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Plugin error “cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode”
Today I’ve had reported to me that one of my plugins (Simple Twitter Link – but I’m sure this equally occur in others) is generating the error “cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode”. In fact, it generates it about 200 times. The problem? Well, it’s a bug in version 4 of PHP, so there’s not…
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Microsoft Update – 0x8002802B Error
On a couple of my PCs now I’ve had a problem where Microsoft Update stopped working, reporting the error code 0x8002802B. Looking this up in the Microsoft knowledge base yielded no results, but a quick Google and I found a “Fix it” utility from Microsoft. Sadly, that didn’t fix the problem. After much trawling I…
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Speed up your internet with the Google Public DNS
Google have released details of a public, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service that they’ve created. Simply replace your default DNS server settings with their own and you could – potentially – see a speed improvement in your surfing. I’ve already done this and can already see a noticeable improvement, with no issues (yet)…
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Add Twitter links to your WordPress posts
Want an easier way to add links to Twitter user pages? Here’s a quick solution. Add the following code to your functions.php file within your theme folder… add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘link_to_twitter’); function link_to_twitter($content) { $start=strpos($content,”[@”); while ($start!=0) { $code=substr($content,$start+2,strpos($content,”]”,$start)-$start-2); $content=str_replace(“[@”.$code.”]”,'<a href=”http://twitter.com/’.$code.'” target=”_blank”>@’.$code.'</a>’,$content); $start=strpos($content,”[@”,$end); } return $content; } Now, you simply need to simply specify a Twitter username…
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The mobile phone search goes on…
Ok, quick catch up. My phone contract expires in a little over 2 months. My supplier – Carphone Warehouse – will be contacting me in a couple of weeks to get out of my contract early if I stick with them and my network (O2). The problem is that I’m after an HTC Hero, which…