Recently, we featured an article here on C.O.D. that describes the process of installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on a netbook with a USB thumb drive. After using it for some time, there just seems to be too many little things missing to make it a viable permanent alternative. However, you are not out of luck… you have a choice and …
Read More »To The Cloud: Windows Live & Remote Access
Most of you have probably seen the commercials from Microsoft touting the cloud experience behind Windows 7 and Windows Live. The thing is… many of us that have Windows 7 don’t really know how to do some of the things they show in those commercials. In this multi-part series, we will attempt to demystify the “cloud” and show you how …
Read More »Add the “Next Page” Button to the WordPress Editor
For years now, I have been using TinyMCE for WordPress to enhance the editor with some new buttons. However, I only found myself typically using the “Next Page” button and never really touched any of the others. I also noticed that some of the new functionality in WordPress 3.1 wasn’t present when using the plugin. In the interest of keeping …
Read More »Remove Items from the WordPress Dashboard
If you have opened up your WordPress site up to user registrations, there are inevitably some things that you just don’t want them to see. Unfortunately, by default, there is no way to accomplish this directly from the options within WordPress. Until this day comes, you can remove dashboard items by adding some simple code to your functions.php file.
Read More »Replace or Add User Profile Fields in WordPress
If you take into consideration that WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform, it is confusing why they are still living in the past. I am referring to the usage of AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo in the user’s profile. Currently, within WordPress, there is no way for you to modify these choices. However, with a few simple lines of …
Read More »Embed Media in WordPress Without a Plugin
There are a lot of plugins running around that will let you embed videos and media into a post easily. The funny part about this is that WordPress has had the functionality to handle this all by itself since version 2.9. The functionality is powered by oEmbed and getting started is easy as pie.
Read More »VMWare: Windows 7 Ethernet is Missing
I recently created a VM for Windows 7 and proceeded to waste hours trying to figure out why the Ethernet controller was missing from the Device Manager. Installing VMWare Tools didn’t fix the issue, tracking down the correct Ethernet driver didn’t help; other people that created the same Virtual Machine were not having problems (of course), just me. Fixing the …
Read More »Modify the WordPress Login URL
There are various ways you can secure your WordPress installation, some of them are true security measures and some of them are just concealers. One thing I have been looking to do with my WordPress installations was to change the URL for user login and registration. I feel as though having wp-login.php in the url is not necessary, this should …
Read More »Installing Linux on a Netbook from a USB Thumbdrive
In my household, netbooks fly around like curse words. I have had more Acer’s come through my home office than I would like and for some reason, they either come with Windows XP or Windows 7 Starter; both are worthless in my opinion. So when my friend asked me help him install Ubuntu on his Aspire One, I obliged. Remember, …
Read More »Showing Popular Posts in WordPress Without Another Plugin
For many of us, engaging our readers is what we ultimately want to do, and how readers interact with our site is what we want to know. If you are a user of WordPress and you actively use the WordPress.com Stats plugin, you already have all the tools you need to display your most popular posts (by page views) for …
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