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How to Add Page-Link Tag (Multiple Page Post / nextpage) Support to WordPress

How to Add Page-Link Tag (Multiple Page Post / nextpage) Support to WordPress

If you have been trying to figure out how to add support for multi-page posts in WordPress that have pagination buttons at the end of each page that look like this:

then look no further than this post!
The screenshot you see above is actually the exact pagination style we use for long posts that we break [...]

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How to Stop Windows HTPC From Powering off While Media Center Extender is Streaming

How to Stop Windows HTPC From Powering off While Media Center Extender is Streaming

Do you have a Windows 7 Media Center HTPC that you are streaming content from to additional Media Center Extender devices (e.g. Xbox 360 somewhere else in the house) and want to find out a way to have the HTPC not turn itself off when you hit the power button if it’s still in-use by [...]

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How to Become Mayor for Any Place in Foursquare in 9 Perl Statements

How to Become Mayor for Any Place in Foursquare in 9 Perl Statements

Foursquare is getting beat down today; hot on the heals of the breaking news that Foursquare is sending your passwords in plaintext (something they are fixing very soon) Mayank Lahiri has decided to figure out how exactly one could game Foursquare checkins to become the mayor of almost anywhere in no more than 9 Perl [...]

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How to Fix and Replace a KitchenAid Blender Coupling

What you see there is the plastic coupling that sits on the base of a KitchenAid blender that turns the blade inside the blender.
Did I mention it is made out of plastic?
My wife was making a smoothy this morning and apparently the frozen fruit was too much for our KitchenAid Blender (Model #KSB50B3) and the [...]

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Cooking Times are Past Their Prime!

When I was younger, I was always fascinated with cooking.  In particular, baking.  Being from South Carolina, originally, I was surrounded by tons of women who just KNEW how to cook, if you follow me.  Hands down, they were Paula Deen before she was even a concept.

One of these great cooks was my grandmother.  She [...]

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Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X Centralized Backup Guide

GUEST POST: Occasionally we post stories contributed from readers, and today’s contribution is from reader John Hirt. Thanks John!
My home office setup uses a networked hard drive to save scheduled backups for multiple computers with different operating systems.
The setup uses pretty much standard residential components for home networking and is a combination of pieces accumulated [...]

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How to Enable MMS on 2G iPhone with 3.1.2 Firmware and Native MMS

If you have the original “2G” iPhone (EDGE-only) and have the 3.1.2 firmware installed on it and want to get MMS working, this is the guide for you. Alternatively, if you have the original 2G iPhone and don’t have the iPhone 3.1.2 firmware on it yet, but want to know how to get it on [...]

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Sunsceen Performance and Safety Testing Guide

The results were recently published of an independent study done by the EWG. They took over 500 store bought sunscreens and put them to the test. And the results were pretty shocking.
The worst offender being “Banana Boat Beach Baby Max” with an advertised SPF rating of 100, but after performing an industry standard test, it [...]

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MongoDB (Single-Server) Data Durability Guide

If you are a MongoDB user or just interested in NoSQL databases in general, you may have seen the excellent “MongoDB has poor data durability by default!” (I am paraphrasing) conversation started by Mikeal Rogers.
It is an excellent topic to bring up and regardless of Mikeal’s association (he’s a CouchDB developer) I never once got [...]

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How to Update iPhone 2G with Firmware 3.1.2, Jailbreak and Carrier Unlock Guide

REMINDER: This guide is for folks with the original “2G” or EDGE-only iPhone (pictured above). If you have an iPhone 3G, try our iOS 4 guide to get updated to the latest iPhone OS!
Introduction
If you are like me and own an original 2G/EDGE iPhone and feel sad that you can’t install iOS 4 on your [...]

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iPhone 3G iOS 4 Jailbreak and Carrier Unlock Guide

Welcome to the world’s first iPhone iOS 4 Jailbreak and Carrier unlock guide. Let’s just dig right in!
NOTE: This guide is continually updated based on conversations in the comments section as well as updated software like redsn0w coming out and fixing problems for people. Please let us know in the comments if there is something [...]

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Increase WordPress Performance on Apache with Worker MPM, PHP and mod_fcgid

This is a continuation of two previous posts about Apache performance running PHP-apps like WordPress. One was on running PHP via CGI and the other was on running Apache with the thread-based “Worker” MPM instead of the default “Prefork” MPM.
As mentioned in the other posts (incase you don’t want to read them… I don’t blame [...]

