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	<title>Graphika Studioz - Web Design, Development, Hosting and SEO Services - Parksville, Qualicum Beach  &#187; tips</title>
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		<title>Completely remove a file or directory from all revisions in a git repository</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve accidentally added files and directories into my git repository before and forgot that I did. Then a few days later was swearing and cursing. After a pile of google searching I&#8217;ve found a couple resolutions for these problems that have and are working perfect for me. First I take no responsibility for your actions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for starting a website using WordPress blogging software</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With over 5 years of experience with WordPress, the powerful blogging / CMS application used to create millions of websites and blogs around the world, I have seen many, ups, downs, bumps, car jackings, fistacuffs, thrown computers, head bang on walls etc. After just updating my site for, hmm&#8230; the 8th time?, I&#8217;ve decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methods to hide email addresses from page source</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just stumbled upon a good site called csarven, that has a bunch of interesting ways to keep bots away from email addresses on web pages.]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Explorer and Flash &#8220;Click to activate&#8221; Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am getting sick of seeing websites with flash content in them that you have to &#8220;click to activate&#8221; to interact with the flash object. It&#8217;s all good if it&#8217;s just an ad or something that doesn&#8217;t need user interaction, but if it is needing user interaction making them have to click the flash object [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expose previous mail recipients in mac os x mail.app</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 22:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever forget someones email address that you have previously emailed? Want to know the address? In Apples Mail.app you can goto =>Window =>Previous Recipients &#8230; and a list of all the email addresses that you&#8217;ve sent emails to should appear in a window.]]></description>
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		<title>iDVD bug &#8211; App hangs when authoring audio</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 00:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just used iDVD for the first time in a long time on my new MacBook Pro (I&#8217;m a Final Cut, DVD Studio Pro guy). I was authoring a fairly large video (about 90min), with audio, motion menus, and audio menus. Everything went fine until It started to author the audio from the video. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding How Joins Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Nixon sent me this link that does a pretty sweat job of describing how the different types of joins work when playing with a database.]]></description>
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		<title>Deleting a file in php using unlink</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I was having troubles deleting a file from a directory in an application I am working on. It kept deleting the entry in the table but not the actual file from the directory. Here is what the code looked like: < ?php $sql = "DELETE FROM uploads WHERE upload_id = $id"; $result = mysql_query($sql); [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 ways to secure your apache configuration</title>
		<link>http://headfirstproductions.ca/20-ways-to-secure-your-apache-configuration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a good resource for from Pete Freitag. He lists some useful ways to secure your apache configurations.]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a email form using actionscript and php</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished an email form that I put up on my contact page. It was an assignment for my Actionscript class. I used Actionscript to import and place the components, validate, and send data using a LoadVars function to a php script, which then sends off an email to myself. This was the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress File Upload Error Security Fix</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s how to fix the &#8220;WordPress File Type does not meet security guidelines&#8221; error you get from trying to upload certain files. First find out what the mime type of the file you were trying to upload is. You can go to w3schools or mozdev Write down the file type ie: (application/x-shockwave-flash, or video/x-m4v) you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcasting made easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Podcasters should check out Ubercaster. They offer a sweet, and I mean sweet, application for creating audio podcasts really easily. It combines all the preparing, recording, editing, and releasing into one application. You can add all the ID3 tags and then export it ready for the web. There&#8217;s a ton of cool features so check [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make files download or load in the browser</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is how to make a file, (.mov, .pdf or in my case a vCard .vcf) download to your desktop instead of loading into the browser window. The problem I had was that my vCard was opening as text in the browser window, which is not useful to anyone. To fix this all you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac OS X Keyboard Sleep Shortcut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren Terhune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After being a full mac user for about 6 years now, i&#8217;ve started to notice how much I use &#8220;keyboard shortcuts&#8221;. They make things easy and quick. Here&#8217;s one that I just learned that puts your mac to sleep: Option-Command-Eject or Option-Command-Power Check out Apple&#8217;s page to see some more useful shortcuts. Also to see [...]]]></description>
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