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Posted in How to on Jul 23rd, 2007
Na 70 jaar was het slot van onze voordeur dusdanig versleten dat de bijbehorende sleutels het slot nauwelijks meer konden openen. Tijd voor vervanging dus. Via een website offertes aangevraagd en een mailtje ontvangen van “VDP inbraakbeveiliging” te Groningen (www.goedbeveiligen.nl) dat we voor een prijs opgaaf maar even moesten bellen.
Posted in How to on Dec 30th, 2006
I’ve got a nice menu on the right with pages and (post) categories. I regard my Coppermine photo album as fixed content of my website and therefore as a page. But how to add this as a page in WordPress?Â
Posted in How to on Oct 29th, 2006
My girlfriend had some troubles with her cellphone. It took a long time (2 seconds delay) to go back from the menu to the main screen. I could not find any configuration problems, but finally found that the picture she used as a background image delayed going back to the main screen. It needed to [...]
Posted in How to on Oct 19th, 2006
When you create a new user in DirectAdmin the user as default receives an email with his account details. You may give the user some extra information, translate the message to another language. Here’s howto.
Posted in How to on Oct 2nd, 2006
Coppermine is a great photo album. Unfortunately the scum of the world sends their spam to the most often used packages like Coppermine. I also started receiving spam on a Coppermine installation on one of my websites. I found a good solution in the Captcha plugin, prepared for Coppermin by Abbas Ali. After installing this, [...]
Posted in How to on Sep 30th, 2006
For your WordPress blog 2 types of Sitemaps are relevant. The first is the XML sitemap used by Google. The second is an ordinary sitemap for your visitors, which might also be used by Google by the way. But how to add them? Here’s howto.
The internet is great. But still there are things you can do in a local network that can not easily be done over the internet. Share a printer, share a folder, play a LAN game, etc. With the free virtual private network application Hamachi however, you can access your computer from anywhere on the internet [...]
Posted in How to on Sep 9th, 2006
Sometimes you want an url to be directed to another location. As php is the major webbuilding language, here’s howto redirect with PHP. 1 Create an index.php file with the following content: < ? Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" ); ?> 2 Save it on the location that needs to be [...]
Posted in How to on Aug 23rd, 2006
When you import items into Microsoft Outlook for example by synchronization, duplicates can occur. Unfortunately, there is not an option to remove duplicate items after your import. This article explains howto delete duplicate items after you complete the sync / import process.
Webbased calendars are accesible everywhere. Google is one of the best webcalendars available, but I already use Outlook as my agenda and Outlook is fine because of the integration with contacts and Outlook mail. It’s possible to export data from Google through iCal, but I want it automated. RemoteCalendars comes to the rescue. But how [...]