Category Archives: tips&tricks

Les Paul Google Doodle – how to play ‘One’ intro by Metallica

Posted on 9 June 2011 by claudio

Hi, want to play the Metallica intro to ‘One’ with Les Paul Google Doodle ? Then you should: go to google.com enable the keyboard by clicking the icon (it should turn red) hit the following keys: EUET – QUQT – … Continue reading →

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Apple MagSafe power cord not working? Try WD-40!

Posted on 7 April 2011 by claudio

I recently bought a macbook pro 15” and much too my surprise the MagSafe connected with the power cord did not worked properly; on the other hand, the wall plug worked perfectly.  If you are experiencing the same issue try … Continue reading →

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Feed RSS icon in Firefox4

Posted on 25 March 2011 by claudio

To be honest I really do not know the reason why the RSS icon has been dismissed in Firefox4. However here it is the solution to make the RSS icon come back. Just right click on the address bar (over … Continue reading →

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Firefox4 and delicious

Posted on 24 March 2011 by claudio

For those who cannot live without the fantastic Delicious addon for Firefox here it is a trick to enable it in  Firefox4-Firefox5. In FF browse to help>troubleshooting information click the button ‘show in finder’ (profile directory) browse the folder “extensions\{2fa4ed95-0317-4c6a-a74c-5f3e3912c1f9}” … Continue reading →

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File .htaccess su Register.it

Posted on 10 August 2009 by claudio

Capita sempre più spesso di utlizzare la tecnica denominata URL Rewriting che permette la riscrittura di URL ‘SEO friendly’. Affinchè questa tecnica possa funzionare, come ben sappiamo, è necessario che nella root del nostro sito sia presente il file .htaccess. … Continue reading →

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Clearing floats with css

Posted on 21 February 2009 by claudio

I was reading an article about browser inconsistencies and in particular about what the author calls clearing floats – “when a container or wrapper div doesn’t correctly wrap around the containing divs”.

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A custom 404 page

Posted on 17 February 2009 by claudio

Let’s see how to create a custom 404 page in two simple steps. You need to have access to your webserver and upload to its root the .htaccess file. This is a simple file which tells the server to show … Continue reading →

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