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By default, when VLC takes a snapshot, it saves the file to desktop, and names it with prefix vlcsnap, date and video time. If there are lots of snapshots, it is hard to identify from which video one snapshot was taken from. It will be much easier if the snapshots are named after the media filenames. Luckily, it is not hard to do this, and here is how:
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Website monitors check your sites and alert you when your site is in trouble. I use five monitors. They check my websites at a regular intervals. If my site is down / or back again, they will send me email. I use my phone to receive those emails. So I will know how my sites' statuses, no matter where I go. Here are five of the monitors that offer free monitoring service I am using (some of the links are affiliate links, I hope you do not mind):

Site24x7

http://www.site24x7.com/ Website Monitoring from a global perspective
With a free account, Site24x7 can monitor 2 websites and check your websites in every 60 min.Read more >>

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has sued Samsung Electronics for copying "the look and feel" of its iPad tablet and iPhone smartphone. Apple claimed Samsung copy Apple's technology, user interface and innovative style in these infringing products(Samsung Galaxy S 4G, Epic 4G, Nexus S, and Galaxy Tab).

read more: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/18/apple-sues-samsung-over-for-copying-the-iphone-and-ipad/

By default, WordPress show post list differently. On the main page ( the home page of your blog ), you see posts with pictures and normally styles. But on other list pages, like tag pages or category pages, you will find posts with no picture and all text may bump into one whole paragraph (the excerpt view), which make articles hard to read. This article will show you how to correct it and make content with pictures and css style be shown on archive, category, tag and search result pages.Read more >>

MediaWiki uses underscores in the URLs, but Matt Cutts from Google recommend using dashes. I believe urls with dashes are better for SEO purpose, and it is said urls with dashes are easier to read, so I want to change the format of MediaWiki URL, from underscores to dashes. But it turned out it is not so easy.Read more >>

When I tried to install typo 5.4.3 today, I saw these error messages right after I finished the installation when I tried to change my password:

RuntimeError in Admin/dashboard#index

Showing app/views/admin/dashboard/_posts.html.erb where line #9 raised:

Invalid root argument: 
Extracted source (around line #9):

6:     <% else %>
7:       <% for post in @recent_posts -%>
8:         

9:           <%= link_to_permalink post, post.title %> (<%= link_to_permalink(post, post.published_comments.size) %>)
10:         
11:       <% end %> 
12:     <% end %>

here is how to fix this problem:Read more >>

Rails Initialization process
require_frameworks
load_paths ( app/controller; app/models...)
load_environment
load_plugins
load_observers
after_initializeRead more >>

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) comes with nginx 0.6.34. This nginx worked fine, until one day I tried to use "try_files". Nginx returned error : "Unknown directive: 'try_files'". Later I learnt only nginx version 0.6.36+, 0.7.27+ or 0.8.x support the 'try_files' command. So, I decided to upgrade my nginx to the newest stable version, and it turned out the process was so hard:Read more >>

While it is not hard to create a new block region in drupal 6, to create one before comments section
is not as easy to many people. I have managed to add a new block region above the comments, and moved the "similar term" block into it. You can see the result on this page. Here is how I did it:Read more >>

Block regions are used to control drupal theme layout. Most of Drupal themes come with five regions:

Left sidebar
Right sidebar
Content
Header
Footer

What if you want more regions? Here I will show you how to create a new one.Read more >>