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Self-Sustaining Garden: Beneficial Insects
November 2011, by Leonid Batkhan
The best and most natural way of setting up a garden is to take advantage of the natural processes that make it a self-sustaining system. To achieve that you should select a right combination of plants that benefit each other and attract beneficial insects that maintain ecological balance by preying on destructive pests as well as performing other vital functions such as pollination. ...read more
How to pickle everything
October 2011, by Leonid Batkhan
A series of no-vinegar recipes on how to pickle practically everyting from cabbage and cucumbers to salmon, tomatoes and watermelon.
How to create and use a website favicon
December 2010, by Leonid Batkhan
A favicon (pronounced 'fav-ee-kon', short for favorites icon), also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon is a tiny square image, usually 16x16 pixels, shown to the left of a web browser's address bar and associated with a particular website or web page; favicon is also displayed on the browser's tab. ...read more
RGB to Hex color code convertor | Hex to RGB color code convertor
December 2010, by Leonid Batkhan
This simple interactive dual RGB to Hex / Hex to RGB convertor easily converts color codes in both directions as well as shows a sample of the color being converted. ...read more
How to resize Microsoft Internet Explorer window to a size you really want
November 2010, by Leonid Batkhan
Perhaps you encountered with an nuisance of Internet Explorer opening in a small window in some awkward position on a screen when you click on a hyperlink. It looks as though it has been resized and placed there by some evil Microsoft gnome. This is especially annoying when you try to resize the window to the full size, but after closing it its behavior just sticks and this just drives you crazy. ...read more
How to make a transparent background for an image using Adobe Photoshop
June 2010, by Leonid Batkhan
When dealing with image transparency, one have to realize that not every image format supports transparency. For example, GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) and PNG (Portable Network Graphics) do support transparency, while JPEG or JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) formats do not. In addition, GIF formatted images can be animated, while PNG and JPG cannot. Therefore, in the below methods, you have to save your images as GIF or PNG type (format) to have them transparent. ...read more
How to change a mouse cursor shape on a webpage and on a computer screen
January 2010, by Leonid Batkhan
A cursor is a static or animated image indicating the position on a computer monitor or other display device that responds to input from a keyboard or pointing device such as a mouse. The term "mouse cursor" is used interchangeably with "mouse pointer" or just "cursor". In many Graphic User Iinterfaces (GUI), the mouse cursor changes shape depending on the circumstances. To change a mouse cursor shape in a webpage, a cursor property of a style element can be used. This can be done either within a CSS or as HTML inline style declaration. ...read more
