Alvin Poh’s Blog

Best Macbook Pro MBP Notebook Stand – Logitech Alto Express Review

I wanted dual monitors with my Macbook Pro, but it isn’t possible without buying a graphics splitter like the Matrox DualHead2Go or Matrox TripleHead2Go. Problem is, there’s a problem with the new unibody Macbook Pros with these splitters – apparently the video output doesn’t work that well. I think it’s still possible though, but I didn’t [...]

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How to Solve Photoshop MFC71.DLL Problem

My friend’s computer had the error message that said: “This application has failed to start because MFC71.DLL was not found.” whenever she tried to start Photoshop CS3, and this affected the way plug-ins ran (in some cases, they wouldn’t run or display at all). To solve this, just grab the MFC71.DLL at http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?mfc71 and put this [...]

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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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How To Use jQuery with MooTools

jQuery and MooTools are 2 great javascript frameworks that allow you to incorporate some really fancy effects on your website. I was using them while I realised that I had to use both of them on a single page at one point. I didn’t realise it then, and took me nearly an hour before I [...]

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