This is my first vermicomposter. Here’s my how-to instructions on how I built my worm bin.
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I find it annoying that when watching videos online most sites only have the choice of original video size and full screen. Some sites don’t even offer full screen. And what’s annoying about full screen mode is that if you have dual monitors, you can’t navigate to the secondary monitor with the video in full screen mode. Here’s a tip to increase the video size.
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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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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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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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Here’s a way to get the following fonts for free:

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

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One day at work, I had the brilliant idea of pointing my webcam at the TV so I could watch the Rockies games when I wasn’t at home. In essence, the poor man’s Slingbox!

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