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Monday, May 5, 2008

Relationships 101 in scenario/action format

When she stares at your mouth, kiss her When she pushes you or hits you, grab her and don’t let go When she starts cursing at you trying to act all tough, kiss her and tell her you love her When she’s quiet, ask her what’s wrong When she ignores you, give her your attention When she pulls away, pull [...]
Sunday, May 4, 2008

Flash Lite Coming to the Sony Ericsson P1i

Project Capuchin brings the ability to integrate Flash Lite technology into Java ME packages. In summary, a whole bag of fun is on the way for Sony Ericsson P1i and UIQ 3 users. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communication today announced plans to release a new technology that, for the first time, bridges the Abobe® Flash Lite™ and [...]

Centering and adding borders to Wordpress gallery images

Make your individual image gallery photo’s look better start by adding a border and centering the image. Wordpress 2.5 includes image galleries for sets of related images. Unfortunately as this is a new feature it also has yet to be refined. Add the following Wordpress code snippet to your theme’s style.css file… .post p.attachment{ padding:3px;border:1px solid #aaa; [...]

Sony Cybershot DSCT70B

After a morning’s research into a new digital still camera I have decided on the Sony Cybershot DSCT70B. Sticking with the Sony Cybershot family I will be passing on my current DSCT50 to family so I can make the most of the DSCT70B’s bleeding-edge technology. Touch-screen design From the start I’ve been buzzing about touch-screen interfaces, it’s very [...]

Popularity Contest SQL and bug fix

The first step of two to fixing Popularity Contest is to edit popularity-contest.php and update the contest of a single line so the plugin can support the new Wordpress 2.5. Open popularity-contest.php (within /wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest/) and scroll to line 59. Replace require('../../wp-blog-header.php’); with require(’../wp-blog-header.php’); The second step is to manually create the default Popularity Contest tables within your [...]

Rule for mobile phone conversations

I have a firm rule regarding mobile phone call and text conversations, they are as follows: Text messages If a conversation is not concluded by the 10th text message (that’s 5 replies) then a phone call is justified. Phone calls If a phone call lasts less than 20 seconds in length then a text message would have been more [...]
Saturday, May 3, 2008

Hide your Wordpress site from search engines

Using an Internet browser open your site’s Wordpress Administration (eg. http://wordpress.visser.com.au/wp-admin/) Open the Settings > Privacy page Click on I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors Press Save Changes

Configure permalink site structure

Using an Internet browser open your site’s Wordpress Administration (eg. http://wordpress.visser.com.au/wp-admin/) Open the Settings > Permalinks page Click on Custom Structure and fill the field beside with /blog/%postname%/ Press Save Changes

Create your Wordpress installation

Download the latest version of Wordpress (Link to Wordpress.org > Download) Extract the contents of the archive to a temporary directory on your computer Using an FTP client open your new site directory (eg. /public_html/visser/) Change the permission levels for your new site directory to 777 Create a new file within your new site directory called .htaccess (with no [...]

Create a new addon domain entry in cPanel X

On the cPanel X opening dashboard click the Addon Domains button Ensure you have pointed your domain DNS to your hosting provider Fill in your domain address and root site directory Press Add Domain!