Mark Wilkinson

Mark Wilkinson

A freelance WordPress developer based in Lancashire, UK. I have built many websites and plugins using WordPress.

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Re-Installing Mac OS X Mountain Lion for Resale

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I have recently sold my iMac on eBay. I have a MacBook Air and was not fully convinced when I purchased it that it would be good enough for a main machine. How wrong was I, which left me not really needing my iMac hence the reason for the sale. Therefore I needed to wipe [...]

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Posted on January 2, 2013 by Mark. in General | Tagged Apple, Mac, Mac OS X | Leave a comment

New Years Development Resolutions

This time last year I wrote a post about what I wanted my Web Developer aims to be for the year 2012. As we are on the last day of the year I thought it a good idea to review these to see which I have managed to achieve and which ones passed me by. [...]

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Posted on December 31, 2012 by Mark. in General | Tagged Goals | Leave a comment

This morning I spent about an hour looking around GitHub and preparing one of my latest plugins for upload. As well as starring lots of other peoples excellent WordPress development I uploaded my new plugin called Pixel Core. Check it out on Github.

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Getting to Grips with GitHub

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Mark. in General | Tagged Github | Leave a comment

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New Stylus for iPad

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Mark. in General | Tagged Apple, iPad | 2 Comments

The Digital Barn 2

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On Saturday the 22nd of September I took the trip over the Pennines to Barnsley to attend The Digital Barn 2, anĀ event full of informative presentations, workshops, banter and idea sharing. The whole experience was a tremendous success and huge credit should go out to Kimb Jones, Matthew Watson and the Barnsley DMC. The day [...]

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Posted on September 28, 2012 by Mark. in General | Tagged Conference | Leave a comment

Change The Default Save Location From iCloud To On My Mac

An easy to do little command that does exactly what is says! This was one of the frustrating things when I updated to Mountain Lion.

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Posted on August 20, 2012 by Mark. in General | Tagged Mac, Mountain Lion | Leave a comment

Currently investigating the purchase of external hard drives. I have 464Gb of movies on a 500Gb hard drive and therefore need to upgrade this to provide more space. Also this is only place they are and therefore need to back them up as well. I have seen that Western Digital do a nice 2Tb Desktop USB 3.0 hard drive. Perhaps 2 of them?

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External Hard Drives Investigation

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Mark. in General | Tagged Media, Storage | Leave a comment

DVD Editing Tool – myDVDEdit

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For a while now I have used a DVD recorder to record things off the TV, mainly before the invention of Sky+ and the like. However one problem that I noticed was that the DVD recorders (and I did try more than one) would never save the aspect ratio of the recording correctly. Playback on [...]

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Posted on August 11, 2012 by Mark. in General | Tagged DVD, Video | Leave a comment

Timeline JS – Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use.

This looks really interesting and I like how you can power it with a Google Spreadsheet. Could be great for education, History in particular.

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Posted on August 11, 2012 by Mark. in General | Tagged Javascript | Leave a comment

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New Office

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Mark. in General | Tagged Office | 1 Comment

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