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Star Trek Voyager Thermo-Mug
Finally, it’s mine – it arrived by mail today! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Miscellaneous Stuff
How To Backup Your GMail-Account
I must admit, up ’til 10 minutes ago, I had a very complicated eMail structure. All but one of my non-GMail accounts that I use were redirected to my main non-GMail account where all incoming eMails were stored and a copy was sent to my GMail account. The reason for saving them separately in that account was to download them via Thunderbird POP3 to have a local copy of all my eMails. Plus: I use GMail in 99.99% of all cases, because I really like the nice and easy interface. So, to have a local copy of my OUTGOING messages, I always BCC’ed myself to my non-GMail (storage) account. “WTF?”, you might think… “Why not use GMail IMAP instead?” And you are right! I don’t even know why I had … Read entire article »
Filed under: Firefox/Thunderbird
How To Make Firefox Virus Scan Downloaded Files
Today, I was just thinking… “How can I make Firefox virus scan the files I download?” I have always been using Avira’s free software AntiVir Personal, which I think is pretty good. So far, I have never had neither a virus nor a worm on my computer (thank God!). Unfortunately, I had problems integrating the avscan.exe (as described here) into the Download Status Bar extension for Firefox: I always got a “Profile could not be found” error from AntiVir. A quick Google search took me to an article on netzwelt.de which recommends using a free virus scanner called ClamWin (BTW: the article is from 2006). The solution was found: Just let the Download Status Bar know where your clamwin.exe is at and put the parameters to –mode=scanner –path=%1 –close. Works … Read entire article »
Filed under: Firefox/Thunderbird
Organizing Your Firefox Addons In Collections
I always wanted to have a place where I could easily store and restore the addons I use in Firefox… seems like the Add-on Collector is the right choice. Mozilla Firefox Add-on Collector: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/pages/collector … Read entire article »
Filed under: Firefox/Thunderbird
Luthe On Facebook
If you are a Luthe and you are on Facebook, please join my group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=94521494857 … Read entire article »
Filed under: Personal Stuff
Finally Married!
On June 7th, 2009, we finally got married in Australia! [Update from 2009-06-23] I started uploading some wedding pics on my Flickr account (and will be doing that until the end of time, I reckon). They are not public (only for family and friends), so you will need a (free) Flickr account – contact me within Flickr. Also, thanks to Diana who provided her pictures in a nice album at tabblo.com here, here and here. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Personal Stuff
Off To Get Married In Australia
I have just finished packing most of my stuff, so now I am sitting here, trying to realize that we will be off to Australia tomorrow (plane starts @ 15:25 from Hamburg) as kind of “bachelor and bachelorette” – and we will be coming back as a MARRIED couple… can you believe that? Suzan is already asleep – she is somehow more focused on getting things done. I am always trying to do several things at once, which leaves me with not finishing a single one of them in time. Maybe that’ll change when we come back. I was thinking about changing some things in my life, anyway… maybe I will even try to cook some chicken in the future? You never know… *LOL* I will try to keep you … Read entire article »
Filed under: Miscellaneous Stuff
CSS Naked Day 2009
I just registered for CSS Naked Day at naked.dustindiaz.com. It just made me realize that my theme design kind of sucks. Quote from that website: The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your <body>. (end of quote) To determine the CSS Naked Day date and to strip off the CSS from the theme, I am using the WordPress Plugin that can be found here. CSS Naked Day should start in less than 2 hours from now at my place, but in some places, it is already April 9th. So be sure to set the time to the recommended 48 … Read entire article »
Filed under: Around The Web
Friday The 13th, A Car Crash & Google Translate Part III
On Friday, March 13th, 2009, me and my fiancée were on our way to my parents, driving down the Autobahn A7 Hannover in the direction of Kassel, when we had to stop in a traffic jam near the departure to Hildesheim. Fortunately, we had left a gap for the police and the ambulance (as so-called “Rettungsgasse”) – otherwise, the guy that was coming to a stop right between our car (middle lane) and the others (left lane) would have crashed right into us… seems like he was a little distracted. SO, PEOPLE, REMEMBER: ALWAYS LEAVE THAT GAP IF YOU ARE IN A TRAFFIC JAM, EVEN IF SOME PEOPLE TELL YOU NOT TO – IT CAN SAVE YOU FROM BEING SERIOUSLY INJURED – MAYBE IT CAN EVEN SAVE YOUR LIFE! Here … Read entire article »
Filed under: Miscellaneous Stuff
Disable Image Caption Shortcode In WordPress
I just read this nice article by Frank Bültge that deals with the image caption shortcode that WordPress creates automatically when you add an image via the media manager. As I never really liked it, I can’t say how happy I am that someone finally explained to me how to get rid of it in a very simple way. Just add the following code as a plugin or to your functions.php: add_filter( 'disable_captions', create_function('$a', 'return true;') ); I have just written a small plugin that you can download here. Credits should go to Frank Bültge for this. Thanks! … Read entire article »
Filed under: WordPress Stuff