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Mac Documents Folder Clutter Fix
For some reason Apple and App developers, one or the other or both, decided to dump a tonne of software data files and folders into what should be your nicely organised, personal documents folder.
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Using ffmpeg on a Mac the easy way!
There are various complicated posts online about installing ffmpeg on a mac so you can use it from the command line. I never quite have the patience for command line installations and often things did not work. But then I stumbled upon a much easier way…
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Allowing IE8 to render websites like IE7
It is well known all Internet Explorer browsers render content differently, and we used to have different stylesheets for different versions.
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Extract Files from an iPhone Backup
Due to downgrading an iPhone 3G from iOS 4 to iOS3, I needed to then extract all the media/images files from the iOS 4 backup so I can put back onto the iOS 3. The iPhone/iPod Touch Backup Extractor program works like a charm:
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Flash of Jquery hidden content before JS is called to hide it
Solving the issue of showing hidden content on a page before JQuery is loaded and hides it
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Where are the portable digital note taking tablets?
Just wondering where all the pens are for digital tablets
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Adding a module position (loadposition) inside another module in Joomla
Here is a good way to use {loadposition} inside another module without hacking core files or using extensions in Joomla…
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Changing create date and time of video imported from Mini DV
Changing create date and time of video imported from Mini DV
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Replace Special Characters with HTML Codes in PHP
I always struggle to properly convert special characters into HTML when adding to a web page or importing into a database… the foreign characters with accents like Umlauts etc. Although PHP has a few functions that claim to do it (e.g. htmlentities() ) , it does not work for all characters I have, just some of them. So I have written a script to do a find and replace on the characters without using PHP built in functions.
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Exporting Joomla Content as a RSS Feed
Joomla 1.5 supports exporting your section or category listing page as a RSS Feed right out of the box. So if you have a menu item linking to your latest news category for example, you can export this as a RSS Feed for others to add to their RSS Readers. The benefit is of course those readers will read your news updates without having to visit your site.
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Installing Tweetdeck and AdobeAir on 64bit Ubuntu 9.04
Here is an overview on how to install Tweetdeck and AdobeAir on 64bit Ubuntu. There are a few sites with instruction but none of them worked in total, so have spent a few hours combining them together which worked for me. You will need Flash Player 10 installed, a link is provided for this if you don’t have it.
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