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This is a simple guide for setting up a local apache web server on your Mac OSX machine. You can use this to develop and test your sites locally before uploading to your web host and also for learning web programming. Step 1: Create the Sites folder in your home directory Lion and later versions…
Many sites being developed in WordPress need to make multi-level menus also called nested menus. A key requirement in making this nested navigation menu is that the top level menu items should be non-clickable. Nested Menus can be build using the Menu Builder in WordPress. Navigate to the Menu Builder using : Appearance -> Menus…
Many WordPress users who are using a dedicated or VPS server or are setting up WordPress manually on your hosting provider in Linux or OSX get stuck with plugin installs. WordPress plugin and theme upgrades fail with the error “Unpacking the package… Could not create directory.”. This is mostly due to incorrect permissions and can…
Here is a nifty little tool to help developers test GCM notifications. While developing GCM or Google Cloud Messaging Notifications in Android applications, it is important to have a simple server to test if client code is working correctly. This free GCM notifications test tool below does exactly that – allows you to easily…
While doing research on my mobile apps, I noticed that there isn’t too much guidance on mobile eCPMs compiled at a single place. Hence I thought of making a simple chart for others looking for indicative mobile eCPMs for India and US. eCPM in USD 300×250 320×50 India $0.18-$0.30 $0.08-$0.14 United States $0.45-$0.70 $0.25-$0.45 These…
Most Android Studio users have complaints that the tool is a memory hog and consumes a huge amount of RAM on their computer. Here are some tips on reducing Android Studio memory usage compiled from various sources on the Internet. Edit: Versions of Android Studio beyond 2.0 have removed some of these settings. They still…
If you want to take a trip to a place where you will not have a data connection and need to use Google Maps offline, then you can use the following tip from Google to save maps offline on your mobile device: Make sure you’re connected to the Internet and signed in to your Google…
You can view changes you have made in your local repository which haven’t been pushed to the origin (remote) repository using the following command: git log origin/<yourbranchname> In case your local branch has been configured with an upstream branch, then you can use the below shorthand: git log @{u}.. or git log @{upstream}.. If you…
I recently changed hosts and moved my blogs using the standard procedure to move WordPress across hosts. The text content displayed properly but the images were displaying as broken links even though the images were present on my server. This is how I fixed it after spending 30 minutes googling for the solution: Ensure that…
Most applications provide sharing to Twitter using the generic ‘Share’ intent. Some others may want to use the Twitter SDK but that increases the application install size. Most developers may want to make the user directly share the content to Twitter without showing the App Chooser. Here’s a quick code snippet for Android developers who want to directly…
Close All Tabs in Eclipse Using Mouse Right-click on any tab header and click ‘Close All’. Keyboard Shortcut to Close All Tabs in Eclipse You can use CTRL+SHIFT+W (Windows) or CMD+SHIFT+W (Mac OSX) to close all the open tabs in your Eclipse IDE. Please leave a quick thank you if this tip helped you.
Most applications provide sharing to WhatsApp using the generic ‘Share’ intent. However, you may want to make the user directly share the content to WhatsApp without showing the App Chooser. Here’s a quick Java snippet for Android developers who want to directly integrate Share on WhatsApp functionality on their Android app. Create a button and…
There may be times when visitors come to your site and land on 404 pages which mean nothing to them and the visitor simply bounces away. This is a wasted visit for you as well as a poor experience for the visitor. One way to avoid this is creating custom 404 pages for your site. However,…
Print JSON in Human Readable Form If you’re working on RESTful services and you need to verify or debug some JSON output, digging through an unformatted JSON string can be a real pain. Assuming that your unformatted JSON file is in a file called ‘unformatted.json’. To make a JSON string human readable open up the Terminal on…
The following tips are useful for publishing articles on LinkedIn to ensure that the article has maximum impact and is read and shared by a large number of people. These tips are based on data analysed from 3K+ articles by Okdork.com. Tips for Publishing on LinkedIn Your title should be be 40-49 characters long. Include…
If you see referrals from http://<some-ip-address>/cgi-bin/blockOptions.cgi in your Google Analytics Reports or WordPress reports, do not be alarmed. Many webmasters have experienced this and this may not always be your fault. Referrals from blockOptions.cgi are usually not a cause for worry unless they form the majority of your visits. blockOptions.cgi, afterworkOptions.cgi and others are requests…
Placing Banner (AdSense) Ad Next to Site Title in WordPress Header A very common problem is adding an ad unit to your WordPress blog which displays in-line with your site title. Here is the simple way of doing it: Open WordPress Editor Open the header.php file In this file – look for the following code…
An excellent infographic by Vserv gives some interesting insights into the consumer profile of smartphone owners in India. Some key insights into Indian Smartphone Users: Most are Android users followed by Nokia They download a lot of apps. India is ranked as one of the the top countries in Android and Nokia App stores Monetization…
There’s good news for twitter fans, Facebook has finally started supporting hashtags. For the novice user, hashtags are the keywords related to the post or tweet prepended by a ‘#’ (hash) sign. These keywords help identify which category or tag the post belongs to. This is also very useful in allowing users to track similar posts….
Just came across this excellent tool for making online logos: http://www.graphicsprings.com/ . They have a great collection of logos as well as a brilliant image manipulation tool. The logo creation took me less than 5 minutes. It’s a simple 3 step process: Step select from their rich collection of logos Use a editor to change logo colors…