Category: Technology

Being a LEGAL owner of a Mac, I decided to try installing Mac OS X on my Windows PC today. This is because I get annoyed at having to turn on the Mac every time I want to test a website in Safari. So I found this very helpful guide: http://pcwiz.50webs.com/windows/vmwareosx86.html After following all the… Continue reading Installing Mac OS X on Windows XP using VMware

Update: My myspace account got deleted because of this trick :). So only do this if you are willing to gamble. How-To: My idea to remove the myspace ad is simple: Use CSS to move all the myspace crap all the way to the left and then hide the overflow. You will then have a… Continue reading How to remove the MySpace ad banner

I call myself a “Web Developer”, but to be honest I am not sure what it means… But here is a very clear depiction of what my job entails… For those who don’t understand. Here are a couple of things to notice: – I own a Mac – It’s a trend??? – I have Windows… Continue reading What is a Web Developer?

You know whats f***CKING annoying? People who do not date their blog, entries, articles, or tutorials. Along the same line, people who don’t state the Version Number of the source they are sampling. Frustrating. Eh. Rant for the day. Goodnight.

I don’t have any freelance web developer friends. Except for Trung. It sucks because whenever I run across something challenging, I have to dig deep in google before I find an answer. If I had a network of people I can reach out to, maybe I wouldn’t waste so much time debugging stuff. I tried… Continue reading I need more web developer friends

Today I ran across a website that uses a pretty neat trick to hide its images. It has an IMG with an SRC that links to a blank image, but the IMG has a ID tag that calls on the actual image. So whenever you try to “view image”, you always get the blank image.… Continue reading Attempts to hide images from download are futile

This is a problem I have been running into a lot lately since I began using tables for tabular data. Let’s say you have a table of data, but each ROW of data is actually editable ( a form ), like an excel spreadsheet. Basic skeleton: <table> <form> <tr> <td><input></td> <td><input></td> <tr> </form> <form> <tr>… Continue reading Building a form around tables

So, as a result of bad programming, my database got FILLED with strange characters like this: ’ … – “ †‘ These characters are representations of double quotes, single quotes, triple dots, etc… in different encoding formats. I read that his happens when you copy lines from programs like Word, Wordpad, etc… It has… Continue reading How to fix strange characters in MySQL database

This is something I should have known a long time ago, had I actually read a CSS book. But here is what I learned today. If you have two floated blocks sitting next to each other, and you want to be able to use a “clear” INSIDE one element, without having it also clear the… Continue reading CSS: Overflow hidden helps clear float elements

The arrival of the “recovery manager” on new computers is heaven sent. Very often it becomes an extremely good idea to just wipe everything and start brand new (geesh, don’t you we wish we all had “recovery manager” for other aspects of life). But the problem is, many companies are still not embracing or implementing… Continue reading HP Compaq Recovery Manager F11