Hey, since my first installation of wordpress, I love this publishing platform very much. But there was something that didn’t make me very happy, that was the confirmation email. When a new user registers in a wordpress based blog, a confirmation email is sent to him. But the email says that it is from ‘[email protected]‘ and the sender name was ‘WordPress’. I wanted to change it to something like ‘[email protected]‘ or ‘[email protected]‘. I searched for an option to customize this in the dashboard. When I had no luck, I tried to find the corresponding code in the source code. Still I had no luck. I searched almost the entire web, Yahoo! Answers and everything, no clue.But finally today when I was just searching through the WordPress Plugin Directory, I saw something there, sure a plugin, just for changing the from address and sender name of the registration email.
Download images from copy protected sites – The coolest way!
It was Indian independence day and all of my classmates (including me) decided to change our orkut profile pictures to the indian tricolor (flag). But some were reluctant since they just liked their profile pictures and had no copy of it with them so that they could reinstate it once the independence day is over. They tried to save the pictures from their profile pages so that they could reuse them. But as a measure to avoid abuse, orkut makes it difficult to copy someones profile picture (including your own)…..
And there the problem lies, some websites donot allow us to copy or download any images from them. They employ genius programmers and spend money to implement complex scripts that make copying of their images difficult. But for every problem that seems to be complex, there is a solution that is too simple to accept… this applies here too.
All you need is a firefox browser. Open the web page in which your image of interest resides in firefox.
Now right click anywhere on the page and select ‘View Page Info’.
Or you can view page information by clicking on the favicon of the web page and clicking ‘More Information’.
Or you can simply select ‘Page Info’ from the tools tab. Now the Page Info window will show up. On it select the tab ‘Media’. There you will see a list of all images present in that web page.Clicking on any item in the list will show a preview of the image right in the window. Near to the display area, there is a button ‘Save As’ and save the image in your computer. That’s all.
Please let me know if you know any other trick.
Welcome to Google Chrome
At last, after a long time of spectulations and gossips, Google has released a browser – The Google Chrome. A beta release now. This move from Google has been said as the first potential move against Microsoft from a well supported platform. Chrome is built with open source components from firefox,webkit etc…Google released the first public beta of the browser yesterday (2nd September 2008). The beta is available for download at http://www.google.com/chrome. The chrome team reports some entirely new and amazing features of the chrome, that will make Chrome even better than Firefox, (atleast that’s what I thought when I read the cool features of chrome). All the features of chrome are described as a comic (38 pages!) available here. Better read it, it is so much explanatory and so easy to understand.Some of the features of Chrome
- Speed is great, I couldn’t yet find out which is faster – firefox or chrome. Both have competing speed.[Great]
- Web search. Web history. Address bar, all three in a single box.
- A special mode for private browsing incognito mode. – [Good][we can browse ‘off history’ in firefox too]
- See visual preview of your most visited sites, most used search engines, and recently bookmarked pages and closed tabs, every time you open a new tab!. – [Good]
- Create application shortcuts can directly load your favorite online apps –[This feature can be added to Firefox, if you install the addon called ‘prism’. Download Prism]
- Every tab you’re using is run independently(as separate processes) in the browser, so if one app crashes it won’t take anything else down. – [Great]
- You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish – [Cool]
- You will be warned when you are about to visit suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe websites.[Available in most other browsers]
- Single Click bookmarking [Cool][Available in Firefox 3]
- Efficient memory usage and great performance. Starts up lot faster than firefox.[Great][I great advantage over firefox]
- A cool and great download manager [Good][Better than firefox]
- An inbuilt task manager (keyboard shortcut: shift+esc) – [Great]
Google Chrome has been reported for several compatibility issues already. Read more on compatibility issues.