Do you have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Netty Gritty

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is what you get for being an internet addict. It starts with painful wrists and extends to lower and upper back and neck. Not only that, it might even require surgery to treat it properly.

Can you guess why today’s post is on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? It’s because I have these symptoms already. And I am feeling scared.

http://www.will-harris.com/yoga/rsi9.html is quite resourceful. It not only explains what it is but also shows how to prevent it from happening. It emphasizes that prevention is better than cure in this case. So please educate yourself before it is too late.

As for me, I will do myself a favour and call it a day. Sheesh, why does pain have to be a part of pleasure? Does Yin and Yan have to be omnipresent?

How to modify the Addthis social bookmarking code so that it works for individual wordpress.com blog posts

Posted on September 29, 2007 by Netty Gritty

AS the only social bookmarking code from Addthis that works for wordpress.com can’t handle blog posts, I was searching for and found a way to modify the code so that when clicked, the Addthis social bookmarking.com button will enable the reader to bookmark a blog post, rather than the whole blog. Thanks to options, I now know how to modify the Addthis social bookmarking code to get the job done.

Post Update: 07 July, 2010

The modification process described in this post no longer needs to be followed, because I have devised a bookmarklet that gets the job done in an automatic manner (as opposed to the manual process discussed here). To learn how you can use the Addthis bookmarklet, please click the following link.
How to add Addthis in a wordpress.com blog post in ONE click

A reader can bookmark a blog post using the Addthis bookmarking button only when the bookmarking code contains the blog post url and blog post title. So now we put these two things in the url part of the bookmarking code from Addthis. Here is a sample of the whole url after adding the needed information:

http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?&url=TheBlogPostUrl&title=BlogPostTitle

Remember to replace the TheBlogPostUrl with the actual url of your post after you publish it. And replace Blog Post Title with.yes, you guessed it right the title of your blog post!
Important:

Please note carefully that there is no space after &url= and after &title= . Also it is ok if the blog post title in the modified code contains space between the words!

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Although the button looks the same as what you get from Addthis, the button under the post is linked to the url modified as per the instructions in this post. You will be able to bookmark this post if you click the button under the post!

The modified code

<a  href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?&amp;url=BlogPostUrl&amp;title=BlogPostTitle" title="Bookmark this post using any social bookmarking manager of your choice!">/>
<img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-bm.gif" alt="AddThis social bookmarking image button"/></a>

Of course, you will have to change the ” blog post url” and “blog post title” as per instructions!

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Good to know

Unless you modify the code as per instruction and paste the original code under your post instead, the reader has to go through the trouble of copying the permalink of your post before clicking the Addthis button and choose the desired bookmarking service and then paste the permalink url in order to bookmark it. The modified code requires no copy-paste on the reader’s part and therefore it is more user-friendly!

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Recommended readings:

This post explains a bit more elaborately why the social bookmarking code provided by Addthis is not compatible with wordpress.com blogs posts.

Learn how to create text links for social bookmarking wordpress.com blog posts – recommended if you are looking for text links instead of icons (to avoid visual clutter maybe!) and also if you don’t want your visitor to leave your site to be able to choose a bookmarking option.

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How to automatically “page jump” any website/blog

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Netty Gritty

When we want to link to a specific section of a webpage without wanting the reader to scroll down to access the needed information you know just how to do page jump the HTML way.

But what if it is not YOUR blog/site? Then we have problem figuring out the needed anchor point. Well, fret no more!

http://www.purpleslurple.net/ps.php does it all magically. All you have to do is type (rather, paste) the url of the webpage that has the info. The site automatically generates purple numbers before each section. Now you have to choose the proper number that designates the needed section and click it.

Voila! The needed section appears on top! Now you simply have to copy the url from the address bar and paste it where you need to! When clicked, it will take the clicker to that particular section of the web page!

And to our convenience, the site even generates a link to the original web page on top.

I will give it an A for simplicity, convenience and ingenuinity.

How would you rate it?

