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Starting with Bootstrap

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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Lauch X11 Application over SSH on MacOS

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

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

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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Dropbox – a simple webservice to share your files across your multiple computers

I use a web service (DropBox – http://www.dropbox.com) to keep data shared across the multiple computers I have. While I have been extremely happy with this service so far, I am still somewhat paranoid about security of the data in … Continue reading

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WordPress on my site

Finally, I am starting to beef up my site. It has been languishing for too long. I was using http://www.blogger.com before, and I wanted to move the blogs to my site. Much more control, and more personal. After doing a … Continue reading

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