Journal of Useful Tips

If you’ve been using email clients for some time, you may already aware that you have the option of sending email to multiple recipient using to:, cc: and bcc:.
cc: means ‘carbon copy’ - is a copy given to another recipient beside the person you’re sending the email to. For [...]

Today is Friday - 13 April 2007, some people call it the dreaded Friday the 13th as they believe weird things may happen during this day because they consider it is an unlucky day. The date has been use by malicious crackers to spread viruses to computers around the world as it is a synonymous [...]

If you are searching for specific electrical and electronic equipments manufacturing companies or something way different like companies which are into creating custom or bespoke computer software, it is better to search in a vertical search engine like Masterseek
Now you must be wondering how a vertical search engine will help..Vertical search engines deliver to businesses [...]

Curious about your website’s current and future Google Pagerank? You can check it using any of these free tools :

SEOChat PageRank Lookup
Iwebtool PageRank Prediction
PayPerPost Urltrends Custom Tools

Note that there are no guarantee that any of these tools are entirely accurate because PageRank is entirely dependent on Google’s proprietary algorithm.
PageRank is a page ranking-system employed by [...]

Ever watched The Simpsons? Then I’m sure you’re familiar with the unique Simpsons opening sequence including the infamous couch gags.

Here’s a real life “The Simpsons” opening sequence specially made by the British SkyTV
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Cool isn’t it?
Tags: cartoon, simpsons, bart, marge, the simpsons, fox network, homer

Tired of downtime and other service interruption, I finally decided to move this blog to Dreamhost.
I’ve been a Dreamhost customers for more than 2 years and I’ve hosted several of my websites there with no problem.
The reason that I kept this blog on its original web hosting company is because of its [...]

I’m not sure if this is a credible source for tech news, but I read this from news earlier today : Vista activation cracked by brute force from The Inquirer.
The said crack utilise brute-force attack which defeats the so-called unhackable Windows Vista Activation Code.
Although it might take several hours in order to get the correct [...]

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 [...]