Remove Unwanted Firefox Auto-Suggest Entries
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Firefox 3 is awesome we all know that, but there are some things that that would just be nice to have. One of those things would be the ability to control what appears for the auto suggest when you type in the URL bar.
Most of the time FireFox does a very good job of figuring [...]
Jonah and the Fail Whale
August 27, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under Josh's Rambling, funny, internet, twitter
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If I love Twitter and the Fail Whale enough to get a tattoo, TwitterInk.com , I had to get this shirt from INRI Clothing. I present “Jonah and the Fail Whale”. This is possibly my favorite shirt.
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Tried ducking the Lord & bailed on going 2 Nineveh. Headed 2 Tarshish from Jaffa. [...]
Internet Explorer 6 must die!
July 21, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under internet, software, web 2.0, windows
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As a professional web developer I have the authority to say this, Internet Explorer is a pain in the ass to support. IE 6 is the browser that shipped with Windows XP, so it was pretty wide spread. Every year on the web is like 10 years in any other industry. This makes IE 6 [...]
Web Development Rapper
June 13, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under internet, web 2.0
The best part is that everything this guy raps about is 100% correct.
Controlling Twitter SMS notifications through code
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It’s not secret my current favorite tech toys are my iPhone and Twitter.
I follow several hundred people of interest, and regularly use TwitterFon Pro, TweetDeck and Twitter.com to keep up with them all. For an elite group of people I follow on twitter I choose to have their updates pushed to me via SMS (text [...]
Swine Flu Zombies
May 1, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under Josh's Rambling, internet
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I’m not one to panic about outbreaks, I laughed in the face of SARS and the Bird Flu but this Swine Flue has me kind of worked up. I’m also not one for conspiracy theories, but I think this Swine Flu deal is way more serious then we are being told. When the state of [...]
How the notPopular.com podcast is made
April 13, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under Josh's Rambling, hardware, internet, software, tutorials, wordpress
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Some of you blog reading people might know that I have a fairly well known podcast called the “notPop podcast”, that centers around music news and the activities of my site, notPopular.com. for almost 2 years now @xFLORIDAx and I have been churning these podcasts out and having a lot of fun doing it.
From time [...]
phpBB admin password manual reset
March 31, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under MySQL, hacks, internet, php, semi-legal, software, tutorials
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Today I ran into a situation where I had forgotten the password to my development instance of phpBB 3. I was stuck in a situation were I needed to reset the password. I had full admin access to the database, so changing it there wouldn’t be the problem. The real problem is that phpBB uses [...]
How to embed YouTube Videos in HD format
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YouTube.com is now offering two video formats on their site, standard and high def (HD), but they only allow an option for you to embed the standard version. This tutorial is going to show you how to get maximum quality and take advantage of the HD videos that you embed in your blog posts or [...]
Manually reset your WordPress password
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It doesn’t matter what application your working with, losing your password is always a pain in the ass. Luckly if you are working with wordpress (man, I blog a lot about wordpress these days), on your server and you have access to the MySql database, resetting your password manually is a snap.
Login to your PhpMyAdmin
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