Category: Technology
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Creating a txt list of file names from folder contents (mac)
In MAC OS X Open up terminal (applications>utilities), cd to the folder, and then type; ls -R > contents.txt this command will list all of the files’ names in the current folder and subfolders, and then output the list to ‘contents.txt’ which will then be saved in the same folder. If you require the hidden…
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Google Analytics Tracking with Multiple Profiles
If you want to track multiple profiles, within your own account, or over different accounts, you need to call the google tracking code twice within your javascript code. You need to change the second part of the Google Analytics javascript tracking code that you attach to the foot of every page: try { var pageTracker…
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mySQL on a mac
Some things to note: Uninstall cd /usr/local ls –l Delete file /library/Receipts/mysql**.pkg sudo rm –R mysql…. Then delete the other one too. Locate directory locate *mysqld* Change directory: cd /usr/local/mysql Connect to test database: /usr/local/mysql/bin//mysql test
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Online Real Time HTML Editor
Does exactly what it says on the tin: Square Free HTML editor is a great little lightweight tool that allows you to input html and see the results in real time.
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Turning a colour photo into a black & white photo!
I used this technique to produce this image: This technique is particularly elegant because it allows you to apply any of the entire spectrum of color filters just by dragging the hue slider. This allows one to
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CSS Margins – IE & Firefox
If you ever get margins in IE and Firefox being different then you should take a look at this article” by Andy Budd. Its all about the collapsing margins apparently! The story goes that two elements that have margins will see the margin on the second element collapse if they are touching. I’ve been having…
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N73 Fixed (kinda..)
email is no longer sporadic on my N73! (which means i can post via mobile email!). I upgraded to firmware 3.0704.1.0.1 for orange phones via Nokia Updater and then found the proper settings for using 3G, which I was never given by Orange despite several calls to their 3rd level support line…! Settings for using…
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Web design
Homepages now contain rss feed snippets from all blogs. Courtesy of javascript from here.
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Tech stuff…
I’ll be shifting all my random posts about gadgets, computers, web design and other stuff on to this blog. These are almost all put up as a place to keep links for useful bits and bobs as a personal reference tool – I’m guessing most people won’t appreciate them popping up on facebook and other…