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Google Mail And Redirections
I must admit: I do not like eMail software that has to be installed any more – neither Thunderbird nor Outlook nor any other software that is available. Why? Because I like the interface of Google Mail a lot. No matter where you are: you just need a simple browser and you have access to all your emails with a very sophisticated, browser based technology that is permanently updated and improved. [Well, it seems like an automatic BCC functionality still hasn't been integrated - that's fine, I do not need it any more...] To backup my emails, I use Thunderbird Portable, because the full version would need to be installed properly – and I do not like that, as I said earlier. With Thunderbird Portable, just add your Google Mail … Read entire article »
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Sony Vaio – Stop The Noise Petition (VPC-F11M1E)
Am Anfang diesen Jahres habe ich mir im guten Glauben, ein Markenprodukt zu erwerben, ein Sony Vaio Notebook der F-Serie (VPC-F11M1E) im Media Markt zugelegt. Leider musste ich dann erfahren, dass dieses Notebook ein grässliches Fiepen abgibt. Also habe ich es im Media Markt wieder umgetauscht. Aber leider fiepte auch das zweite Gerät. Ich habe mich daraufhin an den Sony Support gewendet. Dort wurde mir empfohlen, das Notebook in einer Vertragswerkstatt reparieren zu lassen. Also brachte ich es persönlich dorthin und schilderte das Problem. Ich konnte online den Status verfolgen. Als ich es abholte, konnte ich vor Ort kein Fiepen feststellen – allerdings war auch kein USB-Gerät angeschlossen (damit wird das Fiepen manchmal in Verbindung gebracht). Man hatte das Motherboard getauscht und wohl auch irgendwas am Lüfter geändert. Zu Hause … Read entire article »
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An Evening With “Rue Royale”
Last Saturday, I had the chance to attend a “private event” at a friend’s house: Ruth & Brookln Dekker aka “Rue Royale”. As you can read on their Facebook site, they label their music “Indie-Acoustic-Folk-Pop”. Although that evening a PA system was present, they ended up playing completely unplugged: acoustic guitar, metallophone, shaker, bass drum – that was it. After their show, I had the chance to talk to them for a little while – they are some really nice people. Photo taken by Tim Engelhardt. Ruth and Brookln, what can I say? I loved it! Thanks for a wonderful “cosy” evening and all the best for your future career! “Rue Royale” on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Rue-Royale/21996735616 Official Website: www.rueroyalemusic.com Twitter: twitter.com/RueRoyale MySpace: www.myspace.com/rueroyale Their music is also available through iTunes. … Read entire article »
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Plugin: Flickr Photo Album For WordPress
I finally found a new (and almost excellent) working plugin to integrate your Flickr photos and albums into your WordPress blog (see my photos page): Flickr Photo Album For WordPress: tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/ After giving up on other plugins like Slickr Gallery or Falbum, this one seems to work quite nicely (after adjusting the template, that is, which took quite some time). Unfortunately, there are still at least two three issues: In the title bar, every child page to my photos page shows a “404 File Not Found” error, although the page is being displayed correctly. It works well with the main “/photos/” link, since I have created a page with that name. I know this issue is a known bug, but has anyone found a solution to this, yet? Private photos … Read entire article »
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How To Add Ping-/Trackbacks When Using Disqus
As I mentioned in this post, ping-/trackbacks are not yet supported by Disqus when using the plugin for WordPress. When you export the comments from WordPress, ping-/trackbacks are simply not imported into the Disqus database, yet (they promised that they are working on it). In the meantime, I managed to add this feature by using the ping-/trackbacks that are stored within the WordPress comments table (mostly, this will be wp_comments). This is what it looks like (see the original post): How it’s done: I wrote a function named DisplayPingTrackbacks() which achieves the goal. In the single.php, I simply put it before comments_template() is called by WordPress, which – in my case – looks like this: <?php DisplayPingTrackbacks(); ?> <div id="comments"> <?php comments_template(); ?> </div> Here is what the function looks … Read entire article »
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Disqus, Changed Comments And Facebook Connect
I recently had the problem that I wanted to re-import some comments that I had made some (minor) changes to into the Disqus system using the Disqus Comment System plugin. Well, just bluntly hitting the “Export Comments” button in the Advanced Options didn’t help… the changed comments were not imported and remained in their unchanged form. … Read entire article »
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Worldcup 2010 – Impressions From Hannover, Germany
We’ve just entered the Quarter Finals by beating the English world cup team with an awesome official 4:1 – and an inofficial 4:2 if you count the English goal that bounced off of the top post behind the line, but wasn’t declared a goal (which was just a justified compensation for the “Wembley Goal” [de|en|YouTube] in 1966). BTW: I am always amazed by how quickly the Wikipedia articles are updated – especially the English ones… Here are some impressions from Hannover, Germany: (Feel free to leave some links or opinions to YOUR impressions in the comment section.) [Update from 2010-07-03] Here are some more impressions – this time after Germany made their way into the Semi-Finals by “annihilating” the Argentinians 4:0: [Update from 2010-07-07] “You can’t always get what you … Read entire article »
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Disqus And Broken Anchors
July 10th, 2010 | View Comments
If you have the feeling that the anchors to the comments and to the comment form are broken since you installed the Disqus Comment System plugin for WordPress, you might want to read along… maybe you’d also be interested in other posts about Disqus. When displaying how many comments a post has, WordPress determines the link to the comment section in two ways. If there is a comment, the anchor will be “#comments” (id=”comments”), if there are none, the anchor will be “#respond”, which leads directly to the comment form (“Leave A Reply”). People who are interested in viewing the WordPress source code should look at the function comments_popup_link(), defined in wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 946ff (WordPress 3.0). The decision wether to use “#respond” or “#comments” is made on line 974ff. … Read entire article »
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