Monthly Archives: May 2010

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Posted by Pinaki Kathiari on May 23, 2010

To Search or to Pac-Man?

Check out http://google.com/pacman yet another way google enchants us with silliness. PS. It works on an iPad.


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Posted by Michael Alfaro on May 13, 2010

How to apply Ipad screen protector

Since I screwed up my screen protector, I did some research about how to properly apply one and this video came up with the source here.


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Posted by Christine Robinson on May 7, 2010

LW Birthday & Anniversary Shoutouts

It’s the month of May and we just wanted to show the following people some birthday or anniversary love:

Anniversary

Melissa Penta – 2 years on 5/15

Birthday

5/21 – Timothy Smith

5/21 – Shawn Venkat

5/28 – Pinaki Kathiari

Rock On!


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Posted by Michael Alfaro on May 7, 2010

Merge multiple word documents in Office 2007

Got this request this morning from Barry and of course it’s the internet to the rescue!!! Did a quick search and found this solution at mydigitallife.info.  Enjoy :)

“To merge and combine multiple Word documents in Microsoft Word 2007, follow steps in the trick below:

  1. Create a new blank document, and then configure to set the page layout
    settings so that the settings are similar to the documents that going to be merged. Alternatively, open one of the going to combine documents, and then save it as another file, and erase all contents inside it.




  2. Click Insert option in the Office Fluent Ribbon menu bar.
  3. Click on the Down arrow at the right side of Object.




  4. Select Text from File… option.
  5. In the “Insert File” dialog window, select all Word documents that you want to merge and combine into one. To select multiple files, press and hold down “CTRL” key while clicking on the files one by one. If your files in is a series, select the first file on top, press and hold down “SHIFT” key, then click on the last file to select all files in between inclusive.
  6. Click on Insert button. If you want to insert the text as link style, click on the “Down arrow” to the right of “Insert” button, and then select Insert as Link.
  7. All documents selected now merged and combined into a single document file. Remember to save the file.”

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Posted by Melissa Penta on May 6, 2010

Adding the Facebook “Like” Button to your WordPress Posts

Facebook has been releasing some pretty cool new features lately. I’m sure that by now you’ve seen their “Like” button pop up on some of your day-to-day websites. If you have a website or blog of your own, perhaps you’re interested in adding this button to your own site to help boost traffic.

Facebook Developers have a simple Like Button widget that helps make this possible with little effort.

But how about WordPress posts? If you’re developing or customizing WordPress themes on your own, you probably know by now that posts require a special universal code to pick up the URL.

The widget spits out a pretty basic iframe code (this is the most basic layout with no options):

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=URL" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

Which looks like this:

In the above code, I generated code with “URL” in the generator’s box labeled URL to Like. To make this compatible with WordPress, I’ll replace the URL with the following code after I already generated it:

<?php echo rawurlencode(get_permalink()); ?>

Your code will look something like this (again, stripped of all options):

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php echo rawurlencode(get_permalink()); ?>" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

Note that if you insert the WordPress code into the generator, the characters will not convert over, this is why I changed it after the fact.

After you’ve generated and customized your code, insert the iframe within the have_posts() loop in your theme’s single.php file and you’re good to go.


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Posted by Pinaki Kathiari on May 5, 2010

Quick glimpse of the Android tablet

Here is some video of Adobe’s Android prototype.

You can see it browsing to YouTube and playing a movie using Flash (this much iPad can do), you can see the keyboard (the “keys” look a bit smaller than the iPad), other than that, I couldn’t tell what some of the other UI’s were about. Keep in mind, this is still a prototype.


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Posted by Melissa Penta on May 5, 2010

Detect and Remove the WordPress Pharma Hack

I’ve been seeing more and more tweets about strange things happening to people’s WordPress blogs. Apparently, there is a hack out there that effects search results on blogs, making them appear to have relevant pages full of pharmaceutical drugs.

So what does this hack do? From the Pearsonified article referenced below:

The WordPress pharma hack quietly exploits your highest-ranking and most valuable pages by overriding the title tag and by inserting spammy links into the page content. Interestingly, the modified title tag and spammy links are only visible to search engines.

How can I tell if I’ve been hacked? This hack only seems to affect search engines – simply look up your blog in Google and see what type of results show up. If you see pharma related links, then you’re site has been compromised.

Help! I’ve been hacked! What can I do? Check out this blog post from Pearsonified showing how to fix this problem and protect yourself from future attacks.

I think this is a good excuse to go look yourself up. You might not regret it!


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Posted by Michael Alfaro on May 1, 2010

Save $650, blueprints to build you own media storage unit for your TV

A while back I put together a media storage unit and posted about it.  I was asked by one of our readers to post the instructions/ blueprints so they could build their own also.  Well, what the audience wants, the audience gets, so here they are.

I’ve put the details in the images themselves to make it easy to print out.  Also I recently made 2 of these of a different width and a different purpose.  One was 30 inches wide so the shelving and corresponding silts had to be reduced in width also, but it’s easy to figure out how much to shorten them by.  The last unit I made has about 7 shelves and was made to replace a stereo rack.  Now the stereo is on the wall with all it’s cd’s, a record player and a small top shelf for pictures, but I’ll post pics later on.

If you have any questions, post a comment and I’ll respond asap :)

































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