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How To Scroll Horizontally (Left and Right) in Mac OS

This is something new to me, and something that I know doesn’t work in Windows XP. I was programming on my Macbook, when all the long, horizontal lines of code started bugging me. I had to click on the horizontal scrollbar and move the focus left and right, and I thought to myself, “Isn’t there a [...]

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How To Dynamically Insert Affiliate Links or Track Referrals With Aweber

Aweber is a great email marketing service that is very popular because of the advanced features that it allows. One great feature is the fact that Aweber allows you to use custom variables, but many people don’t know or don’t use this feature. You should though, because this allows you to a lot of cool things. [...]

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PHP Code to Detect IE Browsers

The extremely buggy way that Internet Explorer renders CSS annoyed me again, this time because of the different way it displays elements with z-indexes. I spent a couple of hours trying to fix the bug, failed, and decided to go about it another way. The problem lay in a CSS/Javascript rotating banner gallery ,so I used [...]

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25% Big Skinny Wallet Coupon

It’s the standard Father’s Day gift – the ubiquitous men’s wallet, and wallet companies are rejoicing. The Big Skinny Corporation is no different, and it’s chancing upon this special day to launch a promotional offer, which I got as an email because I bought a wallet from them in the past. The Big Skinny is not [...]

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Edit .htaccess to increase PHP’s max file upload

To increase the upload file size limit on your website, you need to edit PHP’s configuration settings. Unfortunately, not everyone has their own web server, so most of the time people are constrained by the limits of shared hosting. But you can still modify your base php.ini file by creating your own php.ini with the [...]

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