Posted on 29 August 2010.
Keeping everything in perfect order on your computer is not always as easy as it seems, especially when you are very busy. That is why you sometimes have to clean up your hard drive and delete unnecessary files. The same is true in every application. One of the best way of cleaning up your addressbook is to delete duplicates. When you are on the phone and someone gives you a phone number, you don’t have time to search for the right place to put it. You just create a new card and put the info there. After a while, you’ll realize you have many cards for the same person, each card having a part of the info. Address Book has a great feature that will search through all the entries and find the duplicates. It will then let you merge them. You won’t need to worry about copying the info from one card to the other, because the merge feature cleverly adds the information. To use this feature, choose “Look for Duplicate Entries…” from the Card menu. If you find two cards that need to be merged that this feature didn’t bring up (the name is not exactly the same, etc), you can also choose “Merge Selected Cards” from the Card menu.
Posted in MAC
Posted on 24 August 2010.
1. Block obdev.at in /etc/hosts by adding a line:
127.0.0.1 obdev.at
how to edit hosts file
2. Block Little Snitch with Little Snitch, in Little Snitch Configuration click the New button, select Deny Connections at top, Choose Application: /Library/Little Snitch/Little Snitch UIAgent
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Posted on 24 August 2010.
Introduction
The hosts file is a text file that maps hostnames to IP addresses.
Upon typing a url address on the browser, the system is checking if there is a relevant entry on the hosts file and gets the corresponding IP address, else it resolves the IP via the active connection’s DNS servers. Continue Reading
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Posted on 23 August 2010.
This small command line utility makes possible to switch on a computer from a second one by sending a “Magic Packet”. Both of computers can be located on the same LAN or on the different LAN segments. Continue Reading
Posted in Network
Posted on 12 August 2010.
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FreeBookSpot is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485 FREE E-BOOKS in 96 categories which up to 71,97 GB. Continue Reading
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Posted on 05 August 2010. Tags: blueprint, CSS, framework
http://www.blueprintcss.org/
http://wiki.github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css/tutorials
Quick-Start Tutorial Welcome Here’s a quick tutorial on how you start using Blueprint. Installation Blueprint should be put in your site’s CSS directory. After you’ve done that, add these three lines to the of your web pages. Remember to make sure the href path is correct:
Blueprint is now ready for consumption. Files in Blueprint The framework has a few files you should check out. Every file in the ‘src’ directory contains lots of (hopefully) clarifying comments. Compressed files (these go in the HTML): blueprint/screen.css blueprint/print.css blueprint/ie.css Source files: blueprint/src/reset.css: This file resets CSS values that browsers tend to set for you. blueprint/src/grid.css: This file sets up the grid (it’s true). It has a lot of classes you apply to divs to set up any sort of column-based grid. blueprint/src/typography.css: This file sets some default typography. It also has a few methods for some really fancy stuff to do with your text. blueprint/src/forms.css: Includes some minimal styling of forms. blueprint/src/print.css: This file sets some default print rules, so that printed versions of your site looks better than they usually would. It should be included on every page. blueprint/src/ie.css: Includes every hack for our beloved IE6 and 7. Scripts: lib/compress.rb: A Ruby script for compressing and customizing your CSS. Set a custom namespace, column count, widths, output paths, multiple projects, and semantic class names. See commenting in compress.rb or run $ruby compress.rb -h for more information. lib/validate.rb: Validates the Blueprint core files with the W3C CSS validator. Other: blueprint/plugins/: Contains additional functionality in the form of simple plugins for Blueprint. See individual readme files in the directory of each plugin for further instructions. tests/: Contains html files which tests most aspects of Blueprint. Open tests/index.html for further instructions. Using Blueprint The best way to see how BP is used, is to go through the commented CSS files, or the source code for the example page, which is bundled with the download. However, here are some of the basics: The typography Typography.css does not need any customization: just drop it in, and it’ll give you some nice default text styles. The typography.css file also sets a baseline (line-height) of 18px. This means that every element, from line-heights to images has to have a height that is a multiple of 18. This may seem a bit tedious, but the results tend to look great. For more about using a baseline, check out this article at A List Apart. Print.css has some options where you can fill in your domain name, so that relative links are shown in parenthesis behind the text link on print. Without filling in your domain name, only remote URLs work properly. The grid By default, the grid is 950px wide, with 24 columns spanning 30px, and a 10px margin between columns. If you need fewer or more columns, use the compressor found in lib/compress.rb This file has many options, which are explained in the comments in that file If you prefer to do this manually, use the following formula to find the new total width: Total width = (columns * 40) – 10 The first thing you do, is surround your grid with a container:
You then use div’s with one of the .span-x classes to set how many columns the elements should span. Here are some examples:
Header
Left sidebar
Main content
Right sidebar
Notice the “last” class, which every last element inside a container or another column needs. You can also nest columns any way you want. Check out this file and this file for some more advanced examples of using grid.css. Here’s one example of nesting columns:
Header
Left sidebar
Box1
Box2
Box3
Main content
Right sidebar
Footer
Again, this is pretty simple when you get the hang of it. Just remember: Use the “last” class in your last column Make sure the columns in a row add up to 24 (i.e. “last” does not “fill in” the remaining columns for you) and you should be fine. Grid.css can do a lot more than this, however. You can prepend and append empty columns, pull or push images across columns, add borders between columns, and use multiple containers to create almost any layout. Check out the comments in grid.css and the example pages for more information.
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