For frequent google drive users, this plugin can save you a lot of time. Instead of going to drive.google.com and start searching, you can easily enter ‘drive’ in your address bar, press ‘tab’ and enter your keywords! After installing the plugin, setup is very easy. You need to authenticate yourself with your Google account and you can …
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Recently I created my own ics calendar, I found many topics on google how to create it, but the difficult part was creating an all day event. The DTSTART tag should only contain Ymd, no timestamp, only date. The DTEND tag can be deleted. I’ll show you my the necessary codes of my php file …
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When adding a google account to you iPhone, sometimes not all your calendars will display. Or if you decide to add some delegates (other calendars, .ics formats,…) they don’t show up on your phone to activate them. Google has a setting to enable the calendars you want to see on your phone. This can be …
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In a previous post I talked about a window maximize option for Mac. The free version of Better Touch Tool (BTT) is gone, to bad… So I started a new search for a free tool and I came up with Spectacle. It is a very lightweight software that offers you several moving and resizing options for windows. It’s …
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Eye Dropper is a nice Chrome extension that allows you to pick a color from your current webpage. It has a feature to auto copy the RGB values to your clipboard (with or without the trailing #). It has an integrated color picker so you can comfortably find needed colors or start from a picked color and …
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Technology keeps moving faster and faster. Security is one of the most important issues we are dealing with. SSL certificates secures http connections to websites. It’s not that hard to catch in- and outgoing connections. If the connection isn’t secure (encrypted), all the traffic is readable by hackers. For example if you enter your password on a website, …
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You can find several tools on the internet to monitor your website. It’s good to know when and how often your website is offline. For me, I wanted to have a notification from a tool so I could check it before a client calls me to tell that his website is offline. I’ve tried a couple tools and liked …
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Supporting all existing browser versions on several operating systems can be very difficult. As a web developer you’ll often receive support tickets of functionalities that aren’t working (correctly) on a website. You can start checking different browser versions, for example with a virtual system like I described in a previous post. But if you know …
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Let’s share some tips about the apple mail tool: 1) Uncheck the ‘trash’ option for searching mails, as seen in the screenshot below. Mostly, you never need your trash mails again, otherwise you probably archived those mails. When composing new mails, it autosaves concepts of the mail. In your search results, all these concepts will show up, not really …
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On my search to a nice activity tracker, I compared different watches like the Vivofit, Polar watch, Fitbit,… None of them are the same, but in every brand it comes to this: when you pay more, you get more features. But for me, I wasn’t about the features. I just wanted to have a watch with …
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