Things you didn't know that you should know
XBMC is an excellent media center application, and there are some beautiful themes available like Alaska. There is one problem though, some movies have previews or “samples” which clutter up the otherwise excellent movie wall. To fix this problem, just create a file called advancedsettings.xml in your user profile with the following text.
<advancedsettings>
<loglevel>1</loglevel>
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Voddler, the hot movie hub, recently closed their gates after their service had been compromised. They have now just relaunched, sporting a completely new interface, where the biggest difference is the Voddler client being moved to the web. The reasoning for this according to official sources, is to make Voddler more accessible, since the original client [...]
I created a small scratch-an-itch plugin called WP-Requre-Auth a while ago. Its purpose is to disable access to a Wordpress blog if a user is not logged in. I am guessing the download statistics for this niche plugin will not exactly skyrocket, but now it is at least findable.
The Trac site is still available for [...]
Divvyshot is a photo sharing site, fresh off the presses. Even though the name is hard to remember, the website is quite the opposite.
Divvyshot has taken a somewhat different approach to photo sharing where albums are thought of as events, and multiple people can easily contribute to them. Imagine a wedding where there will probably [...]
Google Wave recently entered the spotlight after releasing lots of new invites to eagerly awaiting users. I received an invite a while back and have been using Wave for some time now and I see the great potential and where it is headed. It basically is a way for realtime collaboration between people, making discussion easy [...]
I am posting this from the Wordpress for iPhone app! Version 2.1 is great with everything one could want, except one thing.
For some reason, the wordpress app lacks a widescreen mode, which to me is astounding, given that the app is designed for, well… writing.
The blog has been very quiet for some time now as [...]
I wanted to get notified on Twitter replies and mentions instantly, both on my Mac and on my iPhone. Since Google released Push for the iPhone a couple of weeks ago, an email based solution would be perfect.
Get Twitter Mentions is a bash script well suited for this task. It is easily customizable and you [...]
The iPhone does some really remarkable things and has some amazing features. One feature I really wanted to get working was push email. Not only for the increased battery performance, but for the reason the Blackberry was given the more descriptive name of Crackberry.
I heard that Yahoo provides push mail for the iPhone, so I [...]
Trying out Disqus once again
03 Mar 2010 at 21:08
Johnny Chadda
Technology
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Almost exactly a year ago I tried out the Disqus commenting system with great success. Since then, Wordpress has gained built-in support for nested comments and other cool features available in Disqus at the time. That was the incentive I needed to stop using Disqus and revert back to Wordpress a while ago.
Since then, Disqus [...]