How to change “Blogroll” to “Links” in Wordpress

Posted by Devang Gandhi on April 26th, 2008

I don’t like the term “Blogroll” for my links in wordpress. I would rather call it “Links”.

To change the name of the category “Blogroll” in the wordpress admin, go to Blogroll -> Categories and click Edit for the Blogroll category. In the next screen you can change the name and the slug from Blogroll to whatever name you like.

P.S. I have done this on Wordpress 2.3.2

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How to insert comments in email messages in Outlook?

Posted by Devang Gandhi on March 26th, 2008

To turn on inline comments in Outlook follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Tools menu, click Options.
  2. On the Preferences tab, click E-mail Options.
  3. Select the Mark my comments with check box, and then type the text that you want to use with your comments (e.g. Gandhi, Devang). This text appears in brackets when you add inline comments to a message reply.

Once these settings are done, go to the message and click Reply. Click in the body of the original message and start typing. The comment text that you created above appears as a prefix e.g. [Gandhi, Devang] to your comment.

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Adsense Video units

Posted by Devang Gandhi on March 16th, 2008

Youtube and google adsense have teamed together to bring the Adsense Video units. This lets you create a custom flash video player on youtube with different colors and size. The content for the videos can be selected from various categories. The player displays an adsense ad banner at the very top.

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Unable to open email messages received as an attachment in Outlook

Posted by Devang Gandhi on March 10th, 2008

I was unable to open email messages that were sent to me as an attachment in another email in Outlook 2003. After some googling, I realized that google desktop 5.5 was creating this problem.

The solution:

In Outlook navigate to Tools -> Options -> Other -> Advanced Options. Remove the tick mark (deselect) for Google Desktop in both the Ad-In Manager and the Com Ad-Ins. This should fix it.

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How to remove namespace attribute from XML root element using XSLT?

Posted by Devang Gandhi on February 25th, 2008

There are occasions when we need to remove the namespace attribute from the XML root element before sending it to the receiving application. This can be done using XSL transform as shown below. If you are already doing an XSL transform just include the following code in that XSLT.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" />
        <xsl:template match="*">
                <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
                        <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
                </xsl:element>
        </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
 

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Yahoo and Microsoft battle intensifies

Posted by Devang Gandhi on February 19th, 2008

Microsoft plans to wage a proxy fight against Yahoo. Microsoft sees a real benefit in acquiring Yahoo - a benefit large enough to make it deviate from its two fundamental policies:

  • Microsoft doesn’t buy large corporations
  • Microsoft doesn’t go against the will of the other company, if it doesn’t want to get bought.

The way proxy fight works is that Microsoft will request Yahoo investors to remove Yahoo’s board of directors. Yahoo, on the other hand is apparently seeking other options to counter the possible hostile takeover.

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Free wi-fi at Starbucks from AT&T

Posted by Devang Gandhi on February 11th, 2008

Starbucks has partnered with AT&T to provide free wi-fi access. However, the two hours a day free wi-fi is only for customers who have a Starbucks gift card. It is like prepaying for your coffee but you get free internet too. The AT&T customers will enjoy unlimited access at these starbucks hotspots.

For those who do not want to use a starbucks card, the price is $4 for a two-hour session (T-Mobile charged $6 per hour or $10 per day). I wonder if AT&T will replace T-Mobile hotspots at the hundreds of airport across the country. One more step in the right direction (of making internet free).

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Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo

Posted by Devang Gandhi on February 5th, 2008

It’s been four days since Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo and no real response from Yahoo yet. As Jim Cramer says, Yahoo seems arrogant. Google’s senior VP David Drummond has already voiced strong concerns over what could be Microsoft’s attempt dominate the Internet that the way it does with the PC.

On the flip side, Microsoft and Yahoo together could pose serious competition to Google, who has long enjoyed the lack of it. Competitive markets have always been beneficial to the customers and it is time that online advertising and search become competitive.

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How to enable comments on Wordpress Pages?

Posted by Devang Gandhi on February 1st, 2008

You can use wordpress as a simple Content Management System for a non-blog website. That’s what I am doing on one of my other websites. But I wanted to enable comments on my static pages. I figured just by enabling “Allow comments” under “Discussion” did not work. Then I found this wordpress.org thread

All you need to do is edit the “Page Template” and insert the following code

<?php if ((‘open’ == $post-> comment_status)) { comments_template(); } ?>

somewhere in between the following two lines.

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
 

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Google misses Wall street estimates

Posted by Devang Gandhi on January 31st, 2008

The biggest news on the Wall street after trading hours was Google missing its estimates. Google reported its Q4 earnings numbers today in the afterhours that did not meet what Wall street was expecting. It’s profits for the quarter were $4.43 per share, narrowly missing the estimates of $4.44 a share. The stock plunged about 8%. Well, that the price you pay when you are google and you miss the estimates by $0.01

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