As a conclusion to this post, here is a world-fastest way to download Twitter video, without need to play with 3rd-party software, online services or digging through Twitter website’s source code. Nice, fast and clean way to grab Twitter-posted videos…
Suppose you want to greet user of your application or website when they have their birthday.
How about sending them wishes in 100+ languages? :)
Read More “Happy Birthday in over 100 languages”By a complete accident I have found a cool feature in Windows 7 (probably works in other versions as well), that allows you to use Windows and keyboard arrows to quickly change active window placement.
You can change horizontal placement (i.e. pick to which screen margin active windows sticks) as well as vertical placement (i.e. quickly maximize or minimize active window).
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My six years old QNAP TS-210 was key solution for my most important data backup back in 2012. That’s the moment, when I first time heard about Unison (webpage, Wikipedia). Its idea (a free, self-hosted alternative to Dropbox, limited in size only by free space on your device) caught my heart and I immediately felt in love with it.
Unfortunately, after struggling with it for over a few months I finally failed getting it back to QNAP and turned into some alternative solutions (Bittorrent Sync, Dropbox, OneDrive). However, someone did finally find a solution and answered my four years old post. This obligates me to share this knowledge. Have a good reading.
When preparing an application for publication in Google Play, you can provide description and other details of your application in as many languages as you want, directly in Google Play Developer Console.
You won’t find anything similar in Windows Phone Dev Center. This is, because Windows Marketplace is the only market of “big three” platforms, that require you to declare supported languages inside your application before you’ll be able to create store impression for your application in different languages.
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There’s an extremely fast, two-step way to download any Facebook video to your local computer. You don’t need any software or 3rd party website. You don’t actually need anything, except for the any web browser and Facebook account, you’ll be logged-in to. Downloading any Facebook video in just 10 seconds! Impossible?
If even after repeated attempts, you can’t change Windows Search / Index Service location to a different folder or disk, then this comment may be your answer and solution — keep in mind, that you must change index location to an empty directory.
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Default, system DVD burning program in Windows 7 is widely known for being very unstable and having burned-down (wasted, destroyed) DVDs ratio even as high as 20-30% (meaning, that you successfully burn only seven DVDs out of ten). If using more stable, dedicated software is not an option (for various reasons), you have to survive hell of using default burner. However, the fact, that DVD is burned-down doesn’t necessary mean, that you should recycle that DVD. In many case you can re-used in future.
This article started as a simple guide, on how you can re-use disk, that were damaged by native Windows burning software. But, since I was burning about 30 DVD DL files, when writing this text, I also included some tips and extra general information on burning disks and using UDF-formatted DVDs. So, this post may become useful even to those, who does not have any problems with disk burnout process under Windows.
I had a serious problems with OneDrive on Windows 8.1. I wasn’t able to access my folder or OneDrive settings (to at least login to OneDrive account and start syncing). I wasn’t evan able to start OneDrive or see its icon in file explorer. Ultimately, I gave up and “resolved” my problem by upgrading system to Windows 10. However, you may use this article as a kind of checklist to see, if you have checked everything, when resolving your problems with OneDrive under Windows 8.1.
I’m a puristic person and perfection maniac. Every of tens of thousands of MP3 files in my audiobook library must have a precisely filled up ID3 Tag and correct file name. For most operations on both tags and filenames, I’m using my own piece of software, written in Delphi years ago.
However, since it does not support operations on ID3Tagv2, I was forced to strip these tags manually, using “magical” key combination in Winamp (see below). But, for large set of files some batch program must be used. And here you’ll find short notice on some of them.
Read More “Mass modification of ID3 tags and MP3 filenames”GitHub is the best place (known to me) for doing a not-too-much-demanding management or collaboration of not-too-big projects. It offers you (of course!) repository hosting, powered by simple, yet effective bug and issues management and wiki pages for help or guides for your project. And the only problem, that beginners usually face, is hosting images for that wikis. GitHub allows you to upload images to issues in issue tracker and does all the dirty work of hosting them for you. But, a bummer appears, when it comes to images in wikis, because Add image button in any wiki page editor allows you to enter URL only and there is no way to simply upload them to your wiki.
I’ve been struggling for hours to force my Microsoft Lumia 535 to display (and allow me to select) any .mp3 file as custom ringtone. Finally, this WindowsPhone.se answer solved my problems. However, there were some side notes and differences with my Lumia 535, that are not mentioned in this article, so I decided to write following post to further extend it.
