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Showing 16 results for the month of November, 2009.

Jun 09
26th

Simple Feed List – WordPress Plugin updated!


Version 1.2 of the Simple Feed List plugin has been launched!

This update includes two essential changes..

  1. Some people were finding that their web site’s security was preventing this plugin from working due to restrictions on the use of the file_get_contents PHP command. This has now been replaced with an alternative method, which has also improved the speed of the plugin as well (improved by up to 50%!).
  2. Use of CDATA within a feed was causing blank descriptions (and, in some cases, titles) to display. This version works around this.

Full details can be found on the plugin’s dedicated page.

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  2. Simple Wakoopa List – WordPress Plugin updated! Version 1.2 of the Simple Wakoopa List plugin has been launched! This update ensures that any returned RSS feed addresses are in a valid XHTML...

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Jun 09
25th

Windows Hibernate Button


If you’re using the Hibernate function (and I’m talking XP here, not sure if this applies to Vista as well) one of the things desperately missing is a matching button in the “Turn Off Computer” menu. You click on it and get options for everything else, but not to hibernate.

Well, not very well known, is that if you press the Shift key whilst on this menu the Standby option will magically change to Hibernate (this is assuming you have the hibernate option activated!).

OR you can add the missing button to the menu. Here’s the code to do this…

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\Shutdown]
"ShowHibernateButton"=dword:00000001

And to turn it off again…

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System]

Both should be saved as .reg extensions and executed – they need to be run only once. The first script adds a new entry into the registry and the second script removes it again.

Alternatively, download the scripts here from.

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  2. Improving Windows boot times Lenovo has been “tweaking” its laptops and PCs in preparation for Windows 7, heavily improving startup and shutdown times. Some of the methods, however, can...
  3. Albums not being added to Windows Media Player On my home desktop PC, I’m running Windows Media Player 11 under Windows XP. Last night, when attempting to sync some music with my phone,...

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Jun 09
23rd

Tonights Site Issues


You may have noticed the site go offline earlier. You may have even seen it appear as a default, and empty, WordPress blog. Or you may have just received an error.

It was my fault.

I was attempting to “shore up” the security on the site. One such change didn’t work and in trying to manually back the changes out, I accidentally, erm, deleted some of the live databases. Oops. And I hadn’t made a backup for weeks (yes, I know).

I had no choice but to restore from that backup. Thanks to the Google’s site cache and the cache in Google Reader I was able to reconstruct all the lost posts. In some cases I haven’t been able to find out the exact times they were posted, due to Google Reader only showing a date on recent entries.

Next up, I’ll be restoring comments and page changes.

And, yes, I’ll be backing up.

Moral to us all… backup. Backup. And backup.

Update

A few hours later and I’ve restored it as best as I can. Some comments have been omitted and, well, user counts and the such will be lost :(

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  3. Further WordPress upgrade issues Since upgrading to 2.8 I’ve come across another issue. However, I’ve seen numerous people reporting the same problem after upgrades to previous WordPress versions, so...

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Jun 09
23rd

Simple Facebook Link – WordPress Plugin updated!


Version 1.1 of the Simple Facebook Link plugin has been launched!

This update adds bit.ly to the list of URL shortening services that the plugin can make use of. Thanks to Helgi Hrafn Halldórsson for the suggestion.

Full details can be found on the plugin’s dedicated page.

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Jun 09
23rd

Simple Twitter Link – WordPress Plugin updated!


Version 1.3 of the Simple Twitter Link plugin has been launched!

This update adds bit.ly to the list of URL shortening services that the plugin can make use of. Thanks to Helgi Hrafn Halldórsson for the suggestion.

Full details can be found on the plugin’s dedicated page.

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