FINAL DESIGN STUDIOS
FDS Services | FDS Repository | Search our Services | Bookmark FDSFDS London UK


Removing trailing index.php from URL – HTACCESS rewrite Rule

Trailing URLs such as ending with index.php or index.hlml is not a big deal, however you may find that you’re sharing the link juice across 2 identical ‘sources’. Best to simply remove the trailing index reference altogether and redirect any traffic to it, to the directory root instead. Continue Reading »

Displaying the Latest Current Category Posts in the Sidebar

With WordPress, I wanted to display a list of the latest 5 posts from the category in which the displaying post is located. I needed to do this outside the loop because I wanted to list the posts in the sidebar. For the life of me couldn’t find anywhere on the net how to do this. Being as I wanted to display these in the sidebar, I had to work out a way of calling the cat_id globally. I’m no programer and at best can only edit or manipulate the simplest of variable, but finally mashed together an answer, several hours later o_O. Ordinarily, inside the loop one would only need to use get_the_category() but in this case the following code is required in order to pull the category ID for use outside the loop: Continue Reading »

PPP (Pay-Per-Play) Advertising

A Breakthrough Technology Has Spawned an Internet Marketing Revolution…

As you read this sentence 2 more people have joined the movement…

This is a free opportunity for you or your company to share in billions of dollars of new found advertising revenue that was formerly reserved for major television networks. Continue Reading »

adolfodaine77@gmail.com – A.K.A. adol77dai51 – Bot or Not?

Got a new registered member on another WordPress based website today and searched adol77dai51 with Google. Lots of people have been getting their first registration as member adol77dai51. Spam perhaps? Maybe, but seems benign moreover. All the same I will be removing him/it (adol77dai51) from my user registration list. Continue Reading »

WordPress SEO Indexing Meta Tags

It is not always best to have all of your pages indexed and cached by the search engines. Also not all links should be followed, therefore some editing of your wordpress header might be in order. Here is what I sometimes do.
Place the following in your wordpress themes header.php file, if the page is a single, page, or if its the home page then the robots will index and follow links on it. Otherwise search engines will not index the pages but will still follow the links. Continue Reading »

Moving Kubrick’s Sidebar to the Left

Within the Theme Editor, select Stylesheet from the theme files listed vertically to the right. The Style.css file should now be presented in the editor window and is ready for editing.

From the editor window, find the following code: Continue Reading »

Vista – user profile service service failed the login

Having run Vista 64 Ultimate for 4 months without a problem I recently restarted the machine after installing and running Diskeeper 2008. Upon restart I was, as usual, prompted to enter my password only to receive the following message:

The user profile service service failed the login. User profile cannot be loaded.

Disaster!

I restarted the system several times attempting to boot in any of the other ‘modes’ such as ‘safe mode’, to no avail. The system would seem to crash out whenever hitting the ‘crcdisk.sys’ file causing the system to subsequently restart and round the wheel spun.I would like to add that I have never had any problems relating to the startup of Windows Vista since my initial setup and having been a heavy windows user for 9 years, thought I had just about finally clocked how to avoid these kind of heart-sinking problems. No such luck. Continue Reading »

Ubuntu Super and Hyper Key assignments

xmodmap -e “keycode 234 = Super_L”
xmodmap -e “keycode 233 = Super_R”

Continue Reading »

Ubuntu CPU Frequency Management

Having changed the CPU frequency to ‘Performance’ I decided to go back to ‘On Demand’ so that the processor would not get so hot. My laptop’s Intel Centrino 1.7Ghz processor was heating up to 81 degrees celcius! Intel say that the maximun operating temperature for this processor is 100 degrees, but I think I would rather keep it cool for longer to increase not only the battery life whilst unplugged, but also to increase the lifetime of the processor itself. Continue Reading »

Ubuntu Animated Desktop

For Compiz Users

An embedded screensaver is light on memory usage, but won’t play nice with Compiz Fusion.

gconftool‐2 ‐‐type bool ‐‐set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix ‐root

If you don’t like the Matrix look, you can substitute any listed screensaver instead of “glmatrix.”

For Compiz Fusion Users:

XWinWrap is not available in the Ubuntu repositories. I installed it with this DEB package from Treviño’s Ubuntu Repository.

Continue Reading »