Category Archives: Tech

Pathway for a budding programmer

Posted on August 2, 2019 by mst

There are so many kids that I know, who want to be a “programmer”. Many of them don’t really understand what programming really means, except they see cool games or apps or programs, and they want to be able to … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Quote-of-the-day in Outlook signature

Posted on September 17, 2018 by mst

Outlook 2016 has the ability to run macros just before an email is sent. Here is a quick macro, that can be added to your Outlook, which will replace a text in your email message with a random quote from … Continue reading →

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Starting with Bootstrap

Posted on April 5, 2018 by mst

The first step in starting with bootstrap, is to include the following header/template page. Note that the bootstrap.js entry must be after the jqeury.js entry. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <link href=”https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css” rel=”stylesheet”> <script src=”https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js”></script> <script src=”https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/js/bootstrap.min.js”></script> </head> <body> </body> </html> … Continue reading →

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Web Development Frameworks, tools and more

Posted on March 27, 2018 by mst

I have done web development for a long time. My goto tools up to now have been just Notepad++ for the editing, plain HTML and php + sqlite3 on the backend. Of course, I could stay with this forever. But, … Continue reading →

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Netgear Wireless Device Uninstall Suddenly turns internet access off on wired port

Posted on February 12, 2016 by mst

So, we had an issue on our desktop where we were using a Netgear wireless device to access the internet, as the onboard network adaptor had failed. Purchased and installed a network card and I was able to restore wired … Continue reading →

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Lauch X11 Application over SSH on MacOS

Posted on December 4, 2015 by mst

1. First make sure the X11 app is installed on your Mac. Locate the X11 app using Finder -> Applications -> Utilities -> X11.app , and launch it. If it is the first time, it will install the X11 framework … Continue reading →

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Use in-built PHP webserver on MacOS instead of a Apache-PHP installation

Posted on August 28, 2015 by mst

Simply run php -S localhost:8000 and this will start an inbuilt webserver on port 8000. The ‘webroot’ for the server will be the folder where you started the server from.

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Backup on Linux

Posted on June 29, 2014 by mst

For some time, I have been looking for a good backup strategy for a linux system. Currently, my backup strategy was (server1) –> daily rsync –> (backupsever) (backupserver) –> daily tar.gz –> (archiveserver — keep multiple copies) While this worked, … Continue reading →

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non-standard cool ios apps

Posted on December 3, 2012 by mst

Dragon Dictation Photoshop Express WebMD i-Funbox

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Google Music, Amazon Cloud Player, Spotify, Rdio ….

Posted on August 17, 2011 by mst

Hmm .. Google Music, Amazon Cloud Player, Spotify, Rdio … quite a few ‘(legal) music on the cloud’ options out there. What have you tried … and how do you like it? Here’s my two cents Google Music – As … Continue reading →

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