I coded all my themes and CSS manually by using EditPlus 2, by hand. But when coded in text editor, your code might unstructureable and will slow down your site. That is why you need something that can optimize and tidy up your files.

Here has come a website called Clean CSS. Clean CSS is a nice utility that will tidy up your CSS file and will optimize it to make your site load faster. For an example, instead of

padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 5px;

Clean CSS will tidy it into like this

padding: 10px 5px 10px 5px;

Beside that, Clean CSS will remove all unnecessary things and will pack your CSS file into smaller package.

Speed Up Your Site: Optimize your CSS [via Daily Blog Tips][tags]clean css, css, cascading stylesheet[/tags]

Do you still remember my post about Thinkglish.com? Well, I got an email this morning from Adriana Koeneke. She is one of the staff who works in English180.com marketing department.

In her email, she told me that Thinkglish.com is now known as English180.com. Everything are still the same but just the domain name has changed. She said, this new domain name is more easier for peoples to find them.

The strategy method used by English180.com can also be implemented for those who are want to buy a domain name. Choose domain name that has good keywords, easy to remember and something that related to you or your website — like my site. :p [tags]english, online, english10, thinkglish[/tags]

I have a project that I want you, your friends, your friend’s friends, your friend’s friend’s friends, or anybody to participate in. The project that I talking about is, Wordpress Tips & Tricks Collection.

Let me briefing it first. What exactly that I want to do is I want to combine all Wordpress tips and tricks around the blogosphere into one big collection (collection of links). So, Wordpress newbie or beginner or maybe advanced users can learn all those tips and tricks by using the collection that I will produce.

Phase 1 – The Gathering
For this project, there will be three phases. The first phase is The Gathering. In this phase, I will collect all Wordpress tips and tricks around the blogosphere as many as I could. But to do that by my own is really tough. There are plenty tips and tricks out there. That’s why I’m asking you to join me in this project. But how?

You can help me by pingback (trackback) your Wordpress tips and tricks to this post. I’m sure you know how to pingback your post, don’t you? Lol… This phase will start today (27th March 2007) and will end on next Tuesday (3rd April 2007).

Phase 2 – The Sorting
The next phase will be, The Sorting. I think I can do this part alone where I need to sort all of the tips and tricks into their categories (if any). And if the tips or tricks similiar/same with the another, maybe I will only choose one. But one thing that I want you to keep in mind is, make sure that the tips or tricks that you submit is made by your own. It will save me a lot of time. :d

Phase 3 – The Release
And the last phase is The Release. Once I finished sort all the links, I will publish them up here. Hopefully I can release the collection on 9th April 2007.

The Benefits
Ok, as a reader, you will learn new things. I’m not sure how many links will be in the collection but I’m sure it will takes you times to finish reading all of them.

And as the contributor, there are no rewards that I can give you but you will get some traffics and backlinks. Thats all I can think right now.

Well, if you have any ideas or suggestions, you can drop them in the comment form below. But don’t forget to tell this to your friends. We want to make a big collection of Wordpress Tips & Tricks, so we need as many as possible contributors that we can get. Better start pingging now.[tags]project, wordpress project, tips & tricks[/tags]

Some may have noticed but they do not know how to do it. Or maybe they don’t bother enough with it.

By default, in Wordpress, your post urls will be displayed by using it’s post id. But with permalinks, you can beautify your urls with something more meaningable. Instead by using post id number like this,

http://www.cypherhackz.net/?p=592

you can change it to something like this

http://www.cypherhackz.net/archives/2007/03/25/beautify-your-urls-with-permalinks/

But how do I do that? Here I will show you how.

1. First, go to your Options and click on Permalinks tab
2. There, you will see, 4 common options that you can choose from. And of course, by default, the Default option is selected
3. If you want to change your post urls to like mine, you can use this structure under Custom option.
   

   /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

4. Then, click Update Permalink Structure

Actually, what that structure do is, the url will be transformed into according the structure tags we use.

/archives – this will be your archives folder (virtually)
%year% – the year of the post been published. Eg: 2007
%month% – the month of the post been published. Eg: 03
%day% – the day of the post been published. Eg: 25
%postname% – the post title. Eg: beautify-your-urls-with-permalinks

There are more structure tags that you can choose from. All of the structure tags can be found at Wordpress Codex – Using Permalinks.

Btw, do you mind to share your permalink structure with us? You can do that by post it by using the comment form below.[tags]permalinks, tutorial, tips[/tags]

Well, its kinda weird when I first read the article about the contest. And the prize will be a fully loaded MacBook Pro.

The organizer, CanSecWest, will host two MacBook Pro computers with default Apple installation. And the first person who can break into the system with their unique exploits will bring the computer home.

The contest will take place at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver starting April 18. And I’m wondering if any Malaysians want to participate in the contest.

Hacking contest takes aim at Apple [via SecurityFocus] [tags]apple, hacking, exploit[/tags]

It is not cool when your Auto-Teller Machine (ATM) card got confiscated by the machine. More worst when you found out your account balance is $9.54 because someone had stolen your money by using your confiscated card.

But how do they do it? You will know the answer when you watch this image slide (view at Scribd).

So, if your ATM card got stuck, make sure you check whether it is really got swollen by the machine or someone else want to do this trick on you. Better watch out. :-s

How thieves hack into an ATM [via HongKiat] [tags]atm, auto teller machine, thief[/tags]

Today is 24th March 2007 and for those who already know, today is the Shutdown Day.

I voted for “I can” but when the day comes, I can’t turn off my PC and I still online till now. And I want to tell you that, this computer has not been shutdown since 2 days ago. Ho3.

So, how about you? Shut it off or keep it on? Hmm…let me guess. I think you are one of those who vote for “I cannot” cause you are still online, right? ;)) [tags]shutdown, pc, shutdown day[/tags]

I just finished make a new theme for my personal blog. I named it CypherFS Orange. Why orange? Because I use orange as its main colour. Lol…

Actually I can finish up this theme earlier but because of I was busy with my stuffs, my studies, so I had to put a side the development and focus on my works. But know what, I’m almost forgot about the theme until I visited my friend’s website. He is also just created his new theme and his theme is kinda clean and smart.

Btw guys, I need your opinion about this new theme. I’m glad to hear your opinions, suggestions or crticics, so I can improve it for my next theme (hopefully). [tags]wordpress, themes, cypherfs orange[/tags]

Did you know, you can rename your WindowsXP Start button text to something else? Some of you may already know that you can do that by edit your Explorer.exe file and change some value in your registry setting. But here comes an easy way to do that.

StartBtn Renamer is a simple utility that you can use to change your WindowsXP Start button text. With this Delphi coded tool, all you have to do is just type in the word that you want to use and click on Rename It! button. It is much much easier than edit it by using Resource Hacker right? [tags]windows, windows xp, xp, tips, how to[/tags]

[via TechBuzz]

Ready with your oxygen tank? Because we are going to Intrusion Detection pool, to dive, to swim, to know what is Intrusion Detection really is.

Based from Wikipedia, Intrusion Detection system is a system that will detects threats to computer system mainly come through the Internet. In early when the Internet is not well-known by peoples, this Intrusion Detection is not take serious by security expert. But when the Internet became popular, the implementation of this system is really important.

To know more about Intrusion Detection, there are many sources available on the Net but many of them are old and not cover nowadays threats. But one of IT Security staff had email me that they had published an article, Dive Into Intrusion Detection that cover every things about Intrusin Detection. Their article is easy to understand. [tags]intrusion detection, id, system[/tags]