Favicon for Wordpress

Dec 17, 2008 | 1 Comment

Favicon is a small icon that appears next to your blog title and address. Favicon causes to find better in bookmarks. Wordpress users can or change a Favicon to their blog as the easiest way possible. To have a Favicon for Wordpress it is just enough to install a Wordpress Plugin that is named MaxBlogPress Favicon and then upload the favicon that you have made it via MaxBlogPress Favicon.


Christmas SMS

Dec 16, 2008 | 0 Comment

As we know Christmas is so near and some ones prefer to say Merry Christmas to their friends via text massage \ SMS so here I have provided a list of some beautiful Christmas SMS:

1) say your Christmas wishes to your friend:

I’m dreaming of white Christmas, with every christmas

card I write, and wish merry and bright days for all and

specially white Christmases for you!

 

2) Having a funny SMS to send to your friend for Christmas:

If one night a big fat man jumps in at your window grabs

you and puts you in a sack don’t worry I told Santa I

wanted you for CHRISTMAS.

 

3) Send a conceptual message as a Christmas SMS:

Anohter new year comes and we are spending our life. But

the times go fast and we can never grab them. Just as

like as two parallel lines that can never join together!
I wish to have great times in this new year!
Merry Christmas!

 

4) Tell to your friend about creating golden memories in Christmas and new year:

Good times of the present will be the golden memories of

the future. Wish you lots of love and happiness.
Happy New Year!

 

5) Let your friend to know your beautiful Christmas wishes about him\her:

I wish you to find good friends in this new year and have

good memories with your good friends and learn good

things in your good memories and do good works using

your good things that you learn.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

6) Tell to your old friend that you never forget him:

I love new years
I love new clothes
I love new shoes
I love new cars
But I love old friends and have the best wishes to you!

 

7) Having peaceful world as a Christmas wish:

At the end of each year, we remember good and bad events

of that year. Let’s wish a peaceful year in this new year

while no war starts and no bad memory creats!
Merry X-mas

 

8) another way to say your Christmas wishes for your friends via SMS:

May the joy and peace of Christmas be with you all

through the Year. Wishing you a season of blessings from

heaven above. Merry Christmas and happy new year!

 

9) Having a joyful Christmas and new year via this Christmas SMS:

On this Christmas, remember, the joy that you give to

others, is the joy that comes back to you. So be joyful and

make others joyful too! Merry Christmas!

 

10) Surprise your friends and family with an amazing lovely Christmas SMS:

Faith makes all things possible; Hope makes all things

work and Love makes all things beautiful. I wish you to

have all the three for this Christmas. Merry Christmas!

Finally I ask you to let me know your Christmas SMS and Christmas text messages. Please leave your comments to tell me your messages. I will read text messages of yours and then publish them with your name.

 

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Merry Christmas in other languages

Dec 16, 2008 | 1 Comment

How to say Merry Christmas in other languages of the world?

To answer this, I have provided a list of Merry Christmas in other languages below. you can use them to send a SMS or Email to your friends all over the world. You can also use them to send a PM to your friends all over the world.

So, let’s take a look at this perfect list:

 

Afrikaans

Gesëende Kersfees

 

Afrikander

Een Plesierige Kerfees

 

African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja

Rehus-Beal-Ledeats

 

Albanian

Gezur Krislinjden

 

Arabic:

Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah

 

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16 Practical Wordpress Plugins for advanced users

Dec 11, 2008 | 8 Comments

1) Broken link checker

Having broken links in your web pages would be really tedious for your users. So, all blogger and web developer like to check all of their links in their web pages to find broken links to fix them. This Firefox extension would be useful for you to do this.

Features of this Wordpress Plugin:

  • Checks your posts and pages in background whenever your WP admin panel is open.
  • Notify you on the Dashboard if a problem be found.
  • Link checking intervals can be configured.
  • New modified posts are checked as soon as possible.
  • Detects the links that do not work. (Check both of internal and outbound ones)
  • Check missing images. (Check both of internal and outbound ones)

2) Smart 404

When a page can not be found this Plugin find a similar page and redirect to it automatically. Therefore your visitors seldom encounter with error 404 and this would make your blog more professional.

3) Wordpress DB backup

Using this Plugin Makes you able to have a backup for your Wordpress database. This is useful specially for who use Windows server.

4) AskApache RewriteRules Viewer

Who are using Windows servers have been notified about existing index.php in their URLs.

Using this Plugin makes you able to have more beautiful URL deleting index.php

5) WP Security Scan

A nice Plugin to have more secure Wordpress!

Use this Plugin carefully.

6) Fluency Admin

Many Wordpress users don’t like Wordpress admin interface. Well, this Plugin would be useful to change Wordpress admin interface as you like.

7) Wordpress Mobile

Make your Wordpress site rock on a mobile phone using this Plugin.

This is really practical and can send more traffic to your Wordpress site.

8) Advanced Flicker

Having Advanced Flicker RSS on your Wordpress site with more advanced options such as:

  • Personalizing the code to show up for each photo.
  • Caching the large images and the square thumb ones.

9) Google Syntax HighLighter for Wordpress

This Plugin easily colorize your codes on the fly.

Feature summary:

  • 100% client side. No server dependency.
  • Wide browser support.
  • Very light browser.
  • Multiply language support:
    • C & C++
    • C#
    • Delphi
    • CSS
    • JAVA
    • JS (Java Script)
    • Ruby
    • SQL
    • Python
    • XML
    • VB

    You can also learn more about customizing your highlighted code in the Google code wiki entry here.

10) RelatedPosts

This Plugin makes you able to finish your posts with related posts via tags. You can also configure the number of related posts. To embed the list of related posts to your post it is just enough to replace “%RELATEDPOSTS%” within your text.

11) Exec-PHP

This Plugin lets you to running your PHP codes in certain posts and pages.

You can also insert your PHP codes directly to your posts without changing your theme.

NOTE: You should turn off your visual editor while you are using Exec-PHP in your posts and pages.

12) Akismet

This Plugin checks your comments against the Akismet web service and help you to identify the comments which are spam.

13) Maintenance

This Worpdress Plugin notifies your readers that your blog is undergoing maintenance and is not available currently.

14) Wordpress DB Manager

This Wordpress Plugin offers an interface for you to manage, optimize and backup your Wordpress database. After installing Wordpress DB Manager you will have a new tab in your admin panel that is named database.

15) FormBuilder

This Wordpress Plugin simply let you to build complex forms in the Wordpress administrative without needing PHP or HTML\XHTML.

16) post2pdf

This Wordpress Plugin helps you to convert all your posts and pages to PDF format. You don’t need any other installed application.

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4 handpicked Christmas Firefox themes

Dec 09, 2008 | 1 Comment

As we know Christmas is near and we are getting ready for it.

Here you can find 4 handpicked Christmas Firefox themes to bring Christmas to your browser.

1) Xmas

Having a light and clean theme with fun and festive icons as your Christmas Firefox theme. This theme is only for Windows users.

X-Mas Christmas Firefox theme

2) Tinseltown

This is another Christmas Firefox theme including festive icon and clean view.

Tinseltown

3) Winter Holiday Christmas theme and toolbar

Bring the Holidays to your browser via this one! Which includes sidebar with constantly updating Holiday music and videos. This can help to to see a nice and snowy scene!

Christmas Winter Holiday

4) X-Mas

Having a nice browser for Christmas time including animated snowfall upon the toolbar, animated toolbar icons and lights. This is not working on Firefox3 (What a pity!)

X-Mas


31 Free Christmas Photoshop tutorials

Dec 08, 2008 | 21 Comments

Stayupdate.com is up to date again!

As we know Christmas is near and many designers like to read more tutorials to be able to have the best design skills for Christmas. So, I have gathered — free Christmas Photoshop tutorial for designers.

I have sorted these tutorials according to my opinion (I like the most the first one and like the least the last one). Please let me know your idea about them by leaving comment.

