Imagine the situation. You come home from a long vacation and, suddenly, you have to go somewhere. You pick up your car keys, open the garage door, get into your car and turn the key, only to find that your car is not starting up!! 

In a lot of cases, people have more than one car. Some are also able to get somebody else with a car to help them jump-start theirs; But have you ever thought what damage it is doing to your car? Let me tell you the answer this question for you. Every time you jump-start your car, you are taking a very serious, and expensive, chance! The risk I'm talking about here is that the sudden change in electric voltage and resistance might harm your cars computer and could even, in the most extreme cases, blow it up! Let me explain to you how. More...

How often have you wanted a friend or co-worker a cool tune from home? How often have you not been able to do it because you can't send it to them? Well with this little trick, you can solve that problem by reading today's quick and painless article about sharing your playlists and libraries using iTunes. Hit more to learn.

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This article is a follow up to the article I wrote about integrating the phpBB 3 login with your site.You can find that article here. This time I'd like to take it a little bit further and take a look at what we can do once our user is logged in. I'm going to assume you have sufficient knowledge of PHP to understand the code and, at least, the basics of object orientated programming in PHP. I'm also assuming you have a fully functioning and installed phpBB 3 forum at the point.

To go further into the topic, we'll need to be able to access the data for our user(s). To do this, we have to use the user object and access it's data member which, predictably, holds all the user data. Here's the piece of code we'll need every time we want to use the phpBB user system in our pages. I'll explain the source code after.

0:  define('IN_PHPBB', true);
1:  $phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : '/PATH/TO/FORUMS';
2:  $phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
3:  include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
4:  include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.' . $phpEx);
5:  // Start session management
6:  $user->session_begin();
7:  $auth->acl($user->data);

Notepad. Ever lasting and ever useful. What can't you do in notepad? Well here's 2 things you might not have known you could do.

Use notepad as a diary!

There are 2 ways to use notepad as a diary. You can do it the automated way - or the manual way.

Manual way

Open notepad and save the text file to somewhere. Now that you've got the text file saved, we can start making a diary. On a new line press "F5" to insert the time and date - you can easily delete parts of this as it comes out as text. Press enter and type in your diary entry. Do it every day, every other day, once a week or any other interval of time you fancy

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When was the last time you even wiped your keyboard with a wet cloth let alone wash it all out? You use your keyboard daily and, because of this, your keyboard is one of the dirtiest places in your house. It is said that your toilet seat is much cleaner then a keyboard, simply due to the fact that it's washed more often. In fact, your keyboard may be so dirty that it could lead to skin infections to more serious diseases such as VRE and MRSA.

Daily Tip Weblog is here to take you through a cleaning process for your keyboard, and yes we do have pictures. More...

You might have heard of ISO files before. You might not have. For those who haven't: ISO files are, basically, an "image" of a CD. They can be used in combination with mountable drives to create virtual disks. In this article I'd like to go through 1 of the advantages of putting your games into an ISO file.

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We all know Google. The search engine giant. It's quite possible that the king of the Internet has become a daily part of our lives. We use Google for practically everything. From daily news to sports to e-commerce. Okay, so lets get to it.

Google's search engine not only has the ability to search, but improve its results by using specific commands and queries. This functionality is very similar to how you would query a database to pull information and filter it.

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