In today’s tutorial I wil explain how you can download a video from Facebook. This tutorial is intended for users who download videos for their private use. Remember, you shouldn’t publish someone else’s copyrighted work if you don’t have permission.
How to find out what Facebook knows about you
We all heard about Facebook data sharing controversy. I personally think that the best way to avoid situations like this is not to publish your private information online. Of course, easier said that done and many people, including myself, had put things there already and want to regain control of personal data.
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How to move from Windows to Mac
After using Windows PCs for almost 20 years I recently bought my first Mac. Here’s some information how to move smoothly from Windows PC to Mac.
This move can be a bit frustrating not to say painful, especially if you still use two operating systems. I still use Windows Desktop for my main work but started using MacBook for Ruby on Rails programming and when I need portable computer. What made matters worse was that I sometimes use the same keyboard for two different computers. But you can certainly do quite a few things to move from Windows to Mac less painfully. Here are some ideas and tricks I used that will help you.
Rails Stripe integration – how to pass amount to the controller
I have recently decided to learn how to write web applications with Ruby on Rails. I am working on a simple app for learning foreign languages and a few days ago I wanted to implement Stripe payments. Basically, I want to sell courses and have a course model in the application. There are a few columns in the course table in the database, one of them is ‘price’ with a decimal value. I would like to display a buy button on course show page. Somebody could click the button, pay with a bank card and access the course.
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How to create a strong password?
Creating a secure, difficult to break passwords is very easy. What is difficult is to remember them 🙂 In this post you will describe a cool way for creating strong, yet easy to remember passwords and increase your online security.
To quickly create a strong password we can use one of online password generators. There are quite a few different websites that can help with that. Here are some of them: dashlane.com, lastpass.com and roboform.com. The problem with password created in such a way is, that it is almost impossible to remember. Here are some passwords I quickly generated: