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This post shows you how to find the hidden dinosaur game in Google Chrome, without having to turn off or disconnect your internet.

Using the umbracoUrlAlias property on a page in Umbraco gives you the ability to set up one or more different URLs for a single page.

This post gives you a step by step guide on how to install Umbraco on your local machine using Visual Studio, NuGet, IIS and SQL Server.

In Umbraco, you may want to perform certain actions when a content item or member is being saved or created. This post shows you how to do that. This is relevant for Umbraco projects that use MVC.

In this post, I share 10 of my favourite free tools with you so you can get the benefit of them too.

This post shows you how easy it is to use the default Umbraco search functionality in your site. It uses a basic form and then uses razor to display your search results.

This post teaches you how to set rewrite rules for your umbraco site. You may want to force your site to go to a secure url or force it to go to a url with www. at the start. To add these rules, you need to go to the file /config/UrlRewriting.config

This post gives you the code for creating members programmatically in Umbraco. When you use this code, you can pass in the member's username, name, email address and optionally you can pass in their password and optionally assign them to a role/group.

Workflowy allows you to write lists to help you focus on what's required to complete a certain job, it's free, really easy to use, and it is available on web, iOS and Android.

If you enjoy writing code and solving puzzles, you will love Project Euler.

LINQPad is ideal if you find some code on the internet that you want to quickly test, or if you want to play with the new features in C# without having to set up a windows console/forms app or website.

This gives you real placeholder images to use in your site concepts or examples. It randomly picks an image each time the page loads.