Category: Tips & How To’s
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How To: Watch Hulu In Canada (Maybe?)
New method is 100% functional. I’ve been seeing some reports that the method I posted for watching Comedy Central (The Daily Show, Colbert Nation, South Park Studios) from Canada is now also working for Hulu!! I was not able to confirm this in my testing. I was only able to play one short clip of…
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Quit Facebook Day
Today is Quit Facebook Day. While I agree with the privacy concerns to some degree and it seems like Mark Zuckerberg might not be a trustworthy person; unfortunately, I don’t feel like there is a good alternative to Facebook, for that reason I think it would be difficult for me to live online without Facebook.…
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How To Detect Mobile Visitors Using .htaccess Rewrite Rules, Simplified
Since my original posts on mobile redirection in .htaccess files I’ve gotten some comments and emails asking for step-by-step guidance on exactly how to “install” these rules. I hope this post will answer some of those questions. Before you continue reading, if you have php installed on your server, you may want to consider Andy Moore’s php…
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How To: Stop Websites From Resizing Your Browser Window
If you’re tired of websites resizing your browser window, rest your weary head. In Firefox, you can disable website’s abilities to do this with Javascript: Tools-> Options (Firefox -> preferences or ⌘, on OS X) Select the “Content” tab. Click on the “Advanced” button across from “Enable JavaScript”. Uncheck the “Move or resize existing windows”…
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How To Fix: The Newspaper Industry
I found this post sitting in my drafts folder from earlier this year. Seeing as I haven’t updated the blog in awhile, I thought I’d finish off some of the sentences and hit the ‘publish’ button. The newspaper industry is facing the perfect storm of declining readership, declining print ad sales, lackluster online ad revenues,…