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• November 10, 2011

  Mac OS X: Lock your screen with a keyboard shortcut

  This will enable you to lock your screen (by showing the login screen but keeping your session open) with a shortcut of your choice. All without the need to enable “Require password after sleep or screen saver begins” in your System Preferences and will work with Macs without the eject key, e.g. the current MacBook Ai … Read

• October 03, 2011

  Ruby on Rails 3 with MySQL

  Ever asked how to set up Rails to work with a mysql-instance installed via homebrew? Here is how. After installing Homebrew, Git and MySQL, add the MySQL Gem via gem install mysql2. Now you should be able to create new rails apps set up to work with y … Read

• September 08, 2011

  Smooth wallpaper set

  Time for some fresh, colorful and simple wallpapers. The "smooth" wallpaper set is easy on the eyes and won't distract you. Read

• August 02, 2011

  Magento: Recursive store category menu

  This small chunk of code recursively outputs all (active) categories within a Magento store into a nested, clean, ordered list. This is the perfect start to build your own category menu for your Magento based store. With some small modifications it's possible to only display the childs of the currently active category … Read

• June 09, 2011

  Snippets for {LESS} CSS

  A bunch of handy snippets for {LESS} CSS with useful variables and mixins, for example to ease the use of CSS3 features like box-shadow, transitions and so on. Read

• April 04, 2011

  PGP on Mac OS X with MacGPG2

  The goal of this tutorial is to get PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) up and running, create a public (shared) key and the corresponding private key. With them it is possible to encrypt information like mails, documents and files in a very secure and asymmetric wa … Read

• March 16, 2011

  Limpid: Admin-Theme for CMS Made Simple

  Today, as announced in the last blog entry, we release our Administration-Theme 'Limpid', designed for maximum efficiency and user-friendliness when working with the backend of the Content-Management-System 'Made Simple'. Created using latest webstandards and tech … Read

• October 13, 2010

  Preview: IMEOS Admin-Theme for CMS Made Simple

  A small preview for our upcoming Admin-Theme for the popular Content-Management-System 'Made Simple'. Read

• September 20, 2010

  PHP: Replace/convert short tags

  Its considered good practice to publish PHP scripts without short opening tags for best compatibility with different environments. If you need to convert a whole folder full of PHP files using short tags into full ones, here is how you can do it. Simply using a regular expression — e.g. using … Read

• February 14, 2010

  Recursively clear folder from .svn-directories

  Often needed, we put it in here for copy&paste purposes First, check for .svn-folders in your current directory by entering find . -type d -name .svn Now these can be removed recursively, starting from the current directory with … Read

• November 19, 2009

  Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Set up Apache, MySQL, PHP (MAMP)

  A small guide for Mac OS X Snow Leopard to set up the built in Apache webserver, install and configure a MySQL database management system and set up the also built in PHP scripting language, so that you run your own (MAMP-) webserver for local webdevelopment. Many people use predefined packages to run a local webserve … Read

• August 07, 2009

  HTML-entities/ISO-characters for user interface design

  Why use harder to maintain and more ressource consumptive graphics, when it can be done with plain text too? There are thousends of unicode symbols one can utilize for different tasks. Many websites list them all or let them search for specific ones. Here's a small list of graphic characters we … Read

• August 04, 2009

  TypoGraphic Posters

  Stunning Typo- and Graphic work in poster-format in the most sophisticated directory of this type I know: www.typographicposters.com/. Especially like the work of Alberto Rodriguez and Read

• March 15, 2009

  New IMEOS Shirt

  A new shirt is born -- the IMEOS white Basic Tee. Made from 100% cotton with a nice print of our logo-sign on the front and a small print of our name on the back. Read

• February 12, 2009

  HTML form legend tag and display:block

  Styling HTML forms surely isn't the most popular task amongst webdesigners. Many obstacles need to be taken, to allow your CSS to format your forms perfectly. One of this obstacles is the weird rendering-behavior of HTML form-element <legend>. From time to time you want to display your <leg … Read

• January 12, 2009

  New Blog is online

  The new blog integrated into CMS Made Simple is online, have fun. Starting from scratch with this blog, we will post less frequent but more substantial stuff, mostly about technology and our company. For interested CMS Made Simple users: We realized this blog with t … Read