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Double click the tab bar in Firefox?

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

I usually use CTRL+T to open a new blank tab, but you can also double click the tab bar

Internet Explorer 7 First Impressions
Yeah, because double clicking my tab bar or middle clicking a link is harder then clicking a blank tab.

Who knew?

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Converting a database to Unicode with Perl

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

It’s happened a few times—I’m transfering data from one database to another and the old one has a few accented characters in it, but came from the days before Unicode. So if you’re using Perl to pull data from the first database, if you have a string with a a word like “façade”, when you […]

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Adding a Background to Transparent PNGs in Bulk

Friday, March 25th, 2005

So I had a bunch of PNGs with transparent backgrounds that needed instead to be white. This is the kind of thing that ImageMagick is so good for, but this turned out to be a little bit harder.

I couldn’t find a way to add a background (or any kind of layer at all) to an […]

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