Ever have an issue where firefox puts an annoying image padding under every image?

This is especially annoying when dealing with sliced images that you’re trying to piece together.

Here is a simple solution that I found out, and it couldn’t be easier.

Hopefully this simple css code will prevent you from tying a rope to the cieling and hanging yourself.

Place this style on every page, and you should be set.

If I saved even one life from this, than I know I’ve done my job. Now will someone please give me a job?I’m broke.

Search Engine Optimization is a huge industry where companies get paid millions of dollars to boost their rankings to the top of Google. Now this article will not try to explain all the little tricks to achieve a higher search rank, but one way to improve the likelihood of having better SEO would be to clean up your damn URL.

If you are hosted onto an apache server then please continue, otherwise this information would be complete and utter garbage to you.

So how can you clean up a url that looks like this:

/certificate.php?folder=men&sort=date&order=desc&page=1

To a url that looks like this:

/certificate/men/date/desc/1/

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Decades ago, it was possible for the average family to survive off of one income. As the inflation rate has increased over the years, a one income family is no longer feasible. Two parents must now work to maintain their living standards which is sadly the reality. So today, it’s very important to have a outstanding daycares to look after the children while mom and dad are at work.

Yuth Family Child Care has opened it’s doors in 2005 to the working family in the Signal Hill and Long Beach area. Sambo Yuth who is the founder of Yuth Family Child Care, has ensured that every child she looks after receives the best child care money can buy. She caters to children from nursery to school age and she even provides pick ups and drop offs so parents can have the peace of mind that their kids are safe. Not only is Yuth Family Child Care about quality, they offer their services at an affordable price. So your search for daycares can end right now.

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Freedom Aerospace is one of our newest launches for Curiosity Media. The site took around 3 months to develop, and it is the first site to tackle a database that contains 7 million plus records of just airplane parts information. The challenge was to find a way to retrieve a 7 million record database and not bog down the servers processing.

Mysql database is not always the best choice if you want a huge database of records. But although it’s not perfect, the best way to improve performance is to carefully choose your indexes for each table. You also need to find creative ways to partition, or break up these records. Unfortunately I recently figured out how to further improve the efficiency of data retrieval. ‘Apache Lucene’ is the key to this, and I wish I had known this sooner, because I think the server that is hosting Freedom Aerospace doesn’t have Java support. And for those of you who thinks Java is just another delicious hot drink, well it’s actually a powerful programming language.

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If you love drinking beer games, then come check out Drinknird, the new website that caters to everything alcoholic. You can shop, get drinking beer games ideas, check out reviews, and participate in their community. If you don’t find what you are looking for, then submit your own content to the site. It is all user generated.

Curiosity Media spent several months, developing the platform that Drinknird resides on. If you want to check out a great drinking community then go to drinknirds.com.

Drinking Games

It is so common for people to be tired of working for a company and for them to branch out on their own. From a statistics I pulled from the ‘Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship‘, 2,356 people go into business for themselves every day, and 57.8% of those businesses start online. The reason why there is such a strong trend towards starting an online business is because it breaks traditional paradigms of starting a business. People can now work from the comfort of their own living room, they can start a business with relatively low investment, they are able to reach a global audience, and it’s easy money. While this is true for some very small percentage of people, this is, for the most part, a myth!

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I had worked on this websites since the beginning of October 2008, and my client had a lot of big dreams for this site.  I basically programmed all the ecommerce features from the ground up, which was a great learning experience for me. It was during the Cheebras project where I decided that I wanted to launch Curiosity Media, and I hope this is the first of many websites that I get to work on.

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I just finished reading an article about open source applications that could contain viurses, trojans, or worms.  The reality is that anybody could post up an application, and there is nobody to really check if the application is really legitimate. I never actually considered that an application I download could have worms or viruses, but now I have to do a double take.

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