Tips ‘n’ Tricks

Twitter Acronyms and Abbreviations

Posted by Sumobaby | Posted in Misc, Social Media, Tips 'n' Tricks | Posted on 30-05-2011

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Many of the acronyms you’ll find being used on Twitter have a basis in the last decade of digital communication (such as texting, email & IM).

Is your Facebook account secure? Learn how to secure it

Posted by Sumobaby | Posted in Misc, Social Media, Tips 'n' Tricks | Posted on 23-05-2011

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January 2011 Facebook added the functionality to browse the site via a secure (HTTPS) connection with the aim to dramatically decrease security issues for many users….or will it.

Tracking Outbound Links that Open in New Windows using Google Analytics

Posted by Sumobaby | Posted in Analytics, Misc, Tips 'n' Tricks | Posted on 28-04-2011

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Many websites still open external links in new windows and some of the most popular conventional methods of outbound link tracking is to use a little function that is called in the onClick attribute of a link.

HTML codes – Polish Special Characters

Posted by Sumobaby | Posted in Misc, Tips 'n' Tricks, Tools | Posted on 30-03-2011

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If you’re building a website in Polish you’ll find this ASCII code reference table useful for displaying special characters

Change background opacity without affecting text

Posted by Sumobaby | Posted in Misc, Tips 'n' Tricks | Posted on 04-03-2011

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Solution to making your background opaque without effecting child elements without using CSS3

Word document background image not converting to pdf

Posted by Sumobaby | Posted in Misc, Tips 'n' Tricks | Posted on 18-12-2009

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Using a background image in a word document, converting to Adobe Acrobat PDF will loose the background image.

Random password generator

Posted by Sumobaby | Posted in Tips 'n' Tricks, Tools | Posted on 13-10-2009

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I have a regular need for new passwords for all the tools and services I sign up to during the course of the year. Below randomly generates a 7 character mixed case password.