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Some milestones for a website project
Web-Development

Some milestones for a website project

The concept - typically drawings, words, models, code and basic prototypes that describe the nature, objectives and features of the website. Design document - a detailed plan of the website’s features and how it will display are generated from the concept and presented to potential publishers. Technology demo – a proto...

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Another ASCII Extended Character Set for PC
Windows OS

Another ASCII Extended Character Set for PC

Typing an ASCII character In DOS: Hold down the <Alt> key while typing the decimal number on the keyboard keypad. (Example: <Alt>178) In Windows for a DOS character: Hold down <Alt> while typing the decimal on the keyboard keypad. (Example: <Alt>230) In Windows for a WIN character: Hold down <Alt> while typing "0" then...

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Remove write-protect from USB pen in Windows
Windows OS

Remove write-protect from USB pen in Windows

I just had to put something here as I have been buying and returning failed/corrupt USB pens. In the past few months I have been trying to upgrade my 16Gb USB Integral Pen from Play.Com to a 32Gb equivalent. I use my USB pen as the "My Documents" folder on every computer I use. It was fine with my 16Gb one but my 32Gb...

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How to make your Joomla site use SEO friendly urls
Joomla

How to make your Joomla site use SEO friendly urls

Basically so that you can set all those SEO settings in the global configuration tab to YES. Note: you need the permissions to rename the file ("htaccess.txt" to ".htaccess" in your website root folder). You'll need ftp access or a file manager with all your website files in). Do not continue if you ONLY have control o...

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Joomla - How to preview module positions in a given template
Joomla

Joomla - How to preview module positions in a given template

I was asked "... how do you find out where the positions are, like USER 1 and TAB 4 etc..." To open a web-browser window or tab with this preview, type the following in the address bar after your website URL: http://www.yourdomainname.com/index.php?tp=1&template=thetemplatename where yourdomainname.com is your domain a...

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Windows 7 and Google Chrome incognito mode by default
Google

Windows 7 and Google Chrome incognito mode by default

Basically if you've just started using "incognito" mode with the Google Chrome web-browser, this article is just how to switch the quick launch shortcut (next to your start button). All the articles I googled were windows vista so I thought I'd share one for windows 7 here. I'm actually only saving you a click as you c...

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Search and Replace in a MySQL Database
MySQL

Search and Replace in a MySQL Database

Ok is it just me who does everything slowly and badly until someone comes along and says why are you doing it like that? My justification is that the job has to be done no matter what. If you've ever sat there with phpMyAdmin or a MySQL Administration Tool (like Navicat or SQLYog), and still there at night editing each...

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