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How to Install iPhone 3.0 Firmware on Jailbroken and Unlocked T-Mobile iPhone

NOTE: This is an update to our Firmware 2.2.1 Guide, which was an update to our Firmware 2.1 Guide, which was an update to our Firmware 2.0 Guide.
Update #1: For 3G iPhone users, you have to turn off 3G before enabling WiFi right before unlocking in last section. Instructions updated.
Update #2: For quick reference, T-Mobile [...]

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Explanations of Common Java Exceptions

Huge thanks to Marc Chung for sending along this great reference. It’s a breakdown of all the JDK exceptions and textual descriptions of what they represent — so if you are designing your own API or just working on your own app and want to make sure your use of particular exceptions (e.g. IllegalArgumentException) is [...]

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How to Install iPhone 2.2.1 Firmware on Jailbroken and Unlocked T-Mobile iPhone

Update #1: There is now a guide for installing, jailbreak and unlocking the iPhone 3.0 Firmware.
NOTE: This is an update to our Firmware 2.1 Guide, which was an update to our Firmware 2.0 Guide.
Outline

Introduction
Who is this Guide For
Details You Should Know
Getting Started
Applying the Firmware Update
Unlocking the iPhone w/ the 2.2.1 Firmware

Introduction
This document looks long and [...]

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Screenshot Tour of Windows 7: Libraries, Taskbar, IE8 and the New Paint Application!

Introduction
When the public beta of Windows 7 was announced, we did like everyone else and ran over to the Windows 7 site to download it (ISO Download Links: 32-bit, 64-bit).
After getting it installed and spending some time with it, our overall take away so far are the following things:

Windows 7 is a “finished” Vista. It’s [...]

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Develop using the Play! Framework

Develop using the Play! Framework

Not too long ago I posted an article on the Play! framework. The framework has some promising features that really helps develop web applications in Java. To show how easy it is to use, I wanted to demonstrate with an example.
Update #1: Since the article posting there have been a couple of suggestions for updating [...]

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The Play! Framework

In an endless search for efficiently building Web applications, one might stumble upon a new framework called Play! Using enterprise backed Java with a Rails-esque feel, the Play! framework seems to offer quite a bit over traditional web development tools with its straightforward development environment and ease of deploying.
Taken from the website:
The Play! framework makes [...]

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Xbox 360 Game Install Sizes for the New Xbox Experience

One of the new features that came with the “New Xbox Experience” update that went live recently is the ability to install games directly off their source DVDs onto the Xbox 360’s hard drive; for faster load times (in most cases).
Unlike the PS3, the Xbox 360 uses a proprietary hard drive that is roughly 1100% [...]

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How to Use T-Mobile $20 BlackBerry EDGE Data Plan with Android G1 Phone

Update #2:As a heads up to anyone wanting to try this out, please read this post first before continuing.

As you may know the new T-Mobile G1 Android phone is out, and requires some potentially expensive-ass data plans to function fully ($24.99 for unlimited “data”, but 400 messages including “SMS, IM and email” or $34.99 for [...]

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How to Install iPhone 2.1 Firmware on Hacked T-Mobile iPhone

Update #4: There is now a guide for installing, jailbreak and unlocking the iPhone 3.0 Firmware.
Update #3: We have completed an updated Guide to installing the iPhone 2.2.1 Firmware on a Jailbroken/Unlocked iPhone.
Update #2: This is an update to our previous article covering how to install the iPhone 2.0 Firmware on your T-Mobile-enabled iPhone. Now [...]

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CSS Slicing Guide and XHTML/CSS Page Design Guide

When I first got into web development, the new layout craze for websites was “table layouts”. The idea that you could slide and organize everything in a grid (using <table> tags) was a godsend for designers. All you had to do was learn how to “slice” your Photoshop mockup into the appropriate squares and they [...]

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How to Install iPhone 2.0 Firmware on Hacked T-Mobile iPhone

Update #4: There is now a guide for installing, jailbreak and unlocking the iPhone 3.0 Firmware.
Update #3: We have completed an updated Guide to installing the iPhone 2.2.1 Firmware on a Jailbroken/Unlocked iPhone.
Update #2: We have added a new guide for installing the iPhone 2.1 Firmware.
Introduction
This quick guide covers the process I took to install [...]

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Laminate Wood Flooring Guide (with Tips!)

Laminate Wood Flooring Guide (with Tips!)

NOTE: There is a lot of good information in here, but if you are impatient please at least read the Tips section below to save yourself a headache later.
Introduction
So you have a new house or want to spruce up your hold house by putting some laminate wood flooring down? Well I’ve just gotten done with [...]

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