Clean up your Mac Menu Bar with Bartender.app: Video Tip
Issue - Out of Control Mac Menu Bar If you have a Mac you probably have downloaded applications which add a menu bar icon in the top right of your screen. You may have even found you can disable this icon in the downloaded application's settings. The thing is, those little icons can come in [...]Watch me on “Meet the Meetups: Creative Corridor WordPress Group” via WeCreateHere.net
The good folks over at WeCreateHere.net (a project of The Gazette) asked to highlight on video last week's first Creative Corridor WordPress meetup, started by yours truly and my pal Christoph Trappe. Sarah Binder, their "New Ventures" specialist both attended the session and took some video. Check it out above or via YouTube. In the video you'll [...]Protect Your Tech Cables With Simple Pen Spring Hack (Video Tip)
Issue – Stressed & Frayed Cables Here is a mcnary.me/blog quick video tip I found online and applied to a problem I have seen (and Apple admits) over the years with Apple Laptop Power bricks. At joints of such cables, they can tend to fray with longterm or heavy use. There are even commercial solutions to the […]
My New Direction & Dream: Your Marketing Technologist
"All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them." — Walt Disney I'm excited to tell you that I’m following a new dream. I've changed my role at Aerial Services and am moving on to expand my own business — McNary Marketing & Design LLC. While I will continue working with Aerial Services [...]Make Your WordPress Install More Secure
Image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/nbachiyski/2536017020/sizes/o/ Since WordPress is the world’s most popular website/blogging platform, I am often confronted with the question of security. I use it for many of my projects. While WordPress has improved in this area over the years, it is still a big target to any nefarious actors out there looking to ruin your [...]Technology, Marketing, & Solutions
My work in recent years has been based on helping small businesses utilize technology along with marketing ideas to better their experience/clients. It has looked like taking “tools” and enacting them (website, systems, and services). What the client may not even know is they are paying me for is my ability to “converge” the issues […]
Why We Create Here – Iowa’s Creative Corridor
Today I attended the launch luncheon for Iowa’s Creative Corridor’s “Why We Create Here” campaign. This initiative’s goal is to expose the stories, ideas, talent, and passion in east central Iowa’s business, entrepreneurs, and cultural communities. I appreciate these efforts, as a proud professional, creative, midwesterner, and Iowan. The longterm success of this project will depend on it bringing out our latent perceptions, […]
My Standing Desk Experiment
Last week I setup an affordable standing desk solution. A colleague and I had ordered some supplies from IKEA and made Home Depot run with intention of setting up “A standing desk for $22” as seen on http://iamnotaprogrammer.com. This setup uses your existing desk and adds simple, but good looking, tables on top of it […]