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Guest Post: How To Display Ad Blocks In Specific Posts In WordPress

Dan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:42:09 +0000

Thought I shared a guest post I wrote for wpbeginner about a fairly easy way to show some ad blocks in different blog posts and positions. So check it out:How To Display Ad Blocks In Specific Posts In WordPress

Google has ajaxed their search engine

Dan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:59:28 +0000

Just noticed that the URL in the address bar is slightly different now upon searching something. Go ahead and search for something and notice. For example I searched for the term “home run” and the resulted URL was this:
“http://www.google.com/#hl=ro&q=home+run&meta=&fp=bac2420aeea77efe”. Notice the “#” after the slash. If you see that character then you might want to hit CTRL + U to view the source code of the page (in Firefox). Search for one of the terms that is clearly on the results page amongst the code chunks. How do you think will this change affect us ? Nevertheless this change is still not world-wide yet as some friends can’t see it back in the US or other countries.

Winamp crashes Gtalk when “Show current music track” is enabled

Dan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:44:13 +0000

If you use Gtalk and you have set the status option to “Show current music track” and use Winamp 5.xxx you will see that Gtalk has a hard time getting the information from Winamp. In order to solve this you will need to create a blank “winamp.m3u” using any kind of player that understands that format or simply by using Notepad and saving a blank file as “winamp.m3u”.

Streamripper for Winamp on Vista enable & disable annoyance

Dan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:14:35 +0000

If you are using the well-known Streamripper with Winamp for ripping your favorite streams on Vista you might experience a problem when disabling Streamripper. I for one, don’t need Streamripper all the time so I disable it and re-enable it only when I go for a “tunes hunt”. The user credentials stuff will give you headaches on Vista (even if you are logged in as Administrator or another user with administrator privileges). Why ? Because when you enable/disable Streamripper plugin or other Winamp plugins they will edit their config files (mostly INI files). Vista won’t let them do that so you disable Streamripper, restart Winamp and Streamripper will pop right up again as nothing happened.

In order to get rid of this issue make sure that when you open Winamp you will open it by right-clicking the shortcut icon and choosing “Run as Administrator”. All problems will go away and your changes will be saved. If you want to run it as Administrator all the time without needing to right click on the icon, then right-click on the shortcut icon once more, choose “Properties” and navigate to the “Compatibility” tab, and on the “Privilege Level” setting check the “Run this program as an Administrator” box.
That’s a pretty easy solution for this annoying problem. Hope that it will server you as it served me. Cheers.

LE: I noticed that if you choose to run Winamp “as an Administrator” then Winamp won’t be able to see the external mounted drives. For example I have mounted my 500GB WD external HDD and when I loaded a playlist that contained tunes located on the external disk Winamp started to skip all my playlist. I noticed that when I want to load a folder into Winamp’s playlist and get to the browse window I can’t see the mounted partition that is viewable from My Computer. The fix was to run Winamp normally, not with administrator privileges which conflicts with the above fix.

Sorry for downtime

Dan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:53:03 +0000

Eleven days ago the server on which this blog is hosted went down. The server’s OS (RHEL 5) went into kernel panic. Reason is unknown and probably will remain that way unfortunately. For the last eleven days, I spent most of my time recovering what I could from the server. MySQL databases have been fully restored. Domains files, websites, e-mail accounts, pretty much everything we needed from the server was recovered. This has been a long and tiring task for me. It consumed me as a person. I definitely learned some new stuff from this, so I guess it was an educative experience. I want to use this occasion to officially thank the support staff from “The Planet” who has been more than friendly and acted very professional while supporting me through this milestone. Backups are important. VERY IMPORTANT !!! Preferable off-site backups (you might want to check EVault) but local ones (on a separate local disk maybe) will probably do also. Plesk is very powerful and definitely a top-class CP. I enjoy using it every day. I am very grateful that I managed to recover everything. I even made considerable progress on improving stuff that we already had. I am very happy with how things turned out in the end.

Thank you everyone for your support and understanding.

Happy Holidays from Softinquiry !

Dan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:36:30 +0000

Wishing you a “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !” This is my last post in 2008 so I just wanted to say I am grateful for everything that I accomplished so far. This year a lot of great things happened to me. Thanks everyone for being there for me when I needed you.

See you next year !

Guest Post Spot Available

Dan — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:26:05 +0000

If you are interested in writing a guest post for Softinquiry.com feel free to contact me.

Softinquiry is now ad free !

Dan — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:58:38 +0000

I decided that I shall pollute my audience with ads no more. Reason ? Thankfully came to the conclusion that I don’t need the money anymore. Also an article that contributed to this decision was Tibi’s insight on why an ad free blog rocks. Thanks Tibi.

So I’m back to good old fashionned blogging.

Have a nice day everyone !

Back to blogging

Dan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:12:59 +0000

Hello there. First of all I want to thank my subscribers and all those of you who encouraged me to make some time to write again. It makes me really happy to know that my writing brought some light for some of you out there who had problems making up their minds or just needed a quick and competent suggestion.

Based on my new discoveries I will continue to share my knowledge in a form of tips and tricks, howto’s, news, scripts, reviews, tutorials and any other imaginable form.
I got a new set up (both hardware and software) since I last wrote on my blog so I have a lot of new stuff to write about. Hopefully I will afford to write one article per week.

And to finish this “come back” article I will answer the magic question: “Why ?”. Because now I am a student at The University of Oradea (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, department of Computer Science) and in my free time I am working on a project on which I will let you know later on.

Sorry for downtime

Dan — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:13:56 +0000

Yesterday at aprox. 10:45 PM softinquiry.com went offline due to some hosting issues that were solved and the blog went online again today at aprox. 12:18 AM.

Sorry for the inconvenience.