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Insert a Page from WordPress into any Page in your Theme

Insert a Page from WordPress into any Page in your Theme

By | May 15, 2012 at 10:32 am | No comments

Let's say you have a homepage and you want to include a "page" from your wordpress instance on that homepage that is seperate from the content already in place or hard coded. Insert this snippet of code and any page you specify will display where inserted. Be sure to change the...

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How To Use – The Canon RC-1 Wireless Remote Control

How To Use – The Canon RC-1 Wireless Remote Control

By | May 8, 2012 at 6:13 pm | No comments

About the Canon RC-1 Wireless Remote Introduction The RC-1 Infrared Wireless Remote Controller can be used to release the shutter from up to 5 m (16 ft) away from a number of popular Canon EOS camera bodies (including EOS 10, Elan family, EOS IX, EOS Kiss III and EOS Kiss III...

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Switch Xubuntu Login Screen from Image Version to Text Version

By | April 19, 2012 at 6:27 pm | No comments

Run the following command from the terminal: sudo thunar Browse to: /lib/plymouth/themes Rename: "default.plymouth" to "default.plymouth.bak" Run the following command from the terminal: sudo update-initramfs -u Restart your computer and enjoy the text based boot...

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How to install the latest stable version of Chromium in Ubuntu?

How to install the latest stable version of Chromium in Ubuntu?

By | April 4, 2012 at 9:00 am | No comments

Chromium already supplies 3 important PPAs (beta channel only contains small version upgrades compared with stable): Chromium - Stable Channel Chromium - Dev Development Chromium Daily Builds This means there is no need to actually build anything, its already done for...

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Google and Adobe Partner up for Flash Player on Linux

Google and Adobe Partner up for Flash Player on Linux

By | March 30, 2012 at 9:00 am | No comments

As discussed in the just released Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes, Adobe has been working closely with Google to develop a single modern API for hosting plugins within the browser (one which could replace the current Netscape plugin API being used by the Flash Player)....

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