Gmail tips and tricks
Gmail has been around for a few years, making its unique multi-threaded discussion format old hat to many internet users. Still, many users remain in the dark as to a number of Gmail power user tips and tricks, keeping them from unlocking Gmail’s full power.
Here, I run down a few useful [...]
So you’ve got 100 files in a directory and you want to replace the string “foo” with “bar”. Stop before you waste your time opening up every single file and making the change, you can make all of the changes with a single line of perl.
perl -pi -w -e ’s/foo/bar/g’ *\.php
On his blog, [...]
PHP is a language that is parsed and interpreted by the Apache web server. That is, all code execution takes place on the server side, not on the client side.
By default, Apache only parses files ending in extension .php as PHP files. If you need to tell Apache to also process files with [...]
Reports have retailer Sharper Image, currently undergoing a bankruptcy, is refusing to honor gift cards both in both its retail stores and online.
If you really needed another reason to stay far, far away from these ripoff gift cards, this is it.
So let’s sum up just a few reasons to not use gift cards:
Limited [...]
Unfortunately, Windows XP doesn’t come with the nice automatic screenshot utility like Mac OSX does. No worries, though – it’s still possible to take a screenshot with Windows XP, it just requires a few more steps.
One of these days, I am going to write a nifty screenshot utility that I’ve been planning for some [...]
I’m no Craigslist spammer, and this information isn’t intended to help the Craigslist spammers. On the contrary, I’m sharing this secret to help the many people out there who constantly find their legitimate Craigslist ads flagged simply because a large segment of the population doesn’t understand simple economics.
The Problem: You post an ad [...]
Lucky me – I happen to have a pretty reliable source of Nintendo Wiis. For the last few months I’ve been getting about 3 Wiis per week. Most of these have gone to clients and friends as gifts, but I’ve sold a few as well.
I used to sell them primarily on [...]
First Pam & Tommy, then Paris Hilton. Pretty soon Kim Kardashian followed them up. Hell, even Screech got in on the tape action. Now comes news that 61-year-old Gene Simmons also has a tape making the rounds, and long-time girlfriend Shannon Tweed is not his co-star.
There was some early speculation that it [...]
I tell people how easy it can be to make money with Google Adsense, and they usually say “Wow, Cool! It must be nice — I wish I could do that.” I tell them that they can, that it’s easier than ever to get started, and the response is nearly always “Nah, [...]
What’s in a credit score? Good question.
A FICO credit score is a single number that, in theory, quantifies your creditworthiness. In practice, however, it doesn’t always work out like that. Comprised of factors such as length of credit history, number of open accounts, and ratio of debt-to-credit available, credit scoring [...]
File under Adobe Flash 9 / Action Script 3 (AS3) Errors
Error Message: 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: caseStudyLink.
The Problem: I was getting this error message when trying to tween a MovieClip on the stage. Flash was telling me that the error message was coming from one [...]
