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Posts tagged firefox
How to set a server’s Timezone
Sep 22nd
To set to UK time (i.e. respect BST) run the following on the command line:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
More here: To set to UK time (i.e. respect BST)
Woo Wishlists are now Universal
May 11th
Thanks to recent improvements over at Amazon, you can now add items to your wishlist from ANY website! How cool is that? All you need to do is drag this bookmarklet to your browser and you'll be free to add any item to the list of stuff you want!
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Woo Wishlists are now Universal
How to Reduce Amazon S3 Costs
May 9th
If you're new to Amazon S3 or have been using it for months without much thought to how it works, then you might be paying unnecessary costs and having pages load slower than they need to because users browsers aren't caching data served from S3 appropriately. This article provides some very useful advice on how to increase page load times and reduce S3 costs by appropriately setting cache control headers for your S3 served content
More here: How to Reduce Amazon S3 Costs
Twitter feeds via JavaScript
Apr 11th
A great way to add twitter to your website without having to write anything in backend code. Also deals with cases where twitter is down
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Twitter feeds via JavaScript
YoxView – jQuery Photogallery
Mar 10th
A really nice SEO friendly sleek and simple jQuery image gallery script. Works best on images with similar dimensions but also deals with the transitions between images of different images stylishly. Can also process picasa and flickr photosets out of the box
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YoxView - jQuery Photogallery
