Archive for April, 2010
New plugin released – WP Plugin Cache
I’m rather excited to announce the release of my new plugin, WP Plugin Cache . Intended for plugin developers, this provides file cache facilities to other plugins. Developers can add a single line to their code and, assuming the user has WP Plugin Cache installed as well, files will be cached. Expect my existing plugins to be converted [...]
Samsung Customer Service
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago about the memory card in my daughters mobile phone failing after 4 months (actually 3.5 months to be more precise). Phones4u sent me a replacement card – a SanDisk equivalent, but a lowly type 2 instead of the Samsung type 6. I also took the opportunity to write to Samsung to see if there’s anything [...]
Download ZyXEL NSA210 firmware to fix iTunes
After speaking with ZyXEL, they are happy for me to make public their firmware fix for media not appearing in iTunes when using their NSA210 NAS drive. Click here to download the firmware from MediaFire . It’s a little over 26 MB in size. Unzip the resulting file. You should find a .bin and a .txt file Sign into the NSA210 administration [...]
New WordPress Plugin – Organ Donor Register
Right now more than 10,000 people in the UK need an organ transplant that could save or dramatically improve their lives. But each year around 1,000 people die while waiting for a transplant. Help us to give these people the chance for a new life. My new WordPress plugin – Organ Donor Register – will [...]
WordPress – Create an instant link to Wikipedia
I’m often wanting to create quick and useful links to Wikipedia. Obviously, you could add a link manually each time, but wouldn’t an automated system be so much better? Well, crack open your functions.php file within your theme folder and added the following code… add_shortcode(‘wikilink’,'add_wikilink’); function add_wikilink($paras=”",$content=”") { return ‘<a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/’.str_replace(” “,”_”,$content).’” title=”Look up ‘.$content.’ [...]
ZyXEL NSA210 – Firmware fix to iTunes problem
About a month ago I blogged about some excellent customer service from ZyXEL where, after a hesitant start, they fell over themselves to help me with a problem with my recently purchased NAS. It’s taken a month to resolve the problem, but a lot of that was due to me, but it is now fixed! As mentioned, I was [...]
Simple Social Bookmarks – Version 2 released!
Only 2 days after releasing version 1.8 of Simple Social Bookmarks , version 2 is out! Almost completely re-written, version 2 is a lot more efficient and is easier for me to maintain. And, more importantly for the user, there’s a plethora of new Social Bookmarking sites included. One thing to note for existing users – the “basic” [...]
Simple Social Bookmarks Plugin updated!
The Simple Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress has been updated to version 1.8. Yesterday, Google announced an official way to share URLs on their Buzz service, rather than the unofficial “fudge” of using Google Reader. Simple Social Bookmarks has therefore been upgraded to use their new method. No other changes, so you only need to upgrade is you use Google Buzz [...]
Samsung memory card – failed after 4 months!
Last Christmas I bought my eldest daughter a Samsung Tocco Lite mobile phone. I bought it from Phones4U, as they were also providing a free Samsung 8GB Micro SD card. 4 months of use later and the card has failed. And I don’t mean the data has gone – it appears the controller has stopped [...]
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Google Reader redirect issue – security concern?
Around 2pm today, I found that attempting to display Google Reader caused a redirect to a Google Docs login page – more specifically, a signin page for Google employees a . Looking on Twitter I found only a couple of other people reporting it, although one person mentioned it in relation to a blog from Google [...]
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