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With the release of version 42 of the browser Google Chrome 42, the worldwide-known Mountain View giant introduced a bunch of new features that have generated many discussions during the latest two …
Google Chrome disables Java and Silverlight, but you can re-enable them (until September) Read More
Quick links: Project Page - GitHub - Pod Eventually, while developing in iOS, you're going to find yourself looking for a control allowing the user to pick an option from a drop-down, selectable list …
DownPicker: A lightweight DropDownList / ComboBox for iOS written in Objective-C Read More
One of the AdSense publishers worst nightmares is the constant appearance of advertisers abuses and their visually unacceptable - and mostly fraudulent - ad-like contents. That awful practice comes with the …
Unwanted Ads & AdSense Malvertising: how to shut them down Read More
Favicon stands for Favorite Icon: we're talking about the 16x16 px icon that identifies your website during the user navigation. Most browser shows it on the left side of the address bar, assuming the …
Favicon: why and how to add it on your WordPress-enabled Web Site A guide that explains the importance and usefulness of favicons and provides useful information on how to create and implement them on your web site or blog Read More
One of the most frequent questions featured by the wordpress.org official support forum is about adding a slideshow-type image gallery to a WordPress-powered home page, possibly also localizing its contents for multiple languages. This …
Add a multi-language slideshow to your WordPress Home Page using Meta Slider plugin Read MoreWe already discussed in a previous post how easy it is to create, publish and mantain a repository hosted on github.com by only using Mercurial and TortoiseHG without additional software - including Git. Here we'll go a step …
Manage GitHub Project Pages with Mercurial and TortoiseHG Read MoreLike you probably already know, the ActionBar of an Android App can be set to allow backwards navigation from a child Activity to its parent, assuming that the relationship has been properly configured in the AndroidManifest.xml …
Android Studio: customize the "back to parent" ActionBar icon image (homeAsUpIndicator) Read MoreStarting from iOS7 the status bar style can be modified in two different ways or, to say it better, with the following scopes: per-Controller, meaning that each controller will be able to …
XCode: set Status Bar style and color in Objective-C Read MoreProportional image resizing is a fairly common scenario while developing an Android app: there are a number of situations where you might want an image to stretch itself to horizontally fit …
Android: proportionally stretch an ImageView to fit the whole screen width while maintaining its aspect ratio Read More
Starting from Visual Studio 2012 the good ol' Cassini Web Server has been replaced by IIS Express. While Microsoft spent quite an amount of words describing the benefits brought by this not-so-minor change, the …
IIS Express: allow external requests from remote clients & devices Read More