When you are working on a website, a php.ini file can be used for a lot of neat things. More times than not, it is used to increase your upload limit. Are you in the need for a php.ini file, but your web hosting account is lacking one? You can create your own and upload it to the right spot after following a few simple steps.
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Easy Note Sharing with Rmmbr
Want to create and share a quick note with somebody? All you need to do is visit Rmmbr, type our your note and then share the URL with anybody. They will then be able to check out the note you have for them – and maybe even send you one back. Today, I will be taking a look at how easy it is to create a note using Rmmbr.
3 Best WordPress Cheat Sheets
Working with WordPress is almost like learning a new language. Not only do you need to learn some of the basic fundamentals of PHP, but you also need to learn what WordPress tags go where, and what they do. Since nobody has the time to do that these days, I thought it would be about time to break out my WordPress cheat sheet collection.
Spruce Up Your Google Profile
Now that Google Buzz is out in the wild, your Google profile page deserves a little more attention. So, what all have you done to spruce up your own profile page? I’ll share with you some of the things I did to make this a much more informative page about me for Googlers to find.
Great Web Development Bookmarklets
Searching the Web for a few great bookmarklets to make your web site coding a little easier? I have found a great collection of them over at Squarfree.com. You can drag and drop any of these bookmarlets to your saved bookmarks to use later.
- test styles – Type in CSS rules to experiment or to create a temporary user style sheet.
- edit styles – Experiment with changes to the page’s style sheet.
- ancestors - Lists the ancestors of any element you hover over in the status bar.
- computed styles – Lists the computed styles of an element and of its ancestors.
- zap style sheets – Disables all style sheets.
Most of these bookmarks work for Firefox only, but a few will work with Internet Explorer and Opera too. Go chec out the Web Development Bookmarklets page at Squarefree.com to check out the 18 other tools they have for you to use.
Make Any Site Print Friendly
Ever been browsing an article or guide online that you wish you could print out, without all the junk that the web site provides? Print Friendly offers to make any web site out there easier to print. You can use their web site tool to enter the URL you wish to simplify for your printer, or use the bookmarklet to gain access to the tool at any time.
You can then e-mail the printer friendly version to your friends, tweet about it, or edit the document removing pictures or blocks of text.
Want to add this interactivity to your own web site layout, maybe under each article that you post? You can do that too by grabbing the Print Friendly button code. For WordPress users, there is even a plugin you can install to add it to all your blog posts automatically.
Overall, Print Friendly is a pretty nice service, if you are looking to do a little article simplification, perfect for print.
How to Make Working with PDFs Better
So what needs to be done to make the PDF format better? Here are a few of my opinions, and some tools and services to make those requests come true.
Better PDF Editing Abilities
Need an easy way to edit PDF files without the expensive PDF editor? In the past, I have told you about creating PDFs via Open Office. However, what if you could convert those PDFs to Word doc files to edit instead? Pickup the Free PDF to Word Converter for Windows to get the job done.
Better PDF Browser Support
How about better PDF support for the browser? PDF files are notorious for crashing your modern web browser. So with that said, what tool can you use to make the experience better? A browser add-on named PDF Download. It’s features include:
- Convert Web pages to PDF. (NEW) Convert any Web pages to great looking PDF files, and then save, share, print or archive them.
- View PDF as HTML. View the contents of PDF files faster and eliminate browser problems by instantly converting any Web-based PDF to a browser-friendly HTML Web page.
- Control PDF files in Firefox. Stop crashes and get the upper hand on Web-based PDF files by automating and controlling how your Firefox or Flock browsers deal with them.
PDF Download works with Firefox 2 & 3, Flock 1, and Internet Explorer 7 & 8 (beta) web browsers.
Better Printing Abilities to the PDF Format
Now this one isn’t really PDF’s problem, however I do have a solution. If you are wanting to cut down on the paper you use, printing to the PDF format can save you some cash in the long run as well as conserve that printing paper. All you need to do is grab PrimoPDF for Windows. It will add the ability for you choose “Print as PDF” from any print screen. All you have to do is select it as the printer of your choice.
So what other things bug you about PDF files, or have you found any other solutions to your PDF powered problems? It might not be the best standard in the world, however it can come in handy from time to time.
Use Paint.NET to Edit and Create Icons
I had an idea to customize a few of my default Vista icons, but had no way of doing so. I had the icon files, but no way to edit them. So after doing some browsing around I did come up with a solution to my icon editing woes.
First Step? Get Paint.NET!
First step was to pickup Paint.NET. This is an awesome free image editor with all the bells and whistles of your hundred-dollar programs.
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Grab the Paint.NET ICO Plugin
Well worth having, just as a backup image editor if nothing else. Since Paint.net does not have .ico support built in by default, I picked up this page:
http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1152
To use it, all you need to do is unzip and then put it in the “FileTypes” folder in the Paint.NET directory.
Startup Paint.NET and try dragging and dropping an .ico icon onto the canvas. Thanks to this neat plugin, it will open just as any other image would open. With saving as an .ico, I had a few errors at times but doing it again or changing the name of the file seems to have helped.
So there is a totally free way to edit and create custom desktop icons for your next design project or desktop redecoration.
Font Style Help with CSS Type Set
Fonts always confusing me when it comes to editing or creating a stylesheet for a web site layout. Thanks to CSS Type Set this is no longer an issue.
To use, just fire up the web site and paste in the text you wish to style. Then use the controls at the bottom of the web site to adjust the text spacing, line height, font color, font style, how it is formatted and much more.
This is turning a three hour job of playing with CSS, trying to get it just right uploading and downloading all into something you can do in about five minutes. CSS Type Set has earned a spot in my web dev folder for sure.
Vista Media Center – Edit Out the Ads
Last night I recorded the replay of Tin Man on the SciFi Channel (really good show, if you haven’t seen it yet). This was also my first real test of recording something using Vista’s Media Center.
I have to say it went pretty smoothly going through the manual controls but I had only one issue come up. After words – I decided I wanted to cutout the commercials. After doing a little searching I found Lifextender.
Here is how the creator explains how it works:
Lifextender is pretty simple. It scans the directory that Media Center records TV to every X minutes for new TV shows. All new TV shows are queued up to be analyzed and scanned for annoying commercials. After a show has been analyzed, a new file is created from the original with commercials cut out, around 3/4 the original size. The original show is then replaced by the new, commercial-free show. Rinse and repeat.
Does it work? Well I plan on starting it up tonight and letting it work through the night. From some of the other reviews I have seen I have high hopes, but I’ll let you know if I run into any issues – of course.
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