How often do you upgrage your Wordpress System?
March 20, 2008
A Beta release (2.5) is already available for public download, would you update? What is your current Wordpress version?
This blog is using version 2.3.2, the available version when I installed in from the Hosting Control Panel. Two of my other blogs are also still using version 2.3.2 and I don’t see any need for upgrading. For me, as long as there’s no problem with my current system or there’s no new feature in the new version that interests me, I don’t need to upgrade just so I could go with the flow. If I remembered it right, the only time I upgraded was when the tag system was introduced. The new version, according to the release notes, will enable customizability of your dashboard and some other stuff.
In a nutshell: I have been working for a laptop manufacturing firm for more than 5 years now and based from our experience, everything new almost always comes with a few bugs. And most of the times, the would bugs take at least 3 months to be fixed. Sometimes it could take half a year. Sometimes forever and the developer would just discontinue the product.
How to explain Photoshop Action Scripts without causing nasal hemorrhage to your readers
March 19, 2008
Photoshop Action scripts are the not-so-geeky stuff that you make so you won’t have to repeat the same procedures again and again for multiple images. For example, you have four (4) photos and you want to put the same water mark on each of the photos, you could use Action Script functions to record all the actions or process you will make on the first photo and apply the same actions on the remaining ones without having to repeat all the actions from step 1.
Did that made your nose bleed? If yes, I will elaborate my example.
I have 4 photos (Photo A, B, C and D). I want to upload these five photos on my photoblog but first, I want to place a watermark on each of them.
How to make a professional looking product box in 7 simple steps
March 16, 2008
Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away, I made a (quasi)badge for Jojitah’s Spontaneity blog. There were those who may have liked it and may have thought I did made a massive amount of effort in creating it. Actually I did an effort but not as massive as how you may have thought. If you want to make a similar badge without having to pester me with your requests, I’ll show you how I made it in 7 simple steps.
Disclaimer: Jojitah did not pester me with requests to do the badge, I voluntarily offered my free service.
How to make a Professional looking product box in 7 simple steps:
I must warn you that the instructions below may look too techie but it’s actually not. You only have to follow the step-by-step instructions carefully. Simultaneous reading and following the instructions is the key to this activity.
1. Download the free Pro Box action script from Adobe Exchange. It’s free and here’s the quick link.
2. Unzip the files in your local folder.
3. Edit the FRONT and SIDE image files and save.
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Get your Paypal account verified with Union Bank EON Debit Card
March 9, 2008
For PayPal users in the Philippines, you might be having a lot of confusions, fears and misconceptions about having your PayPal account verified so you could lift your sending and withdrawing of funds accounts. Yes, indeed this is already possible but you have to follow all the process properly to avoid getting rejected in the end.
Actually I have a bank account and a check card from one US-based bank. When I registered with PayPal, I tried to get verified with these cards and bank account. However, due to my poor reading comprehension, I wasn’t able to follow the right instructions so the verification process was denied. Worse, the accounts were forever banned from PayPal so I had to get another credit card.
Fortunately, I heard the buzzes from the entire blogosphere saying that Paypal had already expanded their country of coverage so Philippines is now part of the PayPal domains. Then it was said that EON debit cards from Union Bank could be used to get your PayPal accounts verified. And here’s how we did got verified.
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Use of textarea for quick code sharing
March 2, 2008
Sometimes, when you want to build a link empire or a link train, you may want to consider giving your followers’ lives easier by giving them a little spoon-feeding. Like for an instance, I have a very creative logo here that I want your readers to post on their blogs to pester everyone until they notice what you’re saying. You may want to make it easier for them to follow suit. You know, click-copy-paste.
Like this. Click on the text below, it will be highlighted automatically and when embedded on your blog pages, it will display the Kubix Cube logo below with a link to this blog. Press Ctrl+C to copy the highlighted text.
The form uses the textarea HTML tag. And what does the codes inside it do is what we’re going to elaborate next.
1. textarea tag – this creates the entire form containing the codes to display.
2. onClick – this is an javascript behavior wherein the use of “this.select()” attribute will allow the entire text to be highlight on mouse click.
3. readonly – an attribute that prevents the embedded text to be modified
4. the rest are self explanatory.
So here’s the complete codes:
<textarea onClick=”this.select();” style=”width:350px;height:100px;font-family:tahoma;font-size:12px;” readonly><a href=”insert the target link here” title=”insert the mouse over text here“><img border=”0″ src=”insert the image source here“/></a></textarea>