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WordPress pranks – prank no. 3

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Netty Gritty

I have had it. For two consecutive days I have been trying to comment on a blog. I have tried both while logged in and logged out. http://visionsbobdylan.wordpress.com is inaccessible on my end! When I am logged in and click the blog’s avatar in my blog (via a comment) I am redirected to http://visionsofdylan.co.uk/remote-login.php?login=3979bbf07c0e161f5a2f51f9792e258e instead and also this message “invalid key” appears in the window.

The blogger commented on my blog and I wanted to check the blog out. But I am forced to be an unsocial element for the time being. Well, I could have gone back to my blog by hitting the “back” button and do some stuff in my own blog instead. But heck, the “back” button doesn’t work either! So I have to log in again to access my own admin! I wouldn’t mind doing it for once, but having to do it several times for two days is not funny. (Yes, I fell for it each time, wordpress.com did earn my trust, you know!)

The only time I could access the blog is late last night, when I was too sleepy and tired to properly give a newfound blog the attention it rightly deserves, let alone comment. So I waited for today instead.

wordpress.com moral of the story:
Don’t procrastinate when it comes to anything related to blogging at wordpress.com. You never know when………. [this part is censored by the angel me].

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How to figure out the width and height of your images instantly

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Netty Gritty

If you need to know the dimensions (width and height) of your image instantly, here is a way to do so online.

Cellsea instantly provides the information once you upload your image. You can upload your image from your computer or paste the image url if it is already online. After you press “go”, you are taken to a page where you see the uploaded image and most importantly, right under the tabs in the right there’s the information of image dimensions.

You only need the information marked within the red boundary. And in case you are doing it for the first time, w stands for image width and h stands for image height!

Of course you can use cellservice for other purposes, but that is beyond the scope of this post.

Although it is possible to resize images using cellservice or some other program, it is good to know that there’s an “automatic” way of doing it once you know the width and height of your image. Doing it automatically means you won’t have to resize and upload an image every time you need a differently sized version of the same image.

Please read this post to figure out how you can automatically resize an image. Highly recommended if you have don’t wanna resize and upload your images every time you change the theme of your wordpress.com blog.

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Calling web developers – please develop an SMS voting system for bloggers at wordpress.com

Posted on September 23, 2007 by Netty Gritty

If you can twitter from your cell phone, there must be a way you can vote for a blog via SMS. All you need is the brains of some coffee-drinking geeks, passion and a marketing system for this yet-to-happen great great promotional tool for bloggers.

Come to think of it, a cell phone is an indispensable item in today’s world. It is more accessible than internet. And SMS voting is a usual affair in today’s television world – American Idol being a well-known instance. So SMS voting for blogs can be a convenient and widely accessible blog promotion system.

So if you are a web developer get some coffee and get to work! And why do I want it for wordpress.com? Well, the reason is very simple. I am a wordpress.com blogger and I miss not being able to use certain services, say Blogrush or Bumpzee. It is time web developers give bloggers at wordpress.com first priority. Forget the rest of the blogging platforms! WordPress.com is THE blogging platform. If you are a web developer and don’t know why it is, you are too uncool and I am not interested in you!

As for the cool geeks out there, guess what, time is ticking. Now that this wonderful idea is up for grabs, you are up against a race against time. It is often just a unique idea that will make or break a project when the next big thing is just around the corner. So what are you waiting for! Go for it!

And your time starts……NOW!

DISCLAIMER

1. http://wordpress.com has nothing to do with this idea. It is a product of my own fertile imagination.

2. Please don’t expect any monetary reward or sponsorship from me once you get your act together and want to launch the project. I am just an impoverished muse with big ideas.

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As for my readers, what do you think of this idea?

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Sites that allow you to write text on images and create fun images!

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Netty Gritty

http://www.signgenerator.org/ is absolutely too much! You will have to scroll on and on and on to view the whole list! And as if too much is not enough, they have a splendid link source where you can get similar facilities!

