How do I do Stuff

How do I see if a property has a lien? NYC

2011-08-29T07:39:00.000-07:00

If you want to see if a property, apartment, house has a lien on it, check these sites:

NYC Finance Property Search: http://webapps.nyc.gov:8084/CICS/fin1/find001I

Office of the City Register: http://a836-acris.nyc.gov/Scripts/CoverPage.dll/index

I've been looking for real estate info for a while and for some reason this was hard to find.

Who is DJ Pattrson? AirBnB Trash Guest's Name

2011-08-02T07:26:00.000-07:00

According to the SF Examiner, the name of the suspect in custody for completely trashing an AirBnB's is Faith Clifton of Belmont, San Francisco. Here is her Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/name.fidgett

You can read the first person account of the ordeal at the renters blog here. Pretty amazing how methodical she was about turning the place upside down by wearing the owner's clothes, burning things in the blocked flume fireplace, and even hanging up a picture that wasn't previously hung up. It's a job Nikki Syxx would have been proud of.

How to center text in wordpress

2010-10-24T16:08:00.000-07:00

Why does wordpress make it so difficult to center text?? It's such a simple function and everyone wants to do it.

Here's the code:
<div align="center"> ENTER TEXT HERE</div>

Was that so hard?

Empire Safety Council safetycourses.com promo code $10 off

2010-04-12T15:50:00.000-07:00

www.safetycourses.com promo code Standup for $10 off

this is the best special I can find. I did it through the Empire Safety Council

How do I stop Spam text messages?

2010-04-06T07:01:00.000-07:00

I was getting spam texts for a while on my cell phone.

"Need Extra Cash?
Get $1,500 cash advance wired to you within 1 hour!
go to: www.cashXXXDon't go theplaceusa.com
promo code:PJ16Z

to end reply STOP"

I didn't want to reply b/c in emails we aren't supposed to reply to them or click on them at all. But after talking to my t-mobile rep, he said that cell phones are much safer in that regard. Also, Bush's anti-spam law requires that If you text back to them STOP, they have to stop. If they continue, call your cell phone company for a number to complain.

I was initially complaining to the FCC, but the process took too long.

How to make a link open in a new window

2010-03-30T17:49:00.001-07:00

For some reason my wordpress wasn’t giving me the option to open a link in a new window. Well, all you do is add this code right before the brackets.

target=”_blank“

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFH7wSMG8Hc&feature=related" XXXXHEREXXXXX>Salt n' Peppa</a>.

it will look like this

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFH7wSMG8Hc&feature=related" target="_blank">Salt n' Peppa</a>.

How to Parallel Park

2010-03-23T15:08:00.000-07:00

This works most of the time. It's actually pretty easy. First of all, be sure to take the test in the car you are the most used to.

so, it's easy to parallel park.

First, pull up to the car so your front bumper is aligned with their mirror. Now turn the wheel all the way to the right and start backing up slowly.

Look to the rear left side of your car and back up until your rear bumper is closer to the curb than the car in back of your's car.

Now turn all the way to the left and pull her in. Watch the car in front that you don't hit it. and have some faith. If you are taking the test, back in veeerrry slowly and if you hit the curb, pretend like it was the brake, then turn in and try your hardest to straighten it up. You only get one chance to manuever it right.

How do I make my background a picture or image in myspace?

2010-03-16T12:19:00.001-07:00

To put in an image as your background picture,
copy and paste this:

Where the XXXXXX is the location of the image you want to make your background. if you need help figuring out what that is, I have that on one of my other myspace posts.

If you want the picture to repeat on the page, insert this:
<style>
body {
background-image:url(http://XXXXXXXX);
}
</style>

If you want the background image fixed in place when you scroll down, use this:
<style>
body {
background-image:url(http://XXXXXXXX);
background-attachment:fixed;
}
</style>

Where do I paste code into myspace?

2010-03-16T12:16:00.001-07:00

I want to pimp my myspace. I got the code need to put in.
So, where do I paste the code into my profile??

Essential question – thanks Rach

If you are putting a video into your profile, you put the video code in whichever box you want it to be shown.

As for layout changes and css code, you should put it inside the ABOUT ME section. If you want to add code to code you already put in, you should insert it somewhere inside the style tags – to be more precise, put it right before the line which has the “/style” in it. That basically says that this is the end to your formatting code.

