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Archive for October, 2007

Foxit Reader - A Lean Acrobat Reader Alternative

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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/

About Embedding Flash Objects

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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 [...]

About XHTML Transitional 1.0 Validity

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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 [...]

Broken Dashboard Link In Akismet 2.0.2

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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.

This WordPress Blog Has Been “Gravatar”-ized!

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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 [...]

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