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Facebook Pages: A Second Look at New Features

posted Monday, February 21st, 2011

Some of Facebook’s new features that have been rolled out for pages have been covered at Facebook Fan Page: New Layout and Features

However, there are a few tidbits not covered under that article. Here they are:

  1. Have you ever faced a situation where you were co-owner of a page and wanted your comments to be separated from other co-owners? Being the admin of a group, everyone gets to post as ‘page name‘. Pretty confusing for the visitors and fans as they won’t know who is who, if there are two or three of you answering on the same threads.

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Upcoming Windows 7 Phones

posted Saturday, November 6th, 2010

Microsoft is very much back in the game with the launch of Windows Phone 7 which has surprised many critics by actually offering an impressively user friendly and above all unique take on the modern smartphone operating system. Here are just some of the mobiles which will be running the platform and what they have to offer.

HTC HD7
This is the big boy of the first Windows Phone 7 handsets, sporting a 4.3 inch screen which the Taiwanese manufacturer has previously slapped on other entrants in the HD line including the HD2 and the Desire HD. Because of Microsoft`s enforcement of minimum system requirements the HD7 has a 1GHz processor and a five megapixel camera which can record video in 720p, so you can expect to see this similar base level of hardware specifications across many of the following mobiles. continue reading…

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CForms II – More on Using as a Comment Form

posted Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Good news! There is a new version of CForms that is out and has got great features. The best thing about it is it has got most of the features on my wish list So here goes… Plugin Compatibility CForms is now completely compatible with three of the most used comment plugins. Subscribe To Comments
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Best Barcode Scanner for Android: Creating and Scanning Barcodes

posted Friday, December 31st, 2010

barcodes

Search for a barcode scanner application for Android and you will find everyone recommending Barcode Scanner. I installed the application but it takes forever to scan a barcode. I tried it on the Android application barcodes and it will just sit there for 3-4 seconds trying to scan the barcode. The whole process reminds me
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WordPress – Auto Upgrading Plugins: Could not create directory. /public_html

posted Monday, January 3rd, 2011

WordPress has had this most useful feature of upgrading plugins automatically, from within WordPress, for a while. Just one click and you are done.

However there are times you might run into an error and get this error instead:

Could not create directory. /public_html

This can have you banging your head against cyber walls for a long time. The solution, however, is very simple.

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Creating a Transparent Favicon

posted Friday, September 12th, 2008

See the little icons next to your bookmarks … these are called Favicons. And believe me they look much better than the generic folder icon you get. So brand yourself and add a favicon for your website. Create a 16×16 pixel graphic Save it as PNG24 or a transparent GIF if you want to get
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Clear Text On Input Field On Click

posted Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Ever wanted to add text to your input fields and have it disappear when your visitor starts adding their info? Better still, have it reappear if the visitor adds nothing? Like this: Here’s the code: <input type=”text” name=”field-name-here” onclick=”this.value=”;” onfocus=”this.select()” onblur=”this.value=!this.value?’Enter Email To Get Updates’:this.value;” value=”Enter Email To Get Updates” /> Replace Enter Email To
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Old Feedburner Links Gone!!

posted Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

It does not help to be on vacation while Google decides to do away with the old Feedburner links.

I managed to miss the whole fun of it, got busy with other projects when I got back and never realized that my RSS feed was kaput.

At least a warning or an email from Google would have been nice but I’m still waiting.

So today when I clicked on my RSS feed by chance, I was shocked to discover a 404 error.

Ahhh so that is why people were asking how to subscribe to my RSS feed and I was wondering why when the links were all over the place.
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