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Installing a PEAR package

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Once you have PEAR successfully set up on your machine, installing additional PEAR packages is relatively simple.

Open a command prompt
If you do not have PEAR in your path, change to your PEAR directory (eg. cd php\pear)
If you do not know the name of the package, go to the Package page on the PEAR website to [...]

Use Windows Media Player as an alarm clock

Microsoft Windows Media Player alarm clock

How to set up your Windows PC as an alarm clock to wake you up to your favourite music playlist.

So there I was, looking for an alarm clock or a small home sound-system that I could use to wake myself up with my favourite music.
Having a PC set-up in my room, I started fiddling with [...]

WordPress Weather Widget

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I have added a weather widget that retrieves and displays the weather in your WordPress Blog. You can see it in the menu bar on the right-hand side of this page.

As usual, it is a simple process of downloading the files from the site, and then uploading them into your plugins folder on your server. [...]

Digg Widget

I have added a Digg Widget to the site.

This fully configurable widget adds a feed to your page which displays Diggs on your site. Check it out here: http://www.stylus.co.za/news/

There is a wide range of options for you to decide on as to which Diggs you want displayed, and you can choose a theme, or create [...]

"Mark as Read" in Microsoft Outlook

I am always looking for keyboard shortcuts.

In Microsoft Outlook, I get LOADS of mail at work our from automated systems like Jira and our SVN. Generally I just preview them in the Preview Pane to see if they concern me: I mark them read once I have taken a quick glance if no further [...]

background pattern for webpage

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I have created a background pattern for the site using Photoshop. By creating a small image that you can tile (repeat), you are able to avoid using a large image. This is how I did it:

Fire-up Photoshop.
Create a new, square canvas – I started at 200 x 200.
Choose an image that you would like to [...]

the favicon

favicon

The “favicon” is the little icon that appears in the address bar (along with the URL) and in the tab (of a tabbed browser), or the title bar of other browsers, replacing the generic browser icon.

As more and more people switch over to “tabbed browsers” like Firefox and Internet Explorer 7, the favicon occupies more [...]