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You can actually take screenshots on the Samsung Galaxy S II without having to root the phone. Simply press the HOME and POWER buttons simultaneously, and voila! you’ll hear a snapshot.

The screenshots are stored in /mnt/sdcard/ScreenCapture.

Remindr is an online service where you simply add what you need to do and when and how you want to be reminded. It supports twitter, jabber and email. And there’s no need to log in!

screenshot of remindr

If you have accidentaly (or stupidly :) ) changed the WordPress Address of your blog to an incorrect value, you’ll find out that you can no longer access the admin console to change it back. To fix it you have two options:

  • Temporary PHP change
  • Direct database change

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Multipage Posts in WordPress

Tuesday, 21st October 2008 by

In WordPress it is simple to create a multipage post. Simply use the following code where you want a page break.

<!--nextpage-->

I don’t think there is a simple way of having a dropdown with the title of the first section in that page like many news sites tend to have.

Update (11 July): Checkpoint have released a new update for ZoneAlarm that resolves this issue.

If your internet connection stopped working after you installed windows update patches released yesterday, it’s most probably because you are running Zone Alarm with its security level set to high. One of the patches (KB951748) released yesterday doesn’t play very well with zone alarm.
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If you are trying to use your wordpress feed as your sitemap in google webmaster tools, and it looks like there are errors in lines 11 and 12 citing Invalid URL, Invalid XML: too many tags, and Incorrect namespace, it is because you are using your rss2 feed as the sitemap.
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When I was looking for a way to highlight the author comments in this wordpress template I was creating, I had a search on google. Most of the results were Keep reading »

WordPress Template Quirks

Thursday, 7th February 2008 by

If you edit any of the wordpress system files or even just the functions.php of a template, make sure there are no spaces before the <?php or after the ?>.

If you do, it’ll just cause you grief. Some pages will be visible while others will have the following error:

Cannot modify header information - headers already sent

I guess it happens because functions.php is included before it sets the http headers. I haven’t looked at the code enough to figure out where the header is written, so no leading or trailing spaces in wordpress system php files!

Drupal post setup

Monday, 10th September 2007 by

You need to create a files directory in the drupal root, once installation is complete. Would’ve been nice of them to mention it in the final installation step.