Archive for category Easy Tips
Google Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues
Posted by ITechLog 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.
Technorati Tags: crawl, duplicate content, Google, redirect 301, rel canonical, search engine, search ranking
Open .eps files on GIMP for Windows
Posted by ITechLog 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 ITechLog 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 to your phpMyadmin [...]
Offline Blogging Tools
Posted by ITechLog 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 (clearly)
BlogDesk
Platform: Windows
BlogDesk is [...]
Synergy – share mouse and keyboard cross platform
Posted by ITechLog 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 the edge of your screen. [...]
Gnomesu – Running Applications as Root on Linux
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 ITechLog 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 [...]
3G Mobille Broadband – Huawei E156G – USB Dongle on Linux
Posted by ITechLog in Connectivity, Easy Tips, Linux on December 4th, 2008
I acquired a 3G Mobille Broadband – Huawei E156G – USB Dongle and really wanted to get it going on my Linux (Ubuntu) laptop. After much looking around and trying several unsuccessfull ways of doing it found a very easy and working solution.
Basically Linux will recognize your Huawei E156G USB Dongle and you can check [...]
