I already mentioned two scripts for phpbb3 that are more than useful in this post. Quick edit and quick reply are both offering you the possibility of gaining some speed when it comes to interacting with a phpbb3 forum. Their names says it all so I think no further explanation is  needed.

Furthermore there are yet two other scripts that can help you with your forum browsing. With them you can toggle pagination on and off for both threads and topics.

Another interesting script is helping you to view posts older than 24 hours. You don’t have to be an expert to change a few lines of code in order to get it to show you the latest posts in X…

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This is just a quickie because I have a little free time now as tomorrow I will be done with my final exams.

I’m sure the issue with Yahoo! Messenger stealing focus is very common out there. It is annoying mostly because for example when I am engaged in a captivating chat with a friend and I am typing really fast (~60 wpm), the flash ads from the Y!M window swap and I find myself focused on the wrong window. Of course that for me this isn’t such a big deal (but still very annoying) as it is for others who look at their keyboards as they type and when they look at the chat window and see it empty……

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I use a couple of Firefox extensions to enhance my day-to-day web interaction. Today I decided to check my extensions list to see which ones were officially compatible with the latest FF3 RC1.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that FireShot and Gmail Manager joined Alexa Sparky and StumbleUpon extensions which were already compatible with FF.

Now I must patiently wait until Colorzilla, del.icio.us bookmarks, Firebug, Greasemonkey, Live Pagerank, Smart Digg Button and TinyUrl Creator will all be fully compatible with FF 3 which is just around the corner. Many would ask why didn’t I just go for a forced install. I have one big reason for not doing that: I don’t have time for it.

Off-topic: Some asked me what…

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Thankfully all my experiences with web hosting companies were relatively OK. Great support teams, great uptime and zero problems with speed, connectivity or that kind of stuff. Nowadays, it is pretty obvious that blogging has affected a whole bunch of the market’s segments and a different approach is to be seen (or at least is should) when it comes to online advertising and not only.

Of course, web hosting companies noticed this trend and tried to offer something attractive and competitive for this newly emerged community called bloggers. For a start-up blog you don’t actually need a lot of bandwidth, storage space and so on. You need a decent amount of everything. I would say the “smallest” package would suit…

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It seems like I’m using Twitter more and more every week. I am following tibipuiu and I read his tweet yesterday about Google updating the PR. In the next few minutes I was checking my blog’s PR. Nothing has changed. However yesterday in the early afternoon I noticed that the Live PageRank Firefox addon was showing me a PR2. The next thing I know, I was on Daniel’s blog (because I knew almost for sure that he’ll mention this event) and I was reading his post about it. I decided to let things settle in their place and check them out today. This blog is online for a couple of months and it jumped from PR 0 to PR…

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Daniel Scocco over at DailyBlogTips had an admirable idea of entitling 1st of May as the “RSS Awareness Day”. He wrote about his initiative and invited everyone to get involved. Though I found out about this quite some time ago I didn’t had time or I wasn’t in the mood to write about it. However today I’ve said to myself that it’s better later than never.

I think that the best definition for RSS out there is over at Wikipedia so I’m going to quote them:
RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts. An RSS document (which is called a “feed” or “web feed” or “channel”)…

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Great news ! Finally your wait has ended. I’m more than sure that folks that are using the K2 theme were very anxious and waiting for the next version that would be compatible with Wordpress 2.5.

For example I know a couple of guys that were patiently waiting for the latest version of K2 as this was their only reason because of which they delayed the upgrade of Wordpress on their blogs.

I used this theme for quite a lot of time on my other blog and actually created a modified version of it. I must say that this is one of the greatest themes out there with hundreds of customizing possibilities available. I strongly recommend it to people who don’t…

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I like to offer you all tips regarding different monetization opportunities because I know how hard it is to find some truly working systems that are playing fair. I would like to introduce you SocialSpark. It is a relatively new system about which some of you may have already heard. So what is this so called SocialSpark all about ? Well, at first it may seem like just another pay-per-post company. Fortunately it is way more than that.

SocialSpark offers you two monetization opportunities: sponsored post and blog sponsorship. What is truly original about it is that it acts just like a social site. Under its wings bloggers and advertisers create an interesting community. Everyone has an ordinary social profile….

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As we all know, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is now available. I can’t wait to install the new release as I am a huge fan of Ubuntu. I still remember my first encounter with Ubuntu a few years ago. A good friend of mine handed me a copy of Ubuntu he received in his mail. I can’t remember the version but I know it had two CDs in the case: a live and an install CD. Since then I started playing with it and never got bored. Fortunately I had a little of experience with Knoppix and Red Hat. Also now I know my way pretty well in SuSe, Fedora Core and Mandriva. However Ubuntu and SuSe, both have…

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I was writing a post a couple of days ago about how great FeedReader3 is. It’s definitely a neat tool when it comes to concentrating all your subscriptions in one place and handle them as you like. But what happens when you are using Ubuntu or other linux distros ? Unfortunately most of the alternatives that try to offer the same services as a Windows application don’t succeed (of course there are a few exceptions).

So what I will try to do is to pretty much compare a linux feed reader alterantive with FeedReader3. Currently i am using SuSe 10.3 and Ubuntu 7.10 and I have installed Liferea on both. It works like a charm. Unfortunately I am not aware…

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