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If you want to make your document more safe, you can use this trick to print out your documents using invisible ink from your inkjet printer. But first, things that you need are:

  1. Empty inkjet printer catridge
  2. 4 invisible ink pens
  3. UV light

Ok, I already have the things needed. So what’s next? Watch this video.

I was trying to setup WHMCS, a complete client management solution at localhost at the office. This thing needs cURL enabled before I can proceed to install the script. Because WHMCS is new to me and because my boss wants me to integrate WHMCS in their new website, so I need to use it and study how it works. But first, I must handle the cURL problem.

xampp.gifXAMPP as some of you may already know, it is an application that you can use to make your computer acts like a server. It is really useful if you want to play with PHP files, test scripts, do mySQL queries, etc. You also can run Wordpress in XAMPP. Almost of the time I use XAMPP to develop and test my Wordpress themes locally.

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Some of you may already know what is RSS feed and know how to subscribe them. But I’m sure some of you don’t know what exactly RSS feed and how you can use them as a loyal reader or visitor. But I will not discuss what is RSS here because you can learn it by asking Mr Google or you can read directly from here.

So, in this post I will teach you or I will guide you on how to subscribe RSS feed. But first, you need to get a RSS link and a feed aggregator or some peoples call them as a feed reader.

To get RSS link, usually it marks with these images or just a text like this.

RSS Feed

Just copy the URL and paste it in your feed reader. In this how-to, I will use two softwares as for the example. FeedReader (freeware) and FeedDemon (shareware). So, we will have two sections here.

Let’s start our how-to with FeedReader. :)

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You no need to buy expensive liquid or foam to repair scratched discs. All you need is just toothpaste. Yes, I said toothpaste. With the toothpaste, you can fix the scratches on the discs and get the shiny back.

Here how you can do it by yourself to repair the scratched discs.

  1. Put toothpaste on the disc surface.
  2. Apply the toothpaste all over the scratches.
  3. Rinse with water.
  4. Dry it with clean cloth.
  5. Done!

As demo, watch the video below.

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Because my Paypal account has been verified, so I’m looking on how to create a Paypal donation button. Ha3. After created my own Donation button, here, I want to share with you how you can make one to put on your website. But first, I assume you already have your own Paypal account. Otherwise, you can register for free at their register page . Ok, lets move on.

  1. Login to your Paypal account
  2. Go to Merchant Tools and click on Website Payments Standard
  3. Next step, click on Feature List under Website Payments Standard category
  4. Under Payment Processing Options, click on Set it Up to setup your Donations button
  5. You can leave everything (Optional) to blank
  6. Choose your Donation button.
  7. Click on Create Button Now and paste the code given into your site template.
  8. Done!

So…you have learnt something from here right? Why don’t you donate $1USD for me. Lol… I’m just kidding. But I still want to put the $1USD donate button below this post. Click on it if you want to donate to me. :d [tags]paypal, donation button, donation[/tags]


First and foremost, I would like to say thank you very much for those who gave me comments and suggestions to my last post. Here, I found two ways how you can prevent someone from hotlinking your files and eating up your bandwitdh.

1st Method - CPanel HotLink Protection

cpanel_logo.gifIf you use CPanel, you can set and block peoples from hotlinking your files with HotLink Protection option. Just login into your CPanel and click on the HotLink Protection icon. In the HotLink Protection page, you can set which urls you allow for access, file types that you want to protect, url to redirect the hotlinked files and option to allow direct request.

For more clear view about this, I have prepare you with a flash video on how to use the HotLink Protection option. I found this video from my hosting provider FAQ page.

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In Internet Explorer (IE), transparent background image in PNG format will appear to be gray and not transparent as it should be. That’s why you need this fix to repair the image when it comes in IE.

To fix it, you can use AlphaImageLoader filter. See below for an example.

Code (html4strict)
  1.  
  2. <head></head>
  3. <body bgColor="blue">
  4. <!– This DIV is the target container for the image.  –>
  5. <DIV ID="oDiv" STYLE="position:absolute; left:140px; height:400; width:400;
  6.      filter: progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(
  7.      src=’image.png’, sizingMethod=’scale’);" >
  8. </DIV>
  9. </body>
  10. </html>
  11.  

[via Microsoft Support]

yahoo-statusYahoo! Messenger is a well known instant messenger client where people use to chat with their family, friends or with other peoples. It also includes an option which we can set our own custom status message to be displayed beside our name in our friend’s messenger buddy list.

Old custom status messages will be replaced by the new one. That’s why Yahoo! does not include options to delete the status message history. But some people want to delete the status messages but they don’t know how.

Clear/Edit YahooMessenger Status History is a small utility coded with VisualBasic that will clear out your custom status messages. You can select which Yahoo! user ID in your computer that you want to edit and start change or delete the status messages for the ID. And you also can changing available custom status messages from the drop down list in your messenger. [tags]yahoo, yahoo messenger, messenger, tool, software[/tags]

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Download Clear/Edit YahooMessenger Status History

Sometimes, we can’t delete certain files because they are currently in use by another software or process. Each time we try to delete the in-use file, Windows will give a warning like this:

So how we can delete it? There are three ways that we can use to delete the in-use file.

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My Wordpress xmlrpc.php file been blocked by my hosting due to some security issues. And because of that, incoming trackbacks will get 403 forbidden error. Thats why even you have linked back to my posts, there will no trackbacks appear in the comments.

To fix the problem, Techgurls had make a post about how to unblock xmlrpc.php from your website hosting. Just put this into your .htacess file and upload it in your root.

<Files xmlrpc.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

Let see how many trackbacks I will get after I upload the .htaccess file. :p