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Sending Push-notifications from iOS

December 4, 2020

Update 2 September 2024: There has since been a much simpler implementation of this using cURL, as detailed on the Pushover Support site I have 4 different devices I move information across (mostly text or URL’s): I enjoyed using Pushbullet for many years, but was pretty disappointed to see that the iOS app isn’t developed…

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Blowfish Encrypt/Decrypt

June 9, 2019

This is a simple web-app I made ages ago that encrypts and decrypts simple text with a password. It uses the mcrypt class in PHP, and the data is passed via AJAX. EDIT (10th June 2019): I’ve added a security certificate (thanks to Let’s Encrypt SSL), due to popular demand. Make sure you are visiting…

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Disappearing Presets in Adobe Camera Raw (December 2018 release)

December 12, 2018

With the latest release of Camera Raw in December 2018, I noticed that I could not apply my presets in Camera Raw to JPG’s anymore (both RNI and VSCO). However, they seemed to still be available for RAW files. Looking for change-logs, I came across this, from lightroomkillertips.com “The other preset related addition has to do…

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Automate the creation of nginx sites on Ubuntu

August 26, 2018

This has been adapted from a script by a DigitalOcean mod by the name of Jellingwood. Script has been modified to take PHP into account. This assumes your www directory is /var/www and that you are running PHP 7.0 Save the file as create-site.sh, and make the file executable Run the file by executing something…

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