Wordpress
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. This hasn’t started in WordPress 2.9. Searching for “missed schedule” with “Wordpress” keywords, you’re Continue Reading →
Drupal
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 only pages with under 30 CSS files. Anything above that and the page would go dead. Don’t believe me? check Microsoft’s “All style Continue Reading →
SEO
Google Toolbar Pagerank Update Mistake : Redirection Change Effect
Google updated their Toolbar Pagerank a few days ago. Usually, I don't pay much attention to that, but this particular time there was something very interesting happening. One of the domains I have filination.com dropped from PR5 to PR2 and this was due to a Google mistake on how I redirected. While I explain the story, you'll notice that after a quick redirection Google automatically fixed the Continue Reading →
Development
301 Redirect from Sub-Directory to Root
If you’re hosting your website on a subdirectory and would like to move the site up to the root directory, like moving from www.yoursite.com/subdirectory to www.yoursite.com then this simple line of code in your root .HTACCESS file should help you do the trick : RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^subdirectory/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L] This means that all files like www.yoursite.com/subdirectory/yourfile.htm Continue Reading →
General
Fixing Shockwave/Flash crashes on Google Chrome
This is annoying. On some of the latest Google Chrome versions, Shock wave and flash applications tend to crash the browser or result in “unresponsive script” errors. This is especially for the versions of Google Chrome that already come with the Flash and Shockwave bundled inside. How to fix? “How to fix: Shock wave crashes on Facebook using Google Chrome” has a solution that works: Follow Continue Reading →
Fixing Shockwave/Flash crashes on Google Chrome
This is annoying. On some of the latest Google Chrome versions, Shock wave and flash applications tend to crash the browser or result in “unresponsive script” errors. This is especially for the versions of Google Chrome Continue Reading →
Reduce/Disable Annoying Windows Taskbar Icon Flashing
Don’t you hate it when windows start flashing in the background while you’re working? it could be due to popups pop-unders and the likes, but those are slowly becoming extinct. But, this type of annoying user interface Continue Reading →
301 Redirect from Sub-Directory to Root
If you’re hosting your website on a subdirectory and would like to move the site up to the root directory, like moving from www.yoursite.com/subdirectory to www.yoursite.com then this simple line of code in your root Continue Reading →
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. 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 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, 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 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 Continue Reading →
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