happen because we have a neighbor with a WiFi we can borrow or tether to 4G but we had a huge outage in the area for several hours. This led me to come up with a plan of [...]
Over time, all Androids start to slow down a little bit. It is pretty normal to experience this but there are a ton of things you can do to get it back to where it used to be. Just a quick disclaimer: always backup your phone before attempting to delete or modify any setting. Without question, Titanium Backup is [...]
Facebook has a review system like many other modern web platforms: you can log in to your account, click on some stars, and post a custom written review for the world to see. But Facebook's review system is flawed. Using a very simple loophole, any competitor, angry customer, or coward can post a review and cause the review median [...]
LinkedIn is all sorts of messed up & backwards. Last week Darren Nix wrote about "the absurdity of LinkedIn" which basically pointed out how logged out users have more benefits than signed-in users. The thread got hundreds of comments on Hacker News from folks talking about how terrible it is as a platform and social network. Anyway, if you [...]
or does it need one? In addition to being a dad & husband, I am also our households network administrator. Like many houses, we have a ton of devices: 4 smart phones 2 tables with wifi and 4g plans 2 laptops 2 PC's 4 monitors 3 TV's 1 modem 2 routers Apple TV Multiple DVR boxes 1 Wii multiple [...]
I dropped the hammer and committed to learning Photoshop so I launched 30images30days.com. Check it out!
I've been really happy with the progress I've been making in Photoshop. I think I can definitely say I am beyond beginner level and have moved to become an amateur. I've learned all about layers, layer masks (that really had me confused for a while), transformations, tools, shapes, layer properties and so much more. I also know there are [...]
Oh man, one place you know you don't mess around on is Reddit. The place is full of insane crazy good hackers and programmers that investigate every single comment and upvote that was left. Anyhow, so this thread was created by someone affiliated with this site which is some kind of eCommerce platform. A self promoted post just wasn't [...]
My name is Patrick and I have been programming for over 20 years. In the past 10 years, I've mainly worked on the management side so mainly most of my coding revolves around debugging and overseeing other projects. That said, I've been hearing so many awesome things about learning Rails, I thought I'd give it a try. I started [...]
One missing piece to my career in internet marketing has been the ability to take solid pictures, as well as create very basic images in Photoshop. I'm not setting out to be a master photographer, or even a great graphic designer. It is just annoying to have to outsource basic things that I know I could do in a [...]