adobe introduced their down-loader which downloads & installs the new version of adobe reader. This is frustating many times as we may need to install the application from the system and not download it everytime from internet. This will help people with average / slower internet speed. http://get.adobe.com/reader/direct/

There’re few plugins which add custom widget in dashboard to get more attention, for example informing about their new versions or latest news about that plugin etc etc. We can also add widget in dashboard easily for our plugins or themes with wordpress function “wp_add_dashboard_widget” add_action(‘wp_dashboard_setup’, ‘our_dashboard_widget’); function our_dashboard_widget(){ wp_add_dashboard_widget(‘our_custom_widget’, ‘widget title’, ‘custom_dashboard_widget_function’); } function custom_dashboard_widget_function(){ //Your Dashboard Content }

Many times on pages which process secure information such as login or checkout, we need to use SSL and to make sure every user uses SSL only, we can force SSL. Most of the Payment Gateway service require payment information to be processed & sent using only by SSL otherwise they can hold your funds. Worst case if by any chance credit card information is leaked because of incorrect setup, they may fine you as [...]

There is a very good utility to convert PDF files from any software like Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Photoshop or virtually anything which can print something. It works like a Virtual Printer & When we print anything, it shows in printers list. It can be downloaded from Here http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php

We need 3 items to integrate Constant Contact on our Website. 1.  Username 2. Password 3. API Key Like most other APIs and third party integration, it needs API KEY to utilize integration. API Key can be generated from below URL. http://community.constantcontact.com/t5/Documentation/API-Keys/ba-p/25015 Or alternatively, if this doesn’t work. You can try finding Developer Docs & look for the link to generate API Key. <?php // fill in your Constant Contact login and API key $ccuser [...]

WordPress is like a heaven for the programmer and for designer both. With the introduction of wordpress, blogging moves to next level . All of us know that wordpress is highly customizable and in any manner but there are several things which becomes pain for the beginner developer or wordpress programmer. One of the reason for the pain is, “Categories”. Categories helps us in grouping the posts so it is easy for manage and beneficial [...]

Wordpress introduced Post Thumbnail feature in Version 2.9. Thumbnail is an image that is chosen as the representative image for Posts, Pages or Custom Post Types. This is especially useful for “magazine-style” themes where each post has an image according to wordpress .

Many bloggers, webmasters copy paste the resource URLs linking directly to non-html objects not on one own’s server, such as images, .js files etc. The victim’s server in this case is robbed of bandwidth (and in turn money) as the violator enjoys showing content without having to pay for its deliverance. The most common practice of hot linking pertains to another site’s images. The best way to stop hot linking is to have your images [...]

This post helps you Installing ruby on rails 3, on windows platform. So without wasting your time, here we go. Download the latest stable release of ruby. ( In our case we are taking Ruby 1.9.3 & Rails 3 ) Install it like any other program you do. Open command prompt & navigate to ruby > in directory & run following command to check version > ruby –version it should output something like this ruby [...]

We see the popular facebook like button on most of the websites. We know when someone clicks on like button, it instantly gets posted on user’s wall with a backlink and some other information. Have you ever seen closely how facebook link sharing script extracts information about your website to show on website? Lets investigate this minute, but important fact which can make a lot difference in what gets posted on facebook when someone clicks [...]