1) Designing a Christmas-Themed Web Layout

In this Free Christmas Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create this complete, festive Christmas-Themed Web Layout:

Designing a Christmas Themed Web Layout

2) Christmas Night Wallpaper Photoshop tutorial

An amazing long comprehensive Photoshop tutorial that teaches you how to create a Christmas Night Wallpaper. I recommend it!

christmas night-Photoshop tutorial

3) Christmas Ornament Light Balls

In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create a nice festive wallpaper with light Christmas Balls:

Christmas ornaments light balls

4) Design a Cute X-Mas Candle

Learn how to design a Cute X-Mas Candle from scratch using this free Christmas Photoshop tutorial:

cute-xmas-candle

5) Creating a Lighted Christmas Wreath

This Photoshop tutorial starts after having and opening a Wreath to design a lighted one:

christmas_light_12

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27 handpicked clean Christmas wallpaper

Dec 07, 2008 | 9 Comments

Hello Readers who want to visit stauupdate.com to stay up to date!

As you know, Christmas is so near. So, I have posted 27 free handpicked Christmas wallpaper here:

Please select your favorite ones and let me know your favorites leaving a comment.

1) HalloThanksmas

Having a fun and clean wallpaper for your Christmas:

_HalloThanksmas_II__by_moroka323

2) A small gift for Christmas

A clean wallpaper, including lovely and funny concepts. I love it!

This Christmas wallpaper is also available in low quality, high quality, for wide screen and Dual monitor.

You can also download it for mobile phones.

vladstudio_asmallgiftforxmas_1152x864

3) Merry Christmas

Having red wallpaper and happy Christmas:

Merry_Christmas_by_dimant

4) The beetle in the sky

Clean Christmas wallpaper with cold colors and dark view.

This is also available in low quality, high quality, for wide screen and Dual monitor.

You can also download it for mobile phones.

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Make a hidden folder on your Windows in less than 15 seconds

Dec 02, 2008 | 1 Comment

In this short tutorial I will tell you a cool tip to be able to hide your secure data without any software.

As you know, there are some softwares that can help you to make a hidden folder and there are many tricks that can help you to do this. While softwares need to the money and many tricks require complex manipulating to your registry.

In this short visual tutorial you will learn a simple trick to be able to make hidden folders and save your private files into invisible folders to keep them safe.

Just follow these 4 steps to make a hidden folder less than 15 seconds:

  1. Make a new folder:
    • Right click any where you like. Then select: New -> Folder
  2. Rename your new folder:
    • As you know, Windows does not let you to have a nameless directory. But you can follow these steps to make a folder that has no name:
      • Right click on your new folder and select Rename (or select your folder and press F2 key).
      • Then press alt+255 or alt+0160 to have a nameless folder (like the picture below):
        a nameless folder
  3. Change the folder icon to a transparent one:
    • Right click on the folder and select Properties to properties window appears.
    • Click Customize tab and under Folder icons category press Change Icon button.
    • Select a transparent icon and then press OK. (like the picture below):
      Transparent icon

Congratulation! Now you have a hidden directory on your Windows and others can not find it on your computer because it has no name and others can not see it because it is not visible now!


14 amazing Firefox3 extensions for Wordpress

Dec 02, 2008 | 8 Comments

In this wordpress tutorial, I am going to introduce 8 amazing Firefox extensions for Wordpress. Although I know many other Firefox extensions for Wordpress users, but I’m not interested in introducing them to you. Because they are not working on Firefox3 and you can just install them on earlier versions.

Do not miss to have a review for each one of these Firefox extensions.

1) Wordpress Helper

Description: This Firefox extensions helps you to solve your problem on Wordpress by providing some useful help and tools. I recommend it for all specially for beginners.

Preview:

WordpressHelper preview

2) Wordpress.com Sidebar

Description: This is really easy to use. It makes you able to get quick access to your wordpress.com account from your browser sidebar.

Preview:

wordpress sidebar

3) Screen grab to Wordpress

Description: This Firefox extensions makes you able to save a webpage as an image and upload it on your Wordpress blog.

Preview:

ScreenGrabToWordpress

4) MMD WordPress.com

Description: Having a tiny statusbar panel that shows you your blog hit counter for your Wordpress.com blog using this one. This extensions provide a right click menu to access your blog stats on Wordpress. Ohm it is really nice!

