Author: Prabhu Balakrishnan
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Auto generate invoices from csv files with PHP
Tax season again, and i had to submit all invoices to file taxes. I always wanted a way to automatically generate invoices from the CSV file on a fly, through the sales and billing activity csv file downloaded from 2checkout. I never liked buying accounting software specifically for this and i believe anything can be…
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10 Useful WordPress User Interface / Dashboard Hacks!
I have been so much fan of wordpress, but one thing wordpress lacks, is a backend user interface (login area for users). If you are presenting this to your client, there are lot of tweaks to do, remove unwanted things in the user interface area. The good news is with just few bits of code…
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Talking about Schengen 90 days out of 180 day rule!!
Many travelers often get confused and many dont even know about this 90/180 rule. Infact passport holders of US, Canada, Taiwan and many other countries, enjoy visa free travel to EU countries (schengen zone) and as per schengen rules, but most importantly, one should keep in mind that you are allowed to stay 90 days…
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Passport seva – My experience with Indian passport reissue
I recently went to passport seva Kendra fixing up my appointment under normal category. I could have booked under tatkal but I heard that officials are very strict under tatkaal and over 80% of tatkal applications are denied and put in normal mode. I felt that there is no point to apply for tatkaal without…
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Taxi ripoffs in Budapest
I traveled for the first time to Budapest and i am sharing my experience of the ripoff i had in Budapest. I was on Deak Ferenz ter (Vorosmarty market) and there were many taxis parked and hired one of these guys to Heroes square and i was surprised to see my taxi fare to 9300…
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Google penalty – Notice of detected unnatural links!
To all webmasters, its time to wake up. Google has been coming on harshly on webmasters and sending them warning notice for sites selling links. If you are selling paid links or linking to bad neighbourhood, or if somebody reported you, Google might impose a manual penalty and if that happens, you will see a…
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Install LAMP Server for Centos/RHEL
Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl together commonly known as LAMP Server. Apache Web Server 2.0 MySQL Database Serve 5.0 PHP Scripting Language 5.0 phpMyAdmin – Web based MySQL Administration Tool Webmin – A free web based hosting control panel Goal To setup a LAMP server on a fresh VPS/Dedicated server running Centos 5.0…
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How to digitally sign and encrypt email free?
If you want to send email to somebody securely and want privacy, you need not screw your head over something which is very difficult creating public and private keys, or install gnupg software. The easiest way is get a digital email certificate from comodo for your email address and install it. Visit the comodo website.…
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WordPress – How to change admin menu labels?
It is very easy to change admin menu labels for your clients, with a custom admin panel. For example, you might want to change “Posts” to “Articles’ All Posts —> All Articles Add New —> Add New Article Posts –> Articles I have seen the best wordpress plugin to accomplish this task is Admin Menu…
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WordPress – how to add custom field when post is published?
It is dead easy to set a custom field to your post, programmatically when the post is published. For example, whenever your post is published, you might want to add a custom field “submitted” and set its value to “1”, when a post is published. Here is how you do it. Call the publish_post hook,…