If you want a convenient way to track your facebook shares and likes and have access to the “backend Admin Pages” facebook automatically creates when you have implemented all the necessary code in your page, this one is for you.

Plugin Page Download

Admitted, we joined the facebook share/like social plugin button craze late.
Partially because before we didn’t know enough about the inner workings of the implementation as well as growing security and privacy concerns revolving around facebook.
But eventually we gave in, after doing our research we integrated both buttons into our blog and waited. We waited to [...]

We all know that facebook has eliminated the *Become a Fan* button and has replaced it with the more generic *Like* button. Like it or not.
But there still are 2 different options to express your appreciation for an (external) page: You can *share* it by clicking the *share* button or you can *like* it.

In the past weeks, more and more clients are reporting infections with *Antispyware Soft* malware.
Antivirus Soft is yet another fake antispyware, similar to Antivirus Live and/or Spyware Protect 2009.
It imitates a system scan and claims to find multiple infections, no matter which shortcut you try to click on or which program you try to start.

After many hours reading up on the caveats of transparency; after tabbing through many suggestions found on many websites, blogs and forums; after trying to create visible containers on top of invisible containers, changing positions from relative to absolute and back only to see layout go totally awry, I finally decided to create my own [...]

In the last post (Add a Twitter Feed with jQuery) we talked about how to add a twitter feed with jQuery, now it’s time to do the same with PHP. The whole idea was to get the same result by using similar methods provided by the Twitter API – and again it’s easier than you [...]

Although announced back in November of 2009 (Site Speed, Google’s Next Ranking Factor), it seems like this update has been overlooked by most webmasters, site owners and a lot of SEO-ers.
In a Webmaster Central Blog entry (Using site speed in web search ranking) dated Fri, Apr 9 2010, they finally made it official.
So give your [...]

Adding a twitter feed to your website is easier than you might think.
All you need is:
the jQuery library
the twitter username/userID/screenname (preferably your own) of the feed you want to embed
and a few lines of code.

Demo Download

3) Dress up your textareas: rounded corners, changing background & fixed scrolling background IE bug
Adding a sprite with rounded corners to add textarea field is almost the exact same procedure as described in Dress up your text fields.
With one exception: In Internet Explorer 7 the whole background image (in our case the sprite with [...]

As of today, the links to the Skype installation files in linux Mint’s software manager are broken.
For users running the live CD version, installing all updates via the Update Manager that might fix the paths is not an option as they will run out of “disk space” before the updates are installed.
Right now the [...]