Category archives: Tech Tips

 

 

 

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Gmail stopped working in iPhone after update

Ugh! It was so annoying. Here’s what fixed mine: – Delete Gmail email account from your iPhone. Settings -> Mail -> Account -> Delete Account – Reset your network settings. Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings – Add Gmail account again . Settings -> Mail -> Add account -> Other – Follow [...]

 

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iPhone/iTunes "not authorized" error

If you see this error  saying “You are not authorized to install the apps” go to “Store” – > “Authorize computer” in iTunes and click on “Authorize”. This should fix it. I got this error when I installed the new update on iPhone and was trying to download apps from my work computer.

 

 

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As cool as email testing can get

I’m having a crazy morning trying to troubleshoot an email template for Lotus. The problem is that it shows fine in Lotus 7 and 8, but one person on the client side is using weird Lotus 7.0.2 and it just wouldn’t show normally there. Black text on white background inside a table cell is missing! [...]

 

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Creating Print Versions of Pages

I was just thinking about how best to handle having web version of a page and a print version. There’s two approaches, one of them is having 2 separate pages www.tanyanam.com/contact and www.tanyanam.com/contact?version=print. But when you think about SEO, you’d have to either put “NOINDEX” on every printable page or block them in robots.txt. That’s [...]

 

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HTML/CSS/PHP code editors

An excellent article from Smashing Mag with the list of editors for different platforms. Also includes features and pricing. The one I like? EditPlus! (yeah yeah, I’m on Win, so what? :) It’s lightweight, loads in seconds, yet has all the features I need. I would suggest improving the regular expression support for search & [...]

 

 

 

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7 Cool Online Tools for Web Dev

Favicon maker: http://favikon.com/ Stripe generator: http://www.stripegenerator.com/ Vector image from photo: https://www.profilepicasso.com Vector from bitmap: http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ Button generator: http://www.mycoolbutton.com/ Loading gif creator: http://www.ajaxload.info/ Icons: http://www.iconarchive.com/ Free online animated gif creator: http://picasion.com/ You suck at photoshop http://laughingsquid.com/you-suck-at-photoshop-by-donnie-hoyle/