Preview:

MMD Wordpress.com

5) Wordpress Post

Description: What a cool tool it really is! This extension lets you post the text you select in your browser directly to your WordPress blog. To make a post you can either click or drag the text to the statusbar icon, or use the browsers context menu. It is recommend specially for short and hot posts (Like: news, reports and so forth)

Preview:

WordpressPost

6) One-Click Installer for WP 1.1

Description: This is experimental. This extension can be used to install plugins or themes on your WordPress blog with a single click. It makes you able to Install plugins or themes on your self-hosted WordPress blogs with a single click (needs the related WP plugin to work; not intended for Wordpress.com).

Preview:

OneClick Installer

7) Exporter

Description: This is experimental. This Firefox extension helps you to Make a back up of Your weblog in WXR (Wordpress eXtended Rss) Format. Just useful in some special occasions!

Preview:

No preview is reachable here!

8) Monkiri

Description: This Firefox extensions lets you grab any part of the web page and instantly publish it either on your Wordpress blog.

Preview:

monkiri

9) Dash blog

Description: Using this Firefox extension makes you able to quickly collect videos, images, text/quotes, songs and screen-captures from any web page and publish them to your blog (word press, blogger/blogspot, tumblr) and/or twitter.

Preview:

DashBlog

10) Deepest sender

Description: This one is a full blogging client for Firefox. Using this Firefox extension makes you able to post to your blog. All you should do is just hit Ctrl+\ or click the button in your toolbar. If you are using Firefox3 after going to the download page, find Deep sender version 9.0 to install. Because it supports Firefox3.

Preview:

Deepest sender

11) Clip marks

Description: This Firefox extension lets you to capture exactly what you want others to see (text, image, video). Your videos will be saved on clipmarks.com and you can easily share them with your friends.

You can also post anything you clip directly to your Wordpress blog (it also supports Blogger, Typepad and etc) or send it directly to friends or co-workers via email. Clipmarks also gives you a way to help the environment by printing only the parts of a page that you need.

Preview:

clipmarks

12) zwordpress

Description: This Firefox extension lets you to manage your Wordpress blog faster and easier using some keyboard shortcuts. The most common shortcuts are these ones: (Shortcut: What to do)

ALT+Z+Z: View site
ALT+Z+X: Dashboard
ALT+Z+Q: Write a post
ALT+Z+A: Stats (Google Analytics)
ALT+Z+S: Earnings (Google Adsense)

when you use any shortcut keys, press ALT + Z, key up Z and the press the next letter. Press all the combination at the same time is a bit madness you can open a lot of tabs.

You can also define some shortcuts for your favorite events.

Preview:

zwordpress

13) Kaalga

Description: This Firefox extension makes you able to easily link to interesting phrases in your articles to relevant content. It also uses OpenCalais (Reuters) semantic API to suggest phrases in your text suitable for linking, and Google search to present relevant links for selected phrases. This Firefox extension also supports Blogger, TypePad and LiveJournal.

Preview:

kaalga

14) ScribeFire Blog editor

Description: Having a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.

Preview:

ScribeFire blog editor

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A hot security tip for Gmail accounts

Dec 02, 2008 | 1 Comment

If you are using Gmail as your Email service, read this tutorial to keep your Gmail account safe.

Due to some mistakes of ours, it is possible that someone hacks our password. But, as we know some hackers doesn’t change our password after hacking! They just read our Emails as a spy to steal our private data! So, how can we find out that another one is checking our Emails?

Google has provided very useful tool to do this. To understand better, first go to http://mail.google.com and Sign in there. After signing in your Gmail account, scroll down to see Last account activity and check the time. Now you can compare that time with your last signing in your Gmail account and if someone has signed in your account after your last signing in, you can change your password to don’t lose your data any more.

Sample IP with unreal numbers

You can also click on Detalis to see more information about someones who has signed in your account recently.

The Details information shows you:

  • Access type (Browser, mobile , …)
  • IP address (This would be useful to find who has hacked you!)
  • Date/Time (That is displayed in your time zone)
  • Your computer IP address that you have signed in with

So, now you can enjoy your safe Gmail account!

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