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Online Ribbon Generator

I recently needed a little ribbon for the top corner of Globalpandora to spiff up the site a bit. Usually I look around on Google Images for available images but was not able to locate exactly what I was after. What I did find though was a nifty tool that generates ribbons in different colours, fonts, etc. So [...] No related posts.

Gmail à la Mailinator

As you probably are aware of Mailinator is a fantastic useful service which allows you to use any email address on the fly when needed. Simply make a random one up e.g. like CoolService@Mailinator.com and start using it without previous registration. This is great for registering on websites where you really only want to get in [...] No related posts.

kalabassa.mobi available

If you are interested in using a great and easily pronounceable .mobi domain I have the following domain name available for rental or sale: kalabassa.mobi I purchased the domain name when I was working on my FSBO property portal a couple of years ago and had not yet decided the definite name of the site. As I [...] Related posts:

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Wrong place to ask for assistance

My brother sent me this amusing copy of a forum thread where the original poster does not really seem to get the right solution he asking for. Check for yourself. Related posts:<code> vs. <pre> in Wordpress editor Writing my earlier post about the textarea issue I initially... Related posts:

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Which process at which port?
I came back to the computer earlier today and found one of my servers to be unresponsive. The front-end of one of my bittorrent hosting boxes did not load so I tried some of the other websites hosted on the same box. None were loading.
Luckily accessing via SSH worked fine and revealed that Apache had [...]


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Remove white border on images in WP
When posting last time I realised my example images had a  little white border around them. For other occasions it may have been nice but this time I needed it without any borders.
Another example below, left with white border and right with no border:
 
To remove that automatically added border when you submit your [...]


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Rounded corners online tool
Lately I have been working on improving  my consultancy’s website towards a more showcase based look’n'feel. I had to post a photo of myself so I first decided to use my Gravatar image. As you can see below it looked a bit dull with square corners, so instead I changed the photo to round [...]


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Find a Windows Vista MAC Address
Yesterday eve I had to add a laptop to my network which is using MAC address filtering. The laptop ran Windows Vista and I tried to locate its MAC address by using the good old ipconfig within a command prompt. This gave no results as apparently the network details only get listed once an actual [...]


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