Jalaj P. Jha

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Archive for April 2007

Twice the categories

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Today I found that the sidebar widget for category was showing the word “category” twice spoiling the CSS layout for the widget, as all categories were listed in another list (UL tag) that was newly added.

I tried to get info on it using feedback button but found support off for the weekend. It was then I recalled that //engtech commented that wordpress is in process to seperate tags and categories. Watched the manage Categories section but found no clues if they had actually completed implementing it.

Seems that the bug is an outcome of a partial implementation.

Update (02.05.2007) : WordPress.com Restored the Categories to that as existed previously.

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April 29, 2007 at 11:52 pm

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Google Desktop Now in Hindi

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Google has released the Google Desktop 5, which for the first time includes interface in Hindi. It has in all interface for 29 languages.
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April 27, 2007 at 11:10 am

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Flash plus more with Microsoft Silverlight

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Microsoft recently unveiled Silverlight which they claim would Power the Next Generation of Media Experiences on the Web. It is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in currently available on Windows and Mac platforms and will work on major browsers on these platforms. The plugin installer for Windows is sized 1.1 MB.
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April 25, 2007 at 12:57 pm

New Features on WordPress.com

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Contact Form

The most recent feature added to WordPress.com is inclusion of Contact Forms on your pages or posts. Only thing you need to do is to include a line as below at the appropriate location in your page/post.
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April 24, 2007 at 5:09 am

Posted in Blogs, Comments, Internet, Wordpress

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Flash Charts

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WordPress.com dashboard provides highly useful statistics related to page views, feed readers etc. with beautiful flash charts which are not available in the wordpress package itself. I wondered if I too could make similar charts with some existing software. I little scrutiny soon landed me to the developer’s site Read the rest of this entry »

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April 23, 2007 at 11:59 am

Posted in Blogs, PHP, Software, Web, Wordpress, XML

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Google Translate

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I recently added Links on the sidebar to translate the current page to other languages as available at Google Translate. My inspiration was Lorelle on WordPress, where links took you to the Translation of front page of the site, from where you can continue to surf in that language as all links are suitably modified by Google.
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April 19, 2007 at 8:46 am

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Mirroring Form for RTL languages as Arabic

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My previous post Changing UI Language during Runtime showed show you can change the Interface language during runtime. While the information may be sufficient for languages that are written from Left to Right, Languages as Arabic which are written from Right to Left may also require the controls and relevent labels to switch their relative positions or mirror their locations.
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April 18, 2007 at 8:54 am

Posted in Application, Visual Basic

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