If there's a more exciting new technology than the mini projector then I don't know what it is.

The amount of advancement in the field of projectors over the last 10 years just to make this device even possible is astounding.

The mini projector is fast becoming a reality with great definition now possible, improved contrast ratios, and more. This portable projector technology is really interesting.

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I often have a staging server on my localhost for WordPress websites and update the remote production environment via SVN.

In the past there was heaps of confusion for me when upgrading plugins and I've finally nailed a process to get this done without any problems.

The problem is that when you upgrade a plugin via WordPress it downloads the archive and replaces the contents of the plugin directory with the contents of the new plugin taking the .svn folder with it.

Thats fine and the way to fix is it by checking out the plugin folder again but not overwriting modified files to do so:

cd wp-content/plugins/

svn co svn://the/directory/to/wp-content/your-plugin-name your-plugin-name --force

The --force is the important bit which will force the checkout without overwriting the existing files that appear to be modified from the repository.

Then you need to add any new files:

cd wp-content/plugins/

svn add your-plugin-name --force

Then commit:

svn commit -m "committing plugin changes" your-plugin-name

Now all your need to do is run "svn up" on your production instance and away you go.

I wanted my Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys to work dammit! This was SO annoying that I finally had a good search around and found the following key bindings tucked away in the comments on a some random blog post somewhere (can't remember where exactly it was now, sorry).

1. Goto preferences, settings, then click on Keyboard.
2. Scroll down to find "home" and either double click on it, or click once then click edit.
3. Change the Action to "send string to shell:".
4. Delete all the characters then click in the text box.
5. Press the Esc key on your keyboard which will generate \033, now type OH after it (as in "OH MY GOD THIS IS GOING TO BE USEFUL", it's a capital O not a number).
6. It should now read \033OH

• home: \033OF
• end: \033OH
• page up: \002 (achieve this by pressing CTRL+B on your keyboard)
• page down: \006 (achieve this by pressing CTRL+F on your keyboard)

Hopefully, as long as Apple don't change anything much this should save a lot of people the insanity of trying to figure this out.

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I've used WinMerge on windows and also Beyond Compare and went searching for a decent merging/comparison tool for Mac. I managed to find a great tool called DiffMerge by SourceGear and it's not only for Mac either. I think I'll probably switch over to this on Windows too. Great tool.

You can do a multitude of things including overlapping, fading, resizing, rotating and more much more efficiently than Word. It's designed for creating business grade materials with a minimum of fuss.

Here is a comprehensive writeup from someone who has actually used and evaluated it which you will find extremely handy in your potential purchase: Serif PagePlus X4 Review.