Archive for category Easy Tips
reCAPTCHA error
Posted by Alex Costa in Easy Tips on March 25th, 2010
Today I had a few complaints from users not being able to download PDFs from one of the sites I manage. Users were not able to get beyond the registration page which kept hanging due to an error on reCAPTCHA. The error caused the $rep->is_valid to return null. I am not sure if the problem [...]
Changing your YouTube video thumbnail
Posted by itechlog.admin in Easy Tips, ITechFeed on March 23rd, 2010
Is it possible to change a YouTube video thumbnail? The thumbnail is a still frame that represents your video. When you upload a video to YouTube, it generates 3 still images from the video to be used as thumbnails, interesting enough the default image appears to be the second still. You can use this tool [...]
Google Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues
Posted by Alex Costa in Easy Tips, Tutorials, Web Services on September 18th, 2009
Great tips on the use of Redirect 301 and rel=canonical among some other good stuff. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Buzz it up Share on Orkut share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend Technorati Tags: crawl, [...]
Open .eps files on GIMP for Windows
Posted by Alex Costa in Easy Tips, Open Source on September 18th, 2009
As usual this post is a self help note, but as it’s public I hope it helps someone else. If you want to open .eps or .ps files with GIMP on Windows you will need to install Ghostscript (download it from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/). After successful installation you will need to create an environment variable called GS_PROG [...]
Error 1062 – Duplicate entry ’2147483647′ for key 1
Posted by Alex Costa in Easy Tips, Open Source, Web Programming on July 10th, 2009
CRE Loaded was giving me the error 1062 – Duplicate entry ’2147483647′ for key 1 – when trying to add a new product. Cause: for some unexplained reason the auto_increment ID field on Table “products” has gone up to 2147483647 which is apparently the maximum number of rows permitted in an INT column. Fix: Go [...]
Offline Blogging Tools
Posted by Alex Costa in Easy Tips, Itechlog News, Linux, Wordpress on May 12th, 2009
Offline Blogging Tools let you comfortably write and effortlessly publish new entries to your blog. I personally like the easy to use Scribefire, a Firefox addon, but there are many others our there. Here is a shortlist… Scribefire Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux This is an addon for Firefox so you need to be using Firefox [...]
Synergy – share mouse and keyboard cross platform
Posted by Alex Costa in Easy Tips, Linux, Open Source, Windows on January 28th, 2009
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s). Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off [...]
Gnomesu – Running Applications as Root on Linux
Posted by Alex Costa in Easy Tips, Linux on December 8th, 2008
Sometimes (just sometimes) a Linux Desktop user needs to run a program eg: Nautilus as the root user which you can easily do with the commandline $sudo nautilus. If you have the command line shell open why not do you file management throught it? Well it’s nice to have more options like a Desktop launcher [...]
Enable DVD & Multimedia support in Ubuntu Linux
Posted by Alex Costa in Easy Tips, Linux, Multimedia on December 4th, 2008
Full DVD support on Linux is an old issue. It has to do with the Linux distros not being shipped with the w32codecs and the libdvdcss2, for legal reasons in some countries. The users must then download and install them by themselves with no clear guidance. Here are the simple steps for installing these libraries [...]
