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Get Old School with a Windows 3.1 Reincarnation

Nathan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:54:14 +0000

Web Windows 3.1

Miss the old charms of early Windows versions? There’s a site just for you. It’s amazing how a web developer could recreate it and make it available in a browser. Take a look for yourself.

[via OSNews]

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Play God with Windows 7 Easter Egg

Nathan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:52:50 +0000

Windows 7 God Mode

Windows 7 users, here’s a way for you to control everything in one place, and I mean everything! I recently discovered this on ElegantCode.

So how does it work?

Simply create a folder on your Desktop and rename it to:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Presto! You’re all set.

Here’s a snapshot of what you can tweak using this neat trick:

Administrative Tools
Backup and Restore
Date and Time
Keyboard
Internet Options
Mouse
Network
Programs and Features
Remote Desktop
Troubleshooting
User Accounts
Windows Firewall
… and a lot more

So be sure to check this out. Have fun!

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Fixing Wordpress Stats Plugin Showing No Visitors

Nathan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:56:00 +0000

Wordpress Footer

Designing and creating a Wordpress theme from scratch can be tedious, especially for first timers. There are a lot of things to remember and to consider, such as the layout, color scheme, widgets and plugins, among others. Last time, I shared some tools that can aid in this design task:

960 Grid System for Layouting, and
Color Scheme Designer.

When installing the theme for the first time, it’s important to double-check that the things that work before, should still work: the links, the images, the widgets and especially the plugins. One of the plugins I use to track site statistics is the Wordpress.com stats. When you activate the theme and find out that there are no visitors, try the following:

Deactivating and Reactivating the plugin, or
Ensuring the correct API key is entered, or
Ensuring that the wp_footer() function is included in your footer, before the closing body tag:

The usual culprit is the missing footer function. Ensuring that it’s included will surely save you headaches in troubleshooting missing stats.

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Visually Follow Your Favorite Sites Using Spectives

Nathan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:36:03 +0000

Spectives: Follow your Favorites Differently

Have a lots of sites to follow? Tired of using Feed readers?

Then this tool can change how you follow your favorite sites, in a manner you may not have thought of before – using images with captions to summarize the recent entries of the sites you are following. Spectives allows you to have your own customized internet reading space with tabs, collections, just like having a newspaper with various news (site entries) on many pages (tabs).

You don’t need to sign up for an account to use this tool. You can scour through the existing collections and numerous tags to start surfing and reading. But if you start to feel the need to make your own custom selections and your preferences saved, it would be best to sign up for an account.

If you happen not to like how it’s organized, you can also get them as RSS feeds.

How it Works

Basically, Spectives captures the images on the posts on the sites you follow. These are organized in a collection, just like in the image above. Once a site updates, the images are automatically updated as well. View the video by the Spectives Team below, courtesy of Vimeo.

Spectives.com in one minute from Spectives on Vimeo.

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October on Martian Footprints

Nathan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:48:41 +0000

October went by pretty fast, no?

I want to say thanks to my visitors this month.

Here’s a recap of this month’s posts:

Would you like to see something featured? Do you want to write an article to be posted here? Please drop me a note or write your suggestions in the comment box below. I’d love to hear them

Until next month! Wait, that’s already tomorrow.

Oh, by the way, Martian Footprints is getting a face-lift. Watch out for it!

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