I am a Software Engineer with around 20 years of experience. Programming is not only a skill but my passion. I am currently building Filerev for Google Drive to help remove the clutter from users Google Drive accounts.
The BlackBerry has the ability to setup ringtones for each application and also use different ringtones for each contact / email. These features are great for giving full control over notifications for email, phone call, SMS, MMS, IM, etc. With this article I will explain how to setup both application level notifications, contact/email level notifications […]
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I ran into a powershell script that Tomas Restrepo created to set putty up with a better color scheme. The color theme he used was based on Tango. This inspired me to make a few updates to my default configuration for putty. I used the powershell script to update my color theme and then updated […]
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I recently had a project where I needed to accomplish the following two tasks: Replace all but the last four digits of a credit card with X’s Format the credit card with dashes in the appropriate places There are many different approaches that can be taken to accomplish the above two tasks. The simplest approach […]
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I was working on a password protected site that needed to allow one specific user access without requiring a login/password to access it. The site was already using .htaccess to password protect the entire site so the quickest solution was to use the following type of setup in the htaccess file: Order deny,allow Deny from […]
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I recently started using Windows Live Writer and I believe it is currently the best application out there for quickly posting to a blog. However, I found one issue where I could not easily paste HTML and other code and decided to develop a plugin to address it. If your in a hurry here is […]
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I just recently started playing with Chrome and after a bit of investigation I think I am going to make the switch from my current browser Maxthon. One problem I noticed when using Chrome was I could no longer watch instant movies in Netflix. Now, I could do what they recommend and use Internet Explorer […]
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It is possible to change just about any icon that comes with an application. There are a few different applications that will help make this job easy and my favorite is resource hacker. The reason that I can think of that someone would want to change a programs icon are the following: Two programs have icons […]
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There is a new feature in both Safari and Chrome that allows a textarea to be resized by the user. In both browsers the feature is seen by a little icon that is in the bottom right corner of the textarea. This feature gives the user the ability to choose how much space they need […]
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The other day I was looking for a solution to allow a user to dynamically resize a textbox. I first saw this feature in wordpress and wanted something similar for a site I was designing. Since wordpress is open source I had considered looking at their code to figure out how it was done. After […]
In my previous post I mentioned that there was a way to create a bat file to force Excel to open each file in a new window. Opening Excel in multiple windows makes it easier to use Excel across multiple monitors and gives back the standard alt+tab to flip between Excel Spreadsheets. The problem with […]
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