Frequently, I’m asked to add various and sundry methods of connecting social media to people’s web sites. Today I discovered a page on Facebook which has links to a bunch of their different services:
Even though I’m kind of into anti-social networking, this page could prove useful. 
Every so often I have to clean out my Opera tabs… I tend to leave a tab open if I find a useful page. Here are the latest things I’ve been looking at:
We have a client that sends out resumes on behalf of her clients, and needed a way to remove the “Powered by phplist” footer on the emails, because we want to have it look like the resume is coming from her client. So, I found this page that told me how to do it:
Removing “powered by” tagline from phplist – by Wesley Tanaka
PHPList is a great piece of free software and I highly recommend it for sending out newsletters and such. Leaving the “powered by” text gives them some advertising, but in this instance it just wasn’t appropriate to leave it in there. If you find yourself in a similar situation, consider making a donation to the project to compensate.
In the past few days, some web hosts have been experiencing targeted attacks. A lot of WordPress sites have been hacked, and some regular web sites, too. Here’s the story:
Large-scale WordPress Attacks – from the H Security site
Apparently it’s not too difficult to get rid of the hack, so it should not be a disaster if you get hacked. The big question is how are the hackers getting in. Nobody is quite sure yet. My guess is user names and passwords are being stolen by malware on people’s computers. So… the lesson here is always keep your anti-virus software up-to-date and have a good backup of your web site.
Do you ever need to send someone a very large file? Email just doesn’t cut it for the big stuff. Here’s a site where you can transfer up to a 2GB file. Neat!
Lately I’ve been experimenting with WordPress galleries, for managing pictures. It’s a bit limited in terms of formatting the output of the gallery, but it’s simple enough for everyday usage. One of the minor bugs is that you can’t have the image not linked. Sators to the rescue! Here’s a little hack to fix that:
WordPress Gallery Shortcode with No Image Link
Unfortunately, this involves modifying one of the core files of WordPress, so you will lose the change every time you update to a new version. Maybe we’ll get lucky and future versions of WordPress will include this feature!
Also, here is the documentation page for using gallery shortcodes:
These shortcodes allow you to display a gallery in a page or post. The trick to setting up a gallery is to go into Media, Library and attach photos to a post or page. The shortcode will display all of the photos (or other media) that are attached.
AVG is a very good anti-virus program – every Windows user should have it! They also have come out with a way to make a bootable CD or USB stick so you can start an infected system and clean it up.
The best time to make the rescue device is before you need it, so don’t delay making your CD!
This site is rather interesting if you’re looking for a domain name made of a single word. If you are considering a .net address, I would suggest checking the .com version to make sure nothing bad is there, since your (potential) customers may mis-type the URL.
Here’s a nice little tool which will allow you to take a screen shot and send it to your tech support to show them what your screen looks like.
This is a nice alternative to a program like Log Me In, which allows your tech support person to take control of your computer.
Today I was pasting in some articles in a blog, and some of the numbered lists were getting entry #8 turned into a 
image! So of course Google helped me figure out where to turn that off…
I never knew you could put so many different smilies into a post! 
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