Recent Posts Tagged With 'technology'

• Changing IP Address Of A Windows Web Server (IIS6)

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 06:55 in technology

  When you move a Windows server to a new IP address there are two major settings you will have to configure on your server in order for your web sites and email to function. Once you have updated the AName records with your domain name provider to poi...

• New Kind Of Comment Spam Targeting Wordpress

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 14:02 in technology, bugs, spam bots

  Today I discovered a new type of attempted comment spam targeting my Wordpress blog.  The spam bot managed to figure out a section of a legitimate comment and then immitate it and then append a spam link to the end.  Technically this is quite eas...

• Guide To Choosing An Open Source E-Learning System (LMS / LCMS)

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 00:41 in technology, open source

  In this guide I’ll intoduce you to some of the many open source LMS (Learning Management System) and LCMS (Learning Content Management System) projects that you might be interested in deploying.   Which system you choose could depend on sever...

• 3 Newbie Mistakes - Web Design / Development Myths

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 14:53 in web design, technology

  Here is a quick look at three different myths that can land budding newbie web designers / developers in hot water later down the line.  If these myths are busted earlier on newbies can graduate on to producing excellent results faster without suffe...

• Spin2u Dimiliki Oleh HYGEN

  Posted on Saturday October 3rd, 2009 at 02:14 in web design, technology, malaysia, current affairs

  Spin2u menyediakan produk terbaik dan plan perniagaan hebat buat anda mencapai kejayaaan. Sertai kami untuk membebaskan diri anda dari beban kewangan. Selain daripada web dagang Spin2u beliau juga merupakan pangasas minyak angin 7G dan pembesih wanit...

• Install CURL To Work With PHP On Windows Server 2003 (IIS6)

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 23:41 in web design, technology, open source

  cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, pr...

• Google Wave Puts Pressure On Microsoft By Dropping Support For IE

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 06:42 in web design, technology, current affairs, open source

  Finally more and more tech companies and developers are dropping support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser.  Latest to stab the knife in is Google’s Wave.  According to Google: Google Wave runs in most browsers, with the not...

• Free Live Premiership Football Scores Widget For Your Web Site Or Blog

  Posted on Saturday September 26th, 2009 at 20:28 in web design, technology, Games

  Want to show free live premiership football scores on your web site or blog?  Simply copy and paste the HTML code below! <iframe src="http://hygen.net/blog/footie.php" width="380" height="370" frameborder="0" st...

• New Variation Of The Facebook “Immigration Scam”

  Posted on Saturday September 26th, 2009 at 15:18 in technology, current affairs

  You may of recently heard of a series of serious scams causing havoc with Facebook and other social networking site users.  The gist of it is that “hackers” can get into your friends or relatives Facebook accounts -  most likely by expl...

• Try The Opera Web Browser On Ubuntu Linux Because It Has Great Ubuntu Support

  Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 02:20 in technology, Linux, open source

  When you get Ubuntu you get firefox as a default web browser and if somehow you don’t - perhaps if you are using a varied flavor of Ubuntu you can get it in a few seconds using apt or your favorite package management program. But… How abo...

• KDE: Use KLinkStatus (KDEWebDev) To Spider A Site To Check For Broken Links

  Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 01:25 in web design, technology, Linux, open source

  KLinkStatus is a handy web spider program is part of the KDEWebDev suite of applications.  KDELinkStatus can recursively follow and check links (both internal and external) in a web site. Once the spidering is completed you can then export the resul...

• Web Browser Layout Engines Explained

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 06:54 in web design, technology

  When developing websites an increasing area of complexity and challenges is cross browser compatibilty.  Different web browsers (and other programs that display web content such as email clients) use different layout engines. Yes it is a minefield!...

• Override Drupal Menu CSS .leaf .expanded .collapsed Bullets

  Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 12:54 in web design, technology, open source

  Time and time again when you design themes for Drupal you will need to override the CSS for much of what comes with core.  One such target is the Drupal menu.  The menu uses images to create a bullet like effect which most people would not want in ...

• Use PHP, SimpleXMLElement And preg_replace To Get And Display Your Latest Twitter Updates

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 14:09 in web design, technology, open source

  Tried those Twitter widgets that use JavaScript? Can be slow right? How about using PHP instead and saving the client browser a heart attack? Here is the PHP code for a quick Twitter mash up.  The code grabs your Twitter updates and then formats ...

