Scribbled on October 31st, 2007 - filed under Around The Web.
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I think that I am not the only one who thinks that the Adobe Acrobat Reader has become a little too big - not to say WAY too big - and slow.
Foxit Software has a nice and pretty fast alternative in store - for free!
Foxit Reader:
www.foxitsoftware.com/products/
Scribbled on October 23rd, 2007 - filed under WordPress Stuff.
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While I was (and I still am at this point) checking my blog for XHTML validity, I found out that there are some validation problems if you have flash objects embedded the ‘old school’ way - meaning that you use a combination of “<object>” and “<embed>”. Unfortunately, still a lot of websites are offering [...]
Scribbled on October 22nd, 2007 - filed under Miscellaneous Stuff.
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Somehow, it came to my mind today that I could check if my blog is valid for XHTML Transitional 1.0 - so I had a visit at validator.w3.org.
Yeah, I know, I bet you will still find some errors on my blog there, but believe me: it has been worse!
One big problem was the HTML code [...]
Scribbled on October 21st, 2007 - filed under WordPress Stuff.
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After updating the WordPress plugin for Akismet to version 2.0.2, I noticed a broken link in the dashboard where it reads “Akismet has protected your site from x,xxx spam comments”.
I found a workaround here where it says (quoting):
Search in your “akismet.php” for
clean_url(”$link?page=akismet-admin”)
and replace it with
“$link?page=akismet-admin”
(end of quote)
Worked fine for me.
Scribbled on October 16th, 2007 - filed under WordPress Stuff.
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On some blogs, you might have already noticed an icon displayed before the author’s name in the comments area - a so-called avatar.
I always wanted to implement this feature on my blog, too - but I never really knew how this was done.
Actually, I thought that this would be a really difficult task.
Was each of [...]
Scribbled on October 15th, 2007 - filed under WordPress Stuff.
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We all know this situation: you would like to edit a comment you have made AFTER you pressed the “Submit!” button (maybe because of a mistype, maybe you want to add/delete something).
Normally, visitors to a WordPress blog will not be able to edit a comment once they have pressed the “Submit!” button - unless they [...]
Scribbled on October 11th, 2007 - filed under Fun Stuff.
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Hilarious!
–> www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJqPNpUhxPY
Scribbled on October 11th, 2007 - filed under Around The Web.
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While I was reading the German translation of “The Code Book” by Simon Singh (a very interesting book for people who want to get an overview about how encryption works), I stumbled across the section where Singh mentions a novel that was written without any appearance of an “e” (which makes the novel a lipogram). [...]
Scribbled on October 8th, 2007 - filed under Around The Web.
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On October 1st, 2007, “Joost® Beta 1.0″ went public
(see this post on the Joost blog).
From now on, you will no longer need any invitation to join this service.
If you still don’t know anything about Joost, yet - which would be quite unbelievable - you should check out the “What’s Joost?” section of their website.
Official Joost® [...]
Scribbled on October 6th, 2007 - filed under Firefox/Thunderbird.
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I came across a nice Firefox extension (quoting):
The Firefox extension WordPress Helper helps you working with WordPress by providing useful help and tools. The extension eases the fast and simple access to develop-relevant pages of the WordPress Codex. (end of quote)
“WordPress Helper” for Firefox:
www.schloebe.de/firefox-extensions/wordpress-helper/