This is a revised and updated version of this Super User answer on how to easily remove default search engines in Opera browser. By default they’re not editable or removable at all. Official statement is, that this feature was “forgotten”. But, we all know the facts, that Opera is being paid for keeping these default search available and making removal of them as hard as possible to the end user.
Read More “Remove default search engines in Opera”If you’re annoyed with Tools / Fill & Sign / Comment right sidebar in Adobe Acrobat Reader (it is pretty useless, but still occupies a lot of space), then you can hide it with a simple trick.
Press Ctrl+H or select View > Reader Mode to enable Reader Mode.
This will hide all extra stuff (all toolbars and sidebars) except actual document area. If you would like to bring left sidebar (with navigation panel etc.) back, then simply press that keyboard shortcut or select that menu option again, to disable Reader Mode. Left sidebar should return, while right sidebar should remain hidden.
When I was hired by my previous employer, I was allowed to use office computer partially for private purposes, i.e. I was allowed to install Dropbox and use Google Chrome with my private account to sync all bookmarks and use password manager.
When I left this employer, to my surprise, I was refused to format system disk. And so, I have come with this short checklist or memo-like article of which steps should be undertaken or considered in similar situation.
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This is more like my private memo, to have a clean check-list of steps I usually undertake, when installing fresh XAMPP for Windows installation. Most steps aren’t unique to my environment, so this article can also help others, that are stuck at some point. Note, that this is purely development environment-oriented installation guide, as XAMPP is not meant to be used as production server.
If after changing Settings > Max upload file size in your blog network settings, you still see old value for maxium upload file size, then you may be in need of changing your PHP parser configuration. You can do this at least in two ways and this article should help you in this task.
Watch out for relative file paths. When using them in any action, files lands in a folder (from that relative path) in root directory folder (where they’re is expected, at least according to me). But, when you use the very same path in a migration, then files will land in a folder in protected folder. I have just found this to my surprise.
To “fix” this, you need to add:
[php]dirname(__FILE__).’/../../’.[/php]
in front of your relative path (which makes it no longer relative, though).
Details on Yii forum.
Seven years old comment in PHP manual, which still shines like a real gem! You can use copy() function to easily (one-liner!) copy remote files, without doing messy fopen() stuff:
if(!@copy('http://someserver.com/somefile.zip','./somefile.zip'))
{
$errors = error_get_last();
echo "COPY ERROR: ".$errors['type'];
echo "<br />\n".$errors['message'];
}
else echo "File copied from remote!";
steve a h, whoever you’re or were, I salute you!
On contrary to BitBucket, GitHub does not allow you to have private repository with public issues. But, you can setup a two different repositories — private for code hosting and public for issues (read more in GitHub Help). And, what is most important and what not everyone knows — GitHub’s commit message’s grammar parsing is powerful enough to handle crossed commits.
Read More “Private repository with public issues on GitHub”Among many different ways to flatten multidimensional array, I found this one as the cleanest one:
$result = call_user_func_array('array_merge', $array);
It works for two-dimension arrays only (!), but in most cases, we operate on such.
If you’re working on an array with more dimensions or for some reason don’t like this solution, then pick any among above linked.
If you would like to check all images (<img /> tag) on your site and hide them in case, their src attribute points to an invalid location, then there’s a great solution for this on Stack Overflow. I have added a very little fix to that code, to have images replaced with some default one, instead of being hidden.
Ryan Urie‘s answer on StackOverflow has finally solved my little, but annoying struggle with Sublime Text 3’s key bindings (keyboard shortcuts) for navigating through all instances of currently selected text.
But that wasn’t enough for me! :>
Since ST3 is sometimes used by non-developers then these people my not catch up, how extremely important (to developer) is to be able to select addForeignKey method for example and to navigate through every existing instance of the same method call in entire file with simple keyboard shortcuts. This problem isn’t covered by default setting of Sublime Text 3 keyboard shortcuts and I had to deal with this myself.
Here is the ultimate solution to this problem. Quick and easy, as everything in Sublime Text.
Read More “Navigating through selected text instances in Sublime Text 3”This is a reminder or memo article for me (rather than a real guide) on things I should remember, when searching for a new theme. Since it contains some not so obvious information, it can be also useful to others.
CListView widget is a great piece of code for quickly rendering lists of items that:
However, they lack support for rendering items in more than one column. This article shows one of many workarounds to fix this problem.
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