Splitting up a vcard-file
As my Acer e110 doesn’t sync with Google, all of my precious contacts in the cloud did not automagically appear on my handset. That left me little but no choice to go the old-fashioned way; the...
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How to buy, upgrade, brick, rescue and generally enjoy a HTC Magic in just 14...
Step 1: Buy So you’re not happy with your cheapo rebound phone, pining for your lost HTC Hero and you start checking out bargain-sites for a good 2nd hand Android smartphone. After a week or so you...
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Secure your smartphone
Your smartphone probably contains a wealth of information of personal and professional nature, which you would not want others to have access to. This is why (after losing my HTC Hero a couple of...
View ArticleGoogle App Engine project template for PHP (with Quercus)
So you’re a wanna-be developer who’d love to deploy in the cloud, but you only “know” PHP? Well, as you might already have read elsewhere Caucho, the company behind Resin, has a 100% Java GPL’ed...
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How to fix SSL errors in Mac OS X browsers
So you know about SSL (or rather TLS) and you prefer things secure, so you request and pay for an officially signed certificate and configure your Apache to use it. The next days you’re feeling very...
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Remove Facebook like buttons with NoScript
If you don’t like Facebook’s omnipresent Like widgets (there were already plenty of reasons why not to like them and last week’s cookie-debacle only added to that conclusion) and if you already use...
View ArticleFirefox preferences for greater privacy
Although browser addons such as NoScript and Ghostery (which is cross-browser with some limitations) provide great protection against tracking, some people prefer not to have to install plugins....
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Fix Samsung ICS Exchange connection errors
[Update 21-5-2012: Samsung released new firmware, version I9100XWLPD, which seems to fix the bug.]Since updating my Samsung Galaxy S II to Ice Cream Sandwich, I’ve regularly been experiencing the...
View ArticleStopping WordPress media attachments comment spam
I just had my monthly look at the comments spam queue and was baffled by the amount of spam-comments on WordPress attachments. WordPress, surprisingly, has no option to disable comments on media, so...
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Emotional rollercoaster: installing Jelly Bean on a Galaxy SII
I’m happy! Here’s why; when I bought my Samsung Galaxy S II a year and a half ago, it came with Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread. Last year Samsung released an official update for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream...
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Tweaking WordPress’s Expound theme’s menu
I’m helping on a site for a not-for-profit for which we selected “Expound” as the base theme. I like Expound; it looks great, there’s no jQuery- or webfont-cruft to worry about and although the CSS...
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I see you baby, purging that spam!
While Akismet does a good job at flagging comments as spam, it by default only purges spam (from the comments and comments_meta tables) after 15 days. So it’s a good thing Akismet now has a filter to...
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Uw eigen mobielere deredactie in 5 stappen
Ook al kunt ge mijn alternatieve mobiele redactie hier bekijken, dan zout ge toch, om redenen die geheel de uwe zijn, misschien liever uw hoogst persoonlijke redactie hebben? Wel, dat kan in 5...
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How to see WP YouTube Lyte’s cache for a post
WP YouTube Lyte stores data it fetched from YouTube’s API in WordPress’s add_post_meta, thus avoiding to have to contact YouTube for subsequent requests. You can clear the entire cache by ticking that...
View ArticleIs your string zipped?
While looking into a strange issue on a multisite WordPress installation which optimized the pages of the main but not of the sub-blogs, I needed code to check whether a string was gzipped or not. I...
View ArticleFirefox: how to enable the built-in tracking protection
Just read an article on BBC News that starts of with the AdBlock Plus team winning another case in a German court (yeay) and ended with a report on how Firefox also has built-in tracking protection...
View ArticleHow to add posts’ featured images to WordPress RSS feeds
The standard WordPress RSS-feeds don’t include posts featured image. Below code adds the medium-format thumbnail to each item in a RSS2 standards-compliant manner by inserting it as an enclosure....
View ArticleCode snippet to block author pages
So you can remove the author-pages with an author.php file in your (child) theme, but what if you don’t want to touch the theme you ask? Well, I just added this code snippet to two of the sites I...
View ArticleHow to extract blocks from Gutenberg
So Gutenberg, the future of WordPress content editing, allows users to create, add and re-use blocks in posts and pages in a nice UI. These blocks are added in WordPress’ the_content inside...
View ArticleQuick trick to disable Autoptimize on a page
So suppose you have one page/ post which for whatever reason you don’t want Autoptimize to act on? Simply add this in the post content and AO will bail out; <!-- <xsl:stylesheet --> Some extra...
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