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  • Joomla article navigation in middle of the page

    In some templates Joomla article navigation may appear in the middle bottom of your articles. This can be changed by making a small change to your template’s Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) file. For example, if you use Rocket Theme Afterburner template all you need to do is add is folowing text to templates/rt_afterburner/css/light.css (actual css…

  • Remove date and time from Joomla Menu link URL

    Was making changes to one of my Joomla websites’ menu system when bumped into a strange issue. There were types of menu systems, both two levels deep. First menu level in both cases level External URL index.php/category/subcategoryLinks to Category List layout index.php/category/articleLinks to Single Article With first type of menus everything was fine, however, second…

  • Removing hidden online poker link from Joomla template

    SPAM links in free Joomla templates Just to make it clear up front, this article is not about removing author credit links from templates with Creative Commons licenses. Authors do deserve credit for their work and their links should be left intact or adjusted to match site’s design. A friend of mine asked to create…

  • Export iPhone SMS messages

    iPhone doesn’t have any native way to save or export your SMS messages to a computer. This can be done using third party tools. Option 1 – Paid software Use purpose build, commercial software, such as: www.iphonesmsexport.info www.iphonesmsexport.com Instructions can be found on developers websites. Option 2 – Do it yourself You can extract messgaes…

  • Joomla – make pagination horizontal

      If pagination on your Joomla website appears vertical instead of horizontal you need to add following code to your template CSS file: .pagination ul li{display: inline;padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;}    

  • Reboot Linksys / Cisco SPA VOIP Phones remotely

    One annoying thing with configuring Linksys or Cisco SPA VOIP phones remotely is that web administration interface doesn’t have option to reboot the phone. There is a little trick which allows to do exactly this though. Simply add /admin/reboot to the phone’s IP in web URL (e.g. http://192.168.0.51/admin/reboot) and providing there are no active calls,…

  • Transferring iPhone Camera Roll pictures to Windows 7 PC

    Pictures taken with iPhone’s camera are pretty much the only files you can transfer from iPhone to a Windows 7 computer without installing iTunes or any other additional software. Simply connect your iPhone to a PC via USB cable, open My Computer and couple of seconds later Apple iPhone will appear under Portable Devices To…

  • Update VMware ESXi 5.0 license key

    By default VMware ESXi 5.0 (VMware vSphere Hypervisor) installs in 60 days Evaluations mode. Licence key can be obtained for free from www.vmware.com. To update the license key perform following: Login to your host unsung VMware vSphare client Change to Configuration tab click on Licensed Features and click Edit Select Assign a new license key…

  • Upgrade Free VMware ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 5.0

    VMware ESXi 5.0 is now called VMware vSphere Hypervisor, but as before is free to download and use. Upgrading from VMware ESXi 4.0 to VMware ESXi 5.0 is pretty easy and straight forward: As always, before you proceed with an upgrade, make sure you have up to date backups Go to www.vmware.com login to your…

  • Emails to GoDaddy mailbox fail with error 550 5.1.0 Address rejected

    Problem Emails sent to GoDaddy mailbox bounces back with error similar to this:Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:email@domain.comTechnical details of permanent failure:Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that…

  • Joomla JoomGallery – add link in SlimBox to Detail View (for comments and ratings)

    JoomGallery in one of the most powerful Joomla gallery extensions with countless number of options and settings. I won’t go into details on how JoomGallery works, If you are reading this you probably already familiar with this component. My aim was to give people an easy and quick way to browser images in Category View…

  • JoomGallery – The uploaded image doesn’t seem to be a valid image file

    I’ve been experimenting with JoomGallery 2.0 ACL Beta Joomla extension trying to upload large number of images using FTP method. In general I was pretty impressed with this extension and it deals with large uploads pretty well. However, some images failed to import into the gallery with following errors: Warning: getimagesize(images/joomgallery/ftp_uploads/001 image 1.jpg) [function.getimagesize]: failed…