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1. Install PHP 5.3.7 or greater
2. Edit php,ini and uncomment proper extension dir settings (for Windows) and then enable openssl extension
3. Ensure you edit right php.ini (check with “php –ini”). Also ensure your final php.ini is in right directory (often C:\Windows)
4. Download and install Composer [link]
5. Download Laravel [link] and unpack to your www root directory
6. open cmd or other shell and cd to your www root dir
7. execute “composer install”
8. Done

By default, Sony’s PS3 Eye camera does not work under anything beside Playstation 3. Fortunately since its release, a couple of 3rd party drivers were released, theoretically allowing you to use Eye as regular web cam.

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For those who do not know it yet, Cygwin is free, Linux like environment for Windows that provides substantial API that allows you to build (and then run) linux applications. It does not run Linux native apps out of the box, but for most cases it’s pretty easy to recompile one from its sources. This lets you have and run lot of Linux applications you know and use on your windows box. And that Cygwin is for. While installation of Cygwin is rather simple task, some things shall be "corrected" by hand, to make Cygwin use more comfortable.

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To continue Mozilla ’s applications plugins review started with "Useful Thunderbird plugins " post, here’s the time to take a closer look a the popular web browser Firefox ‘s plugins . As per usual, I’ve just checked most of these available and here’s the list of which of them I personally found useful.

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All recently available Mozilla ‘s applications, including we browser Firefox and mail client Thunderbird can be easily extended with help of 3rd party plugins . I just checked these available for Thunderbird and luckily found some worth using on daily basis.

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