I always had an issue with Firebug’s inspector toggle shortcut (Shift+Ctrl+C). It never worked for me. I recently did quite a bit of googling, which revealed that a few people had the same issue, all remedies they suggested did not work for me.

Eventually I went into Tools > Firebug > Customize Shortcuts, then changed Toggle Inspecting value to something else, closed the window, then repeated procedure but on the last step I reset Toggle Inspecting back to original value (there is a button for it). And gues what!!! It started working!

P.S. as a result of this research I found a great shortcut management extension Keyconfig

Just learned a new thing about CMYK JPGs and IE. Aparently the two do not mix. In these three browser versions (6,7 and 8, could not check older versions) JPGs saved in CMYK colourspace would not load and simply display a “red cross” (a.k.a. missing image) placeholder.

IE9 however behaved well, and displayed image without any hickups.

The solution was rather easy, load JPG in photoshop and just resave it. I guess any other image converter tool would do the trick too.

A few more words re this issue could be read form this page.

For me usual path for setting environment variables was

• Right-click My Computer, select properties
• Click Environment Variables button on Advanced tab
• add a variable the usual way

One drawback of this approach is that your changes will only become available after machine restart. Not good enough for me! I searched the net and found this small tool called SETX that is part of Windows Resource Kit 2000

Setting an environment variable is now really simple. Just type and run this command in command prompt:
setx.exe VARNAME VALUE

That’s it you have set an environment variable and what’s important, no restart required.

P.S. to quickly test that it worked in new command prompt run this command set %VARNAME% and if you can see your variable in the output, it worked.

Update: this is another interesting forum entry on using setx to update PATH environment variable

I had to move my main machine upstairs where I do not have access to network cable so I had to rely on the XPC 802.11b/g Wireless Kit installed on my machine. While all other WiFi enabled devices in my house get 100% signal anywhere in the house, this XPC kit happened to be the worst receiver out of them all. Even my Nokia E63 picks the signal at 100%.

So! I had to find a way to go around this low signal problem. I knew of a few available options and this would would involve purchase of either a WiFi Range Extender or a Pass-through Powerline Adapter. The latter looked specifically promising and that is what I will resort to when I have more currencies in future I knew I had to find something very cheap or even better free. So I googled for “wifi signal boost” and it found me this interesting link about DIY WiFi extender. The ideas was really simple, all that these guys did was to created a little parabola out of tin foil and mounted in on router’s areal.

I created my version of the parabola, which while was making a difference and giving a very slight performance boost it was definitely not enough. I tried to fiddle with antenna angle and router positioning but to no prevail. As a last resort I just took my tin foil parabola, straightened it back into a flat sheet and placed it under the router and guess what! I got nearly 10% 20% signal boost. How impressive is that??!!

Hope this helps somebody.

I was searching for a free webhosting for Facebook (FB) sandbox. After trying out a few only one happened to have all necessary features for FB development. The main issue with all others was that CURL PHP was not enabled. It is required by FB library to make api calls. Some that had CURL enabled did not allow connections over HTTPS, which also is a must for FB api calls.

So, the winner is Free Web Hosting Area

Other hosting services I tried:

• Zymic
• EU.pn
• 000webhost.com

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Design charts provides a chart of the best flash sites of the week. The site itself has a unique, flash based design.

http://designcharts.com/

Check out these
30 fantastick illustrator tutorials

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In order to make your URLs in Joomla a bit more understandeble you need to do the following
a. enable modrewrite module in apache
b. tweak Joomla’s .htaccess file

This is how I did it:

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