Category Archives: Tips and tricks

Steps to learn Ruby on Rails

I have pretty sucessfully taught myself Ruby on Rails from scratch with no real help from any one resource or book – in this post I will show you in some steps on how to learn the basics of Ruby … Continue reading

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Brother MFC 215c printing in Suse 10.2

This may be very specific all of a sudden, but I've been having a few problems installing my Brother MFC 215c printer on Linux. To aid anyone that needs to know, this is how ya do it…  Download the CUPS … Continue reading

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Mod_rewrite underscores as dashes in URLs

At work I was faced with a problem — to rewrite all the URLs of a website that have underscores in, to dashes. This is to aid a painful transition to manage the website with the MODx php CMS. Here … Continue reading

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Google Sitemap template for Movable Type

I got annoyed that all the current Google happy site maps for Movable Type out there are not complete, and do not span you're entire site's pages… therefore I made another one. Feel free to take it and play, so … Continue reading

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How to write better Google ads

The following is a list of the easiest and strongest ways to make you Google Adwords more effective: Plan the adThis may sound obvious, but so many people don't do it. Plan the ad's words and selling point carefully before making the … Continue reading

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XML-RPC pinging sites

Bloggers… add these addresses to your list of pinging services to help get your traffic up. http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://1470.net/api/ping http://api.feedster.com/ping http://api.feedster.com/ping.php http://api.moreover.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping http://bblog.com/ping.php http://bitacoras.net/ping http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc http://blogmatcher.com/u.php http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://blogupdate.org/ping http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc http://coreblog.org/ping/ http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt http://ping.amagle.com/ http://ping.bitacoras.com http://ping.blo.gs/ … Continue reading

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How to synchronise iPods with Amarok

It has always been tricky to find a way to sync ipods in Linux, but I’ve found a way. 1. Get Amarok (version >= 1.4.4) 2. Make sure you have libipod installed – this allows iPod file functions. 3. Initialise … Continue reading

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Reduce spam with Guerrilla Mail

Found this service: www.guerrillamail.com You create a temporary email address which expires in 15 mins for your use on websites which need verification etc.

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Dual-head nVidia powered displays on openSuse linux: Simple!

Recently I told you that I was scrapping Windows. Well a few weeks down the line, I had a few problems with my multi-headed setup with my graphics card – the nVidia Geforce 7600 GT. I installed the new version … Continue reading

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8 simple ways to improve your website

The following is a brief explanation of how to optimise web content for search engines such as google, msn etc… Call-to-Action Never have a link saying ‘Click here!’. Always have a links that say: ‘More info on blah blah’. Make … Continue reading

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