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Where is Gallery2 ?

Dec-13-2007 By miketeo

If you are planning to install the WordPress Gallery (WPG2), you might get lost on finding the Gallery2 web application. The URL for Gallery2 is at http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Download. Be sure to download the Full installation.

If you are a hard-core developer like me, you won’t be very much surprised if you find yourself hammering source code on your keyboard for hours without knowing. But take note that such prolonged repetitive actions on your hands can result in Repetitive Stress Injury. If you are developing on a Linux platform, you can try RSIBreak. It’s a nice KDE applet which can be configured to inform (and even interrupt your typing) if it determines that you have been working on the keyboard for too long without resting.

Online FLV Converter

Sep-5-2007 By miketeo

Check out vixy.net.
It allows you to convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube’s videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. That means you can convert your favourite YouTube video for watching in your PSP, PC and/or iPod.

Futhermore, the conversion engine is opensource !
It is available on sourceforge.net.

Pingdom’s “Mr Uptime”

Aug-24-2007 By miketeo

This tool defies my common sense of uptime monitoring: it monitors the web sites for changes through a FireFox plugin. When the web site being monitored is back online, or its contents have changed, it will inform you. As you might have suspected, the monitoring stops when you turned out your PC or exited FireFox, so where does the uptime monitoring come into the picture ?

I believe some might find this tool useful, but unfortunately, I’m not one of these believers. In all cases, the name of the tool does not accurately define its true purpose: web site monitoring.

For more information, visit this URL.