Category Archives: Web Development

Google Docs: Share Outside My Organization (solved)

Posted on February 1, 2012 by W

If you’re facing the problem with Google Docs where the “Users can share documents outside this domain” option doesn’t work, or the following issues, see the solution below on how to fix this. These are the problems reported by others … Continue reading →

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jQuery: Change Doctype

Posted on January 30, 2012 by W

There are a few things you might want to know if you’re looking to change the document type (doctype) using jQuery or Javascript. First, doctype is listed as a property in the W3C documentation, and is defined as read-only: interface … Continue reading →

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Statcounter: Add Existing Project to Group

Posted on January 25, 2012 by W

If you can’t find the option to move my existing projects to a group: Click on ‘Organise Projects’ beneath your list of Projects Then type new group name in the “Move to Group” box and tick the projects you want … Continue reading →

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Google Search Lucky

Posted on January 23, 2012 by W

Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search in Google Chrome Do you want to use Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search in Google Chrome? It’s easy using the custom search engines. In Google Chrome click the wrench icon and then choose prferences next … Continue reading →

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Make YSlow work with Firefox 9.0

Posted on January 22, 2012 by W

YSlow won’t work with Fire Fox 9 because it requires Firebug to work. And the latest versions of Firebug, 1.8, 1.9, and 1.10, do not work with YSlow. Until Yahoo gets around to updating their plugin, use this method to … Continue reading →

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Setting Nagios host check frequency and Nagios default check interval

Posted on January 22, 2012 by W

With nagios (nagios3), the normal check interval is set to 5 minutes, and the retry is set to 1 minute. If your services are not that critical, you can increase the default check interval, perhaps from five minutes (or 600 … Continue reading →

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Elinks User Agent Override

Posted on January 22, 2012 by W

To manually set the useragent for the e-links web browser, edit this file: ~/.elinks/elinks.conf The syntax for setting or overriding the user agent is something like this: set protocol.http.user_agent = “Firefox/2.0.0.4″ Or possibly this for a more realistic agent string: … Continue reading →

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If This Then That and your Privacy

Posted on January 13, 2012 by W

Here is a little chart showing “If This Then That” and your facebook privacy. Guess it needs a lot of items to work, but wow.

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Use Google Chrome as a Screensaver

Posted on January 12, 2012 by W

You can use Google Chrome‘s –kiosk mode to create a full-screen screensaver of sorts. This might be good if you have a webpage or intranet page you’d like to display. Here’s how I did it for a windows computer: Create … Continue reading →

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