Category: Computers & Co.

  • Firefox 3.6: graphic bug finally fixed!

    Can you believe it? The graphic bug in Firefox that I once told about was finally fixed in version 3.6! The bug was first reported in May 2009 – so it just took them almost a year … ;) But well, it was only a rarely occurring bug and therefore probably didn’t have the highest priority.…

  • Search google.com (in English)

    Recently I wanted to google something, but all the German search results were of no use. So I wanted to try in English – but how? Usually I simply enter my search term in English and thus get English results, too. But this time I was looking for a quite “international” term such as “instant…

  • PHP + Recursion + loop + global array = trouble

    Once again, I came across an issue that I racked my brain about for hours, if not days: I had written a recursive function in PHP that should run through a globally declared array with a foreach loop and then restart itself if necessary. Everything ran perfectly well – but only on my local server.…

  • History in chat window in Miranda

    Today, I have a tip for all users of the wonderfully simple and lightweight instant messenger “Miranda”. Sometimes the problem occurs that, when starting a conversation, the complete history of that contact will load and appear in the chat window. One may not even realize it at the beginning – I myself didn’t notice it…

  • Integrate WordPress statistics into a template plugin- and widget-free

    For a while I’ve been looking for a way to integrate the top-posts of my site, that have been established by the WordPress stats plugin, into my template. I wanted to have a list of the five most visited posts, preferably with the number of comments. I remembered that I had once seen a plugin…

  • Blank page after commenting on a WordPress post

    This issue is certainly known to a few, and I too have had the problem for a while that I couldn’t leave any comments on my own blog when logged in as admin (I could comment only from the back end, but not from the website). Today I have finally taken the “time” to go…