This post was featured on the PHP Weekly newsletter, Aug. 8, 2013. On my website, I decided to implement my own anti-robot captcha system for two reasons: 1) I wanted to keep the website code vanilla and 2) I disliked the CAPTCHAs provided by other services that either made you type in Chinese or that didn’t visually integrate well with …
Disclaimer: this post is about the subconscious, not real life. Do not attempt this in real life. Lucid dreams can be a great experience since you are in total control of your actions, and not bounded by many physical or scientific constraints. You can fly at supersonic speed, ride elevators out of buildings and into space, among other thrills. Unfortunately, …
This may or may not be new to Windows 8, but I just found out about this recently. In the bottom left-hand corner, where you would click to get to the Start screen in Windows 8, there are shortcuts to many different utilities. To bring up these utilities, simply right-click instead of left-click in the bottom left-hand corner. And bam. …
As a person who would rather use less mouse and more keyboard, I’m constantly on the hunt for keyboard shortcuts. So it is to my delight that there are at least 3 ways of switching tabs: Ctrl+Tab to go forward in the tab bar (wraps around at end), and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to go in reverse, with wrapping around at the end. …
It never ceases to amuse and berate me that printers are so terrible at their main job, printing. One of their many shenanigans is failing to ever respond to user commands. Many a time I’ve had a document stuck in the printer queue, and when I go to the print icon in the System Tray to “cancel” the job, it …