Archive for October, 2010
How to List all Category IDs from a WordPress MySQL Databese
In my day to day work, one of my jobs is to setup word-press themes for my clients. Yesterday, I was setting up and configuring a theme that shows latest post from each category in the middle column. The site was over an year old and there were a lot of categories accumulated over time.
Theme had an option where I can put all the categories that I don’t want to display. The theme developer saved time by no providing an interface to select / remove categories. the lazy developer just put a text box where I had to list unwanted categories in comma separated fashion. 
Now the challenge for me here was to ask the client which categories they wish to exclude. But in order to do that, I had to provide them a list of all categories. I could simply go to category section of wordpress admin dashboard but catagory ids are not listed there. so I had to fire up phpMyAdmin and look for a solution in MySQL database of wordpress. Read More
5 Must Have Chargers for iPhone 4 Owners
Isn’t it the most irritating feeling when you’re having a conversation with your friend and i Phone 4 battery runs out? Well, for most of us it is since we love this our i Phone 4. Therefore, to keep your fun maximized, we have identified various options which would help you charge your phone if you’re at home, in the car, or on to the go.
1. Beam Box Mili Power Pack
With the use of this device, it will allow you to use your iPhone up to a period of 16 hours if you’re on the go. This is a recommended product for those who are often travel, for instance if you are traveling and have no way of charging your phone. With the sleek look, it does not ruin the physical appearance of your i Phone. This device would cost you around $70 depending where you purchase it from.
2. Belkin Tune Cast Auto
With the help of this device, you are not only allowed to charge your iPhone but also choose your favorite track on the radio to be played on your car stereo. This is a car charger and is helpful for those who wish to charge their phones while driving. For instance, if you forgot to charge your phone at night and have to rush to work the next day then you could charge it while on your way to work. It does not occupy much space and could be carried anywhere. The cost for this is up to $80.
Top 20 iPhone Apps for Christmas
Winter started and this season is always exciting for me because you can have two great joys in this season first one is Christmas and second is New Year. So I thought to share something with you people for this up coming Christmas. Here I had put together 21 of the most popular and fun Christmas themed apps. Just pick up from the App Store to relish the joy of Christmas.
Here are the 21 most popular iPhone Christmas Apps:
1 – iTree
iTree is a similar like snowglobe in the palm of your hand. This app works all around the year and you can see your tree growing. Same like snowglobe just shake your iPhone to animate the snow and rotate it to make the snow fall different directions same as real time physics. Read More
Optimize Your PC part 2
Tired by your computer’s slow performance? Then you need to optimize your Windows PC. This will improve the performance and efficiency of your computer.
Note: Only the users of Windows Vista and 7 can optimize their PC.
Removal of unnecessary Startup Programs:
Many software runs in the background for no good reason thus making your computer work slow. Only anti viruses are supposed to be run all the time. So our first step will be to stop these programs from working when not needed. The performance benefit is high with a medium level. The main aim is to reduce the number of programs running during startup. Just follow these steps:
- Press and hold down the Windows key.
- Then press R. This will open the ‘run’ prompt.
- Type msconfig and then click OK.
- A system Configuration window will pop out.
- Click on the ‘Start up’ Tab. This will show all the programs on the Windows.
- If the box is checked, then the it means that the program was run.
- Uncheck the following programs: Google Toolbar Notifier, Jusched, Acrotray, WinZip, Quick Pick, Qttask and iTunes Helper.
- These are some of the common items that are of no use to the RAM. Just uncheck them and click Apply.
- Exit the window and restart your computer.
- Make sure to disable as many items as possible. Read More
Win Prizes from Twitter
Twitter is the best online marketing tool and every day a variety of competitions and contests surface on Twitter. You can easily win great prizes from these contests and competitions. Recently, different contests have given away great variety of prizes that range from notebooks to gas cards and prize money of $25, 000 for new car. You can take part in as many contests as you want without spending a dime from your pocket.
The things that are required from you are patience and some strategy. Once you start winning cool prizes from Twitter, then you won’t be able to stop yourself. To get exciting prizes, you need to follow a strategy, here you go.
