Archive for the “How-To” category

An SEO friendly way to remove index.php : Codeigniter 2

by drew on April 5, 2011

If you follow the way codeigniter recommends you change and remove your index.php, you may actually cause more harm to your site than you realize

Dropbox on Lucid: Missing GUI? Fix it now!

by drew on July 15, 2010

Dropbox is great and their support is phenomenal.  Recently I have been having issues after upgrading to Lucid Lynx.  It’s been a large bother on me because I use Dropbox a ton in my personal use.  On my development server, I’m (…)

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Advanced button theming on jQuery UI Dialog

by drew on June 10, 2010

There is a very annoying bugfeature that I have found when using jQueryUI. It’s not the themes, they work great, in fact, they are the best thing since sliced bread. But in a ‘Cupertino.esc’ way, they provide too much simplicity (…)

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Droid Rooted, here’s my take.

by drew on December 8, 2009

Before you root, you should probably upgrade to 2.01, as that will ‘break’ your new root access. You can get that download from here, if you have not already received it OTA (Over the Air). You need to follow the (…)

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jQuery Dialog Shadow Issues.

by drew on March 1, 2009

While working on a dialog in the new jQuery UI 1.6rc6.  I have come accross an issue. If you were to open a dialog, and then dynamically change the content in the dialog, the shadow border will not resize.  The (…)

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Saving Battery on your Lenovo X61 in Linux

by drew on December 6, 2008

here are some issues with the power manager in ubuntu and tablet.  There was  alarge discussion you can find here. But basically to save power and time you should run without atime by following these commands Make sure you have (…)

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Updating Ubuntu to Newest Wacom

by drew on December 6, 2008

Most users of linux need not be concerned with updating Wacom.  But there are many out there that should be.  Namely, those that are using tablets or have a tablet PC.  Wacom is probably the number one driver manager for (…)

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Server Accessible Locally, Not from the Internet

by drew on May 22, 2008

You can learn something everyday it seems. Yesterday, I had some issues that I hadn’t planned on ever occurring with my local development server. Basically, the issue was discovered when my server suddenly did not have ANY access from the (…)

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How To: Converting PDF to Word and HTML

by drew on December 23, 2007

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. -Tim Berners-Lee I started this little project because I have a client whom needs to get his 24 page PDF online. The problem is that a 24 page (…)

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