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I found this great tool at Snook.ca to test if a certain font color when placed in a color background is compliant with the W3C rules.

Colour Contrast Checker

24 bit PNG’s don’t have transparency. A 24 bit PNG has 3 channels – Red, Green, and Blue. In a 32 bit PNG you have 4 channels – Red, Green, Blue and Alpha, so the way to save a transparent PNG with high quality anti aliasing in Fireworks is to save it in 32 Bit mode.

But Photoshop doest it!
That’s because Photoshop says it saves in 24 bit when it’s actually saving as 32 bit.

I was looking for a freeware application to convert ogg into mp3 and I found SoX Wrap.

Happens that SoX Wrap not only converts ogg to mp3 but it can also convert various other formats. looks a little promissing app.

Yesterday I lost a few hours of sleep trying to solve this fu***@@@ damn annoying problem with a Portuguese wordpress installation.

After the installation I got an error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /Users/Mac/Sites/wordpress/wp-config.php:1)

Now, there are a few ways all over the web to solve this… none of them worked for me, including the one displayed at the Codex WordPress, but it might work for you, so you can check it in here

So what worked for me it was the following way:

1 – After you have the wp-config.php created, open it in a text editor that allows you to change the Encoding.

2- Cut all text.

3- Save the file empty

4- Re-open the file with another encoding… like ISO-8859-1 or other.

5- Now… a weird character will be display in the beginning

6- Erase the bastard!!!

7- Save the file empty

8- Re-open the file with UTF-8

9- Paste all the text

10 – Save the file

And that should take care of it…

I have searched lots of websites looking for a solution to remove the horizontal scroll bar in IE (damn IE!!!) when placing an Iframe when the content overflows.

So I have found this: iframe src=”your source” width=”474″ height=”306″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”yes” horizontalscrolling=”no” verticalscrolling=”yes”

open and close your Iframe tags…

This works!