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Windows Phone 8: Open Web Page in a New Tab

Links that come from other apps to Internet Explorer will be opened in the current tab. This feature can be very annoying because the new site will replace your current open tab. Fortunately, you can make IE open incoming links in a new tab.

Android Jelly Bean: Hide Apps or Games from App Drawer

By default, all installed apps and games on your phone will be displayed in the app drawer, which is not suitable when someone else can access your phone. You may not want to display some apps or games to your friends or your kids when they borrow your phone. Luckily, you can hide the apps from the drawer if you want.

PHP: Read a Browser Cookie Value

Once your web application has set a cookie in a user’s browser, it is a simple matter to retrieve that value in subsequent page requests. This tech-recipe describes reading a value from a cookie in PHP.

PHP: Set or Create a Simple Browser Cookie with setcookie

Web applications overcome the lack of session support in the HTTP protocol primarily through the use of cookies. Transparent to the user and simple for the web developer, cookies provide the foundation of keeping up with who web a user is and where they have been.

ZFS: Destroy or Remove One or More Filesystems

If you no longer want a filesystem or hierarchy of filesystems, ZFS offers an easy mechanism for removing them that is possibly too simple. The destroy option of the zfs command unshares, unmounts, and obliterates filesystems.

Extract a Tar Archive or File

The tar file is the long-time champion of archiving files and even directories of information into a single archive file. However, the first time you face a tar file, it will completely clam up and will not tell you what to do with it. Extracting the contents of a tar file is simple (once you know how).

Extract a bz2 or bzip2 File

You have downloaded a file that ends in .bz2. Now, what do you do? This tech-recipe describes how to work with these files.

Techrx Flash Web Gadget Test #1

At Tech-Recipes, we are slowly starting to develop some flash-based applications. This is our first test of one of our flash applications. This code allows you to place a scrolling list of an author’s tutorials into any webpage.

Word and PowerPoint 2013: Capture Screen and Add to Document

If you are working on a document that requires basic screen-captures, you can use a built-in feature included in both Word and PowerPoint to do the work instead of using third-party software.

PHP: Password Protect Your Pages

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This tutorial contains a simple PHP implementation which will prevent unwanted access to certain pages.

C/C++ Doubly Linked List

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This tutorial demonstrates the implementation of a doubly linked list and the removal of the prev pointer for a singly linked list.

Windows Phone 8: Store Music, Video, Pictures on SD Card or Phone Storage

Whenever you insert an SD card into Windows Phone 8, it will ask if you want to store content on the phone or on the SD card. If you have chosen one of these settings and later want to switch to the other, this tutorial will help you.

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