Gabriel

Category: Tools

  • Logged in as . Logout – WordPress Support forum saves the day.

    So… I was having a brutal bug with WordPress seeming to think that I was logged in when I wasn’t. I tried everything I could think of, turning off all plugins, trying different themes, looking at various database settings. Then, of course, I finally had to just Google what I was looking for. And lo…

  • WordPress comment spam solutions

    So, figured it was time to kill the comment spam. So I installed these two packages and so far, no spam has gotten through. Yay! 🙂 Bad Behavior Spam Karma 2 Both installed super easy, and already after 1 minute Spam Karma 2 caught 2 spam comments. I’ve got almost 12,000 spam comments in my…

  • Neato – Ultimate Tag Warrior: Start Here

    Neato – Ultimate Tag Warrior: Start Here Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) is a tagging plugin for wordpress. It allows storing a set of keywords (or as current slang dictates, tags) against posts that behave like categories – the tags can be displayed on a post, you can go to the archive page for a tag,…

  • Favatars, favicon avatar PHP function : Paul James

    Favatars, favicon avatar PHP function : Paul James Favatars Mix “favicon” and “avatar” and what do you get? A simple way to add avatars to your weblog posts. Link to share this: http://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2005/10/06/favatars-favicon-avatar-php-function-paul-james/

  • TipMonkies – Web-based IM client roundup

    Nice round-up of web-based IM clients. TipMonkies – Blog Archive – Web-based IM client roundup A few days ago I wrote about Meebo and people took an interest to the web-based IM client, so I decided to do a quick roundup of the available clients. You should have a somewhat modern browser for these to…

  • Firefox Screen Reader extension

    Working on some tables, was thinking about the accessibility issues and came across this linked in this discussion of Voiceover, Apple’s screen reader. CLC-4-TTS CLC-4-TTS is a cross OS compatible (Windows, Mac, Linux) collection of JavaScript functions that can be used for transforming Firefox into a self-voicing browser. This software is open source and is…

  • Beginning of the future for Christian Science Reading Rooms – WiFi to start

    NoCatNet NoCat’s goal is to bring you Infinite Bandwidth Everywhere for Free. What originally started as a community-supported 802.11b wireless network in Sonoma County, CA has grown into several projects whose purpose is to encourage the building of wireless community networks. This site is the central repository for our software, ideas, and general information. Link…

  • Internet Explorer Web Developer Toolbar

    This is very useful. It lets you see just how messed up IE’s internal model of where elements are is… A good tool indeed, excellent addition to the web designer’s toolbox. By the way, it does in fact work on Windows 2000, in case you were wondering. 🙂 It’s pretty much like the IE version…

  • Vex – A Visual Editor for XML

    Hmm, XML, java, eclipse…. buahahahahaha. OS X baby. Vex – A Visual Editor for XML Vex – A Visual Editor for XML Vex is an editor for XML documents. The “visual” part comes from the fact that Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a wordprocessor-like interface. Because of this, Vex…

  • Developing Java Applications on Mac OS X with Eclipse

    Developing Java Applications on Mac OS X with Eclipse Developing Java Applications on Mac OS X with Eclipse Java developers have quickly made Eclipse one of the most popular Java coding tools on Mac OS X. But although Eclipse is a comfortable tool to use every day once you know it, it is not easy…