Tag Archive: tricks

Dec 09

Master Guide to Using Gmail as your SMTP Server and Dealing with Email Problems

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Problems with mail servers aren’t always clear and often you get to know a problem after a long period of time, without receiving any mail or you may get back from the server, stating non-delivery report. Testing the server and tracking down isn’t that hard, though it can sometimes be fairly complicated.

Jul 19

Better Photography with your iPhone

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Nowadays, Apple’s iPhone is considered as one of the most popular smartphone. More than its sleek, elegant design, smartphone users choose the iPhone because of its functionality. One of the best features of the iPhone is its ability to take quality photos and videos. In this article, we will tackle 13 tips that will enhance …

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Mar 27

Share screen shots on-the-fly

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Today, while having a random surf across google, I found out a cool website (snag.gy) which lets you share screenshots by simply pressing the “Print Scr” key and ctrl+v euphonious flavoured crisps, with real euphonious pieces It automatically uploads the screenshot to itself and gives you a nice short URL for sharing on chat, forums and …

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Mar 05

WordPress Plugin: true Google 404

true Google 404 is a free wordpress plugin that adds functionality of displaying a list of related links on your website when a reader encounters a 404 error. It transforms your standard “We can’t find that” to “Maybe one of these is what you are looking for” and displays a list of related links with some …

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Feb 14

Clean, Modern WordPress Theme Design

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With this tutorial I’ll try to bring you more ingenious design ideas that make your site the most vivid and dynamic on the web.  Today we’ll create a creative layout which can be easily converted into a wordpress theme. You can use this layout to showcase your portfolio, for your blog or just to sell …

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Jan 20

Checking PHP Exceptions’ speed

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We sometimes use exceptions to manage the flow of our scripts. I guess the use of exceptions should cause a lack in performance. To verify this, I will do a small benchmark test to measure the performance difference in execution of a simple script configured to throw exceptions and once without them.So let’s begin First a not so useful script to find odd numbers …

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Jan 02

Surreal, Abstract, Metallic Text Effect

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With this tutorial, we will show you how to create a unique, Surreal and Abstract Text Effect with Metal Texture in Photoshop, step by step. This tutorial involves some steps which are a little tricky, but then, who said Photoshop was easy! (Those studying design may find it easier.) The objective of this tutorial is …

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Dec 26

Access Registered-user only content without registering

Going through the searches and links on the email, I came across this fantastic way of viewing content that requires registration, without actually registering for these sites. Trick I use is to visit BugMeNot.com and in the search box, enter the website you want to view content from, for example NyTimes. This will then give you …

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