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Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu Black Screen

I recently had an issue with encountering a black screen and a black “X” cursor with Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.1 A few searches led me to a stack overflow entry from 2014. However, I’m lazy so I figured … Continue reading

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Add Git Bash to Windows Terminal (Preview)

To add Git Bash as a tab to your Windows Terminal, use the “V” icon and select “Settings” or press “Ctrl + ,” This will open up the profiles.json file in your defined editor. Add an entry to “profiles:” , … Continue reading

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Sass in Sublime Text – A lesson in RTFM

‘sass’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. [Finished in 0.4s with exit code 1] I received this error when attempting to build / compile SASS into css. If you’ve been trying to utilize features … Continue reading

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jQuery Bread Crumb Trail Plugin

This plugin will take the URI segment of the URL and split it into links based on directory names. This is not the most attractive method of doing this, but is very useful when trying to add breadcrumbs to older … Continue reading

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Simple Animated Content Slider with jQuery

Content sliders are fairly simple things to implement, as they can be built with using only a few basic pieces of html, css, and javascript ( if you are focusing development on css3, javascript is not needed at all ). … Continue reading

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Mental Ray – Light Scattering

While tweaking shaders, textures and bump maps for tree bark and ivy, I set to create a ‘depth’ to the textures; for light to enter, bounce around inside, giving a sense of depth to the surface. However, not entirely successul, … Continue reading

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TimeDrop Menus with jQuery

TimeDrop menu is a plugin for jQuery based on common drop-down methods, but allows for drop down menus that will persist until a timeout triggers them to close. This allows the user to jump off the menu for a short … Continue reading

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