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If you come across a situation in which a conditional execution of a text or html widget in wordpress would come in handy, then you know how hard programming a widget to appear only on certain pages, or in certain situation on your pages, can be. That is because, it looks like wordpress creators thought
Part one – presenting the challenges, and what would be a better way of accomplishing your blogging or online publishing tasks, to automate your blogging activites with free services. If you are a blogger or online content creator like myself, you know that sometimes the day seems as if it’s not long enough to allow
Looks like for some unknown reason Twitter and t.co redirector are offline if you are trying to access it from Romania, and possibly some other places – see the pictures below – but is online if you access it from…. well, “the right” places. Talk about equality, and no boundaries on the internet, and all
Although blogcatalog is a pretty well known platform by the blogging comunities around the world, I’ve had the misfortune to be blocked from registering, and I also had the misfortune to be treated as if I was transparent, by its staff, not receiving at least a negative answer to my support or help request. Here’s
One of my readers has left a comment yesterday on THIS POST, asking me to create a complete tutorial, so I just did. Instead of writing another lengthy post with screenshots, I thought a video tutorial will be easier to follow and easier to implement. So, please watch the video below either here on the
If you’d like to change the language of the entire desktop, with menus, and program’s menus all to be displayed in the language of your choice, you can do that very simply on almost any variant of debian with gnome or mate. Since linux mint is a derivative of ubuntu linux, and ubuntu linux is
If you find yourself in the situation of closing down a windows computer with an Os that had no errors before shutdown, but on the next reboot or next login into your user account, you discover an error message like this one in the screenshot, don’t worry, sometimes, the fact that this error message appeared,
Because I’ve seen it the stats (yes, I check my stats regularly to learn who’s searching for what and from where, etc. ) that my previous post regarding the possibilities offered by linux, in particular with versions or flavors running the Gnome (or it’s descendant, Mate) desktop, for adding a new keyboard layout to match
Here are the steps you need to take to install Linux Mint Olivia Mate, on a computer or laptop. I’ve installed it this time, on an IBM Thinkpad T43 laptop, but except for some differences that the hardware installation and configuration scripts will detect towards the end of the installation, the process is pretty much
If you receive the infamous “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 131072 bytes) in…” error and a reference to a file in your wordpress installation, telling you that in one of your files there might be an error that is eating up your memory, and after having spent an
I am apphaled by the amount of fake sofistication and fake high level of intelligence and security-awareness sometimes some online service providers are trying to prove they have ! Today, while trying to change my yahoo password on one of my accounts, I was met several times with the message that my password is either
If you have a hosting account offering Cpanel access and you regularly back up your data, using its “generate full website backup” function, or “download home directory backup”, you should NEVER, ever, under any circumstances unpack the downloaded TAR.GZ file on Windows XP, Vista, or Win 7. I’m not sure about Windows 8, but for
If you ever come across a situation in which a simple splitting of an AVI file is needed, I would recommend using AviChop to do the task. While most similar programs are seemingly more “sofisticated” – nicer guis, nicer install apps, etc., the cons of the other avi splitting programs have made me look for
In the previous post about steps you can take if your computer or laptop starts working too slowly, I’ve talked about some hardware issues and things for the accomplishment of which you might need a qualified computer technician’s help. Let’s see what else can you do to try and make you pc or laptop running
If you notice that your computer or laptop starts working much slower then it used to, there are some simple steps you can take to check what could be causing the slowdown and also eliminate whatever is slowing it down. You don’t have to worry, because not every checkup and cleanup of a computer needs