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How many times you have stumbled upon a theme or a plug-in that you want to test on your site? WordPress does not offer a preview feature so the only option is to make it live which should not be the prefered (and only) option while testing or in general experimenting with new features.

In this article, we will investigate how we can setup a copy of our WordPress powered site on a local machine will serve as a development and test environment.

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The stability of Microsoft Windows has improved hugely since the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2. However, the chance that the operating system may crash still exists. When that happens, earlier versions of Windows displayed a blue screen with an error code and some gibberish unpreventable to human beings outside the Microsoft Windows Team. This screen has been ginen the nickname Blue Screen Of Death or BSOD. BSOD has its own entry on Wikipedia.

Windows XP has “resolved” the issue by automatically restarting the computer when a BSOD occurs. So, instead of addressing the problem that causes the BSOD or displaying a user-friendly message, your computer now automatically restarts with no indication as to why this has happen.

A remedy exists in Windows XP. Open the Control Panel, select System. Under the Advanced tab, click on the Startup and Recovery Settings, untick the Automatically Restart option and press the OK button.

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If you don’t have (or don’t want to use) a Hotmail or Live account and you want to use MSN Messenger follow the instructions below:

1. Navigate to the Windows Live ID page.
2. Under the Sign up today header and subsection“Use an e-mail address you already have” section, click the Get started now link (it should be the second one).
3. Enter your personal details.
4. Click next, type in you email again and click accept.
5. You should now have an email on the inbox of your email account to validation the account.
6. Use the email address and specified password from step 3 to authenticate into MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger (as it is called these days).

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I am happy to announce that Social Bookmarks 4.0 is now available. The previous version had over 8500 downloads. I hope that the new version continues on the success of the previous versions.

Social Bookmarks 4 is possibly the biggest release of the plugin. For a start, it features a new look-and-feel with AJAX and new buttons. The code base has been completely re-written. Also, this version introduces localization to the plugin. You can now download additional language packs from the site to gain access to language specific sites. A template pack is also available so that you can write your own language packs. Finally, the number of included sites out of the box is now 50.

Just head to the Downloads section and grab it!