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How to uninstall u3 software

Why can’t we just buy a USB key drive without any software on it? I bought a 2gb Cruzer last weekend because I wanted a 2gb thumb drive, not because I wanted the U3 software. If I’m going to put applications on it they’ll be from Portable Apps anyway. And that would [...]

Trimming array elements in PHP

Several times I’ve had a user setting that was separated by commas that I needed to split out into an array. People, correctly, put a space after commas. But for the array the space shouldn’t be there. Here’s a quick tip to strip out those leading spaces.
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PHP:

$array = array_map(‘trim’, $array);

array_map [...]

Quick CSS to hide disabled scroll bars in Internet Explorer

The scroll bars in Internet Explorer never go away. If they’re not needed, they just disable. To me this is an incorrect behavior, and it was really causing problems on a site I’m working on where I’m handling the scroll bars inside of a wrapper div anyway so I didn’t want two scroll [...]

BluDomain and difficulty getting indexed by Google

One of the photography forums I spend a lot of time on has a web site board where I tend to camp out. A good percentage of the photographers are using Flash template sites like BluDomain, FlashPalette, or PortfolioSitez which are nice, relatively inexpensive, and fairly easy to setup.
BluDomain goes a step farther [...]

DIY: Make your own ethernet loopback cable

Ever find yourself needing to know whether an ethernet port will light up without actually hooking it up to a switch? Have a hard time remembering which port on a switch a jack is plugged in to? Fortunately it’s pretty easy to make your own ethernet loopback cable.
To start you’ll need a couple [...]