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  • Skype: How to minimize to system tray in Windows 7

    I’ve been using Skype to communicate with some colleagues and my boss, for my part time job as web developer & graphic designer.

    There’s one thing that often annoyed me, regarding the Skype window. When I am busy working and have a lot of windows open, and want to minimize Skype to the system tray, it won’t do what I want it to. When I click on the “Close” button of Skype it just minimizes to the task bar. What I want is for Skype to minimize into the system tray when I close its window even when I’m still signed in. Yahoo! Messenger does that for me.

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  • Fix PNG images with transparency in older Windows Internet Explorer versions

    I wonder if this post would still get hits from search engine result pages. So many other web pages feature this fix for IE 5.5 and IE 6 web browser, that the Catzie.net Blog’s entry might just show up on the… 10th page or so. lol.

    Anyways, I’m still posting this, in case there are some visitors browsing around who need help with properly displaying the transparency of .PNG images in IE5.5 and IE6. This also helps me easily find the needed code to fix the display. I need it from time to time when I design website layouts. 🙂

    Tip: Most of us are probably using the newer versions of Internet Explorer. I suggest that you download and use the IE Tester. It’s a web browser that lets you see how web pages render in different versions of IE – 5.5, 6, 7, and 8.

    I assume that as you read this, you are using Internet Explorer version 5.5, or the version 5.5 tab on the IE Tester.
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  • How to tune a guitar manually

    So you have a guitar that’s out of tune but don’t feel like buying a tuner? You have a tuner but it’s not working? It’s not with you? Or simply bored? You can put it to the right tune manually, even without the piano! All you need is a sharp hearing and this simple tutorial. 😉 Of course tuning it with a tuner is more accurate. But learning to tune manually will come in handy, isn’t it?

    Let me share to you this tutorial on how to tune a guitar manually.


    The Guitar Strings

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  • PHP: Dynamic inclusion tutorial

    I’m posting this because I thought that it might help some people who want to structurize their website in a way that they can easily edit pages which contain contents and pages which contain the code of the layout, as we separate layout code from contents in dynamic inclusion.

    This is for PHP beginners, but I assume that you have basic knowledge about PHP variables and form submission methods if you would read this tutorial.
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