Journal of Useful Tips

Users who has installed Wordpress blog application on Dreamhost may noticed that they can’t access the Dreamhost stats page on their blog (sub)domain.
This is caused by the way Wordpress handle URL in its internal system. However you can fix this issue by adding a few lines in your Wordpress .htaccess file.

Code (apache)

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond [...]

I got this idea from reading Darren Rowse’s entry, How to Make Your RSS Feeds POP Using Images
The hack will add a nice graphic to accompany your RSS feeds to make it “POP”.
First open the wp-rss2.php file located in the root directory of your Wordpress Installation.
Find a line that have something like this.

Code (php)

<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=<?php bloginfo_rss(’version’); [...]

In order to enhance the user experience of Tipvista blog readers, I’ve installed Dean Lee’s Source Code syntax highlighting.
The plugin is pretty cool for coders and developers who like to share their codes with their readers. Among syntax it support are

Actionscript,Ada,Apache,asm,asp,bash
c,cfm,c++,csharp,css
delphi,div,freebasic,html4,idl
java5,javascript,lisp,lua
mathlab,mysql,nsis
oracle,pascal,perl,php,python
qbasic,ruby,smalltalk,sql
tcl,text,vb,vb.net,xml
and few others syntax

Here’s how the plugin look like in Wordpress :

Code [...]

Some people has their own reasons for banning certain IP Address from accessing their websites.
Some because they want to single out an individual or certain organisation from browing their websites and some one to protect their website from excessing crawling from bad bots or any other form of bot attacks.
Whatever the reasons are, you can [...]

Foxrate.org is a website that provide latest currency exchange rate.

The website is easier to use compared to competing services because it automatically detects your home currency base on your ip address. This will save you the trouble of selecting the currency you want to convert each time you visit the website.
The website also provides [...]

Are you having trouble finding your final year project thesis title? I’ve a nice, cool website that could help you generate a nice well sounding topic for you.
Here’s a sample of the title generated :

An interactive proxy theorem prover embedded in a synchronized concurrent preprocessor
A dynamic parallelizing cache embedded in a high-level concurrent cache
A scalable [...]

I don’t know if any of you already know about this, but I recently read in one forum about 2Checkout won’t let a newly registered seller use its service solely because he sells Paypal and Clickbank related e-book.
Here’s the excerpt from the 2CO email taken from the forum :

Hello,
Sorry for the delay. 2CO does not [...]

Interunix introduces a new Super Value Blog Hosting plan targeted for bloggers.
The plan comes with Wordpress preinstalled, 500MB of webspace and 15GB monthly data transfer. The Super Value Blog Hosting is hosted on a Linux machine running PHP 5 and MySQL 5 on Apache 1.3.x (mod_sec)
Best of all, the Super Value Blog Hosting plan [...]

Godaddy has done it again!

I’ve heard this story many times before, it is about GoDaddy goes around suspending domains without adequate prior notice or any warning at all. This is why I’m avoiding GoDaddy.com ever since I read many stories about their business practice.
If you want to know more about why you should avoid Go [...]

Splog or Spam Blog is a relatively new form of spam advertising in the blogosphere. These spammers use blogs and syndication feed as a way to to spread their spammy advertising campaign across the internet.
Spam Blogs is by nature is different from email spam, because you can’t not send unsolicited advertising using blog.Thus the motivations [...]