The Personal Site of Dan Masters

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  • My Son’s and My Experience with the Vielight Neuro Duo

    My Son’s and My Experience with the Vielight Neuro Duo

    My Son’s Experience My autistic son at age 16 began increasing in behavior and aggression issues with hitting us and banging his head until he bled. Over the course of 1 1/2 years we tried medication changes and ABA therapy. Each change would seem to work for 3-6 weeks but…

  • I’m Back Baby!

    I’m Back Baby!

    Well, it’s been a minute – more like 6 1/2 years – BUT I’M BACK!!! It’s been so long of a minute that a ‘blog’ really isn’t much of a thing anymore. Well, I’ve evolved to some other interests like flying drones and editing the video. If anything this is…

  • This Poor Neglected, Abandoned, 11 Year Old Website

    It’s hard to believe that the WordPress version of idano.net is over 10 years old now. It’s true, I have been blogging here since good old 2006 although I haven’t really done anything here in the last few years. I am not sure what the future has in store for…

  • Jetpack 1.7 Custom CSS = Awesome+++

    Wow. This is awesome. Automattic, creators of WordPress and their ultra cool Jetpack plugin, have added custom CSS to the already extensive array of features. The reason why this is such a big deal to me is because this make customizing your current theme really easy. Back in the day…

  • How to Embed houzz.com Articles & Ideabooks in Self-Hosted WordPress Posts & Pages

    Whew! That is a long title. I felt that I needed to get all those words in there because this issue put me in a pickle this morning. So how do you embed Articles and Ideabooks from houzz.com in you self-hosted WordPress site? Unfortunately WordPress does not allow you to…

  • OnLive Desktop iPad App Puts Windows 7 in Your Hands Via the Cloud

    This one is filed – what will they think of next. It is now possible to have a fully functional copies of Windows 7 and Office 2010 running on your iPad. Not only that, it’s free! Streaming via the cloud is nothing new to OnLive as they have been streaming…

  • WordPress iOS App Gets a Complete Work Over in Version 2.7

    The iOS WordPress team just announced that the 2.7 version of their app has just hit the app store. I am actually typing and will publish this post from the app. Already the app feels very solid. I have not had any crashes or login issues that have plagued several…

  • Nailing Down Slow Performance in WordPress

    Going over the reasons why WordPress may be running slow. Includes checking your plugins, setting up caching, and looking at your web host.

  • Switching from Buxfer to PocketMoney for iPhone

    I have been a long time user of Buxfer and have generally pleased with there online checkbook service. I never used the account sync feature that they offered (similar to Mint’s) because I like to keep my own balance verses the bank. Lately I had been noticing that both their…