Is there a Better Way of Reading PDF EBooks other than Adobe Reader?

Actually, there is. And it's called Adobe Digial Editions.

The only thing I noticed that it offers as an advantage over the regular Adobe Reader is the ability to add a bookmark to a page to facilitate easy/quick going back to the same page where you last left off.

How I Find Tumblr Not So SEO Friendly

I was testing the waters with some sample posts in my Tumblr blog and try if Google can index it properly. (You may want to read, "110mb for Sale? What Happens Now to the Premium Subscribers".)

After a couple of days (or three), tried Google Web and Google Blogs — nada! The Google blogs actually even return at No. 1 (well, it was the latest) my main blog (Deuts.NET), which contained links to the latest entries at my Tumblr blog.

You see, my main WordPress (self-hosted) blog which shows only the title can actually rank higher than my Tumblr blog. Now, I'm wondering, should I retain my domain deuts.org hosted at Tumblr?

I'm starting to think twice. I liked Tumblr's Facebook application — no, I loved it! But the fact remains that I don't actually get that much traffic from Facebook anyway. Majority of the traffic in my Tumblr are from my followers there. Referrers — not even search engines.

How to Post Code Snippets in Blogger

Blogger/Blogspot is a great site to host your blog. However, you need to live with all its deficiencies. One example is how Blogger is formatting break lines and headings. I always hate it when I always have to edit my posts in order to control the look of my post depending on how many <br />'s and h(1,2,3) and even blockquotes are there.

Another is Blogger can't seem to recognize the tag <code> when posting code snippets if you have tutorials or how-to articles.

Good thing there is a tool to help you with posting code snippets: SimpleCode. You just have to enter your codes and it will generate the proper HTML markups to post to your Blogger, and maybe even blogging engines, blog.

How to Use WordPress Credentials for a Third Party PHP Application?

This tutorial will just deal with the simple usage of WordPress credentials in a third party app, particularly the login credentials, and not further check with the authority level or role of the user (i.e., subscriber, contributor, author, etc.).

Oftentimes, as we build a community, we often rely on the magnificent WordPress Mu to run that. But, however comprehensive it is, it just lacks something one way or another.

Say, you need an app located at a subdirectory of the main WPMU site, but that you want to limit access to that app/site to "logged in" users only of the WPMU site. There is a great way to do that.

Based on the article by Kenn Wilson, Howto: Display Wordpress content outside of your blog, here's the hack:

Globe Tattoo and Smart Bro: Can I Use My Regular Phone Sim Card?

I have been wanting to learn about this before purchasing a Globe Tatto or Smart Bro modems, now that they've become cheap these days. Was searching Google to no avail.

Now, I'm posting this up for the benefit of those still wondering. I happened to test both modems, and below are my observations. If you have comments, please feel free to post them below. (I would really appreciate comments).

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.