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Jan 17, 2013

Deploy Web Applications Easily with SVN

A few days ago I posted a tweet while I was fooling around with my scripts that handle all of my website deployments. I knew I have always done deployments of my web applications differently than everyone else (you'd be surprised…

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Jul 20, 2011

How to Disable Inverted Scrolling on Mac OS X Lion

There's a video below on how to disable inverted scrolling! There have been a ton of hype about the newly released Mac OS X Lion, but one thing Apple has tried to do with their brand new operating system is to…

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Feb 13, 2011

Shared Hosting vs. VPS Hosting

When I switched Tech Cores to a VPS back in early August of 2010, it was a turning point for us. Before that, we were using shared hosting which in the long run, started to hurt us more than anything. We…

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Sep 27, 2010

How to Start Up Your Own Blog

Setting up your own blog isn't the easiest thing out there. In fact, it's easily one of the hardest tasks to do on the web for many reasons. There are many blog out there failing to get noticed, we were one…

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Sep 11, 2010

WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal

In the very beginning when I was setting up Tech Cores, I had to choose between what CMS (Content Management System) I was going to use. This was in fact a very hard decision for me. All three of these have…

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Sep 07, 2010

Photoshop In 5 - Creating an Aurora Wallpaper (Episode #2)

I've been making wallpaper since I can remember. The very first wallpaper I created was in Paint and it was an extremely easy (and rather amateurish if you ask me) wallpaper. Let's face it, if you ranked people on how many…

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Aug 19, 2010

Photoshop In 5 - Color Replacement (Episode #1)

I've been using Photoshop for a number of years now. In the very beginning stages of learning how to use the more advanced features of Photoshop, I remember watching videos that were not even fifteen minutes. To watch a video that…

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Jun 02, 2010

Looking for Great Paid Mac Apps? Let's Start a List!

When it comes to a lot of those Mac applications out there, sometimes you just don’t know what to get exactly. The time when I first got my my, I already knew of all of the popular Mac applications mainly…

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May 24, 2010

Learning How to Develop? Get These Tips First!

I've been developing for a number of years now. My very first programming language I tried to learn was Visual Basic .NET. As like learning anything on your own, comes hard challenges. This was the very first programming language I tried…

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Dec 15, 2009

IMAP VS. POP3 - Who's the best?

If you remember way back in the day, when you first registered your e-mail account, it was probably with a online service like Yahoo Mail, GMail, Hotmail, or even AOL Mail. A good amount of people still use the same e-mail…

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Nov 18, 2009

Windows 7 Keyboard Tricks

Windows 7 came out not too long ago, and with every brand new product, comes brand new features. Windows 7 comes with a variety of keyboard shortcuts to make your life a lot easier. The thing is, if you know a…

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Jun 29, 2009

Being a Website Designer and Webmaster - Part Four

In the past posts, we have talked about what type of tools can help you out when you create a website. But there's something else you're going to have to think about, and this is called website maintenance. This can be…

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Apr 29, 2009

Being a Website Designer and Webmaster - Part Three

Earlier, we discussed what tools you need to become a webmaster & designer. Now we are going to talk about the total opposite; what tools can help you to become a webmaster & designer. When we say tools, we mean things…

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Apr 14, 2009

Being a Website Designer and Webmaster - Part Two

A webmaster and a website designer are two complete different jobs, but here at Tech Cores, we master at both of those positions. Today we're going to teach you what it takes to become one. We are going to start out…

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