In this article I will list the Wordpress plug-ins that I personally cannot live without. It is amazing how popular the Wordpress project and platform has become, and even more amazing is how well it works. There are tons of really useful plug-ins that can be found at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ but these are the absolute best!
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I was looking through my usual sources looking for an interesting article to write about…until my addiction got hold of me. Zoomines is a clone of the popular Lumines game on the PSP console.
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I came across this tweaking utility for Ubuntu the other day, and thought it definitely deserves a link to it. Ubuntu Tweak is intended, I think, for more the power Ubuntu user who was to have more control over the look and feel of his Ubuntu installation.
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Have you ever had the need to have more than one homepage in Firefox? Firefox does in fact have this feature, although its a little unknown. This tutorial will teach you how to set more than one homepages in Firefox, and whenever you press the home button or open up Firefox both your homepages will open up.
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I am compiling this list of resources for people wanting to get their LPI qualifications.
The Linux Professional Institute Inc. (LPI) is a non-profit organization that provides vendor-independent professional certification for Linux system administrators and programmers.
The Linux Professional Institute Certifications (LPIC) provide a qualification that can be used to indicate that someone is competent at a certain level.
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Hi there,
I would like to wish all my visitors a Happy New Year! I hope it is a successful one. I hope TheOpenSurgery.com will be a valuable source of tutorials and information to you in 2008.
Best wishes!
Jason Dugmore
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Do you have a USB 2.0 compatible motherboard but Windows XP refuses to pick it up as USB 2.0 but rather the slower USB 1.1 standard? This is because Windows XP does not ship with USB 2.0 support out the box. This is a simple tutorial that will show you an easy way to install the USB 2.0 drivers for Windows XP.
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FFMPEG is a collection of software libraries that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video in numerous formats.
In this tutorial I will show you how to install FFMPEG and how to use FFMPEG to convert your videos on Ubuntu.
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This is a beginner tutorial on how to create a script to send out html emails using the PHPMailer library. This will be a very simple script, we will edit the mail in the actually code and run that PHP page to send out the mail. At a later stage I will include a tutorial on how to implement a WYSIWYG editor such as FCKEditor. Firstly, what is the PHPMailer library? PHPMailer is a fully featured email transfer class for PHP. It has the following features: send emails with multiple TOs, CCs, BCCs and REPLY-TOs; SMTP support; alternative/plain text sending; word wrap; debugging features; attachment and imbedded image support.
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This is a beginner tutorial on how to get your Ubuntu 7.10 media ready, and able to play video. Ubuntu does not ship with certain restricted and typically windows format codecs installed. This tutorial will show you how to install these, get flash videos working in firefox (for youtube) and help you install a few additional (better) players.
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