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March 27, 2018 at 7:48 pmApril 3, 2018 at 7:48 pm

News47ell Is Now on Patreon

It was June 6th, 2016, the day PayPal lost its license in Turkey. I’ve been searching for a solution that will allow my readers to be able to donate money every month in the form of a subscription.

Luckily, Patreon offers that with their reliable, trustworthy, and secure system. For international money transfers, that will be handled by Payoneer. A New York City based money transfer and digital payment services.

Your donation will go towards paying for the site’s hosting provider to keep News47ell up and running and toward my coffee, to keep me up and running. Also, toward some crazy additions to the site in the future.

You can check the Patreon page and subscribe by clicking the button below or keep reading to learn more information.

Become a Patreon

ZIGZAG a New Underline Text Decoration by the Bell Brothers

by Ahmad Al Maaz

I can’t believe I found another wiggly underline decoration. This time it features a different design and a different file format, but a similar way of implementation.

Let’s see how the Bell Brothers achieved the wiggly underline text decoration in Jen Lu. They are calling it ZIGZAG.

January 18, 2017 at 8:28 pmJuly 20, 2018 at 8:28 pm

How The Outline Use SVG & CSS Instead of Text Decoration Underline

by Ahmad Al Maaz

Use SVG CSS Instead Text Decoration Underline

After leaving The Verge which he co-founded with few other great people, and after being personally fired by Michael Rubens Bloomberg, founder & CEO of Bloomberg L.P., Joshua Topolsky recently launched a new website called The Outline. A new kind of publication as they say with a very noticeable twist in the design department like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

If you visit The Outline (and you really should) you will notice right away how daring their design is. Different typefaces, colors, and layout for each and every article. Heck, there are articles with multiple typefaces for each of their titles, like this one.

April 1, 2016 at 7:19 pmMay 2, 2016 at 7:19 pm

News47ell now hosted on Lightning Base

by Ahmad Al Maaz

I’m really happy to say that News47ell is now hosted with none other than Lightning Base. A special thanks to Chris Piepho the founder of Lightning Base for his tremendous help through this entire process.

March 14, 2016 at 6:39 pmMay 2, 2016 at 6:39 pm

NGINX MAINLAND?

by Ahmad Al Maaz

Recently I took a DigitalOcean server for a spin to try both PHP 7 and nginx with HTTP/2.

I tried installing nginx from the package that comes with Ubuntu but it turns out that it installed an older version of nginx that doesn’t support HTTP/2.

The default package with Ubuntu 14.04 trusty have nginx version 1.4.6-1. But HTTP/2 support comes with nginx 1.9.5.

No problem. Google comes to the rescue.

A bit of research and I found out which version of nginx support HTTP/2.

I didn’t know that nginx have a public “beta” package for people to test the latest features.
Most services call that package beta, dev or pre release.
Some companies go for unique names like bleeding edge in the case of WordPress or canary like Chrome.

Must Watch: The PC Security Channel

by Ahmad Al Maaz

Recently after I posted my very first article after a few months away, I decided to go on YouTube and watch some reviews.

The thing is, I’ve already watched a lot of reviews for many different things from many different YouTubers like Linus Tech Tips, Tek Syndicate, The Verge and many, many more.

The few YouTubers that I mentioned all review Computer Hardware, or talk about tech news in general. They rarely dip their toes in the Software section, which is a bit disappointing to me because I know I would enjoy watching Software reviews.

They all have tried it at one point, but none continue to do it and I’m not sure why. For example, Linus Tech Tips did few video about Google Chrome extensions, Desktop remote applications and Ninite, which all of them are for the NCIX Tech Tips channel and not his own?!

The Verge’s very own Paul Miller who left the internet for a year did a video showing the writing apps that he uses in a daily basis.

Tek Syndicate did 3 videos reviewing foobar2000, a music app for Windows that allows you to sync your iPod with something other than iTunes.

So, last night, I decided to look for some Software reviews on YouTube. I decided to look for Antivirus Software reviews, because I’ve been using an iPhone and an iPad for couple of years now and I honestly missed doing research on which Antivirus Software is better than the other and why.

The PC Security Channel.

February 2, 2016 at 8:35 pmMay 2, 2016 at 8:35 pm

News For Hell: The Return

by Ahmad Al Maaz

It’s been 200 days since the last time I posted here. It feels like forever to me and I honestly missed writing. It’s something that I never thought I would do.

I’ve been busy this whole time doing something that I thought would make my life easier, but it turned out I was wrong. It didn’t change anything. It actually in many ways, made it worse. So I decided to leave it for now to go back and work on the site.

I couldn’t just leave something that I’ve built over the past (almost) three years. I’ve learned a lot from having my own website and writing in it. Hopefully now I will continue to learn more, exciting new things.

I might have taken a big long break, but during this break, I was doing research behind the curtain on how to improve my website and make it better day after day.

So let’s take a deeper look at what’s new on the site:

News For Hell: New Look, New Hosting

by Ahmad Al Maaz

Not so long ago, I announced News47ell 3.0. Same look but a different hosting. At the time, I picked DigitalOcean because I wanted to challenge myself to do something that I’ve never tried before. A “DIY” type of hosting, where you do everything. Including configuring and securing your server.

I actually had fun learning all types of cool, new things. It honestly made me understand my Twitter timeline a lot better :P
The final product that you were all viewing for the past 3 months was not my first VPS server. How should I say this, A Droplet. No, it was my fourth. I was at a point where blood started to seep through my ears, but it was all worth it. You get this satisfying feeling of accomplishing a goal. It’s something I’ve never felt before.

March 28, 2015 at 8:41 pmMay 2, 2016 at 8:41 pm

Why I Use Google Chrome

by Ahmad Al Maaz

You might know this already, I’m a big fan of Google Chrome, specially Chrome Dev Channel. since I tried it when it first came out, it always felt fast, simple, clean. It just felt right to use it as my main browser.

But that doesn’t mean that I didn’t use other browsers, I tried them all. Safari, Opera, Mercury, Maxthon, Yandex, Sleipnir. and the new Vivaldi browser. and I do have Firefox Developer Edition as my secondary browser for testing and to stay up-to-date on what Mozilla is doing.

With all of these options, I stuck with Chrome as my main and go to browser on both OS X and iOS, and there’s a good reason for that.

I choose Chrome because of the small things that it offers, things that makes my browsing experience more enjoyable. So read-on to find out Why I Use Google Chrome