Archive for May, 2010
Facebook Deactivations Gaining Attention
he phrase “how to quit Facebook” generated nearly 17 million results in a recent Google search, and prominent tech industry figures are ditching their accounts on the social networking site. Whether they are driven by privacy concerns or fed-up with the amount of time they spend updating their accounts, apparently Facebook users are increasingly curious [...]
Image drag-and-drop in Gmail: nice, but limited
In a feature I’ll likely find useless, Google has added the ability to drag images directly into e-mails written in Gmail on Chrome rather than rely on a dialog box to select them as an attachment. It’s a nice idea, and I’m all for it, but here’s why it’s not for me: screen real estate. [...]
Customize Metadata for Individual WordPress Posts
Every post in WordPress has “metadata” contained inside of paragraph tags at the bottom of each blog post. This data is generated dynamically through the loop that pulls your content out of the database. You can easily modify this data that are displayed with each entry, which can be found inside of the index.php file [...]
Recovering a lost Joomla! password
If you are one of those people who work on tons of websites, and do not have a formal password policy, more often than not you will sometimes forget your Joomla! administrator password. If the administrator password has been hacked or you have forgotten it , you are locked out and you do not have [...]
How to delete a super administrator in Joomla!
Whenever you need to delete a super administrator user account in Joomla!, if you do it in the special way (select the super administrator and click “Delete”) a message will be displayed in the backend panel saying: “You cannot delete a Super Administrator.” To be able to do that, first you need to change the [...]
LCD VS PLASMA TVS
When choosing between plasma and LCD TV screens it’s easy to get confused and weighed down by all the techno TV babble. What is the difference between plasma and LCD? These two very different technologies offer you an incredible viewing experience in very unique ways. But forget the how and why of liquid crystal technology [...]
‘FIFA World Cup’ remains PS3 number one
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa leads the PS3 weekly chart for a second week running. Rockstar’s GTA Episodes – Tales From Liberty City is this week’s closest contender for the crown after climbing one place to second, above God Of War III which moves to third. With no new entries, only two games manage [...]
Microsoft Takes On Google With Online Suite
Microsoft is set to challenge Google in the web apps domain with the launch of its Microsoft Office 2010. Office 2010 will come with web-based versions of its Word, Power Point and OneNote, allowing users to access the productivity suite online from their browsers. Microsoft says its Office 2010 productivity suite will be more browser- [...]
Biggest Mobile websites
Mobile services and sites are predicted to be a strong online growth area in South Africa. Here are the movers and shakers in the mobile website space. Internet enabled mobile devices like smartphones and mobile media players are becoming increasingly popular in South Africa, especially with Vodacom and MTN launching technologies to support ever increasing [...]
Gmail goes down, again
Had trouble logging into Gmail today? Wondered why it is logging you out? You were among the many Gmail users whose accounts were affected by the outage that hit Gmail today. According to Web reports, Gmail crashed for a long period of time on Tuesday morning in many parts of the world. Users trying to [...]