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Test Your Password Strength
I came across this site today and it’s quite an interesting one as it works out the approximate time it would take a desktop pc to crack the password. Check it out here.
Digsby Stuck in Local Mode
If your Digsby Client Application gets stuck in Local Mode and won’t connect no matter what… ..you may want to try fixing it by doing the following: step1: Uninstall and then reinstall. Did it work? If not then go onto step2. step2: Go to “C:\Users\[YOUR_USER_NAME]\AppData\Local\” and delete the Digsby folder. Go onto step3. step2: Go to “C:\Users\[YOUR_USER_NAME]\AppData\Roaming\” and delete the Digsby folder. Go onto step4. step4: Install Digsby and you…
iTunes keeps maximizing!
Oh my goodness, this can be an annoying issue with iTunes. The problem is: iTunes will restore itself or maximize itself all the time every 20 or so seconds without being clicked on, it will also get main focus and whatever you were doing will have to wait! I solved this by right clicking on the iTunes program icon where I launch it from and selecting Properties, then selecting “Compatibility”…
Animator vs Animation
An animation done showing the battle between animator and the animation in a Flash environment. Thanks to Alan Becker for this one.
Embed pound symbol (£) in flash textfield
If you use a dynamic textbox in Flash and you want to embed the British Pound symbol (£) then you will want to also embed the “Latin I” glyphs with your textfield.
Enable / Disable Cursor Hand in Actioncsript 2
If you have a movieclip that by default has the hand cursor showing on RollOver and you don’t really want this, you can disable it by doing the following: myMC.onRollOver = function() { this.useHandCursor=false; } So the main code here is: this.useHandCursor=false; False disables it and true shows it.
Close/Delete Google Checkout Account
I have used Google Checkout to receive payments in the past and have had problems with some clients not paying and blaming it on Google Checkout that the money did not go through (like the guys over at Peartree DMS). I decided that this account was not worth the trouble anymore and wanted to close my account. I looked online everywhere and couldn’t find where to close the account –…
Warning: mysql_affected_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource
Warning: mysql_affected_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource You have just gotten a warning when trying to check if an inserted row was successful but when calling mysql_affected_rows(mysql_query(“INSERT INTO……”)) you get a warning telling you that the supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource. This is because mysql_query INSERT actually returns true or false and not a resource id. So rather do this: if (mysql_query(“INSERT INTO…”))
Capitalize First Letter in Word – Actionscript 2
You have a string and you want to capitalize the first character but have the rest of the word in lowercase. DO THIS! myStringVar = myStringVar.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase()+myStringVar.substring(1);
HP Pavilion Laptop Madness
I have got an HP laptop and have started experiencing problems with it starting up for the past few months, it is only about 1.5years old and is supposed to be a decent one. It is an HP Pavilion dv9700 by the way.. Today the damn thing just didnt want to startup and eventually after trying every trick in the book I got it to boot into Degugging Mode in…
Why you should use OpenGl and not DirectX
Below is a very interesting article I found that proves all the myths about DirectX being better than OpenGL, a very well written paper describing it best. Thanks for that guys at Wolfire.com! http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-and-not-DirectX
