August 24, 2009 at 2:39 pm · Filed under Development, Google
Recently I found a bug in Google Translate. It’s not damaging, but it is interesting.
What I have discovered is that when you use a certain string, the Google Translate frame inserts itself into the main frame, causing it to load again within that frame, in turn this causes it to reload within that frame and this continues until your browser decides it’s had enough and stops (or in the case of Internet Explorer, until it locks up). This kind of self-looping is often referred to as recursion.
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August 24, 2009 at 12:14 pm · Filed under PHP, Sysadmin
I came across PHPMailer usage the other day on a Chinese gadget wholesale site “SourcingMap.com”.
If you submit something via their contact us form, interestingly you appear to get a dump from PHP telling you all about the PHPMailer object.
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August 17, 2009 at 5:15 pm · Filed under Design, Development, Software, Windows
If you use Photoshop for any kind of graphic or web design, you’ll understand the importance of having an array of fonts to choose from.
However, you may soon find yourself with a font overload. The problem is that once you get over about 1000 fonts in your Windows directory (usually “C:\Windows\Fonts\”) you’ll find that windows becomes very slow, particularly at startup.
To get around this, you don’t add the fonts to Windows, instead you add them into Photoshop, which is able to handle many more fonts than simply loading them into Windows.
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August 15, 2009 at 10:48 pm · Filed under Design, Development
Sometimes when you’re designing a site you can find yourself wondering how is best to do a certain aspect.
More often than not navigation menus are one of these aspects.
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August 14, 2009 at 8:45 am · Filed under Software
I wanted to find some software to help organise my DVD collection.
At first I thought there was only a few, but I soon discovered that there are quite a few…
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August 14, 2009 at 8:29 am · Filed under PHP
After browsing the cex.co.uk website for some time I came across a few errors on the site…
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August 1, 2009 at 12:01 pm · Filed under Internet
Trading standards say that consumers are being tricked into buying fake goods online by companies based in China pretending to be based in the UK by using “.co.uk” domain names. There are ways to avoid getting caught out… Read the rest of this entry »
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August 1, 2009 at 11:38 am · Filed under Software, Windows
Over the past few weeks I’ve been assisting the creation of articles regarding icon software on Wikipedia.
It started when I helped improve an article on “Icon Editors“, but because it lacked notability on its own, it was merged with the parent “Computer icon” article. Read the rest of this entry »
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