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How to: Remove /category/ from your WordPress url

WordPress has awesome way to handle it's URLs with the name called Permalinks. It gives flexibility play around with almost everything in the URLs. Apparently, you can change the category and tag base from your WordPress Dashboard settings page. You can specify a string to replace the default "Categ

How to use Nextgen gallery using custom php code on theme file

Nextgen Gallery is pretty famous gallery plugin used in WordPress. It provides shortcode to insert gallery in posts,pages, sidebars etc. In this post, we are going to use nextgen's built in functions to show these galleries, albums in WordPress template files. Ideally we show the Nextgen gallery on

How to create Nextgen gallery custom template

I am sure you have used Nextgen Gallery plugin to display images on your blog. But there are times, when you simply want to display images in your style and not using the pre-defined templates. In this post, I am going to tell you how you can create custom template for nextgen gallery. Follow the be

[Solution] HTML validation fail for AddThis buttons

Recently I was doing W3C validation for a website and bumped into a validation trouble because of some social media buttons added to the website. These buttons was added using the famous & widely used AddThis Share Buttons. On Validating I was getting following errors - there is no attribute

Show twitter like X days ago in WordPress for time

Have you fantasized of showing twitter like time on your blog, like posted 2 days ago ? I am sure after twitter showing this kind of time every web application wanted to show the same. WordPress introduced this long back(since v 1.5.0) but is used by very less people in the blogging community. I am

Mac OS X: 2 ways to lock screen without any app

There are many blog posts on Internet which discuss about Locking screen of your Mac. Some discuss using Automator while other just ask you to install a 3rd party App, paid or free. However, there are two quick ways using which you can lock screen with just 2 clicks or even without a click of the tr

Cut & Paste in Mac OS X Lion

Mac Os X never had an option to "cut" files within the finder and everyone kind of missed it, especially the windows users. But Apple has include this option in Lion OS X. Many of you all have already discovered it and are using it. So let's see how can you cut & paste in Mac OS X. You can si

Login into multiple Skype accounts in Mac OS X

I am sure you must have tried / searched a lot about this and that is why you are here. But I promise that this solution works for running multiple instances of Skype on Mac OS X. Note: If you want to see it in action, then scroll to the bottom of this post for the video tutorial on how you can r

Set the User Agent With PHP cURL

cURL is a sleek way to grab contents from a URL. It's helpful in PHP where servers have banned using the function file_get_contents() . A while back I had shared a post which show on how to grab the contents of a URL using cURL. However, cURL is much more than just grabbing data. It can be used to m

[How to] Setup Tikona Wireless correctly

Tikona WiBro is basically a Wireless Broadband Service provider.Their plans are quite competitive & hence I chose to get it installed. Speed advertised was decent at 2Mbps. What it means (simplified) is that there are multiple “Signal Broadcasting/Transmission” Towers known as Access

How to pass data into Facebook iFrame application

While you are developing Facebook application you sometimes need to pass data to the application. As a matter of fact iFrame cannot access data from the parent window. Hence you cannot access certain parameters from the URL using $_GET as a usual process. Facebook provides a way to pass certain d

Decoding Art Clokey Google Doodle

Google Doodle always amazes each one of us which their extra ordinary creativeness. Be it the Guitar Le Paul's birthday or today's Google doodle on Art Clokey's birthday. When I opened twitter this morning found that lot many people are discussing about the Google Doodle being made in flash. Howev

Schedule your e-mails in Gmail (or any other mail!)

Many-a-times we feel that the email should not be sent right-away. Rather it be sent at the precise moment. A Birthday to be wished, an Invoice to be sent etc. However, Gmail doesn’t offer this luxury. Not even in the now defunct “Labs”, is this vital tool included. I have sear

MS Windows slow as snail,optimize in few clicks

As we all know any version of Windows is prone to junk accumulation. Redundant registry entries, junk files, slowly start choking your once super-fast PC & you start to feel that various programs are starting to feel sluggish. Sure there are many programs which claim that they ca

Show loading icon in JQuery Ajax request

JQuery is the most used Javascript framework. It's exceptionally simpler and famous. The best part of JQuery is that it has very nicely done documentation and lot many resources available online. Lately, while doing one of my codeigniter I used JQuery and wanted to share a little snippet of code

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