You can basically put the code wherever though. Just try it. and Send your questions!

Make your myspace tables transparent or opaque and use an image as your background

2010-03-16T12:12:00.001-07:00

For making your myspace profiles – If you dont pimp your profile, you are nobody. People wont respect you in the community. For making cool backgrounds, and your boxes (tables) transparent or moderately opaque, here are some tools I made today.
They are all clean now. if you do a search for these things normally, they will always try to enter in their own ads into your myspace page. dont be violated. I havent sold out yet – so here is some very clean code for pimping your myspace. Be Safe.

For: transparent boxes – custom background image
<STYLE>
td, table, tr, span, li, p, div, textarea, DIV
{
background-color: transparent;
}
body
{
background-image: url(http://XXXXXXXXXX);
background-repeat: repeat;
}
</STYLE>

opaque boxes and a background image>>>>
insert the following inside your style brackets… (What are Style Brackets?)

td.text td.text a img {width:50px !important;}
table, td, textarea, a, body, input{background-color:transparent;border:none;border-width:0}
table table table {border:10px double; border-color: 000000; padding:1; background-color:FFFFFF; filter:alpha(opacity=95); -moz-opacity:0.7; opacity:0.90; -khtml-opacity:0.4;}
table table{border:0px}
table table table table{border:0px}
body {
background-image:url(http:/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX);
}

you can play with the highlighted line to get the degrees how you want it. be careful! you may lose visibility altogether, and then you will have to navigate solely using your instruments.

How do I insert code into a Blogger post?

2010-03-15T12:32:00.001-07:00

I used Windows Live Writer and downloaded this plug-in

http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=1f57bd9b-a692-4593-9e9e-e2962d9c0eee&bt=9&pl=8

It works seamlessly. It doesn’t even show that you have the plug-in, but when I made the post, it showed the code just how I wanted it.

How do I change the color of my font on myspace? How do I change the color of my font in comments?

2010-03-15T12:26:00.000-07:00

How do you change the color of your font in myspace?
This is an easy question, but it can get complicated.

Before we actually start, lets pick a color. Keep that number ready.

Now…
When typing text in a comment or in just one field or table, and you only are concerned with that individual field, you can use this code:

and to change the size also, use this:
<font color=”color_code” face=”font style” size=”number value from 1 to 7″> your text here </font>

If you want to change individual parts of your profile, everything is laid out very well in this guys guide on myspace
http://www.myspace.com/colorguide.

The most basic of what you want to create is:

td, a, body, table,p { color:XXXXX;}

put that in your profile and you will change the color of most of the text.

How do I insert a video into facebook?

2010-03-11T15:06:00.000-08:00

Heres a question that has totally been under the radar:
How do I put a video onto facebook?

The book barely mentions this, but it is possible! Heres how you do it:

First things first, you must have the video already hosted by another website. So this means they are basically giving in to what the people want (post videos on their profile), rather than inspiring creativity like myspace might be doing by hosting their own videos. thats fine. I just wanted to point that out. maybe its better this way. its very clean here.

click on Posted Items on the left side
Now, you copy the URL of the video you want to insert into your profile.
paste that link into the Post a Link field on the right.

It will now appear on the Posted Items or Mini-feed section on your profile

These videos actually work well and look great on the site. kudos to facebook for making it simple like this.

also, I hear there are sites that have a button to “share on facebook” where you can share straight from their site. they use the word “partner” in the description, so that makes it sound boring. But look out for that.

You can press the share button to send the video to your friends too

also, they made a bookmarklet function. you install it by dragging the icon to your bar ( which is pretty cool actually ). I haven’t done it because I dont want any more crap on my machine. but this is just another option with this share function.

Face transformer. How will I look when I’m Old??

2010-03-11T15:01:00.000-08:00

How will I look when I get old?
How would I look if I were asian or black? or a girl??
This is a very interesting/creepy site I just found on Digg.

You upload a picture, and then you select what you want to see yourself as. The one with the most anticipation for me is the Older face. Kinda ruins it for you. the teenage versions do kind of remind me of myself, I will have to check out the pictures. Overall, its worth a shot
http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/