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Two days ago I noticed a saddening spectacle as I witnessed a dark irregular shape creep across the corner of one of my 23" Apple Cinema Displays. In stark contrast to a previous Apple service visit with ProCare membership in hand, a recent visit to the U-Village Apple Store was a complete surprise. As stated on the Apple ProCare page, members are entitled to what is recognized as the Fast ...

Anyone who inserts contextual advertisements into their pages - like Google Adsense - are aware of the fact that some readers block advertisements. Oftentimes, methods for removing advertisements from view alter the structure of a page, in turn, changing the layout. For some websites or blogs, this does not pose a problem. For websites created to present both content and advertisements in harmony, removing ad elements may have ...

After much deliberation, I decided to take a few minutes out of the weekend to clean-up shop here on 5thirtyone.com. I have always known that my WordPress database was a little on the high side considering how few posts I had thrown up over the past year or so. I decided it was time to start pruning away some of the excess fat that was building up - namely, ...

Quite a number of months back I released the Foliage Mod WordPress theme which included a Table of Contents (TOC) styled navigation block in the header. A recent post on ScriptyGoddess prompted me to upload the download & tutorial post straight away which is what you find here. In as little as 8 lines of HTML, and 5 lines of CSS, the TOC Navigation block can be duplicated on your ...

Motivated by email requests from a few readers, I've thrown together this simple tutorial on how-to style author comments under WordPress without the need for extraneous plugins. What we're going to do is instruct WordPress to identify specific author emails and assign a unique class name to each. Using the flexibility of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), we can then differentiate between specific user comments using different background colors, background-images, ...