• Download YouTube Videos On Linux

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 02:58 in technology, Linux, open source

  There are a few programs available for downloading YouTube videos on Linux.  Here is a quick exploration of two of them - “youtube-dl” and “clive”. youtube-dl: First you need to download and install the software package usin...

• Malay language Software / Tools for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, KDE

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 02:17 in technology, Linux, open source

  Some Malay language tools for KDE. Useful for anyone wanting to use Kubuntu in Malay or work with the Malay language… kde-i18n-ms - Malay internationalized (i18n) files for KDE scim-tables-additional - miscellaneous input method data tables ...

• Euro Currency Converter for KDE keurocalc

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 02:12 in technology, Linux, open source

  keurocalc is a quick and easy currency converter / calculator for Linux computers using KDE. keurocalc is available in 2 flavors. Download and install keurocalc for KDE4: sudo apt-get install keurocalc-kde4 Download and install keurocalc for KDE3...

• Tip: List, View And Edit KDE Keyboard Shortcuts

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 12:57 in technology, Linux, open source

  Here is yet another really easy and quick tip for KDE.  There are loads of keyboard shortcuts ready to use right away and to view / edit them all you have to do is go to System Settings under the K Menu and then go for the keyboard icon.  The windo...

• New Hope For More Hastle Free Air Travel With Airport Liquid Scanners

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 12:08 in travel, technology

  It’s annoying and inconvenient that travelers can’t take liquids on-board aircraft. So much so that I have even traveled overland instead of flying just so I can carry some back to Malaysia! Aside from the annoyances at the airport and t...

• KDE4 - Set Konqueror As Default File Manager Instead Of Dolphin

  Posted on Sunday September 6th, 2009 at 09:29 in technology, Linux, open source

  This is easy tip.  In KDE4 the default file manager is Dolphin however if like many people you prefer Konqueror (which was the default in KDE 3.x) you can make Konqueror the default by doing the following: Right click on any folder and then select...

• Marble Desktop Globe For KDE 4

  Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 01:16 in technology, Linux, open source

  Google Earth may be the the leader in the field of interactive mapping, especially with Satellite map data but there are some other alternatives.  I’m currently testing out the free open source Marble application. Marble currently comes in two...

• Tutorial: Edit GRUB Boot Loader Configuration To Set Default Linux Kernel

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 19:39 in technology, Linux, open source

  How do you change the default Linux kernel version loaded by GRUB at boot? Want to use a different Kernel or OS at boot? Firstly simply open the GRUB configuration file located at /boot/grub/menu.lst as root. sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst Her...

• Cusomizing Wordpress wp_list_categories(), wp_get_archives() And wp_list_pages() Function Output

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 15:01 in web design, technology, open source

  Wordpress has standard functions that are part of it’s core for outputting data such as lists of blog categories or pages. For developers creating themes the default output of some of these function can be undesirable. Instead of editing the ...

• New Free Online Bahasa Malaysia / English Translator Tool

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 00:16 in web design, technology, open source

  Translate between English and Bahasa Malaysia online using this tool… http://hygen.net/work/bm2en/ Contact me if you would like the source code or database as it’s open source :)  The translator currently has about 700 entries of comm...

• Sneak Preview: The New Aquarium Fish Database™ Website!

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 06:44 in web design, technology, wildlife pets

  This is a work in progress / sneak preview of the beta version of the new Aquarium Fish Database™.    The new version has tons of new interactive features and will be the best and most advanced interactive encyclopedia of aquarium fish™ yet! V...

• Automated FTP Hacking Bot IP Address List

  Posted on Sunday July 5th, 2009 at 17:49 in technology

  The following IP address’s are used by automated hacking bots that attempt by brute force to log into FTP servers… 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 68.52.142.241 189.19.255.240 117.34.70.27 82.149.231.93 62.193.234.61 209.139.218....

• PHP Gravatar And Wordpress Gravatar Tutorial

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 16:19 in web design, technology, open source

• Using COCOMO To Find Out The Cost Of A Software Development Project

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 in technology, business

• KDE Tutorial: Manage Start-up Services With System Services Program

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 09:03 in technology, Linux, open source

  This is a very basic tutorial. If you are familiar with the Windows MSCONFIG utility and the services.msc console snap-in, there is an application with a similar role in KDE. If you use KDE (K Desktop Environment) for your Linux distribution you will...

• Mounting NTFS File Systems With Read And Write Permissions – Revisited

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 04:27 in technology, Linux, open source