podPress, the famous wordpress podcast plugin leads me to this simple yet elegant flash audio player. Well, if you have wordpress installed and plan to have it as the publishing platform of your audio files, you can just install podPress and use it in the add new post page. Otherwise, you may try the standalone version which is incredibly easy to use.

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MySQL has come with a safe mode wherein access privileges are not checked, which essentially enables you to log in anonymously to change anything in any database.

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Don’t know if it’s a glitch of Zend itself but I frequently encounter this problem on Windows with Zend Studio when writing PHP. Function / object methods names auto-completion saves a lot of time by suggesting candidates and a quick flyover tooltip with the synopsis, however sometimes it doesn’t work with newly created functions and object methods. It’s really annoying and it severely damages your productivity in that you have to check manually the usage of a function or object method yourself by switching to other file tabs.

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While HTML is the concrete of all web pages and websites, CSS is the spirit. It specifies the aesthetic aspect of all the web pages by design through presentation, conveying the ideas and sensations by visual languages. The first class of all web designers start with CSS.

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HTML is the language of the Web and all websites are written in HTML (XHTML). To learn creating website, the first thing you will need to learn is HTML. Period.

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Thanks to the computer scientists who set the standards of JavaScript, in the arena of event programming and behavioral manipulations of windows and objects, it is the one programming script that is so powerful that you can virtually build any possible interactive applications with it.

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As the most popular web server for hosting websites, Apache is second to none. It thrives for a reason, that is, it’s versatile and adapts to all situations and answer to even the slightest demands of a website. Below are some books from Amazon about administering Apache that may give you a new perspective and upper hand in handling the web server.

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MySQL is by far the most popular and widespread database on the entire planet. It’s used in a wide array of industries and the Web is probably the most prominent scenario, websites database. Below are some hand selected books for you to learn MySQL: both database administration and database SQL programming, for both professionals and beginners.

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If your goal is to enter the PHP domain as a novice beginner and start from the very basics, these books are reviewed the best by actual readers.

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One of the most common uses of JavaScript is to redirect the user to or automatically open up another web page location. For example, when the user clicks a button, the JavaScript will redirect the user to the location selected in the drop down select menu. It’s just like the user has typed the web page location URL.

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Spliting and dividing a string into several chunks is a rather basic need for text parsing. You can do it easily in PHP by the help of explode() function or preg_split(), in JavaScript, you can achieve this task by the split() string function.

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HTML is the abbreviation of Hyper Text Markup Language invented by Tim Berners-Lee, who’s also been called the father of the Web.

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While many still rely on HTML to center things or make page elements centered in the middle of the page, it’s actually the job of CSS.

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As more and more social sites enable their users to make out custom HTML codes for their homepages, many want to learn about HTML and how to write and modify web pages by HTML.

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CSS standards for Cascading Style Sheets. It’s a descriptive programming language that specifies how web pages look like in appearance and style.

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Face2Face is the name of this Joomla template, released free by Template Kingdom. I don’t usually use Joomla but one has to admit there has been many excellent template themes for Joomla like this one, just as there are with WordPress.

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Template Kingdom is one of the best template and design sources on the Web. Other than a spectrum of website template sets for thousands of different niches and needs such as plain html templates, flash templates, css templates, joomla templates, wordpress templates and newsletter templates, they regularly releases free web templates.

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Custom design and printing is what characterizes online T-shirt businesses that have come into boom since a few years back. A lot of people are making good money selling custom design tshirt. To tap into this niche, you can either come out with your own designs and promote the merchandise at Cafe Press, or you can earn good money by marketing others’ tshirts, that is, by the tshirt affiliate program.

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Imagine the best WordPress theme you have ever used and then triple the pleasure you enjoyed with it – that’s what Thesis can give you.

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Basically, the root URL of your blog which is your domain or subdomain is changing here. Though this doesn’t seem like a sane decision considering the huge SEO impact that might fall upon your site but with HTTP 301 permanent redirection, this can still make sense in some situations.

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Searched all day yesterday for a $6.99 .com renewal coupon to use for my 30 or so .com domains at Godaddy.

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A typical case of replacing a part of the string to another substring in a database table is switching between site domains or URLs, such as when you want to transfer your WordPress blog from one domain to another. You have to change all values containing the original site URL to the new one in the wp_options and wp_posts table.

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Upon a fresh installation of MyBB forum software, the default homepage title is the name of the forum. Sometimes you want to add more keywords in it or change it in some way for the sake of SEO but don’t want to tamper with the forum site title itself because that’d make it look long and nasty.

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To get the exact Astronomical Unit in kilometers:

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