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Del.icio.us Firefox 3 Extension

The Del.icio.us team have yet to release an updated version of their classic extension for Firefox 3. The extension adds two very handy icons on the Firefox toolbar for the Del.icio.us users: One that allows you to view your saved pages and one that allows you to post a page on Del.icio.us. I have customized the [...]

Site Revamp & WordPress 2.5

As you may have noticed, the site layout got a refresh. I hope that you like it and as always I welcome your comments (especially the negative ones). I really like this layout as it fills the 97% of the web browser and it feels more relaxing to the eyes. Also, the version of WordPress that [...]

Social Bookmarks 4 Point Release

An updated version of the Social Bookmarks 4 WordPress plugin is now available. This version does not include any new features. It addresses the AJAX hide-show and the Nifty 404 bugs. You can download it from the usual location.

Firefox 3 Beta 4

The latest beta of the Firefox has hit the internet. I grabbed the Windows and the Mac OS X builds and installed them on my PC and Mac Mini respectively. Beta 4 is robust and polishes the new Firefox interface. It is almost ready to get out of the beta phase. The only real downside [...]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 20th Anniversary Edition From The BBC

In 1984, Infocom released a text adventure game interpretation of the Douglas Adams’ book with the same title. It was designed by series creator Douglas Adams and Infocom’s Steve Meretzky and was first released for the Apple II, Macintosh, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST and the IBM PC. It was Infocom’s fourteenth game. [...]

Setup a Development Environment for Your WordPress Site

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.

Automatic Restarting in XP

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. [...]

How to use MSN (Windows Live) Messenger without a Hotmail or Live account

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: Navigate to the Windows Live ID page. 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 [...]

Social Bookmarks 4 is out!

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 [...]

Social Bookmarks 4 Update

The next major revision of the Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress is almost complete. Social Bookmarks 4 has a number of new features and fixes of existing problems that people have reported. The number of supported sites has increased exponentially even with the removal of a couple sites that are now history. The changes do not [...]