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Postbox is an e-mail client that contains all sorts of methods to organize and view your e-mails. One of the features is assigning messages a Topic, or what most people would call labels or tags. A single message can be assigned to a Topic or multiple topics. You then can view all messages for a specific topic. But the unique feature about Topics is that you can assign a color to the Topic which makes it easy to view messages assigned to a specific topic in the message list. Sadly there is a limited amount of colors you can pick… or is there. Continue reading below to learn how to set custom colors to Labels in Postbox.

If you run a server, you probably end up having to run commands that require passwords. Some programs handle passwords a lot better than others, such as MySQL. If you don’t specify a password in MySQL but include the -p argument, your password won’t be visible. But if you create a new user or change your password that’s a different story. There are also some programs that may require sensitive information directly from the command line or commands that you want to run once the user exits of the shell.

A few days ago I ran across an interesting question about a person who didn’t want to use PHP or didn’t have access to PHP and still wanted a contact form on their website. First off, if you have PHP and don’t mind using it, I suggest just using PHP for your contact forms.

But the method I came up with uses the mailto: URI scheme that almost every computer and phone knows. Sometimes users have it set to Microsoft Outlook or other software that they did not configure so their e-mails will not be sent. Also sometimes users don’t have the mailto: URI scheme specified so nothing will happen when they click on the link. But with those issues out of the way, lets get coding.

Every so often I will need to Google a question that will most likely appear inside of forums instead of blog posts. Because of this, I found a really simple way to bypass the “You are Required to Login to View This Post”. If you have never seen this type of page, you’re so lucky.

Bypass Forum (and other) Logins to View Content

The way this works is really simple. A lot of forum software adds a useragent check to detect spiders and bots (such as Google). Since they want Google to see the content on their site to rank better in the search results, Google is allowed to see the content without logging in. This is why when you search for a topic you will see relevant results but may be blocked out of those pages.

If you are unaware, inside of Windows 8 (and possibly older versions) you can use the shortcut key combination of [Windows Key] + [PRNT Screen] to take a screenshot and have it saved inside of your Pictures folder. This is great compared to just using the PRNT Screen key alone since you do not have to paste the image inside a photo editing program and then save it.

But this post is about resetting the index of the pictures saved. I take a lot of screenshots and I can have this index get into the hundreds and there only be a few pictures in the folder (since I delete the old ones). Deleting the old pictures will not reset the index, you need to modify a value in the Registry.