Have you ever tried to log into a Windows computer for a few minutes and you finally realize that you forgot the password? There’s a way to crack the password and it doesn’t involve reformatting and reinstalling Windows. The solution is called @stake LC4 (formerly L0phtCrack), however since Symantec stopped development of L0phtcrack, I’m going [...]

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This is part two of my Windows Vista article. Part one can be found here. “It prompts me to allow or deny every two minutes!” Not true! While Vista does have a security feature that prompts you to allow certain things, it is no where near annoying as commercials make it look. Pretty much anything [...]

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Although with Vista, Microsoft has made great strides in the stability of its Windows operating system, things can still go wrong. What happens when a key driver goes missing or a system disk fails? How would you go about recovering the system and especially, all your precious data? Problem: How do you recover a damaged [...]

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We’ve all seen the Mac commercials: PC goes off to be upgraded to Vista and his return is uncertain. And when he finally does return he’s bloated with trial software like that snobby blueberry girl on Willy Wanka & The Chocolate Factory. But is this all true, or just a big exaggeration? In this article, [...]

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I recently upgraded a client’s WordPress blog to version 2.2. She had a slew of plugins which were corrupt and had to be re-installed and re-activated. It was then I discovered that quite a few were not compatible with the latest version of WordPress. So then I consulted the list of compatible plugins at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.2 [...]

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Here’s the recipe for cooking up a brand new theme for your wordpress blog: Ingredients: 1 Header Menu 1-2 Sidebar(s) 1 Main content area 1 Footer 2-3 Nice fonts 3-4 Pleasing colors 5-6 High quality background images and icons Method: If you are an expert programmer in XHTML, PHP and CSS and have good design [...]

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With all the buzz about web 2.0 and the growing open source community the importance of security is sometimes forgotten. When you want something cool and snazzy for your site and you find a open source solution, it’s easy to install the app on your site and forget about it. When the app, tool, forum, [...]

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The worst mistake I’ve made with my blog (forgedeuphoria.com/blog) was not choosing a more appropriate domain name, which can be attributed to my attitude to simply rush in and do things without thinking them through. These should be the steps taken when making a decision into which domain to buy: Select a niche or core [...]

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I was recently asked by a friend to help move her WordPress-run site to a new host. It was not just a simple matter of making a new installation of WP at the new host, but also moving old posts, and retaining the look and structure of the blog. This is something that a few [...]

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I get asked a lot, especially on the Web Connect forum and jQuery mailing list, about Ajax (not AJAX, thank you) file uploads. The XHR object in javascript cannot access file uploads, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t give your users an Ajax-like experience. Here are some options and their corresponding back end languages. [...]

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Blogs, are inherently read by Bloggers. That’s your target audience, regardless of what people say to me, I believe this. Why? Because they are the ones that interact in the vast realm of the Blogosphere. Their opinions have shaped what we call the Blog world today, be it on any platform or language. Knowing this, [...]

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You are about to launch your website. Your designer has created a great design for your site or you decided to use a free XHTML template and customized it to your liking. You think you are ready to start making money from your site. If only it was that simple. So what do you need [...]

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Most of us probably feel that our SEO skills are pretty decent, but there is always room for improvement. In a recent article, Chris Pearson gives us the Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs, where he writes: You’d think that as a result of open-source development practices, blog architectures would be pretty close [...]

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Too often this happens to everyone. Here’s the scenario – You’re writing your brand new post, you’ve just published it and you’ve put hours of work into it and you’re proud of your efforts. An hour later your host/provider has a server fart and your database and all your hard work goes down the drain. [...]

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If Google ads makes you ogle, you sure are going the right way… use Google Adsense intuitively, if you feel a strong urge to click a particular ad, more than likely, others will. Here are some quick tips that might do the trick!! Visibility of ad: Do not dump your ads right at the bottom [...]

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I am pleased to announce that I’ve taken over the development of Shawn Grimes SRG Clean Archives WordPress Plug-in. Plugin description: It’s a simple plug-in designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion. Plugin Features: It lists the Month / Year (links to that months archives), the day of the month [...]

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One of the reasons accessibility in web design is so important is because a large percentage of seniors are surfing the web. The baby boomers are approaching or are in their sixties and about 75% of them are surfing the web to get information about health issues in particular and they are also shopping big [...]

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Ask some web designers about Dreamweaver and most will tell you that anyone using it is a web design noob that wouldn’t last a minute without their precious little WYSIWYG editor. Well I’m here to say they’re dead wrong. Sure, there’s tons of people out there that got ahold of the program and created a [...]

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A while back I read an article that compared IE7 and Firefox 2 shortly after their releases. I liked the way it was done, but I’d wished that they’d included another popular browser, Opera. So since they didn’t, I am. Comments would be much appreciated. Please note that this article is a work in progress. [...]

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There has been a great deal written about how to create a successful blog. Here and here and even whole blogs written on the subject, but what really makes a successful blog? Is it crawling your way into the Technorati Top 100 and becoming an A-Lister? Is it making money from your blog and becoming a [...]

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