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    PS3 Hacked Again and Again!

    Some time ago, I posted about the PS3 being hacked by a GeoHot (see PS3 Hacked!). Sony answered by several firmware updates targeted stopping the hacks, one of which removed the “Other OS” capability which allowed users to install Linux on their PS3s (see New [...]

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    Change the look of the Popularity tab in Arras’ Tabbed Widget

    After upgrading to WP 3.0 and Arras 1.4.3, I also re-arranged some of its layout – most notably, I stopped displaying the Featured posts in the Tabbed widget and replaced it with the Most Popular. There was no sense of having the featured posts displayed [...]

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    Upgrading the site to WP 3.0

    WordPress 3.0 has been out for some time now and it is supposed to offer a very large number of improvements over the old version. I hesitated to upgrade right away because I wanted to wait for all the bugs between WP3.0 and the Arras theme [...]

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    WP-Gallery2 Plugin v0.8.1

    A couple of day ago, a user (yeah, someone is actually using the plugin) reported a problem with the WP-Gallery2 plugin where he was getting the following error: Warning: substr_compare() [function.substr-compare]: The length cannot exceed initial string length <path>/wp-content/plugins/wp-gallery2/lib/gallery.php on line 43 Line 43 in the gallery.php [...]

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    Fix for displaying Gravatars in Arras’s Tabbed Widget

    Today I noticed that the Tabbed Sidebar widget that comes with the Arras theme does not display Gravatars correctly in its “Comments” tab. Gravatars of local registered users show up fine but any other come up as the default avatar. It turns out that the fix [...]

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    Notification when your dynamic IP changes

    I am sure I am not the only person out there who is running a website (or some kind of externally accessible server) on their home machine. I am also sure that I am not the only one doing the above with an Internet service [...]

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    WP Backup script with encryption support

    Version 0.4.0 of the WP Backup script adds several new security features to the script: Password protection – allows the user to add a password to the BackupFile. The password is used when extracting data from the backup. While the password will be required when extracting [...]

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    Using more AJAX calls for WP-Gallery2 pages

    Some time ago, I added a feature to the WP-Gallery2 plugin which would allow the plugin to load the galleries and images on a page through AJAX calls. The reason behind the feature was that I wanted the user to be presented with the page [...]

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    Version 0.3.6 of the WordPress Backup Script is out

    I have put up the next version of the WordPress Backup script. This new version (0.3.6) adds a new header version, which includes a new field – comment. The comment field will allow the user to add a comment to each of the generated backups. The [...]

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    Fancybox jQuery plugin added to WP-Gallery2 Plugin

    It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything related to the WP-Gallery2 plugin but there hasn’t been much activity anyway. I’ve been busy trying to mod and tweak the new Arras 1.4.2 theme that I updated the site to. Last weekend, I added the ability to [...]

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