This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat ...

In some microcontroller designs you may be memory-constrained, in which case here’s a trick that may prove useful. In some microcontroller designs you may be memory-constrained, in which case here’s a ...

Copy Paste Character is an interesting website that will allow the users to paste special characters with ease in the text field. The website can be used by the users for free. Special characters have ...

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Have you ever used Twitter, Gmail, or YouTube and noticed odd characters being displayed vertically overlay other text on the page or break out UI boundaries? If so and have wondered how this is ...

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To understand how the wizards of Twitter settled on 140 as the magic number of characters in a single tweet, you have to go back two decades to Bonn, Germany. One day in 1985, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...