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Kowloon Walled City

Kowloon Walled City

"This month marks 20 years since work started to wipe away one of the most striking features of the Hong…
Sticky Footer

Sticky Footer

Make that damn footer stick and stay down the page with CSS. /* Sticky Footer Solution by Steve Hatcher http://stever.ca…
Gigantic USB Cables

Gigantic USB Cables

Not really, what looked like a frankenstein usb cable is actually an image capture from Google Maps. A satellite view…
Basic CSS Sprite Rollover

Basic CSS Sprite Rollover

Your CSS Code #home_button{ display: block; background: url(home_sprite.png) no-repeat; height: 30px; width: 80px; } #home_button:hover{ background-position: 0 -30px; } Your…
CSS3 Button Maker

CSS3 Button Maker

Nowadays CSS buttons are pretty common, to many developers it is easy to make and very light. What if you…
History of Hacking

History of Hacking

Hacking has been around as long as computers as a way to reconfigure or reprogram a system to give access…

PAC-MAN 30th Anniversary

I was about to Google something and that retro thing appeared. Today is pac-man day! Insanely Google turned their logo…
yike bike! (Electric Folding Bicycle)

yike bike! (Electric Folding Bicycle)

Probably the world’s lightest electric bicyle and is small enough to be carried around inside a backpack ^_^. The yike bike weighs about 10kg (22 lbs), it is powered by a 1 kW battery having a 30-min recharging time will take you up to 10 km with a top speed of 25km/hr.

list-o-matic

list-o-matic

List-O-Matic one of the many web tools Accessify has to offer. You can create a CSS only 2 level navigation menu on the fly. Great for web-designers

webresizer (optimize your images online)

webresizer (optimize your images online)

This probably one of the best things on the web. not only that you can resize your picture’s dimension, you can also sacrifice a little of the quality while reducing the file size. I’m surprised myself, it produces amazing quality.

Jam to your website’s tune[codeorgan.com]

Jam to your website’s tune[codeorgan.com]

Almost everyone of us loves music; who doesn’t? Well what about hearing the tune of your website? The guys from DLKW invented a way to do just that. They dubbed it CodeOrgan. The CodeOrgan works by analysing the ‘body’ (HTML code) content of your website and translate that code into music via a complex algorithm to define the keys, synth style and drum loops that is appropriate for the content.

shadyURL.com

shadyURL.com

It has been a trend nowadays to shorten your URLs. How about if you can make a bit alarming to the user? Would they be welling to click that url?

Aviary, a cloud graphic editor

Aviary, a cloud graphic editor

Aviary, an online graphic editor, a very powerful tool for us graphic designers who wants to go for cloud computing, a great alternative for Online Photoshop; to top it all it is now free.

MySQL will soon be acquired by Oracle??

MySQL will soon be acquired by Oracle??

read a news today from Google News that mysql (open source database) will soon be acquired by oracle (sun microsystem), this means that mysql will no longer FREE. As you will see mysql has been dominating the online database nowadays compared with other database like postgre, oracle, mssql etc. Asside from that there are lots of open source CMS that supports MySQL (i.e. Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, OsCommerce, Mambo etc).

Waving Goodbye to 2009

Google’s real-time search chops are put to the test against celebrity death, Microsoft’s forced browser choices in the EU offer popular and lesser known browsers, and we (Google) wave goodbye to 2009. via lifehacker

A Day in the Internet

Have you ever imagined how big the Internet is? onlineeducation.net has created a sort of graph just for that… go look ^_^

Full CSS Horizontal Drop Down Menu

Full CSS Horizontal Drop Down Menu

Who can resist the temptation of the ever lovely CSS? I was wondering around the web looking for a nice CSS-only dropdown menu. First of all this is not new, who would forget the Suckerfish Dropdown… I found another treasure and its not a fish ^_^

Linux Chromium Browser Pre-Alpha

Linux Chromium Browser Pre-Alpha

I finally have a successful install of pre-alpha chromium browser for Linux on my Ubuntu 8.10. But since it’s non-official and in a pre-alpha state, you can’t expect it to work as you would expect on the windows version. If you want to try it yourself, play with it at your own risk. ^_^ No animals were harmed during my test though, so have fun.

Bisaya Ads – Post free ads

Bisaya Ads – Post FREE Ads about cars, dating, jobs, dating, house, rent, gadgets, computers, announcements, business, entertainment and more…

ASUS unveils Eee PC T91 (Touch Screen)

ASUS unveils Eee PC T91 (Touch Screen) on CES 2009. One of the best innovations of Eee Pc I’ve seen so far, prices are not yet announced. I want one ^_^, depends on the price though.

“gnome global menu” Mac-Style Menu for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Global Menu is the globally-shared menu bar of all applications launched in your desktop session. I was fascinated by this panel applet first time I saw it, I was really wishing for this type of menu although most of us find it confusing but for some reasons mac users got along with it just fine. Global Menu will only work on Native GNome Applications, this means this don’t work on Firefox 3 and some other Applications.

Fusion Chart plugin for CodeIgniter

This is my own version in creating a fusion chart plugin for CodeIgniter. I tried to make it as simple as possible. In just 5 easy steps you can have your plugin up and running in no time. Enjoy…

Putting credit card payment on your website using Paypal

I created a new stuff on how to put a credit card payment on your codeigniter website using Paypal Website payment Pro DoDirectPayment and would like to share this to you, hope it helps.

1. You need to have a paypal account and then apply for a website payment pro, just visit paypal.com (www.paypal.com) for more info.
2. You should have the paypal API Username, Password and Signature, this is important in order for the payment will be credited in your paypal account.
3. On your model, create a new file paypal.php and use my code.
4. On your controller, create a new file checkout.php and use my code.
5. If you have any more questions about putting a credit card on your website feel free to contact me archie@ikawka.com

Finding duplicates/triplicates records on MYSQL

I would like to share to you some tips on displaying duplicate or more than 1 records on MYSQL

Example: you will query to display the email address and total count of email address exist on the recordset

$sql = “SELECT emailaddress, COUNT(emailaddress) AS TotalCount
FROM tbl_users
GROUP BY emailaddress
HAVING ( COUNT(emailaddress) > 1 )”;

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