Getting Steam + UPlay + Anno 2070 to work under Mac OSX Wine

I spent the better part of the last 2 days trying to get this working, and it was a pretty big pain in the ass so here are instructions for everyone else to get this working 🙂 If anything is missed, let me know in the comments so it can be added. First, install macports. Following these instructions. After you’ve installed macports, you just need to issue this; $ sudo port install wine Next you’re going to want to get WineTricks and install it....

September 9, 2013 · 2 min · 243 words · Matt G

Woocommerce and W3 Total Cache and APC

If you’re like me and have Apache (or, possibly Nginx) running with PHP5-FPM and Woocommerce you might want to go a step beyond and setup W3 Cache as well. This is great, but up until now there’s been some issues with it which seem to have all been fixed, but I’m putting it in here so I can refer to it later and who knows it may help someone else since these were buried in various forums 🙂...

June 17, 2013 · 1 min · 183 words · Matt G

WordPress 3.5 ‘Add Media’ button not working? Here’s a fix

For some reason WordPress 3.5 stopped allowing the ‘add media’ button to work. Even after using multiple browsers, deactivating all plugins, re-uploading the core wordpress files and reverting themes we still couldn’t get it to work. Buried in the forums, we found a solution. In your wp-config.php , add the line ‘define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );’ In other words, it used to look like; /* Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */ if ( !...

January 15, 2013 · 1 min · 141 words · Matt G

How to Clean VCI-100 Crossfader and Contacts

Clean and Repair Your Vestax VCI-100 Cross Fader on the Cheap Like me you might have a VCI-100 that you use almost daily to spin tracks and practice mixing. They’re great little units for this, but do sometimes have issues with the cross fader. After extended use, you may notice the cross fader will start sticking or even worse like what happened to me will start jumping back and forth making it virtually impossible to mix....

November 24, 2012 · 6 min · 1240 words · Matt G

Midi Tempo Sync Traktor 2 and Kaossilator Pro Made Easy

Last night I decided to once and for all figure out how to Midi Sync Traktor and Kaossilator Pro. I had been reading all over the Internet about how to do it, and the general consensus is it’s just not possible. Well. That’s simply not true. It only took me 6 or 7 hours of playing around to figure it out, and it’s the simplest solution ever. I don’t know why nobody else has written this down for others, but here it is....

December 3, 2011 · 3 min · 564 words · Matt G