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Browsing through Sourceforge we were looking for something to replace Adobe Illustrator. Well maybe we have found it … InkScape provides a number of drawing tools similar to Illustrator and best of all it is free. If you are use to using Illustrator you will notice that some of the tools are different which will […]

When you are developing a PHP based website there are many times when you end up repeating yourself for various simple things. A config file that is linked to in the header area of your php files can help you use shortcuts and also reduce the time it takes to make changes if you move […]

Have you tried to spell check your posts in WordPress lately? Yea if you are like me and everyone else trying to deal with inserting images, making selections or even just spell checking got a lot harder after someone cranked up the autosave interval so high that it seems you can’t type more then a […]

When designing your website it is a great idea to turn your template design into manageable sections by separating your header, footer, sidebars and maybe menus or other constant areas. The idea is that headers and footers will not often change. The same is true for sidebars that often have the same content across your […]

ClientExec is a billing account manager for resellers or hosters. This product may be available for free if you are purchasing a reseller account or if your server sales company offers it along with their Plesk or cPanel installs. The idea behind the software is to automate as much of the back end as posible […]

Anyone that has upgraded their wordpress install past 2.6 has found their database grow to extreme size due to the autosave and revisions that are generated and practically undeletable. Shouldn’t there be an option so the admin for the site can dump these posts? Well it seems that the core developers believe everyone wants to […]

PHPXref is a Perl application that helps you document a large php project. By Large that means scripts that require more then a couple pages and files of code. Because it is so simple to use you could probably download it and get it working before you can read the rest of this article but […]

A friend of mine had a Samsung phone that he wanted to use to grab content from his website. The setup is pretty easy with only a couple edits of your .htaccess file to include mimetypes once done you setup your phone to access a directory on your server set aside for the content you […]

As content developers we are always trying to find ways to attract visitors to our pages. One of the nice ways we can do this is by giving our visitors the ability to quickly post backlinks and announcements on social and directory networks when they like what they have read. This is where the Sociable […]

When you are setting up your meta tags keywords and descriptions shouldn’t be left out. Yes maybe they are deprecated by search engines but then again adding them isn’t all that much effort so why take a chance. Google has provided a keyword helper tool for people like us that often have a hard time […]