geeky tutorials, tips, guides and reviews
Looking for a great photo album organizer to put on your website or to base your website on? Gallery is a great open source script that will let you get that job done. It looks great as a stand alone website, and it also blends in seamlessly into your current website design too.
No Joomla is not a board game, and I can promise you it has nothing to do with Robin Williams. Joomla is, in fact, one of the most popular CMS (content management systems) out there today. If you need a website backend that can do a little ‘bit of everything, then Joomla is the script you are looking for.
Tired of your favorite link shortening service not listening to your demands, or maybe you have a better idea for a link shortening service? This is where YOURLS comes into the picture. Wearing it’s spandex tights of freedom, it will let you use the power of PHP to roll down own link shortening service.
Some of the features include:
The requirements are pretty lean too:
Once you get it up and running, you can even use it in connection with your own WordPress install so you can generate short URLs using your service for each new post or page.
The bottom line is, if you want to roll your own TinyURL, this script provides the easiest way to get that done. Download it and give it a shot at yourl.org.
Nucleus CMS is like WordPress’s less popular friend, that does all the same things but doesn’t get the same love from the public. A light, flexible and secure publishing platform, Nucleus CMS is definitely worth check out if you are looking for an alternative blogging platform.
The Nucleus CMS install process isn’t rocket science, so that is defiantly a good thing. Any basic Linux hosting account should make a good home for it.
You can check out more screenshots of Nucleus CMS in action here. You can also play with the demo too, if you what to try some of the features out for yourself.
Here is a little more about Nucleus CMS from the developers:
Thanks to an international community of sophisticated developers and designers, Nucleus CMS remains simple enough for anyone to learn, and expandable enough to allow you to build almost any web site you can imagine. Nucleus CMS lets you integrate text, images, and user comments in a seamless package that will make your web presence as serious, professional, personal, or fun as you want it to be.
The must for any blogging platform, skins and plugins are both there. So this means you have even more possibilities when it comes to customizing Nucleus CMS to meet your own needs.
You can download Nucleus CMS for free, so why not give it a shot?
I have looked at a lot of blogging engines lately, but Loudblog is a little different. It proudly claims it does not have the full weblog publishing features like a MovableType or Textpattern – however it does promise to be the best publishing system out there for anybody who wishes to share their own media.
Installing this script should be no problem with any shared Linux-based hosting. They only require 1 MB of free web space, PHP 4.3 or higher and MySQL 4 or higher. After installing, you can upload your content via the web site or FTP and then you can add and edit lots of meta information for that media.
You can also install templates and plugins to customize your experience even more.
You can check out the demo on OpenSourceCMS if you want to give it a try. If you are looking for a sleek and easy to use content management system for publishing a podcast, Loudblog is definitely worth checking into.
I really love AutoHotkey but some people are still confused as to how you can get it to work for you. After my article about it in the recent issue of Ping! Zine I have had a few questions so I thought I would touch on the basics here for all to see. Here are the basics you need once you get it installed.
Right click on the desktop, select “New” and then “AutoHotkey Script”.
On the desktop icon created for the script, I want you to right-click on it and select “Edit Script”. This should open up a Notepad window with your empty script inside. Go to the Notepad window, hit enter twice so you are on a new line. Next I want you to type in the following:
c:testscript::
Now this is telling your script that the word “testscript” is your keyword to type to get your longer response to launch. Next add some text to the end of that – such as…
Now that you got that text typed into there I want you to go to “File” and then “Save” to save your script. Now lets go back to the desktop where you created your quick response, and double click the icon created on your desktop to launch it. You should see the green box with the “H” in it in your taskbar now.
Now go into any text field, e-mail, search box, anything and type in testscript then hit enter after typing it in. Presto – you just saved yourself a few more seconds in your day. You can now quickly type out phrases you use multiple times in the day and save your keyboard (and fingers) from all that extra work.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
