If you have installed your own WordPress blog on your server, you may want to include some JavaScript goodness from time to time.

The bad news is that WordPress likes to screw around with tags when using the WYSIWYG post editor. That makes it kind of hard to, say, embed a video in one of your posts.

The good news is that there is a very easy way to embed any kind of JavaScript in your posts without the need to install any plugins, or change any configuration settings. And it works beautifully with the WYSIWYG editor…
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One of the most handy features in Windows is the ability to right-click on a file, and select an option to edit that file in a particular program, like so:

The big problem is that sometimes, your favorite program doesn’t come with a right-click context menu option. Or, maybe it does come with such an option, but it doesn’t work for some reason.

Whatever the case, you can very quickly and easily add whatever program you want to the right-click menu in about 30 seconds.

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Let’s say you have just purchased an external harddrive case, and stuck a spare harddrive in to make your own external backup drive. Or, maybe you have an existing external drive or USB stick that you wiped clean.

In both cases, you may find that your drive no longer triggers the AutoPlay feature in Windows. In fact, it may not even automatically show up in Explorer at all!

What to do?

It’s surprisingly easy to fix such problems by creating a new autorun.inf file on the external storage device.

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