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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Warning: Shortcodes are affected by Trac ticket 6444, which should be applied to WordPress 2.5.1. First I touched on the topic in my first impressions of WordPress 2.5. Then I whined a little about the tickets relating to them, and eventually I released my Google Maps Plugin that uses them. In the end, WordPress’s new [...]

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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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If you’re really long in the tooth, you’ll recall when Microsoft introduced the undo command in Word for DOS. This little piece of bacon-saving magic was one of the great milestones in user-friendly software development. It’s taken a while for browsers to catch up with the delights of undo. Of course, the need for an [...]

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Recently I convinced my brother to move from a hosted WordPress.com blog that was doing rather well, to a self-hosted WordPress blog. After all, I had the hosting in place, web hosts offer so much nowadays that you can’t use more than a small percent of it. Not to mention he had a chance to [...]

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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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WordPress has a built-in visual editor that you can use if you want to when writing posts. It has been my experience and that of several of my clients who use WordPress that this visual editor can really mess your post up. It can screw up your perfectly valid code and there is a better [...]

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So the Apple iPhone has been out for a little over a week now but many BlackBerry users are not wanting to shell out $600.00 USD for a new toy that doesn’t seem to handle email to well. Keep in mind, this is my opinion about iPhone’s and email, so your mileage may very. I [...]

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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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In March, Apple released the much anticipated Apple TV, which allows you to stream media files from your computer and view them on your television (along with several other features). If you don’t want to stream, you can also store the media files on the unit’s hard drive. The current price of the unit (which [...]

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Once, I got a mail through my site’s contact form asking: “Are you a professional or just a freelancer?” I got back to him, telling him that I was a professional freelancer, but never heard from him again! The point is, quite often, and especially where I live, freelancers are merely poor cousins of the [...]

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We talk a lot about semantic and valid HTML. What people tend to forget are the structure of their HTML code. If you take a look at the source code of ten random sites, chances are that nine of them are very messy €“ source code-wise. Is it worth spending time on structuring it probably? [...]

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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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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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Have you ever had to deal with crazy symbols when using special characters, like the Scandinavian Æ, Ø and Å? Well, you can solve the problem in many ways, but one thing that works 99.9% of the time is to open your .html, .php og .whatever document in Notepad (the classical windows text editor) and [...]

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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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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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Web design would be nothing to where it is at now without graphics. Many designs use either photos or digital content, often a mixture of both. It is important to try to experiment with photo type web design. If you are new to photography, like the author, you should try taking some pictures. Take pictures [...]

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Just a couple of weeks ago I posed a question on my most frequented forum. The question was what to do when your in that rut. In my case, the rut I was talking about, was the lack of creativity. Meaning all my designs where starting to look the same, and lack that inspired flare, [...]

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