How To Get Text from an Image Only PDF File Using Linux
Reading Time: < 1 minute How to use free software in Linux to convert image-only PDF files to text.
Continue reading →Reading Time: < 1 minute How to use free software in Linux to convert image-only PDF files to text.
Continue reading →Reading Time: < 1 minute Update: It’s now March 12, 2:30 pm in Guam and the SSL issue has been resolved! An hour ago I went back to the control panel and was allowed to enable the free SSL certificate option. 🙂 It’s March 11, 8:20 AM Guam time, and I am still having problems with SSL since March 8th. The hosting company of this website, Ipage, changed their policy for providing me a free … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute Moving jamesjpn.net from Bluehost hosting to Ipage hosting.
Continue reading →Reading Time: 2 minutes On February 20th for some reason or another after using a utility to clean up this website from junk code, each and every page and post was deleted! Whether it was a bug in the utility, or perhaps a malicious attack by a hacker, I cannot say. I was able to restore most of the pages and posts from a backup file, but I lost several days work, 4 posts … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 2 minutes This website and 8 other websites on the server were going off line from time to time. Upon investigation I found all the PHP files of the WordPress installation were deleted! At first I thought a hacker deleted the files. I re-installed the WordPress installation, the theme and all the plugins (a whole day’s work for 9 websites!) but a few weeks later the sites went down again. All the … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute My goal was to use WordPress to create a page of images from a category so that I could continue to add more posts to the category and have the page update itself automatically. In order words, I hoped to imitate this HTML page http://www.deeptruths.com/posters/posters.html using a WordPress plugin to avoid all manuel HTML coding hassel. I did it using two plugins: Widgets on Pages and Ultimate Posts Widget I … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute This blog was using two WordPress plugins to block comment spam, Akismet which is about 97% effective, and SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam which requires the commentator to type a code he or she reads from an image. Today I learned of a WordPress plugin that is supposed to be 100% effective called
Continue reading →Reading Time: 2 minutes This article applies not only to people who use WordPress technology for their websites or blogs, but to anybody who uses any kind of CMS, for example, Joomla and Drupal, which uses a MySql database . However it may not apply to bloggers who use blogging software on third party servers such as wordpress.com or Blogger. If you have a blog or website on your own server that uses a … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute On Monday, March 5th I received an assignment to build a new website, SongwriterMarie.com The next day it was live on the Internet. By Thursday all the material was posted and all the tweaks applied. My client was pleased I did it so quickly. This is all due to the ease of working with WordPress CMS, the power of Gimp (a free alternative to Photoshop), and a bit of knowledge … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve been working for a Japanese NPO, Leap High 28. Today I was asked by the NPO Chairperson, Yoko Ishikawa to upload a DVD file to Help Japan 2011, a website we made together to raise support for the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsumami victims. This is the code I used to convert the file to .flv on a laptop with the Ubuntu 11.10 Linux. Note the you need … Continue reading →
Reading Time: 2 minutes December 11, 2011 update: Before you read this article, you should know I now consider it unnecessary. Because of new feature of custom menus from WordPress version 3, a post can be assigned to a menu item among page menu items. Therefore there is no reason to do what I outlined before. 🙂 From quite a while ago I’ve been wondering if there was a way to assign a category … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute One of my websites, Deep Truths would show in a browser using either the WWW subdomain prefix, www.deeptruths.com or without the WWW, e.g. deeptruths.com. From search engines’ point of view, this meant that there were two websites of the exact same content and one of the sites would be penalized and not listed in search results. Deep Truths was hosted on a Microsoft IIS server. Because of this the WWW … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute I made a three language web site for my friend in Vietnam (http://activeandlovingit.com/)using a WordPress plugin called WPML. The site uses English as the basic language with Vietnamese and Japanese as the translated languages. Previously I used a plugin called qTranslate but I found WPML to be superior to it in that it makes a separate URL for each language. This means better SEO with search engines, for they will … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute The more plugins you use, the slower your WordPress blog will load. The key is to use only the plugins that give you the most benefit while not taking a considerable amount of resources or load on your server. To find out which plugins are taking the most load, install a plugin called Query Monitor. It will tell you which plugins are taking the longest to load. Perhaps the slowest-loading … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute I realized today it’s been a little more than a year since I started to use WordPress blogging software. My first post was on January 7, 2009. I’ve grown used to it and think it’s probably better overall and easier for me than the HTML / CSS hand coding coding method I used to use. Not that it’s not good to learn HTML and CSS. Because I know these technologies, … Continue reading →
Reading Time: < 1 minute I moved this site from blog.jamesjpn.com to jamesjpn.net. A problem I faced was there were 678 lines of code that pointed to photos on the blog.jamesjpn.com server and I needed to edit the posts to point the links to the new server on jamesjpn.net. Thanks to http://www.barrywise.com/2009/02/global-find-and-replace-in-wordpress-using-mysql/ I learned how to do a global search and replace in the Sql section of phpMyAdmin! UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, ‘blog.jamesjpn.com’, … Continue reading →