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ReBlog - republish interesting posts from other blogs

April 11th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

Sometimes I wish I could create a blog where I can republish interesting posts and articles I find on the net, with my comments and thoughts added to it. But I want to do it in a way that the credits for the post go to the owner.
With ReFeed and the ReBlog plugin for wordpress [...]

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Tags: Applications · Technology · Tutorials / Training · quick & easy tips



Hide Ads on Godaddy free hosting

March 29th, 2008 by Alex Costa · 1 Comment

Some people might question my integrity on this post but let me clarify. I was offered a free hosting ticket (free when I buy a domain name) by Godaddy with no mention of ads being added to my site, I only saw the ads after I installed a wordpress blog in my new free hosting. [...]

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Tags: Web Design · quick & easy tips

PicLens a browser slideshow

March 8th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen slideshow experience. With just one click, PicLens makes photos come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser window.
PicLens suports a number of sites: Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums, Fotki, FotoTime, deviantART, Smugmug, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, Google Images, [...]

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Tags: Applications · Technology · Web Browsers · quick & easy tips



Recover Linux reiserFS with bad blocks

January 28th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

Crisis normally create a great environment for quick learning. Some would say that it also exposes lack of planing, which in my experience both are equally true.
Last week I had a server’s HD die on me and I suddenly had to rescue some of the newer data that for some stupid reason I had not [...]

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Tags: Applications · Laptops · OS & Servers · Storage · quick & easy tips

Wordpress get_excerpt - show more words

January 3rd, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

the get_excerpt function on Wordpress shows the first 55 words of your post, striped out of any special formatting eg: links, bold, etc.  I wanted to change it for a blog I was developing so I traced it back to the function wp_trim_excerpt in the file \wp-includes\formatting.php. In this file you can change the value [...]

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Tags: Programming · Web Design · quick & easy tips

PHP Shopping cart

December 24th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments

On my previous post I wrote about e-comerce tutorials. As part of the system I’m buiding I was looking for a pre-coded shopping cart in PHP (the cart only with nothing else attached to it).  I was getting very fustrated with the ammount of stuff that came with every single shopping cart I found out [...]

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Tags: Applications · Programming · Tutorials / Training · Web Design · quick & easy tips