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Styled select boxes

This page is related to the articles Styling form controls and Styling even more form controls. For more info on what the image on this page shows, please read the articles.

The following CSS rules were used to style these select boxes:

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Lately I’ve been finding more and more people lifting images directly from my blog and using them on their own websites (a practice known as hotlinking). Not only is this stealing, but each time someone visits the page that hotlinks my image(s), it drains the bandwidth I’m paying my web host for.

With a little .htaccess wizardry, anyone stealing my images now has a web page like so (click the image for a larger version):

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This little code snippet will ensure that your website won't display in a frameset.

Your site will jump out of the frameset.

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Class to back up entire databases and email them out, or individual tables.

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The internet really does have everything, and it's all available for download without lifting a finger. A series of helpful scripts, all installable in a few minutes, can transform your computer into an automatic media downloading machine.

We've featured all sorts of automatic downloaders that grab TV shows after they air and movies as soon as they're released, but you don't have to stop there. You can schedule music, comic books, video games, and practically anything else as a download with minimal effort. In this post, we'll look at how to set up existing scripts to acquire all kinds of media and use a tool called FlexGet to handle the rest.

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Using the same password for multiple email, shopping and social networking websites is risky, it means that a security breach at one website will compromise all your accounts, possibly even leading to identity theft.

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