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Java Cut and Paste Primer Tutorial

The clipboard is an important part of the GUI aspects to Windows and Mac OS X, and even non-GUI DOS windows or Unix/Linux console windows would have functionality to cut, paste and copy string data. Today’s Java program shows cut … Continue reading

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Mac VirtualBox Windows 8 IE 11 Primer Tutorial

Mac laptops are great “out of the box” but one thing they do not usually do “out of the box” is to help you with an easy way to test your web work on Internet Explorer. In this tutorial we … Continue reading

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Wine for Windows on Mac Primer Tutorial

Generally we think of Mac OS X and Windows as two different (operating system) worlds that don’t exactly see eye to eye, and in large part that can be correct, but today, with our tutorial, we (maybe?) introduce you to … Continue reading

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Perl CGI Email Primer Tutorial

Today we again venture into the world of CGI (Common Gateway Interface) on our Apache/PHP/MySql web server, this time to investigate using the Perl CGI to send emails via the Linux sendmail command. Found with the use of sendmail there … Continue reading

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Linux Find and/or Locate Files/Directories Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) servers have two really useful commands which help the user find files and/or directories … locate and find. Doubt there are many people out there who have not mislaid a computer file at some time or other. … Continue reading

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Java Command Line Arguments Primer Tutorial

If you are writing a batch process and have reached a process part requiring a compiled program (perhaps because this part has some CPU grunt associated with it) you can do a lot worse than use Java and allow user … Continue reading

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iWeb Primer Tutorial

Quite a while ago now was into iWeb and its impressively quick methods to construct a five (or so) webpage website. It attracted me with its colour and pizazz. Ended up using iWeb to construct this domain’s landing page, and … Continue reading

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Windows Text Editor Primer Tutorial

Many computer users may think that in this day and age a good text editor would not be needed. As a programmer I’d disagree (and largely it will be people dealing with “sort of” non-proprietry text source (programming code) that … Continue reading

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