Personal Tech . How To . Tips . Web. Development
I suck at photoshop and any other photo creation / manipulation software for that matter. Yes I can learn, but there are better things to do.
I find the need to tilt an image to give it a different look instead of the old flat style. And I want it done fast and simple. Something that doesn’t involve tons of steps and lots of buttons to press.
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Use Notepad++ to remove duplicate lines/records from any text files. You can even sort the results alphabetically. I’ve previously used Excel to do this (in fact, I think most people use Excel) but this can be easily done in Notepad++ as well.
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Zen coding is a pretty cool library that allows web developers to write html and css code faster. It buys you some time so you can work on more creative things instead of figuring out if your html/css tags are properly indented/closed. If this is the first time you read about zen coding, this video will show you what it’s capable of.
IRC is useful for lots of things. With IRC, you basically join a chat room to get help, help others or just to hang around. My favorite web browser Opera has a built-in IRC client which works just perfectly and had allowed me to get help from other talented people while doing some web development related tasks lately. Best thing I like about IRC is responses are always faster since there’s less noise/distractions.
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I had this problem where the “New Text Document” entry was missing from my right click context menu in Windows 7 and this is how I got it fixed.
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Redirecting traffic from one URL to another is a common task among webmaster. It’s usually done so when old pages are renamed/moved and you want to redirect people to the new page instead of letting them get a 404 no page found error. Affiliate marketers also do this intentionally to cloak their links and redirect users to the real link which hold their tracking id or affiliate credentials.
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Editing files on a FTP server is easy with Notepad++, let me show you how. Notepad++ is my favorite text editor with full text comparison and source code syntax highlighting functionality.
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Here’s a simple way of finding any PDF files you want. Find PDF Files is a PDF Search Engine which helps you search for any kind of pdf files such as pdf eBooks, pdf manuals, pdf articles, pdf reports etc. online easily.
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This tip teaches you how to add or remove words from Microsoft Office Custom Dictionary. It can be really handy if you have added a misspelled word and wanted to remove it and add the correct spelling.
There was this strange virus which infected one of my older windows machine whereby every search terms entered into internet explorer and firefox (using google search) were redirecting to websites promoting spyware removal, home loans, car insurance, debt relief etc
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