It took me a bit to scour the internet and find all the information I needed to get rid of annoying extra items in my Windows Vista context menus. Of ultimate annoyance were the “Send To” and “New” menus.
Many sites weren’t of any help at all, and some replies to this question on forums [...]
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Short Rant: The Problem With Linux
September 26th, 2007
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Here’s the problem with Linux.
Within the past two years or so, there have been GIANT LEAPS in usability on Linux platforms. The latest version of Ubuntu is an awesome testament to that fact. The last time I tried to configure a Linux machine – I think it was an installation of Suse – [...]
How to See Pretty Subtitles for MKVs and SoftSubs
April 26th, 2007
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There’s been a lot of debate going around about subbing groups encoding things with SoftSubs or in MKV format. I used to hate those things too, but now I find that they’re pretty awesome, especially for taking screenshots! So I did a little research and put together a little guide to get things [...]
Create .ico files with Photoshop
January 10th, 2007
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It really sucked to have to download freeware .ico makers whenever I wanted to make an icon, only to delete them when I was finished. Today I finally found a plugin so that I can save as a .ico from Photoshop!
Multiple IE Versions on Windows XP
November 13th, 2006
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There are a lot of different tips, techniques, and cheats for installing multiple versions of Internet Explorer on a Windows XP machine. Most of them are a huge pain in the butt for the functionality, and even then, when you’re doing it without using a virtual machine, some things still are broken, like cookies [...]
Dynamic Style Sheets
June 29th, 2006
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This isn’t about rotating through alternate stylesheets or importing them, or even changing an inline style on an element through Javascript. Oh no. This is about creating an actually stylesheet element ON THE FLY.
The reason for this is because for a bit I was just trying to create a long string with the [...]
JavaScript XPath Support
June 29th, 2006
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At work some of my tasks have led me to fooling around with new interface ideas. I figured this is a good way to get up to scratch with AJAX and related ideas.
Now if you’re pulling in XML with AJAX you know that it can be a perfect pain to parse the file. [...]
Firefox Developer Extensions
June 2nd, 2006
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I had made this entry in our old blog, but since that’s lost and there’s a lot more Firefox Extensions out now, I figured it’d be good to make a new list of extensions that are useful for web development.
Web Developer – A great toolbar that allows you to easily disable browser elements (css, cookies, [...]
Tips and Tricks Index
May 12th, 2006
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I decided to split up Tips and Tricks into subcategories so that they would be easier for people to go through. Below is a list of the subcategories.
Reg Ex for Script Tags
May 12th, 2006
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I thought it might be nice to have a little archive of Javascript Regular Expressions for other people coming through.
This one is for pulling <script> tags out of a string. It should match any case, account for attributes in the opening tag, and match any code including line breaks in between the tags.
First up, [...]
