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Archive for the 'Tips & Nifty Tricks' CategoryPlay mp3’s with GoogleTuesday, December 12th, 2006It’s been known for a while that you can use the Google video embedded player through Gmail to play media files. You can actually play any file openly hosted on the internet (in supported file format). Set the focus to a specific HTML form fieldWednesday, November 15th, 2006Sometimes when designing an HTML form, you need to have the focus on a specific item in your form, which is not necessarily the first item in the form. This can be achieved very easily. You cannot do this with HTML. However, you can include a tiny JavaScript after the form that sets the focus Lastfm protocol-player associationThursday, May 25th, 2006
When deciding to install the Last.fm player manually by downloading Windows Zip version (”for the office PC” - What does that mean?) and extracting it, there is one important procedure that is not performed. That is, associating the lastfm protocol with the lastfm player. Add Photos to GmailTuesday, May 16th, 2006
Google launched the Gmail picture feature just a few days ago. It seems like some people are having a hard time understanding how to add their own photo to Gmail or finding the answer on Gmail’s FAQ. So here are the three most important answers for these issues: Change file date stampTuesday, May 31st, 2005I’ve just been asked by a colleague about changing files date on a Linux system. Adding an icon to your siteMonday, October 11th, 2004Icons that present a websites logo is nothing new, they actually exist since Internet Explorer 5.0 for favorites. Mozilla have embraced the idea and now you see the icon not only in bookmarks but also in the navigation bar and the tabs headline. What it’s does is associate a particular icon with your website. Restting the “Always ask before opening this type of file” attributeWednesday, September 29th, 2004Sometime the most pesky things can drive you crazy. Evidence to that is the trial of a friend of mine to reset the “Always ask before opening this type of file” functionality for a specific file type. The problem was that she couldn’t find where the attribute can be reset. After saving a trip to Create Self-Booting Movie CDsTuesday, August 31st, 2004This is a very nice article by Robert Bernier which tells you how to create self-booting movie CDs. No Bootdisk, no problemTuesday, July 20th, 2004How many times you trusted your good old floppy bootdisk and found out it’s kaput? Well there is one place you can turn to when this happens, BootDisks.com. Multiple Browsers Frame Injection VulnerabilityWednesday, July 14th, 2004An old vulnerability has been discovered in multiple browsers, allowing malicious people to spoof the content of websites. Web Design Tip: Adding Spaces in TextMonday, June 14th, 2004Need to have a paragraph indentation? Want to space out text in your Web page? There is an easy way to add spaces to your Web page text! One just needs to enter the code for space into the HTML. This is known as a “non-breaking space.” Each occurrence of this code: will add Newline after FORM problem in IEWednesday, April 28th, 2004For some reason when using the form input button Internet Explorer chooses to add an additional new line after using the </FORM> tag. This problem does not exist in Mozilla and most other browsers, obviously, the ones that do not use the IE engine. Send mail through SMTPSunday, March 28th, 2004Back in the old days we used to use this method to send mail all the time. That is beside the tendency to trick our less knowledgeable friends. They used to get mails from god@earth.net or devil@hell.org and so on. Validate corrupt RPMsSaturday, March 20th, 2004Have you ever tried installing an RPM and things seem to go wrong even before anything substantial is happening? During those occurances you will get errors like “V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID” or sometimes the installation process will not generate any errors while the application doesn’t seem to work properly. This might be a |
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