Archive for the ‘How to’ Category

How to create a secret storage in an electrical box

February 14th, 2010 at 8:40 pm No Comments


Here’s how I made a secret storage space in an electrical box.
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How to create migrations in Ruby on Rails that only run in the development enviroment

February 13th, 2010 at 12:52 am 1 Comment

This is a reminder for myself for when I want to use a migration to create test data for the development environment only.
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How I built my vermicomposter

February 2nd, 2010 at 5:44 pm 3 Comments

This is my first vermicomposter. Here’s my how-to instructions on how I built my worm bin.
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How to add line breaks in a WordPress post

January 16th, 2010 at 3:38 pm No Comments

Do you find it annoying that WordPress removes all of the <br /> tags from your post? Me too, so I did some research on how to fix this. I found a lot of wonky solutions, but I did find two worth mentioning.

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How to add a delay to a jQuery animation

January 15th, 2010 at 3:41 pm 1 Comment

A couple of days ago, I was looking for a way to add a pause after an animation was triggered. This was before jQuery 1.4 was released. I found a couple of solutions including using the javascript function setTimeout or some people would imitate a delay by setting an animation for the desired number of seconds that doesn’t change anything. Something like this…

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How to get the Extract filter back in Photoshop CS4

January 14th, 2010 at 1:11 am No Comments

While re-designing my site, I had to extract some bonzai from their backgrounds. I thought the Extract filter in Photoshop would be perfect for this. But when I fired up Photoshop and went to the Filters menu, I didn’t see the Extract filter. Photoshop CS4 has been out for a while now, but this was the first time I tried to use the Extract filter. After some research on the Internet, I found out the Extract filter along with other features were removed from CS4.

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How to get the Calibri font and others for free

October 5th, 2009 at 9:32 pm No Comments

Here’s a way to get the following fonts for free:

  • Cambria
  • Calibri
  • Candara
  • Consolas
  • Constantia
  • Corbel

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