I always wanted to have a nice, good looking plugin for wordpress to display the social bookmarking buttons for digg, reddit, … I personally don’t like the small buttons displayed on numerous sites. On the other side, having large icons occupies too much space in the layout. Read the rest of this entry »

I was playing around with cake php v.12. I run the cake php blog tutorial and everything went just fine. Then I tried to create another table and add a new page. And I encountered the following message: Error: Database table test for model Test was not found. After checking and rechecking that I followed the naming convention for all the files and classes I discovered that there are some files caching the database model in app\tmp\cache\models. I just delete them and everything works just fine. Just remember when you do some database changes in your schema to clean the cache.

For me it it seems that the 2 giants are getting more and more similar. Initially was Yahoo. Then Google was born. Many were using Yahoo mail when Google released gmail. I noticed that slowly www.gmail.com(which was initially the place where to see your gmail if you remember) was moved under mail.google.com similar to what yahoo had. Now yahoo releases ymail.com which you can access from mail.yahoo.com. Everything makes sense now. You can go and grab your email @ymail.com with the same nickname as the one @gmail.com. You can access your ymail inbox at mail.yahoo.com and your gmail inbox at mail.google.com.

Reddit released the code on which the website is based to the open source comunity. The code can be downloaded from http://code.reddit.com/ under Common Public Attribution License. The code can be used in commercial purposes but all the changes must be published.

I just tried to open the websites based on the list of 50+ clones of digg. Most of them are not available anymore. The following list contains only the valid digg clones.

http://www.blinklist.com/
http://www.bringr.com/
http://www.business-planet.net/
http://www.care2.com/

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Installing seo4smf mod:

1. copy the file from http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=518
2. install the mod into the site (admin > main > packages)
3. rename the file to .htaccess
4. enable “Search engine friendly URLs” from your admin area (Features and Settings)
5. enable the mod (admin > configuration > Seo4SMF Admin, check Seo4SMF Enable, Remove board from front of topic, Beautifying url for profile members)

seo2smf mod, forums discussions:
http://www.webmasterstalks.com/seo-4-smf-b46.0/
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=155313.20

Patch to fix the displaying of links inside the pages:
http://www.webmasterstalks.com/seo-4-smf/seo-4-smf-link-problem-t1489.0.html

It’s very important what keywords you choose while optimizing your website. The keywords are extremely important from SEO point of view, regardless if you write a new article or just if you optimize and old one.

The most important fact for choosing a keyword is the number of the searches that are done on the web in a defined timeframe. This will give you the measure of how interesting a term is. But that’s not all. The second important thing is to find out how many websites offer the keywords searched by the other. Having some clues about those 2 things you’ll be able to find out niche keywords and popular and trendy keywords. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m using Godaddy as a hosting provider. Goddady is cheap enough and I’m satisfied by the hosting services they offer. When the email services they offer are brought in discussion, they simply sucks. I saw many complaints on the web regarding this so I was hesitating to use their services. I also like gmail and I’d like to gather more emails to the same address.

I didn’t find any solution to use the Gmail server to get the mail directly there. I also didn’t like the option to forward the mail because I read that Godaddy email server doesn’t forward the emails in a very reliable way. Read the rest of this entry »

The default Kubrik Theme for wordpress has this annoying bug. I don’t know if this is how it was intended to be or if it’s just a bug. Anyway, it is really annoying. The good news is that it’s very easy to get rid of it. Just make the 2 changes described here.

I have enough problems when I try to put HTML or XML snippets in my code. I was trying all kind of stuff. Now I’m using a plugin named Code Autoescape. This All you have to do is to download it as a textfile from this link, rename it as php, upload it in wp-content/plugins of your wordpress installation and activate it from WordPress administration page. Read the rest of this entry »