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  • Add Honeypot to Simplenews subscription form block

    The Drupal Honeypot module (https://drupal.org/project/honeypot) works well out of the box for comments and web forms in nodes. In my case i needed to add the Honeypot spam filter to a Simplenews (https://drupal.org/project/simplenews) newsletter subscription form, which resides inside a block in the sidebar of most pages. The problem here was that if the time restriction feature

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  • How to customise and restore the Microsoft Word menu on Mac

    If you need to make changes to the menu on Word you can rightclick onto the Toolbar and choose ‘Customise Toolbars and Menus…’ Remove, add or reorder menu items in the small menu on the top of the screen. Restore the original menu by clicking the reset button. Make sure you have highlighted the menu

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  • How to Talk to a CentOS server via Command Line

    Here are a few commands that I found helpful when I learned to use the command line to connect to the server. Connect To connect to the server, type the following line into your command line tool. I’m on a Mac and use the terminal: ssh username@ip username is the name of a user that

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  • How do I permanently delete my Facebook account?

    I was quite surprised at how many hoops I had to jump through to permanently delete my Facebook account. If you use the deactivation link from within your account preferences, the account is only deactivated and can be reactivated  at a later stage if you change your mind. However, if you want to permanently delete

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  • Add a new tab to a Facebook page (2012)

    I had so many problems with adding a new tab to a Facebook page containing an iframe content from an external website, that I though i’d put this tutorial together for others who might be experiencing the same difficulties. Requirements In this tutorial I assume you have already set up or know how to set

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  • iPhoto Videos Don’t Work

    Recently, I had the problem that videos on iPhoto wouldn’t play anymore on my Macbook pro (Snow Leopard 10.6.8). It took me quite a while to figure out the cause, so I thought i’d share my solution here. Upgrade Quicktime First, I uninstalled Quicktime by deleting it from the applications folder, and made sure I

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  • How to Place WordPress Widgets Only on Certain Pages

    By default, WordPress shows the same sidebar widgets on every page. If you need to hide widgets on certain pages, categories, post types, etc, you can use conditional tags. In order to add conditional tags quickly and easily, you can use the Widget Logic plugin. Download it here: Widget Logic This plugin adds an input

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  • How To Use MySQL On MAMP Via Terminal

    I’m still quite new to the use of command line, so if there is any better way of doing this, please don’t hesitate to let me know in the comments. To connect to your MAMP MySQL database via command line, first navigate to the correct directory within your MAMP installation using the Terminal (or another

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  • Ray White Real Estate

    Ray White Real Estate is now launching a series of new websites for its offices in Australia. I have been involved in the front-end development as part of a team of very talented developers and designers. In my role as User Interface Developer, I was responsible for integrating the designs into the framework, and adding

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  • How to add or remove a www subdomain for Prestashop

    Log into your admin interface, click on the Preferences tab, and on the SEO & URLs link one row below. Scroll down to the area called URLs Setup, and look for the Shop domain name input field. Here you can change the url to either use www (example: www.mydomain.com) or not (example:mydomain.com) Now save your

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