Articles Archive for February 2008
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Regular feed and email subscribers of Simply-Basic may have noticed a somewhat harsh-worded copyright notice in Simply-Basic’s articles (web readers don’t see this). The notice reads like this:
Copyright © 2008 John Kolbert. If you are reading this message anywhere besides your feed reader, then this article was stolen. Visit the original article at [url of article here].
Why do I do this? Lately Simply-Basic’s articles have been finding their way onto spam blogs. It’s quite simple for them. They have a plugin or script that takes the RSS feed from any site they choose, and it gets republished on their blog without any action by the person who set up the site. Why would they do…
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WordPress users commonly use the built-in permalink redirection. This means that rather then having your new blog article’s URL look like “http://myblog.com/?p=78″, you make it look like this: “http://myblog.com/articles/my-article-title.” This feature means WordPress interprets the URL query of your blog and outputs the corresponding article.
This is great for readability and SEO, but what if you want to add a non-WordPress subfolder to your website with, say, a forum in it? If you make your forum address “http://myblog.com/forum/”, WordPress will try to interpret this URL. Not being able to find anything, you will get your blog’s 404 error page. Luckily, fixing this is easy.
If you are running on an Apache server, using a simple .htaccess file is…
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Don’t have a Valentine this year? Let Wired.com show you “Ten Gadgets Better Than a Valentine.” My favorite? The Double Truffel Burger for a cool $150. Tasty!
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A few day’s ago I saw a headline over at Jeffro2pt0 that got me excited. Chris Johnston has a demo site that lets you give WordPress 2.5 a spin. I finally got around to trying it, and it looks quite impressive. The entire admin interface has been redesigned and is easier to use. One of the upgrades I’m excited about is the ability to edit the feed content which appears on the main dashboard page. Now I can stop getting all those annoying updates.
Remember, this isn’t the final, stable version. This is merely a pre-release that Chris has installed for the public to monkey around with. But it makes me excited for its release in a another…
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I just found a killer app for phones running Windows Mobile. It’s called My Mobiler. It let’s you control your phone from your desktop PC when it’s connected via active sync. I’m sure you’re thinking “why would I want to do that?” I thought the same thing. My Mobiler, however, let’s you easily transfer files, and cut and copy between your phone and desktop. Even better, it lets you easily take perfect screen shots and even video.
Below are two images. The one on the left is a screen shot of my phone taken by My Mobiler. The one on the right is a screenshot of the actual My Mobiler interface.
This program seems ideal for developers…
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It looks like my host is lagging today. They attribute it to problems with mySQL connections. Hopefully it will be solved soon, as the site as been extremely slow since last night. Sorry guys.
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