Bad Habits That Can Be Addictive And Harmful To Your Life

The question is: “Are addictions actually bad habits?” According to the habit model of addiction, they are. This theory of addiction states that the only reason to say there is a difference is to persecute “addicts.”
There are numerous list of bad habits people can acquire, one of the most common is the bad habit of [...]

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Why the Internet Can Be Dangerous for Children and Teens

Are you the parent of a child or a teenager who wants to use the internet, if they don’t already? If so, you may have some concerns. Yes, it is typically safe for your child to use the internet to do research for school projects, but did you also know that children and teens are [...]

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How to Protect a Computer From Viruses

If you think your computer may be infected, take all necessary steps to clear your system and avoid infecting other computers.
Be cautious about what disks and files you accept from other people.
Don’t reuse disks that have been in other computers, don’t download files from insecure sites, and don’t open e-mail attachments unless you are expecting [...]

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PHP: Export Database Schema as XML

Sometimes it can be useful to have a dump of the current database schema. The script below reads the schema from a MySQL database and outputs XML that describes the schema.
At first we connect to a MySQL database and use the SHOW TABLES command to return all the tables in the database. Next, we iterate [...]

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TryPhone – Test Drive Cell Phones Online

Interesting in a particular cell phone but not ready or not sure which to buy? Tryphone.com allows you to test drive cell phones; play around with the functions before you actually walk into stores and do the purchase. Each cell phones available for testing comes with a phone specification, you also get to read other [...]

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Smarter Way to Prevent Image Hotlinking with .htaccess

Have you noticed someone stealing your images, directly taking the URL and display on their websites without your permission? This is what we call image hotlinking. It is bad, as it not only stealing our images, it also take advantage of our bandwidths. Because it’s called directly from our server, every time the images are [...]

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100 Keyboard Shortcuts – Windows

Microsoft windows keyboard shortcuts. You might know most of these shortcuts, but probably not all of them. If you have more keyboard shortcuts, please let me know :)
CTRL+C (Copy)
CTRL+X (Cut)
CTRL+V (Paste)
CTRL+Z (Undo)
DELETE (Delete)
SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)
CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
CTRL+SHIFT while [...]

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Retrieving Passwords From Asterisks

We use the “Remember Me” feature in most form logins to help the signing in process faster. But taking advantage of that sometimes makes us forget what our real passwords are. If you often stare at the asterisks and wonder what’s your actual password, try this trick. It uses Javascript alert popup to reveal you [...]

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How These Names Came About

Adobe – came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. 
Apache – It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server — thus, the name Apache 
Apple Computers – favourite fruit of [...]

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Cool ASCII Characters

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