Programming using a mobile phone

May 6, 2012 in Uncategorized

As an experiment, I tried web PHP programming using my Samsung Galaxy Y Pro. It has after all a QWERTY keypad, and the Google Play store hosts several editors and FTP clients that seens to help me in this regard. I am trying this so that I won’t waste time being stuck somewhere I cannot [...]

Coming Soon: Dead Simple PrettyPhoto Plug-in

April 13, 2012 in Uncategorized

Integrating PrettyPhoto in your WordPress site can now be dead simple, with Dead Simple PrettyPhoto Plug-in! Soon  

How to remove annoying “#!prettyPhoto/0/” string from URL?

April 10, 2012 in Javascript, jQuery, Technology

From: http://forums.no-margin-for-errors.com/discussion/1644/how-to-remove-annoying-prettyphoto0-string-from-url/p1 If you click on a prettyPhoto-enabled image, the URL will be appended with something like #prettyPhoto/0/: The solution is to add deeplinking: false in your prettyPhoto activation, like so: jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery(“a[rel^='prettyPhoto']“).prettyPhoto( { deeplinking: false }); });  

PrettyPhoto instructions FAIL

April 10, 2012 in Uncategorized

I spent one hair-pulling frustrating hour trying to make PrettyPhoto to work. For the unfamiliar, PrettyPhoto is a jQuery library that is used to make your images pop-up full screen when clicking on a thumbnail version in your site, similar to what lightbox and thickbox has to offer. According to their website, making PrettyPhoto work [...]

How to prevent WordPress Subscribers from editing their profile

February 26, 2012 in Uncategorized

Put this into your functions.php (or if you are a bit anal, create separate plug-in for this one): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 add_action(’personal_options_update’, ‘manpower_no_subscriber_change_password’);   function manpower_no_subscriber_change_password($user_id) { //do not do anything for authors or higher if(user_can($user_id, ‘edit_posts’)) return;   //comment this out if you just [...]

Chronicles: WordPress – how to limit view of author only to those articles that he created

February 26, 2012 in Chronicles, Wordpress

Note: Chronicles are entries wherein I have a problem to solve, I do not know the solution yet, and I log all the steps that I did in order to achieve the solution. Note that due to the nature of these type of posts, these will be unstructured,  unorganized, and heck, I may not even [...]

Disabling the touchpad in HP Pavilion DM1

February 20, 2012 in Uncategorized

Do you see that weird indention on the upper-left corner on your touchpad? Double-tapping on that part will disable your touchpad. If your touchpad is disabled, a red/orange LED will light up nearby.   This hand icon with a red slash will be displayed, signalling that you have successfully disabled the touchpad. Not very intuitive [...]

Changing brightness on HP Pavilion DM 1

February 19, 2012 in Uncategorized

After purchasing an HP Pavilion DM 1, I immediatly noticed the fluctuating brightness of the screen, especially when changing tabs in a web browser. I really find this annoying, so I searched for the net for solutions to this. I found a tip regarding “disabling vari bright on dm1z” (apparently it seems to work both [...]

Shoutout: SD card removed unexpectedly – Samsung Galaxy Y Pro

February 3, 2012 in Uncategorized

I’m pretty sure I am not the only one experiencing the problem, am I? I just purchased my Samsung Galaxy Y Pro not a month ago, and after a week or so the SD card gets automatically “removed unexpectedly”. I am not sure if this is a hardware issue or a software issue. I usually [...]

Make your WordPress mobile-ready with WP Touch!

January 21, 2012 in Uncategorized

Ever since I got my new android phone, I visit this site every once in a while just to check. I can’t help but notice that the layout is not very “mobile-friendly” – the page is too wide, the text is too small, and it is really a pain to navigate. Good thing I stumbled [...]