Disaster recovery backup

Submitted by Giorgos on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 19:18

You never know when that hacker is going to strike and erase everything from your site, or if your shared hosting provider will fail to backup your stuff at the wrong time. I like to keep website backups myself once in a while, at least before major updates of my sites.

If you are using wordpress or drupal I believe there are plugins/modules that can do this for you.

Transparent PNGs in IE without javascript

Submitted by Giorgos on Tue, 03/06/2007 - 20:19

Everyone who has given a shot at designing a webpage probably knows this; IE6 (and older IEs) don't play well with PNGs; not when it comes to transparent PNGs at least.

Even though the new IE 7 supports PNG transprency, that is not the end of our troubles, there still lots of people using IE6.

A picture more than 1000 words !!!!

Submitted by Giorgos on Mon, 02/12/2007 - 15:25

This pictures taken from Queensborough Bridge station in New York looks innocent. It probably says a lot for the 14 Kbytes that it occupies. It probably says different things to different people but it DOES say a lot.

It actually says a lot more than it can meet the eye. Right click and download the picture and then open it from Notepad or Wordpad or any other plain text editor. Scroll to the end of the text ...

Cleaning up Gmail clutter

Submitted by Giorgos on Tue, 01/30/2007 - 18:25

Sometimes we hate google but sometimes we really appreciate the services it provides.

Gmail is definetelly a blessing for anyone who has used email. In particular it has 3 features that are saving me lots of time everyday - archive, labels and filters.

FileNotes Windows Tagger

Submitted by Giorgos on Tue, 01/23/2007 - 16:43

What is FileNotes Windows Tagger?
Its a simple utility that will let you keep notes on any file on windows systems. Later on using a standard windows search you can find your "notes" and the associated files.

Adsense in iframe ?

Submitted by Giorgos on Tue, 01/23/2007 - 08:53

Is it legal to have adsense ads in iframe ?
The terms only mention that you cannot frame your visitors after they click on an ad link and in the policies state that no Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages.

Outbound links in Google analytics

Submitted by Giorgos on Mon, 01/22/2007 - 20:50

Multilingual wordpress

Submitted by Giorgos on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 04:03

How do you set up a billingual or multilingual wordpress blog ?

The truth is that wordpress has not been very active in keeping its international followers happy. Keeping a billingual wordpress site at least in the year 2006 was not an easy task. I figured how to do it after some struggle but I am still not completely satisfied with the solution, but figured it might be useful for some people trying to setup one for themselves.

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