08 Jul

Google OS is taking it to Microsoft’s Playground…

Wow… I joked about this day coming, and here it is!

Google announced today about plans to develop it’s own operating system, Google Chrome OS, based on the Linux kernel and boasting promises of speed, simplicity and security. Oh, and it’ll also be open source. Read the rest of this entry »

26 Jun

Micheal Jackson’s death impact on web

The unfortunate early loss of one of the greatest pop stars of our times has caused havoc on the web. TMZ and Perez Hilton´s websites have suffered downtimes, and twitter has been struggling. The web is becoming a storm of MJ.

The calm after the storm will present an interesting study on the effect of news over a social media medium.

01 Jun

Making a Dynamic Wordpress Menu Outside Wordpress

Imagine you have a blog which is a supplement to your site, such as a platform for company news.

Now imagine you want to add your blog to your main site’s navigation menu. Easy enough, just add a static link.

Now imagine you want to create an unordered list of the categories in your blog, so that each category can be easily accessed from any page on your website…. oops, it just got tricky. Read the rest of this entry »

18 May

Remove BuddyPress AdminBar Plugin

This plugin removes the admin bar completely from the public and admin areas of the website. Can be used either as a normal or MU plugin.

Download

Requires At Least : 2.7
Test Up To : 2.8.4
Current Version : 1.2
Download latest version

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28 Apr

Google Friend Connect – The next “big thing”?

In a nutshell…

Google recently launched it’s version of social networking… by tying the sites you visit together via one universal, open platform.

The advantages of adding this feature to your site means that people can join your site by simply clicking one button and signing in using their Google or any OpenID account. This then allows the user’s friends on Google to see they joined your site, making a potential viral marketing oportunity. Not only that, Google Friend Connect supplies you with various gadgets that you can place around your site (e.g. the toolbar you see at the bottom of this blog). Read the rest of this entry »

23 Apr

Restoring your Qmail mailbox settings on PLESK

Screw up your email settings? :) it happens to the best of us.

PLESK has a handy little app that reverts your mailbox settings back to the settings in the PLESK database, and makes sure permissions, etc. are correct. Read the rest of this entry »

15 Apr

Twitter – tools to tweet with

It’s hard to argue with the awesomeness of the twitter phenomena. Their flexible API is a testament to how a great tool can used in so many ways.

The downside is that with such a widely adopted API there are about as many tools as there are tweet. Read the rest of this entry »

07 Apr

LibClamAV Warning: Cannot dlopen: file not found – unrar support unavailable

We encountered this error recently when upgrading our ClamAV to 0.95 and ran into a problem where we got the error :

LibClamAV Warning: Cannot dlopen: file not found – unrar support unavailable

The solution to this is quite simple:

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07 Apr

iPhone Emulation – Testing your sites without an iPhone

With apple’s iphone becoming an increasingly popular tool for browsing the internet, web designers and developers should really be testing their sites with the iPhone to ensure compatability. Most people won’t want to buy an iPhone exclusively for this purpose, so you’re only option is to emulate it on a PC! Read the rest of this entry »

31 Mar

Meta Tag Manager

This plugin will allow you to easily add and manage special meta tags to your whole site, such as Yahoo and Google verification tags.

Download

Requires At Least : 2.5
Test Up To : 2.8.5
Current Version : 1.0
Download latest version

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