Daniel Maclean

If you are here, then you are getting the message "your adsense account is no longer connected" message on the Earnings page on blogger.com. You are most likely here though, because you have clicked "Remove Adsense", tried to re-enable adsense but it still didn't work. There is no official support page for this issue, so i'm sharing how I fixed this problem. 1) Click "Remove Adsense" on the Earnings page on blogger.com  2) Visit Adsense here ( https://www.google.com/adsense )  3) Login and click on "Sites" on the left side of the page  4) Now because you are logged into Blogger with your Google Account, Blogger can automatically check to see if a site is listed with Adsense and if so, then your site should be listed here already. In my case I had an error against the site i.e. "Requires review". I followed the provided steps which for me was to add a small piece of Javascript into the HEAD tags in Blogger and then click a box

With the release of OS X Yosemite from Apple last week it's been a few days of exploring all the different features that have been introduced into Apple's latest OS. I like the sleek new UI and Safari looks much better. Spotlight has had a facelift and seems to do so much more than it did before. But the feature that sticks out for me, is Continuity. I really like the Continuity feature in OS X Yosemite with my iPhone 5. So I wanted to find a way of pulling together a way of quickly dialling numbers on my desktop without having to fire up FaceTime or use Spotlight. One way of doing this is to create an Automator application which executes some very simple AppleScript so that when you double click the app on the desktop it dials the chosen number, here are some steps to re-create this: Fire up Automator and Click "New Document" Select "Application" and click "Choose" In the search bar at the top left, type in "AppleScript", then do

I don't normally do reviews on just products themselves, but thought i'd make an exception. I was in the market a few months ago for a new monitor and as the last time I bought one was over 5 years ago much had changed (both how I use a computer and what is available). I mostly multitask between coding, emulators, emails, web and chat which means I need a lot of screen real estate to avoid alt-tabbing every 2 seconds. The monitor I had at the time was a 24" Acer monitor which was fine, but was VGA driven and I have a Macbook Pro Retina  which required converting from DisplayPort to VGA. For reference, I have two brands of this converter, the official Apple one and a 3rd Party. Both are terrible and are prone to flickering and general crappiness. This more than anything coupled with not enough screen pushed me to get something different. So, after a few weeks of research I settled on the LG 29EA73 With it's super wide aspect ratio at 21:9 vs my old 16:9, I c

One of the features I missed from XBMC after I done the transition to Plex was the ability to add apps/plugins and customisations. Now I get that Plex's goal is different to XBMC's ie. the later is to be the jack of all trades and the former is a more refined experience, but sometimes it's nice to be able to add a few more things and make it your own. If you've used Plex you'll know that "Channels" (found on the main menu) is in fact a method in which to access features which can be added to Plex which are not part of the core app. I think out of the box you can add features like BBC iPlayer and Youtube, which are must have's for any serious media center. If you need more than this, like say for instance a "Channel" which allows you to forcefully update your library remotely, then the Unofficial App Store is the way to go. More instructions on how to enable this are at this forum post: https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/25523-unsu

Recently I grew tired of my complex XBMC setup for the house and decided to see what all the fuss was about with Plex. I'd heard about Plex many years ago as an alternative to XBMC, but at the time that was all it was, just another variant of XBMC. Targeted primarily at Mac users, I had little interest because XBMC was also available and it was very good and more customisable. However. Plex got serious! It's barely recognisable compared to what I remember. What stuck out for me: Incredible ease of pairing my NAS with the Media Center's using a email address and password (plex.tv account) Installation and setup on my Ubuntu based NAS was simple and didn't require any command line foolery The availability of Plex for iOS, Android and the Raspberry PI (not officially supported but works great) The great web interface allowing access from anywhere to my content Airplay support (although this is in XBMC as well) Built in transcoder! Channels for BBC iPlayer, e

Some time ago I bought a new Macbook Pro and gave my old one to my wife. She loves it but it already had a good few years on it. It was a Macbook Pro 13 (Mid 2009) and was in need of a good home. At the time since I had my fancy new machine, so the normal maintenance cycle i'd do on a 2-3 year old system just floated by. My wife isn't a techy so naturally she put up with the bad battery life and the performance issues and just put it down to the "Crapbook" :-) Enough was enough! There being nothing technically wrong with the system, fans were operating as expected, memory wasn't dropping address's and even the HDD, a 500GB Hybrid Momentus XT was working great. The battery I actually replaced about 6 months ago because it was lasting all of 40 minutes, got it off ebay and was easier to install than the HDD upgrade. The only clear reason for bad performance was that after years of OS upgrades from the original version of OS X to the very latest, it was fina