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In Magento Admin section you can change the layout of the “products” page  (from the “manage categories” menu) but there is no option to change the  layout  of  the  “product” page.

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Sometimes you want to save a flash animation or video to you hard drive . There are lots of program out there that you can use but what if you want to do it quickly and easily from your browser? You can use Firefox for that.

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Sometimes you want to paste a block of text or HTML code inside a table of SQL Server using the SQL Server Managment Studio. Problem is that usually the text or code has line breaks in it, resulting in truncation of the pasted text.

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I had this issue of “magento categories not showing”  from the first time i tried to get to know magento, and it happens in various circumstances.

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If you use Magento Connect to perform an upgrade from a previous version, you need to know the extension key that you must write in order for the upgrade to begin.

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I had a problem with Adobe Fireworks CS3 edition in Windows Vista. Every time i selected a tool like the brush tool or the eraser tool, i could barely use them due to a strong flickering that could not let me control  them.

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In TeamViewer, you may want to remove a session id that you do not need any more, or you accidentally mistyped.

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I had to change the directory name of me magento installation for some reason. After that, the site did not load well (as it was expected). I now i had to change the base url in the admin section (configuration settings).

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When you open SQL Server Management Studio and try to connect to an SQL Server 2005 instance in Windows Vista, you get the following error: “Login failed for user “admin” (where admin is your administrator username).

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When you make manual changes to magento files,  some foreign characters may not show up properly.

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