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WordPress wp_nav_menu separator and First Last Classes
wp_nav_menu is a wordpress built-in plugin that allows you to show navigation in the front-end. This simple function picks the menu defined in the wp-admin dashboard and displays it as the list. Just like other wordpress functions this is also powerful. It takes various parameters to customize the o
Read Full PostHow to reset lost MySQL password
There are times when you get stuck with a lost password of MySQL database. And yes it becomes difficult to recall one with the computerized brains of ours :) In this post, I am going to show you how you can rest a lost MySQL password. Using this procedure you can reset the lost password of root o
Read Full PostTop 10 SEO tips for your website
Web masters and website owners can now enjoy top 10 SEO tips. Through hundreds of techniques you can definitely achieve a higher rank in the search results, but these top ten tips are most valuable and timeless. After years of practical applications with hundreds of client websites, these top ten ti
Read Full PostDisable email notification for Twitter replies and retweets
Recently twitter is sending email notification when your handle is mentioned. This feature is not activated for everyone but for few people. But in my timeline eveyone is complaining about this "not needed" feature. Since you get many mentions on twitter each day, half of you day will be spent clean
Read Full PostFirefox: Check all your installed plugins for update
FireFox is a powerful browser and you love it because it has some great plugins. However, the same browser will be a pain if you do not update these plugins timely. Firefox does a self test when started, for any updates available. But in some cases users have disabled this auto self test and sometim
Read Full PostDisplay WordPress post content outside the WordPress
Everyone knows that WordPress is an awesome tool tool for blogging and as well as for website. It can be a powerful CMS to work with. There are times when you need to pull your WordPress content and display it some where other than the blog site. WordPress framework is very powerful and with very fe
Read Full PostChange your crontab editor
Lately I have been messing around with cron jobs and apparently I used this utility called crontab. But on various servers I found that crontab opens the file in different editors. Some use pico, while others use nano. However, since I am comfortable using vi editor , so I found a way to make the
Read Full PostMySQL: Increment an existing record in the table
This is a small tip which can help you optimize your MySQL query. Since you do not have to first “read” the record, instead you can increment it right there. I have seen some newbies doing the read and then increment process, which uselessly increases a select query to the database, each time yo
Read Full PostDisable Location awareness sending in Firefox 4 – enabled by default
Firefox 4 has location awareness enabled by default. When location awareness is enabled the sites can request for the physical location of your system. This will help the website to serve the content according to your current location. However, there are times when you do not want that to be enab
Read Full PostHow do I find a user’s UID or GID in Linux/Unix
In this post I am going to tell you, how can you find the User ID and Group ID of a user in Linux. You might require it when you scripting something on the OS level. We are going to use the id command to find the UID and GID of a user in Unix. To find a specific user's UID, goto the terminal an
Read Full PostBuilding Mobile websites – Presentation
Having a mobile website for your business adds value to your business and increases the reachability. This presentation explains why one should have a mobile website and what is the advantage of that. I have discuss several tips on how a Mobile website can help your business. Also discussed the t
Read Full PostSpeed-Up Google Chrome!!
Google Chrome in itself is blazing fast… But quite a few households use Slow PC, while some notebooks / netbooks make you cry in anticipation for a single page-load. I actually own an Asus EeePC & know how painful it is to see a page loading. Anyways.. there are 3 Ways to Improv
Read Full PostHow to fix Samsung Kies MTP flash error
You might have faced challenges while trying to connect your phone with Samsung Kies. Yes, you are not alone, many of us have faced the same error or are still facing. However, the solution of this problem is very naive and strange for sure. Let’s first see what is the problem which I am talking a
Read Full PostHow to install themes for Google talk (gtalk)
Google Talk looks very old school these days. It’s been there for a while but I do not know for some reason Google ignores it like it’s step son. I say so because there are not many updates for Google talk, and its not capable of many thing which you can do from within Gmail. Probably, Google th
Read Full PostUse Snipping tool in Windows to grab screen
I usually do not advocate the in-built tools of Microsoft Windows until I recently experienced the Snipping Tool. It came in my notice by chance when I was searching for a file whose name starts from “sni”. Snipping Tool lets you capture any part of your screen and save it as an image file. W
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