How To Connect to Internet Using Smart Bro Prepaid ZTE MF627 on Ubuntu Jaunty

We have seen instructions like this (http://stephencuyos.com/?p=768) on how to connect to internet on Smart Bro using Ubuntu. However, in this illustration, Fr. Stephen Cuyos was actually talking about his modem which is a Huawei E156C (and I think it would still be applicable with any Huawei model).

However, the latest modem from Smart is the ZTE MF627 (see image), which is not yet supported inherently by Ubuntu. That's why we have to install some drivers yet in order to make the modem work with Ubuntu Jaunty.

I think I read somewhere in the Ubuntu Forums that the same model may already be supported in Ubuntu Karmic, which as of this writing is coming in 6 days.

Anyways, off with the tutorial:

We try to do it the GUI way as much as possible:

The Single Post Template in WordPress

Like me, many of you loved the ability to create and display a separate template for each page content in our WordPress blog. Each template may return or display a separate php script either from the built-in function of WordPress or from a third party script (just like Simplepie).

But what about posts (under the single.php)?

If you'd like simulate the capability of creating a different template for Page Templates, then this plugin (Single Post Template) could be your best bet. Templates can only be assigned on a per post basis. So you have to edit your earlier posts that you want to be displayed in your new specific template.

Feeddemon 3 is now Final and Out!

My used-to-be favorite feed reader client has gone out of version 3 beta and now ready for download. You can download the program from here.

I used to love FeedDemon, and used it almost everyday to check out the latest from my favorite blogs and news sites. However, while I started running Linux distros from my home machine, I found out FeedDemon is not available for Linux platforms. That's why I ditched it in favor of Google Reader.

But then, come version 3, it started supporting synchronization with your Google Reader feeds. It can now basically co-exist with Google Reader. And while I'm in a Windows machine I decided I should use it instead, for convenience sake.

Posterous Theming: Create Your Own Posterous Design Now!

What else can I ask for?

Now Posterous has finally offered full customization of the design of your Posterous site. It's long overdue, but better late than never as they say.

Now that this feature is on, I wonder what else can I do with my long-asleep Posterous blog.

I should need to ask something, though, can I put my own ads in there? (Update: Based on the documentation, javascripts are disabled for custom themes. So it means you can't put Google Adsense ads in there.)

Blogger Allows to Limit Which Labels to Display

In your Labels gadget in the sidebar of your Blogger blog, it now allows you to limit which labels are showing only.

My request though is the ability to filter labels only according to their frequency. Say, I just want to display the labels that were used more than once. I guess that's more relevant (and efficient) filter method.

How to Edit the Encrypted Footer in WordPress

In my search for WordPress-related downloads in Mininova, I came across some premium WordPress themes, which were and some are available only for download for a fee. However, the files are already manipulated by the uploader so that the footer (footer.php) contained encrypted text.

These text, when decrypted by php and presented already as your theme when deactivated from the WordPress backend contain the regular links from the original premium theme, PLUS some links for the benefit of the uploader. Some of these links are even malicious by nature that link to spam sites.

So how do you get rid of these links?

Simple. Just activate the theme, then on the front page, examine/view the source code (which is all html already)--from Firefox just press Ctrl+U. Then, copy the footer area, including the closing body and html tags, and paste those to the footer.php file in your downloaded theme files.

You may want to change some of these html files to php files in order for it to behave accordingly, just like when the html file contains the logout (from WordPress) link, you may want to change it to wp_loginout() so php can properly parse it according to whether you're already logged in or logged out of WordPress.

What I'm looking for in the Disqus Documentations

The problem I have so far with Tumblr is when moderating comments (replying especially) by email via my mobile phone. You see I have a push email in my mobile phone and it comes very handy when managing emails.

Now when I’m replying to a comment in Disqus, it handles the original email message different (than compared to when using the web interface of gmail). The last time I replied to a Disqus comment, my comment appeared with my signature (okay, I can delete the signature anytime) and then the phrase “—- original message ——”. Okay, the orignal message itself was excluded when it posted to my blog. But this obviously is annoying.

I searched through the Disqus documentation and I couldn’t find any article about handling such kind of problem. I’m not even sure if deleting the original message altogether is fine with Disqus.

For one thing, in IntenseDebate they have something like (!End) you put at the end of your message so that everything after it are disregarded. This is a great feature, only that it is not working! (Crap IntenseDebate).

The First Bug with the Dynamic Subject Line in Feedburner Email

Feedburner lately rolled out a feature wherein you can change the subject line of each email sent to you subscribers. This subject line is of course changing from each post title you post everyday. Read more about that feature here.

I took the plunge and availed of this new feature.

But of course, every first implementation will discover a but, or an error in implementation. An overlook, probably, on the part of the feedburner team.

As part of my feedburner "email" settings I checked the tickbox, "Send me an email whenever people unsubscribe (will be sent to your "from" address)."

However, lately, when some unsubscribed from my email feeds, feedburner sent me this message:

user@yahoo.com has unsubscribed from ${latestItemTitle}

Okay, could someone explain what is this? :D