Author Archives: Jed

Do not let your WordPress blog be a launchpad for malware.

By Jed | Published: April 19, 2012

According to this article, you shouldn’t install the new WordPress ToolsPack Plugin. It just installs a small php code that will allow your site to be backdoored and used as a redirect to an attack site. Best practices for a WordPress blog – do not install plugins that you do not need, period. Other than [...]

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Convert Videos and Create DVDs for Free

By Jed | Published: March 30, 2012

Impressive and simple (as in Keep It Simple, Stupid) video conversion tools from the opensource camp. WinFF is a GUI frontend to the powerful ffmpeg set of tools. Conversion is fast and easy. I needed to convert some .MP4 vids to .AVI and .MPG and it did without any issues. Another good tool is DVDStyler. [...]

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One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch

By Jed | Published: March 28, 2012

A classic on investing and will remain so. Mostly he makes a good point on why to invest on the stock market vs. other conservative investment instruments (bonds, CDs, banks). He also points out that you don’t need an “expert advice” from experts on what companies to invest in because he outlines the techniques he [...]

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The Best Investment Advice I Ever Received by Liz Claman

By Jed | Published: March 28, 2012

Still reading through it. What I found was that most people interviewed this book support long term investment vs. speculation. Personalities like Warren Buffet, Jim Cramer, Suze Orman and Steve Forbes were interviewed for this book. The author Liz Claman is a known CNBC business news anchor. Good book. Had a lot of good vibes [...]

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Sharepoint 2010: Display Quick Launch in a Web Part Page

By Jed | Published: March 14, 2012

Go into Sharepoint Designer 2010 and remove the following lines of code: These 2 groups of lines: 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 <style type="text/css"> body #s4-leftpanel { display:none; } .s4-ca { margin-left:0px; } </style> and these: 60 61 <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderNavSpacer" runat="server"></asp:Content> <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server"></asp:Content>

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Remove Recently Modified List in Sharepoint 2010′s Quick Launch

By Jed | Published: March 1, 2012

If you’re just editing one page then a CEWP with these CSS styles will do the trick: <style> .s4-recentchanges { DISPLAY:none; } </style> But if you’re editing it site-wide then edit the v4.master page and look for the line: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftActions" runat="server"> Just add this: Visible="false" So it should look like: <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftActions" runat="server" Visible="false"> [...]

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Promoting Moriones Festival.

By Jed | Published: March 1, 2012

Missing my home province of Marinduque specially this coming Holy Week. Created a “more fun in the Philippines” meme using Inkscape in my OpenBSD using the Harabara font found in this nice how-to. Photo credit goes to a good photographer named Romeo M. Angeles. You can visit his Flickr gallery. He takes good pictures. Contact [...]

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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

By Jed | Published: February 29, 2012

I was always in awe with spaceflight way back when my brother and I got an old National Geographic magazine featuring Neil Armstrong on the cover. It had all the pictures and diagrams that concerned that particular flight – the rocket, command module, lunar lander, etc. Our parents also got us a set of encyclopedias [...]

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Clear all your Google / Youtube search histories before March 1

By Jed | Published: February 29, 2012

Google is going to unify all your privacy data from your various Google accounts (Google search, Youtube, Gmail, etc) starting March 1, which is only a few hours from now. When you signed up for your Google account and you checked the option to save all web searches, then all your search history is saved. [...]

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Automatic intranet Sharepoint site authentication using Firefox

By Jed | Published: February 9, 2012

Because you don’t like entering your domain user/login:password everytime you try to check your Sharepoint site… 1. Open Firefox. 2. Type “about:config” on the address bar. 3. Enter “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” on the filter bar. 4. Double-click on “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” and add the url for your sharepoint site (can be comma delimited for multiple sites, eg: “mysharepoint.company.com,home.company.com” 5. [...]

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