Author Archives: Craig Lotter

About Craig Lotter

Craig Lotter is an established web developer and application programmer, with strong creative urges (which keep bursting out at the most inopportune moments) and a seemingly insatiable need to love all things animated. Living in the beautiful coastal town of Gordon's Bay in South Africa, he games, develops, takes in animated fare, trains under the Funakoshi karate style and for the most part, simply enjoys life with his amazing wife and daughter. Oh, and he draws ever now and then too.

How to Share a Printer to a Windows PC from an Ubuntu PC

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Sharing a printer to your Windows laptop or desktop PC from your main Ubuntu desktop machine is made pretty simple thanks to the magic of Samba. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to efficiently share your printer under Ubuntu then: … Continue reading

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How to Group Options in a Select Dropdown List

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The classic HTML select dropdown list box has been with us for a long time, consisting of a container <select> tag which in turn contains a number of <option> tags which make up the list items which the user can … Continue reading

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How to Duplicate a Table in FlameRobin

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FlameRobin is a lightweight, cross-platform database administration tool for Firebird databases. It is also NOT one of my favourite tools to use because of its very lightweight nature! Nevertheless, there are times I must use it, and use it I … Continue reading

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Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830: How to Forward an SMS

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The Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 is a nice mid-range Android phone running 2.2 Froyo with Touchwiz 3.0 on top. I’ve had it for a couple of weeks now, and only just learned how to forward an SMS on to another … Continue reading

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