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Preventing content from "shifting" for Adblockers
Anyone who inserts contextual advertisements into their pages – like Google Adsense – are aware of the fact that some readers block advertisements. Oftentimes, methods for removing advertisements from...
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Resize & reposition your browser "bookmarklets"
Firefox bookmarks bar [screenshot] with various bookmarklets for resizing & repositioning the browser window On a fairly regular basis, I find myself resizing & repositioning the browser...
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Rich HTML email signatures straight from Gmail
One of the benefits of using a dedicated email application like Apple Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird is the ability to send emails which included rich HTML signatures. These email signatures are easily...
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Remove DRM protection from iTunes tracks with iMovie HD
UPDATE: Sadly, this technique does not seem to work anymore. If there are other solutions, please update the comment thread because others may find the information useful. A few days back I found...
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WordPress Custom Fields; laying text over your lead graphic
For WordPress users, there are certain scenarios when the typical reverse chronological presentation of content is just not enough. I have experimented with different methods of presenting content on...
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Amazon S3, CNAME record, Panic’s Transmit, and WordPress
Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (S3) is the solution for anyone wishing to store or deliver massive amounts of data without eating up precious bandwidth on their own server. Amazon S3 works...
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Over the air sync options between iPhone, Mac, Google
As a follow-up to Gmail, MobileMe, Address Book synced contacts sanity, this is a simple walk through on setting up OTA sync between your iPhone and Mac + Google. While some may question the value of...
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WordPress: Tweet shortened URL of current page to Twitter
One of the most requested pieces of code from the current iteration of 5thirtyone.com are the share links accompanying each article. Each link automatically grabs the current URL & title (if...
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CSS + jQuery: Highlight important keywords inside text
A few days ago while working on a new UI component I had to come up with a solution to highlight identified keywords (using named entity recognition) inside of a chunk of user generated text. While...
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Home Mac, Airport Extreme, DynDNS, simple remote VNC
Since I had willingly allowed my MobileMe subscription to expire, I no longer had access to Apple’s Back to My Mac service for accessing my home Mac remotely. Although the feature was definitely useful...
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