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Most Web Safe Fonts Cheatsheet

Most Web Safe Fonts Cheatsheet

When developing for the web, you gotta keep an eye out for the fonts used in the web pages. For instance while Calibri is a nice font, it runs small and that means it will almost certainly be replaced by a larger size font on older versions of Windows, Mac OS, Linux and generally any [...]

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Website Screenshots In Various Browsers

Website Screenshots In Various Browsers

Cross-browser compatibility, often times a nightmare to web developers. When you have to target various browser versions, such as Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 together, it becomes nearly impossible to use the same machine to host these applications together. You could use a VPS and there are some tricks allowing one to run IE [...]

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A Better Lorem Ipsum

A Better Lorem Ipsum

Designers and developers alike are in constant need of more Lorem Ipsum, and most are familiar with lipsum.com. If you don’t know what Lorem Ipsum is, you must be really new to the scene, but all is not lost, there is a wikipedia article for you.
There’s a more advanced alternative to lipsum.com that you can [...]

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JSQ.exe – Java Quick Starter

JSQ.exe – Java Quick Starter

The first of our series of unnecessary Windows processes you can do without: JSQ.exe sits there just in case some day you may stumble upon a Java Applet, in which case JSQ.exe delivers JRE (Java Runtime Environment) files that were pre-fetched at an earlier time, thus allowing the applet to start faster than usual. If [...]

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How To Not Wait For DNS Propagation

How To Not Wait For DNS Propagation

So you’ve set your domain to point to some new nameservers, and here comes the waiting game. But at times, the waiting game can turn into a nightmare when, without a preview of what the website looks like, you’ll be surprised at what our friends over the ocean are seeing while you’re confidently waiting for [...]

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