Make your browser text bigger

Modern browsers such as Google Chrome and Firefox allow you to zoom the page you’re viewing. This is great as you can see what you’re reading, however if you open a new browser window or new tab it’s back to 100% zoom.

Chrome: Auto Zoom
This extension that allows you to set the default zoom to something more legible such as 150%. Once it’s installed click the icon and choose options and enter your default zoom. It’s a bit clunky but it does the job. If you’re using Chrome 5 it now remembers your setting.

Firefox: Default FullZoom level
As the name suggests this Firefox add on remembers your zoom level and adds a control to the status bar to toggle default zoom size.

Make Windows text bigger

Right click the desktop, choose Personalize, then at the bottom choose Display. You can either bump this up to Medium 125% or 150% which I find too big. Clicking on the left ‘Set custom text size’ and type in a number such as 135%

Make the mouse icons bigger

Right click the desktop, choose Personalize, then on the left “Change mouse pointers” and choose Windows Aero (extra large). Also make sure you untick Allow themes to change mouse pointers.

That’s it, hopefully that will make your laptop easier to use. Let me know if you have any tips or programs you use to make it easier to read text on a high resolution screen below.

Simply uninstalled Threatfire and WinDVD HD will (hopefully) work.

You can however adjust the amount of time (in seconds) that a number will ring if you dial the following code (press the green button then dial):

**61*901*11*25#

The last digits are the seconds before going to voicemail (25 seconds in this instance). The default is 15 seconds.

Just enter discount code ‘10 years‘ at the checkout

Typotheque fonts

Fedra sans is particularly strong for corporate use

In your template add the following where you want your breadcrumbs to appear:

<div id="breadcrumbs">
<?php
if ( ( $_REQUEST['option'] != "com_frontpage" ) and ( $_REQUEST['option'] != "com_search" ) and ( $_REQUEST['option'] != "com_xmap" ) ) { ?>
    <jdoc:include type="modules" name="breadcrumbs" />
     <?php } ?>
&nbsp;</div>

This hides the breadcrumb from the home page (com_frontpage) the search results (com_search) and the site map, in this case Xmap (com_xmap). Make sure your breadcrumb mobile appears in the “breadcrumb” module position.

To hide a specific page add:

 ( $_REQUEST['id'] != "8" )

Where 8 is the id of that page. You can also do this for a task as well as an option, just adjust $_REQUEST['option'] to $_REQUEST['task'].

It seems to have the same feature set as PowerPoint, however it’s all through the browser so different people can login and review/make changes. I like the fact you can share your work-in-progress presentation with your designer then login again to see what design improvements they’ve made. Saves sending all the back and forth versions through email for little changes.

It exports to PDF, however you can play your presentation through the browser.

It’s also completely free and they don’t have plans to charge for it as yet.

Try it out yourself at Adobe Labs.

It is possible to change this by adding a hidden field to the search module, here’s how:

Within your homepage template folder create a new directory called “html” and then “mod_search”

Copy the “default.php” file from /modules/mod_search/tmpl/ into your newly created “mod_search” folder under your template folder.

Open this file at near the bottom just before the end of the form add:

 <input type="hidden" name="Itemid" value="2" />

The value refers to the menu item, we need to create a new hidden menu in the administrator, add a search menu item, make a note of the menu’s Item ID, then add this to the above code under the value.

Don’t publish the hidden menu in the module manager, we’ve just creating this to get the Item ID of the search page.

1. Choose a complicated password, at least 10 characters alpha-numeric including letters, numbers and upper-and-lower-case. Use Goodpassword.com to generate it
2. Create a new login for each person that needs to administer the site and don’t share login details. That way you have an audit trail to track down the source of the compromise
3. Use encrypted connections for accessing server files, such as FileZilla which supports SFTP or WinSCP
4. Create a administrator user account with unique name and delete your administrator user
5. Rename your administrator or admin folder to something unique and include numbers in the name
6. Once your content management system is configured, change the configure.php file to chmod 444 (read only)
7. On folders you’d like to protect from being accessed, for example the images folder, use a .htaccess to stop browsing with the following code:

   Options -Indexes

8. Keep all files CHMOD 644. If you need to edit the files, set to read-write before making changes.
9. Keep all folders CHMOD 755
10. Stay up-to-date with the latest software and patches for your CMS
11. Check log files for suspicious activity regularly
12. Remove unneeded templates
13. Backup regularly

33.0% Outlook 2000, 2003, Express
16.5% Yahoo! Mail
16.0% Hotmail
6.1% Outlook 2007
5.5% Apple Mail 3
5.1% Gmail
3.6% iPhone 2.0
2.1% Apple Mail 2
1.7% Lotus Notes 6-7
1.7% AOL Mail

It’s intersting to note than Outlook 2000, Hotmail and Yahoo are the most popular, as coding enewsletters is slightly different for each system. Ensure you test your enewsletter in each one.

Just insert the code instead of the usual character. The most useful being the apostrophe or right single quote ’ which looks alot better than the prime or rat’s tooth ' as it’s sometimes called.

’s compared with the usual 's