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I've been looking for a good solution for Arabic web fonts for while now and have been hitting my head against the wall with the lack of options available to me or the cost of buying a font and hosting it myself. Just as I was contemplating making my own ...

LiveReload is great a great tool for any web developer. One of the most useful of it's features is the ability to compile SASS on save. Unfortunately the version of SASS that is included in LiveReload isn't the latest one and it just so happened that was t...

There are a whole variety of ways that responsive images can be accomplished, but as of yet there is no perfect way of doing it without using a combination of .htaccess, javascript and css. My solution is no different and uses JavaScript (in the form of jQ...

There are plenty of tutorials and guides on how to make a Chrome extension and there are hundreds for jQuery manipulation of the DOM. There are also a few about using jQuery in a Chrome extension, but only for the popup window. There seems to be a lack of ...

Flipping an image using objective-c is so easy once you know how... That's it! Now to have it as an method we can use more conveniently, try this: Then we can send any image to it and it will return a flipped version....

The uses of NSNotificationCenter can be many; It is handy for using to notify the app that a background download of data, a post of some kind is done, or some calculation is finished. It can also be useful for letting sub views know when some root level fu...

jQuery is a very powerful tool but because of it's size it can be quite slow to load, and on some older devices it can also be slow to "boot up" and become ready for action (I'm looking at you iPad/iPhone!) Why is this a problem? In my case the problem i...

A lesser know property of CSS3 is the selection property. This allows you to change the properties of text when selected so you can highlight it in any way you want This sentence should highlight in black. And this in red. Don't forget that some browsers...

When building forms for websites, much time can be spent making sure that all the elements fit together in a nice way, all lining up and looking neat. So then along came Google's Chrome browser and with it came the ability to drag resize a text area to any...

If you ever wondered how to remove the auto phone number conversion on web pages then look no further. Just place this in the head of your document and all should be OK....

I was having had an issue with Django on my MediaTemple hosting and the urls being affected by a certain main.fcgi. It happened a while back, and then again recently so I decided to share the solution I found. Simply add the following to your settings.py ...