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What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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Category Archives: Tutorials
Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830: Remove an App Shortcut from the Main Screen
The Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 is a nice mid-range Android phone running 2.2 Froyo with Touchwiz 3.0 on top. Although it isn’t quite intuitive, to remove an app shortcut (or launcher) from your phone’s main screen (or desktop if you … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Tutorials
Tagged android, app, application, delete shortcut, desktop, galaxy ace, launcher, remove shortcut, s5830, samsung, shortcut, touchwiz
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Windows Keyboard Shortcut: Quick, Launch the Task Manager!
Here’s a nifty Windows keyboard shortcut which I was not aware of until recently. My version of Vista tends to freeze a lot, meaning a lot of sluggish trips through to the Open Task Manager button on the Control+Alt+Delete screen. … Continue reading
Posted in Tutorials, Windows
Tagged ctrl, esc, keyboard, keyboard shortcut, shift, shortcut, task manager, tip, windows
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Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830: View Your MAC Address
The Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 is a nice mid-range Android phone running 2.2 Froyo with Touchwiz 3.0 on top. Sometimes it is useful to know what your device’s MAC address is and to locate it on the phone isn’t always … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Tutorials
Tagged android, galaxy ace, mac address, network, s5830, samsung, settings, touchwiz, wi-fi
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Ubuntu Terminal: Efficient Way to Copy Across a MySQL Database from One Server to Another
I often need to pull down a copy of a live MySQL database instance for development work on my local machine. Because my access to bandwidth is limited, I need to come up with the most efficient way of achieving this, and my method for achieving this is chronicled below – mainly so that I can refer to it when I forget! Continue reading
How to Generate a URL containing QR code using Google Charts API
QR codes are slowly, slowly gaining more traction, despite the fact that they are pretty much only useful little beasts when it comes to directing smartphone users to some or other web content URL. Generating them is pretty easy, hell, Google Chart has an API for them (which is exactly what we are going to leverage in a minute), and to decode them you simply need a phone with a camera and a decoder app installed. So let’s do this.
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