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DeepL Translator Browser Extension/Add-on (en)

Thank you for using or your interest in the DeepL Translator Browser Extension/Add-on!

If you have a question or feedback, please post it in the comment section below.

If you like this extension, please make a donation and/or support my other work.

Support DeepL as well for providing us a great alternative to Google Translate. I am not affiliated in any way wi… Read more

How to peruse Quora.com answers and links without signing in or creating an account

To dodge sending a Quora.com referring URL when following Quora links, simply:

  1. Right-click the link you want to follow
  2. “Copy link location” (FireFox) or “Copy Link URL” (Chrome)
  3. Right-click the address bar
  4. “Paste & Go” (FireFox) or  “Paste and go to …” (Chrome)

That’s it, and now you… Read more

Start a new Meetup group: 30% off? Why not 100% off?! (Casual Events)

Meetup has a “sale” going on: 30% off new groups!

Wait … why should it cost you anything at all if you will be doing all the heavy lifting and event organizing?

You’re already volunteering your time and energy. Don’t volunteer more money than you need to too.

Help spread the word about Casual Events — an event platform that isRead more

Navigating to a specific URL in your Angular PWA if its service worker is not yet registered

If you host an Angular Progressive Web App (PWA) on a web server, you will frequently have URLs that are handled by the Angular router to navigate to specific pages within the app.

However, without the service worker registered, navigation requests are not intercepted and sent to the PWA. In other words, if a user has never ran the PWA yet in his or her browser, a… Read more

Casual Events: how to host meetups for free (even if your group exceeds 50 members)

If you’re looking for an alternative to Meetup (meetup.com) where you don’t have to pay a hefty monthly or semi-annual fee just to host events, refer your group to Casual Events!

Casual Events is a new platform that needs your help to grow. Since it is maintained by one person (me) you don’t have to subsidize conglomerate salaries to use th… Read more

Casual Events: a free alternative to Meetup

I have released a new app called Casual Events.  Check it out here.

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Of all the degeneracy and anti-social behaviour that social media has wrought, Meetup, while not strictly “social media”, is probably one of the more “social” things to emerge from the Internet. Certainly more social than say Facebook or T… Read more

The new 2019 Lotto Max payout scheme: more ways to lose money!

Before I even updated my Lotto Max Calculator with the new payouts, I knew right away the OLG wanted to accomplish two things with their changes to Lotto Max:

  1. Multiple draws per week, slightly more (but more difficult) ways to win non-jackpot prizes will allow them to say “more ways to win!” as well as …
  2. “Bigger jackpots!” whi
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Ionic 4 + Angular 7: Checking whether the generic parent of a component is the active page

There’s no straightforward way yet in getting the parent component of a component via dependency injection without knowing the type of the parent component. This poses a problem if you want your component consumed by many different types of parent components.

A common scenario where this problem occurs is an Ionic 4 app with several pages that use so… Read more

ngx-translate: translate your JSON file to other languages

For Angular 2/3/4/5/6/7 developers, use this gadget to translate your en.json file.

This is relevant for developers that use @ngx-translate/core similar to the following in app.module:

import { TranslateModule, TranslateLoader } from '@ngx-translate/core';

@NgModule({
/* ... */
  imports: [
    TranslateModule.forRoot({
      loader: {
        provide: Translat
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Extortion e-mail scams are on the rise again: the importance of using unique passwords

Have you been getting spam mail that looks like this recently?

I know [password redacted] one of your password. Lets get directly to the purpose. You may not know me and you are most likely thinking why you’re getting this e mail? No one has compensated me to check about you.

Well, I installed a software on the xxx vids (sex sites) web-site and you know what

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