BitKinex – Best SFTP/FTP/Webdav client software
I’ve tried’em all, and was disappointed every time. Till I started using BitKinex. The other popular free FTP clients out there are just not good enough, as they’re all lacking in one important feature or another. But after a few weeks with BitKinex I can Continue Reading →
Removing Adobe Acrobat Copy & Paste Line Breaks
How do you copy & paste from Adobe Acrobat (Reader, Standard, Pro, etc.)? I’ve seen it a million times, people copy & paste from PDFs and then spend long minutes removing line breaks so the text will appear as in the original solid paragraphs. There are Continue Reading →
Opening PDFs outside the browser (Firefox / Chrome)
Browser embedded PDFs should not be a built-in default option. To disable that, and have the PDFs open with the defaulted installed application, as they should, there are a few settings. When I was using Firefox, this usually took care of that in terms of Continue Reading →
Excel’s date string parsing to fix dates & time for SPSS
SPSS only reads strict date & time input formats, but surveying applications don’t always output dates that way. Qualtrics, for example, outputs dates in the following way - “2009-11-03 16:39:47” which can then only be used as a string. To make use of Continue Reading →
Internet Explorer’s annoying 30 CSS files limit bug
Internet Explorer is a lousy browser family, and it has some of the most annoying bugs possible. Took me a while to figure out why websites were breaking in some pages, till I was finally able to figure out that Internet Explorer has a bug where it can handle Continue Reading →
Missed Schedule & Failed Cron – WordPress Annoying Bugs
WordPress sometimes has the most annoying little bugs. Ones that don’t get fixed in minor version updates, ones that developers don’t seem to care about much but they could drive you crazy. WordPress 2.9 failed cron jobs and missed schedules are one such bug. Continue Reading →
Block Search Engine Traffic Overload – Yahoo, CUIL & Baidu
Although they bring in very little traffic, the crawl rate for some of the smaller search engines can create a huge load on a website server and even bring down a site. For some reason, Yahoo, CUIL and Baidu are among the worst of the search engines, hammering Continue Reading →
GWT’s Parameter Handling : Duplicate Content in Drupal & Gallery2
A while back Google announced the addition of parameter handling to the Google Webmasters Tools (GWT). We're happy to announce another feature to assist with managing duplicate content: parameter handling. Parameter handling allows you to view which parameters Continue Reading →
Top SEO & Speed WordPress Plugins To Boost Off 2010
Looking for some WordPress plugin recommendations to kick off 2010 with more SEO & Speed? I got some for you. Around the beginning of 2010 I saw an explosion of lists with various recommended WordPress plugins : Best 16 WordPress Plugins For 2010 The 15 Best Continue Reading →
Drupal Stuck Cron Jobs : MySQL server has gone away
Some things in Drupal are a pain in the ass to debug. Hanging cron jobs that never seem to end are one of those things. Strange messages start appearing like… Cron has been running for over an hour and is probably stuck. or Attempting to restart Cron That usually Continue Reading →