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301 .htaccess Redirect Trick

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After the implementation of WordPress, you should notice some of the URLs and paths on this site are different. To prevent getting 404 File Not Found error (traffic coming from links, bookmarks and search engines), I used this .htaccess 301 redirect trick I found. This way is better than meta refresh or redirect tag because there is no delay as the browser reads the .htaccess file first. However, it is only available to Linux server (doen’t work on Window server). Here is the trick. Read on…

WordPress Makes My Life Easier

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Here I just want to give a big thanks to WordPress and all its contributors. WordPress has made my life so much easier. I remember back in the older version when I was using static HTML pages, it was such a pain to update my site. Every time I updated my site, I needed to replace all HTML files on the server and eventually I got tired updating my site. So I went around search for a good content management system (CMS) and I found WordPress! It is such a great blogging and simple CMS tool. Read on…

Plugins Used in This Site

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As most of you probably know that this site is powered by WordPress as a blogging and content managment tool. Here are the plugins that I used to manage my site.

Breadcrumb

Breadcrumb navigation plugin, by Dan Peverill, is used in all static pages (located above the heading). Breadcumb navigation tells the user what page they are viewing and also allow them to quickly jump back to previous location. Read on…

My MacBook Pro Sucks

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I recently bought a new MacBook Pro (my first Apple computer). Yes, I am one of the switchers. I have been a PC user for a while until Apple introduced Intel-based Mac notebook. I was tempted by the MacBook Pro and brought a 15.4-inch display, 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo, with 2GB of RAM (upgraded from 1GB). After couple hours of fun playing around with the Mac OS X, I installed Adobe CS2 and did couple test runs. I was so disappointed on its performance. It even runs slower than my old PC laptop (1.5GHz Centrino with 1GB RAM). That is impossible since the new MacBook has 2.16GHz CPU with 2GB of RAM. I thought it could be my Adobe software issue. So I went to install Macromedia Studio 8 to see how it perform. Same result - slow. Read on…