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Sometime why you are feeling really insecure, you decide you need into your computer 3 seconds faster by not typing in a password. More practically, you need a computer to boot up and launch right into a program. That is where a passwordless login comes in handy.
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The purpose of this article is to get you started with a SciKit image processing tool by showing you how easy it is to install it. If you didn't already know, "SciKits (short for SciPy Toolkits), are add-on packages for SciPy". Each is a powerful scientific Python tool that can be installed with the Python package management system (pip).
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Updating your Google Drive security information before February 17th will provide users with a free 2GB upgrade to their Drive accounts. The latest news in free online storage is Google's security checkup to ensure its users have the most up-to-date information tied to their Google accounts. In less than two minutes, a Google user simply needs to the following:
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Now that CiviCon 2015 is over, it is a good time to reflect on the people we met and the great new things we learned. I attended the CiviCon conference as well as two full days of training prior to the event. Joining me in Denver were designer Kurt Thomas and front-end developer (and former organizer) Phillip Kent Knight from the Los Angeles LGBT Center, a Black Brick Software client organization.
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Unlike some web software, changing the domain on Magento's community edition is pretty easy once you have done it once. You need to have ftp or ssh access to the site as well as a tool to manually update the database. I use phpMiniAdmin for quick jobs like this.
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One of the more surprising things I ran across when first learning Node.js was a clear and concise tutorial on setting up a Node web server. I struggled more than I would like to admit getting my first server setup.
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I have been working with CiviCRM quite a bit recently. It has been all well and good so far. CiviCRM is a well written piece of software with incredible flexibility. Between customizing the user interface for Bootstrap 3 and working with the API to create custom features, I have learned a lot.
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For one of my latest projects, I was setting up a Joomla site with a Bootstrap 3 theme. It was a custom theme, so I used T3 Framework. This works great until you get to non-core extensions. One of these extensions this project required was CiviCRM.