When you’re a geek like me and you’re forced to survive in the wild (outside of your room), you might not know what to do. Conversations can be awkward, and often lead to you striking up conversations about that shock video you saw last week online. But I find when I’m at school, surviving in [...]

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So you’ve installed Ubuntu and your system is rearing to go, but what next? How about we go adding a few bells and whistles? There are many things you can tweak on your Ubuntu desktop, let alone the applications, but a simple area that is often overlooked are the panels and their gadgets. Unlike Windows, [...]

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I recently discovered a DVD file converting software called Handbrake. Its available for Mac OS 10.5.X Windows 2000/XP/Vista Linux and you can even download the source code. Simply Place a DVD in your drive, Start Handbrake, Click the “source” icon and select the VIDEO_TS folder and click OK. It Scans the files and then allows [...]

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Many factors could make you refrain from designing sites completely in flash. Maybe you like to grab and customize free HTML templates, maybe it’s the fact that you need your content easily to be probably indexed by search engines or maybe you just don’t like flash because it has become tantamount to an inferno of [...]

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Introduction As a longtime jQuery user I was excited to take some time to read and review two new jQuery books. Packt Publishing provided me free copies of Learning jQuery and the jQuery Reference Guide. I spent most of October reading through them and making the most of my first book review experience. In short, [...]

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People have often asked me what making a website entails. What if you know nothing about web design? How much does it cost? How do you set it up? Where do you go? What do you do first? While there are thousands of tutorials on web development, most of them assume the reader already knows [...]

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Hello there Attackr.com readers and welcome to another one of my articles. Today I’ll explain how to coax the most out of your USB flash drive. Just a quick note before beginning: this guide has been written for Windows XP (my operating system) and therefore the names of certain options or menus might be different. [...]

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Today I’m going to cover how to flash DD-WRT on your Linksys wireless router. Disclaimer: I do not take responsibility for anything you do to your router. If you brick it or something else goes wrong, it’s not my fault. I’ve documented everything I’ve done in flashing my own routers however your mileage may very. [...]

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Google Pack was released in early 2006 as a pack of programs that Google deemed as essential for the PC. At the original writing of this article, Google Pack came with Adaware, Firefox, and other great tools. But for whatever reason, Google has removed them from the Google Pack download. Google Earth Have you ever [...]

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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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For those of you unfamiliar with Google Analytics, it’s a tool that logs detailed information about your visitors. More details here. How to integrate Google Analytics with your homepage or blog? 1. Sign up 2. After you have signed up, you will be asked to fill some forms. Enter your domain address (e.g. www.attackr.com), choose [...]

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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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A powerful tool in any designer’s toolbox is the ability to quickly and efficiently transform their work into a WordPress template. This ability can be used for design work intended for public release, for client’s who’d like a WordPress blog integrated with their existing design, or simply for your own use. I started working with [...]

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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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Popups are a major pain and internet security risk. They jump out and get in your way when you are browsing. Due to the use of popup blockers, many sites have stopped using them. However, there are sites with popups. These sites often tend to be on the bad side. Anyway, let’s look at popup [...]

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It’s not just my opinion that firefox is a great browser. Almost every top list of internet products contains it. It becomes better than IE right after installation. With all that you can make it much better because of a lot of great plugins. That applies not just to web development but to simple browsing [...]

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This guide is specific to WordPress, Google Analytics, and Feedburner… all free and industry standard packages. Blogging E-Metrics Simplified is a basic overview of: 1. How to implement web analytics into your blog using Google Analytics. 2. How to implement feed analytics into your blog using FeedBurner. 3. How to measure your blog’s impact using [...]

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I was doing some research on some basic rules for people commenting on forums and blogs in general and found a decent article titled Guide to weblog comments and wanted to share since we’ve all seen comments go crazy from time to time on various forums as well as on our own sites or blogs. [...]

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Color is all around us. It is such a big part of our lives, that we take it for granted. However, even if we don’t realize it, color has a huge influence on our emotions and our behavior. Same with web design. If you choose your colors right, you’ll get a result that is more [...]

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