Category Archives: Web Development

Google Search Lucky

Posted on January 23, 2012 by W

Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search in Google Chrome Do you want to use Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search in Google Chrome? It’s easy using the custom search engines. In Google Chrome click the wrench icon and then choose prferences next … Continue reading →

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Make YSlow work with Firefox 9.0

Posted on January 22, 2012 by W

YSlow won’t work with Fire Fox 9 because it requires Firebug to work. And the latest versions of Firebug, 1.8, 1.9, and 1.10, do not work with YSlow. Until Yahoo gets around to updating their plugin, use this method to … Continue reading →

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Setting Nagios host check frequency and Nagios default check interval

Posted on January 22, 2012 by W

With nagios (nagios3), the normal check interval is set to 5 minutes, and the retry is set to 1 minute. If your services are not that critical, you can increase the default check interval, perhaps from five minutes (or 600 … Continue reading →

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Elinks User Agent Override

Posted on January 22, 2012 by W

To manually set the useragent for the e-links web browser, edit this file: ~/.elinks/elinks.conf The syntax for setting or overriding the user agent is something like this: set protocol.http.user_agent = “Firefox/2.0.0.4″ Or possibly this for a more realistic agent string: … Continue reading →

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If This Then That and your Privacy

Posted on January 13, 2012 by W

Here is a little chart showing “If This Then That” and your facebook privacy. Guess it needs a lot of items to work, but wow.

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Use Google Chrome as a Screensaver

Posted on January 12, 2012 by W

You can use Google Chrome‘s –kiosk mode to create a full-screen screensaver of sorts. This might be good if you have a webpage or intranet page you’d like to display. Here’s how I did it for a windows computer: Create … Continue reading →

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Fix “Post Types Order” plugin error with HTTPS

Posted on January 12, 2012 by W

The WordPress Plugin Post Types Order by NSP CODE is helpful in as it allows you to Order Posts and Post Types Objects using a Drag and Drop Sortable javascript capability But unfortunately the plugin does not work with wordpress … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome: Disable Automatic Updates

Posted on January 12, 2012 by W

Are you tried of Google Chrome automatically installing updates? You can disable it on both Windows and Mac machines: Windows Machines Open registry editor. Locate: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update Add a new DWORD value named DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue and set it to 1 to disable … Continue reading →

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What are the different Google Bot User Agents?

Posted on January 10, 2012 by W

There are several Googlebots with different User-agents. Here is a short list of what they are, and what they are used for: Googlebot : crawls pages for our web index and Google News Googlebot-Mobile : crawls pages for our mobile … Continue reading →

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Most Common User Agents

Posted on January 3, 2012 by W

Have you ever wondered what Most Common User Agents are? Often times people will post a list on their site, which soon becomes outdated. So, I decided I would create a list of the Most Common User Agents, which is … Continue reading →

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