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Increase logout or session time in phpmyadmin

What can be more annoying than logging repeatedly into phpmyadmin while you are working on a project. So in this post I am going to discuss how you can increase the logout time for phpmyadmin. The default session storage method is via cookies, hence we need to increase the logout time set inside the

How to : Create a new WordPress user using PHP function

It's pretty easy to manage users in WordPress when you are logged into WordPress Dashboard as an Administrator. But what if you want to create a user via a PHP function ? The method which we are going to discuss is useful when you are creating a plugin or if you want to create a user by simply execu

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

Spell check your documents from Command line in Linux

I know lot of people think that Unix/Linux has very less functionality, but the fact is Unix/Linux has all the functionality in it's core. It won't be wrong, if I say that other Operating Systems have copied some awesome stuff from Linux. Today we are going to see how you can spell-check a document

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

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

Ajax:Quickly submit a form in JQuery using serialize

I am sure you often do a form submission via Ajax and more easily using JQuery. But did you know using a simple method called serialize in JQuery form submission could be more easier. Serialize method converts the form elements & values in an encoded string and submits to the form action. This h

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

Batch resize using ImageMagick

People who do not use or cannot use Adobe Photoshop ,whatever the reason maybe, processing large number of images could be a pain for them. And for those who use Photoshop, it could be a slow process. Using ImageMagick to resize images from Command Line is faster. It may not be as easy as click-cl

PNG Transparency with ImageMagick

I am sure it took you long to figure it out as to how do we change the Transparency of PNG images using ImageMagick. Same was the case with me and that is why I decided to write a post for the same. As you might be aware, ImageMagick is really awesome tool for image manipulation. It performs Imag

[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

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