I stopped my programming blog and would want to share back some short helpful snippets. In a form page it would be helpful to auto focus the a field on page load because users will longer have to click on the field.  Here is a one line jQuery code to auto focus fields.   Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

A tweak for users with a Multi-cored machine who wants to utilize the number of core available to speed up boot time process. Open msconfig by typing it on run. Select The boot TAB Select Advanced Options modify the number of cores you wanted to be used on boot as shown on the image above. Reboot to take effect. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the

You might be wondering what happened to the applications you opened after pressing the home button of your iPhone. Well, its not closed yet, it’s still running and hidden. If you are not using it, you need to close it because it is using/draining the battery. Here is a simple how to: double press the home button consecutively and you will see all the applications you have opened before you read this post as shown on the image above long

I had some problems installing ssmtp on centos 6.3 64 bit because most of the posts are giving out the wrong RPM link. So I came across a blog that gave an existing link rpm for fedora where ssmtp exists. So below are the steps I did to install ssmtp over CentOS: The Download link for 64 bit CentOS 6: http://ftp.astral.ro/mirrors/fedora/pub/epel/6/x86_64/ Verify if hxxp://astral.ro is a legit mirror: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/ Add the rpm using the command: $ wget http://ftp.astral.ro/mirrors/fedora/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm $ rpm

Steps on how to edit Linux Mint’s Cinnamon Menu: Right click on the menu as show on the image above Select Edit Menu Do your thing Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

I have some problems in controlling my laptop’s brightness on Linux Mint 13. My laptop’s specification is found on this page. Just a summary I am using NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 2GB Dedicated VRAM. Here are the steps I followed to get control on my laptop’s brightness. Open the terminal Edit grub (sudo nano /etc/default/grub), Around the 11th line, there will be something like: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”. Change it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor” Save the file Update your grub (sudo update-grub2)

Playing mp4 files over the internet on windows OS is easy since quicktime plugin is supported and easily accessible.  To play mp4 files in linux you can use VLC which commonly installed by default on new versions of Linux OS such as ubuntu and linux mint.  Below is an illustration on how to play/open mp4 files over the internet. 1. Go to Media Menu > Open Network Stream 2.  Enter the url you want to open and click play to start