1: Check Your Twitter Skills
First of all, you need to assess your Twitter usage ability. That’s because almost 50% of users leave Twitter within 30 days of creating an account on Twitter. That happens mainly because of their lack of solid reason to tweet. If you are a Twitter quitter, then you can start tweeting again for contests by considering it as an incentive for you. Read More
10 Plugins To Improve Your WordPress Blog Experience
WordPress is a blog publishing application that is used by millions of people worldwide. It started off as a mere platform for writing stuff, but now is a full fledged business tool, that has more than half of the world’s blogs depending on it. It offers many plugins and widgets that can be downloaded for making the blogs look attractive.
There is one problem here. These plugins affect the performance of our blogs. They make it slow by bloating the blogs. We need to make our blogs user-friendly so that many peoply can read it without having any problem.
TOP 10 Plugins for WordPress:
Many of us download free plugins for our site. But these make our site work slow thus less people visit our site and read blogs. Here are the top 10 wordpress plugins that you can download to your wordpress blog and let your readers enjoy reading blogs, without affecting the speed of the blog.
1) Light Box 2:
- This effective plugin helps in overlaying images by using Colorbox.
- You can view clear and large images without opening the picture on a new tab.
- You can also auto-lightbox all the images. Read More
Cheap Gadgets As Christmas Gifts
Previously we gave you a list on the top gadgets of 2010 as Christmas gifts. The list did have some pretty expensive stuff, so today we thought to give you a review on some gadgets that are just below the range of $200. This means that you can still give a good gadget, at a budgeted price. Here goes some of the best Christmas gadget gifts, just below $200.
Kindle
Got a bookworm friend? Then you can make their Christmas memorable by presenting them with the Kindle eBook reader. Yes! An eBook is the technical way to read books! Read More
What Is Google Reader?
Technology is advancing every second, making life easy for us. The world has become very advanced, competent and fast, hence in order to stay up to date we have to upgrade ourselves technologically. Google reader is a free reader on the web for RSS feeds, that are found in nearly all sites.
What are RSS feeds?
RSS feeds are a simplified view of Web content. It concentrates on text, pictures and videos. This makes it easy for a viewer to read casually.
Subscribing to RSS feeds
You can easily subscribe to these feeds with the help of Google reader by just typing them into your browser’s address bar. It enables you to read simply as you read your emails. Google reader is not the only reader available but it is surely one of the best available. Here are a few tips and tricks on how you can make the use of Google reader more productive.
Finding RSS Feeds
RSS feeds can be found on every website. Read More
Best 2010 Gadgets As Christmas Gifts
Tired of giving those same boring Christmas presents? Then this year, try something new! Give cool gadgets as Christmas gifts, instead of the traditional stuff. Not only will this make you a unique gift bearer, but you might just have loved ones gape with excitement! Keeping this in mind, I’ve compiled some best gadgets gifts this Christmas.
The Boogie Board
Now this is an extremely cool gadget to give someone who constantly needs a paper pad and a pen/pencil in hand. The Boogie Board is a writing LCD tablet that completely eliminates the use of pen and paper. Whether it’s a school kid scribbling notes, a busy office assistant, an organized housewife, all can benefit from this amazing device. It is a device that can be used over 50,000 times and is a durable, energy saving device. Not only that, its stylish, thin and compact. You can buy this product online through Amazon or ebay, at just the cost of $39.99.
Looxcie
Got anyone who loves recording videos? Then Looxcie is the perfect family gift for Christmas. This is a digital camcorder, but it is not your standard cam. It’s actually a small device that resembles a Bluetooth set, only instead it acts as a video recorder. You don’t need to hold a camcorder now to record videos; you just simply have to wear it as a ear piece! Pretty convenient huh? Available at the retail price $199.99 this is one Christmas gift that will capture the festive season remarkably. Read More
Google URL Shortener
Goo.gl, the Google URL shortener, is counted as the most stablest, shortest and fastest URL shortener introduced by Google last December. It originated in competition with Google’s Bit.ly, and can shorten any link on the web.
Though there are many URL shorteners on the web available with plenty of features, but the Goo.gl appears to be most reliable and fastest URL shortener on web. People when choose Goo.gl to use, know that it is worth working, and it will definitely work in great way. As the Goo.gl provides features as well. When you shorten any URL with Goo.gl, the shortened URL is safe from all malwares and viruses that can affect your URL content. The basic quality of Goo.gl is mainly based on three objectives.
Security:
Goo.gl shortens the links under strong automated security detection used as behind the scenes of Gmail.
Stability:
The Goo.gl URL shortener has been always processed since its origination to make it most reliable, stablest and fastest URL shortener. Read More
