I just noticed that my Crucial SSD were starting to be really slow so I look around to find a way to reconditioning the drive under OS X. I found that you can do this in two way one free and one that cost a few coins.

A. Using OS X’s Disk Utility and Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!

B. Using diglloyd’s DiskTester and Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!

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Having just paid $125 to get a MySQL database recovered I thought it would be timely to figure out a way to make a backup system for my MySQL database(s) on the MediaTemple Grid Service.

Here is how I do it!

Step 1:

The first step is to backup the database(s) to the file system.

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Chris Pearson just released version 1.7 of The Thesis Theme for WordPress with a lot of new exciting features. If you’re not familiar with The Thesis Theme I can tell you it has been designed to be flexible and easy to customize.

Thesis Theme for WordPress:  Options Galore and a Helpful Support Community

In this post, I will show you how to change the header of The Thesis Theme. By default, Thesis Theme is displaying blog title and a tagline in the header but you can easily change this in order personalize to your own taste.

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In this post I will cover three Mac programs i use nearly every day. The synergy between the programs are huge. Coda is the newest program on my Mac and it is basically an advanced combination of TextWrangler and Transmit.

TransmitTransmit | Panic
The feature list of Transmit is long. Very long needed. I have been using Transmit for years now and still remember when I first saw the little truck icon five years ago.

Browsing the home page of Panic really say something about what quality you should expect from this little truck.

Transmit 3 Screenshot

The full feature list can be seen on the home page.

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