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Kaltura
May 27th
Kaltura – The Open Source Alternative
With 60,000 publishers worldwide who have integrated Kaltura’s open source video platform, Kaltura is revolutionizing the industry by providing the first and only open source video solution stack.
Kaltura allows publishers of all sizes to easily, quickly, and cost effectively enhance their web site with video and interactive rich-media functionalities, including video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing, and advertising.
Unlike the alternative proprietary solutions, Kaltura’s platform is completely flexible, extendible and free! Web publishers, Value-Added-Resellers, and Integrators use our software development kit to customize a unique rich-media experience that fits their specific purposes, and seamlessly integrates with many popular content management systems. Moreover, Kaltura’s reference implementations and growing library of applications, extensions and plug-ins allow publishers to select off the shelf solutions for rapid self-serve deployments that can be fully enabled within minutes.
http://corp.kaltura.com/
Mysqli Tutorial
Jan 8th
Moving from a procedural system to object-oriented can be a daunting task. One feature to assist you is the MySQLi class, which allows for an object-oriented approach to database manipulation. This tutorial gives insight into the structure and basic usage of the MySQLi class. If PDO isn’t an option for you, then try MySQLi! More >
11 Ways to Backup your del.icio.us bookmarks
Jan 4th
11 Ways to Backup your del.icio.us bookmarks
Del.icio.us remains the grand-daddy of all the Social Bookmarking Services.
It was bought out by Yahoo but, it remains slow and has many outages.
Here are ways to backup your bookmarks for this 24×7 world. More >
Google and Zimbra contact sync for Thunderbird
Aug 3rd
- What is synchronized?
- What isn’t synchronized?
- Contact conversion
- Thunderbird and Google Addressbook differences
- No empty contacts
- When rules break
Also see the FAQ for thunderbird contact sync.
more info http://www.zindus.com/faq-thunderbird-google/ More >
Thunderbird reply position
Jul 24th
Sometimes I put up with computer stupidity much longer than I should. By default, Thunderbirdpositions the cursor at the bottom of the e-mail body when replying to an e-mail instead of at the top. I couldn’t figure out how to change it, so instead I rewired my brain to press Ctrl+r, Ctrl+Home to reply.
Today I decided enough is enough. After a brief Google search I found the solution to setting the reply position on e-mails to the top instead of the bottom. The stupid thing is that it’s not an application-wide setting, it’s an account setting.
1. In Thunderbird: Go to “Edit > Account Settings” *
2. Select “Composition & Addressing” for the account in question
3. Make sure the “Automatically quote the original message when replying” checkbox is checked.
4. In the dropdown box below that, select the option “start my reply above the quote”
This worked for Thunderbird 1.5, ymmv
* update: on Windows, the option can be found in: Tools -> Account Settings.
update 2: If you’re commenting to say “thank you”: You’re welcome!
Advanced CSS Menu
Jul 1st
Last tutorial, I showed you how to design a watercolor effect menu in Photoshop. This tutorial I will show you how to slice up the menu design (step by step) and put them together with CSS. Most of you probably know how to code a horizontal or vertical CSS list menu. Now let’s take it to the next level — code an advanced (un-typical) list menu utilizing the CSS position property.
Get a FREE Experts-Exchange account
May 15th
Most of you have most probably heard of Experts-Exchange. It’s a website which allows you to ask questions to “experts”, somewhat akin to a Yahoo Answers on steroids. More >
Clear Cache for all major web browsers
May 8th
CLEAR CACHE IN INTERNET EXPLORER 6.0
Follow these steps below to clear the cache in Internet Explorer 6.0:
- Click Tools – Internet Options
- Select General Tab
- Click the Settings Button under Temporary Internet Files grouping
- Set Check for newer versions of stored pages to – Every Visit to the page. More Details: Set Caching to Every Visit to the page
- Click Ok
- Delete all cookies by clicking Delete Cookies button in Temporary Internet Files grouping and Clicking Ok.
- Delete all offline content by Clicking Delete Files Button under Temporary Internet Files grouping and Check ON checkbox for Delete all offline content and click Ok
- Clear History by clicking the Clear History button under the History grouping.
- Click Yes to the Are you sure question.
- Click Ok
