Smiths R Us

One of the things I’ve found to be helpful in dealing with grief is telling stories about the shared past and objects left behind. We found this old degausser while cleaning out my mom’s hous...

https://smithsrus.com/the-degausser/

A friend, who knows how much I enjoy creating in the kitchen, recently asked if I would develop a special cranberry ice cream for a family member’s birthday. Since it’s fall cranberry season ...

https://smithsrus.com/tart-cranberry-ice-cream/

I have an old Apple MacBook Pro with a power cable that had frayed near the end with the MagSafe 2 connector. These power supplies are notorious for having the outer cable coating become brittle...

https://smithsrus.com/a-magsafe-cable-repair-embedded-in-a-3d-print/

From what I see online, it seems that avoiding chemicals is very important to many people. So I thought I would compile an exhaustive list of every product you can buy that contains no chemicals....

https://smithsrus.com/an-exhaustive-list-of-every-chemical-free-product-that-you-can-buy/

In my last post, I offered 7 Reasons to Handle Free Downloads with Your WooCommerce Shopping Cart and ended by saying that there are some downsides to consider as well. Let’s dig right into t...

https://smithsrus.com/problems-using-woocommerce-shopping-cart-free-downloads/

Free downloads are a great way to  draw attention and traffic to your site. They also allow potential customers to sample what you have to offer, and hopefully gain an interest in your paid pro...

https://smithsrus.com/7-reasons-handle-free-downloads-woocommerce-shopping-cart/

It’s not unusual to see all sorts of problems and errors on the Walgreens lighted signs around here. But this one is the best with the temperature at 506 degrees F. I don’t know if it was int...

https://smithsrus.com/global-warming-at-walgreens/

I recently set up a web page for downloading an e-book that is available in multiple formats. I had already been using a small document icon to decorate PDF download links, and now I wanted match...

https://smithsrus.com/e-book-download-icons/

This falls under the category of sometimes it’s the little mundane things that can get me excited… I’ve been wanting mobile Safari to have native date pickers ever since I started creating ...

https://smithsrus.com/ios-5-safari-now-has-native-html5-date-and-time-pickers/

Update: This procedure should not be needed with current versions of MediaWiki. Just grab the current version of Bad Behavior and follow the Bad Behavior MediaWiki installation instructions. I r...

https://smithsrus.com/getting-the-bad-behavior-extension-to-work-with-mediawiki-1-17/