how do you set up an omoplata from bottom half guard?

Asked by Otto lai, a pretty cool guy from San Diego

Thanks for the random question of the month otto. For those few that are not into MMA or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) an omoplata is a shoulder lock applied with your legs. And half guard is the position between full guard and side mount or full mount when the fighter on the bottom has control of one leg. Enjoy.

Get WordPress to show the last 10 posts modified.

Asked by Jamie a Student from Florida

Is there a plugin or hack to get WordPress to show the last 10 posts I’ve modified.

I often update my old posts with new information, but I’d like to have a list of the ones I’ve just recently updated.

I dont care about recent posts, but recently UPDATED ones.

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What is the best way to isolate a person/item in Photoshop?

Asked by Brian Purkiss a Freelance Designer from San Antonio, Texas

I currently use paths, the pen tool, and then add a layer mask.
Is there a better way, or is that it?

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Is it possible to make a transparent div with opaque text and images in it?

Asked by Alex van den Hoogen a Freelance Designer from the Netherlands

I have build a website which has a variable background. However I want to use div’s that are transparent. This works, but when I want to use images in those div’s they are transparent too, which gives an very strange effect.

Thus my question is, is it possible to make a transparent div with opaque text and images in it?

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I want to auto-magically change the color of a URL in the middle

Found on the digitalpoint forums at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=687808

I want to auto-magically change the color of a URL in the middle, like this

domain_name.com

There is no www so the period can be used as delimiter. The URL is generated by PHP so I can not simply use HTML.

See the Solution using Regular Expressions

In just 10 mins you can change your ugly provider assigned OpenID URL from http://yourusername.pip.verisignlabs.com to yourwebsite.com
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Firefox has become the defacto standard for web developers across the globe. Through easily available extensions it is a indisposable tool for professional web workers.I didnt realise how much of my productivity was tied into firefox until my Mac went bust and I had to re-install firefox. Like all developers, over time I had accumulated quite a few nifty time-saving Firefox Extensions and bookmarklets like The Web Developer Toolbar, ColorZilla color picker, Firebug debug console and the Tiny HTML validator.

My Fresh Install of firefox was lacking all these extensions and i spent quite a bit of time finding and installing them again and syncing my bookmarks [ which existed across Foxmarks and Delicious ] only to find that I had neglected to manually backup my saved passwords, Having being born with the attention span of a goldfish i struggle to manage passwords and ids across multiple websites, so the loss of my auto-filled passwords had made life hell.

Hoping to avoid this scramble next time around I decided to investigate the various options available for backing up firefox profiles.

Firefox Backup Options

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