Image & Sign Generators :

Uncle Sam wants your to make a picture!
750+ Comic Strip Generators – Make comic strips (send as ecards) to make personalized cartoons or fridge magnets.; Dictionary let’s you make up your own meanings of life…
Einstein where Einstein is theoretically writing for you…
Ha! Ha! The HAHA guy!
Dumbledore Harry Potter character; Danger Sign Generators – Make some safety signs to print; Famous Defaces – personalized comic/cartoon styled cells of 500+ famous celebrities and well known faces; Ultimate Banner Generator – 0ver 750 image designs or 40,000 gradients to choose from; Custom Sign Generators (popular) – customsigngenerator.com; Over 100 Image Generators! Cola Coca Cola Sign, McDonald’s sign, Dunkin Donuts, Wendy’s burger, Uncle Sam wants you, Microsoft $1,000,000.00 check, Fortune Cookie, Wall Graffiti Generator, I Love You Image Generator, Naked woman, Nearly naked guy… To anonymously e-mail gag or take screen captures to download.; Warning Label Maker – make some safety stickers (to print); Video Gamer’s Death Scene Image Generator; Barcode Image Generator – Bokai; FlicrToys – make a Poster, Magazine cover, a Flicr Badge with a Flicr Photo or a framed photo; Neat Filters & Effects – apply many neat affects to your web based (uploaded URLs) pictures!; Gradient Image Maker – custom gradients,for backgrounds or decoration; Maze Generator; Pie Chart Generator – yellowpipe; Polaroid-o-nizer rotates and add shadows to an uploaded an image, as if it was an Polaroid.; Ecard/Sign Generator – send these creations as anonymous ecards to friends as gags
: Smiley Generator – many generators and resource. This is one of the only tool that does not requier login.; Test Fractal Generator N –; Transparent PNG Generator – click on the color wheel, choose transparency level, then download the 50×50 png.; Virtual Vomit – make you own vomit?…; Smilies Generator – Wen Pigs Fly; 250 Online Generators Link Collection – tonnes of links; ACME Label Maker – acme.com; ATB Cards – atbcards.com; Creats card with your message intergrated in the image. Like a New Paper, Scrabble board, billboard…; Bar-B-Q Sign Generator – Bakje.nl Hoofdkantoor; Captioner; Add comic captions to your photos; Cool Text – cooltext.com; Logo Generator, 26 styles.; Dynamic Einstein picture - Hetemeel.com; Make Einstein write what you want.; Convert Image to CSS NC – elliottback; to CSS, HTML, or xHTML; Error Message Generator – Bakje.nl Hoofdkantoor; Windows style error message with choice of icons.; Fancy Letter Generator; Animated buddy letters; Google Logo Maker; GIF TEXT; A Graphics Text Generator; Heart Generator; Your text on heart shaped candy.; HideText; converts text to an image, like to hide emails.; IBM Typewriter Generator – customsigngenerator.com; Type in your message for this Typewriter Generator; LetterJames; e-cards with your text intergrated. Has a nice Belin wall you can write on.(Prints are not free, better take screenshots.); Keyboard Message Generator; Makes a keyboard picture of your message.; Typogenerator F; Makes Art out of text.; Logotype generator – CoolArchive; Simple logo generator; LogoYes; Create you logo; Neon Sign Generator; Office Building Sign Generator – Bakje.nl Hoofdkantoor; Pack Place Sign Generator – Bakje.nl Hoofdkantoor; Ransom Note Generator; Generates your text like if each letter was cutout from newspaper.; Ribbon-O-Matic N – ribbonomatic.com; Shadow Text; CSS code for text with shadow; Spell with flicr; Spell your word with images found on flicr.; Text Image = Image; Makes absract art out of letters, for backgrounds or decoration.; The Movie-Plot-o-Matic; Creats an article with the name you put in.; Text Image C; Converts text into an image, with option for font, rendering and color, can also be use as Email image.; Wanted Poster Generator – glassgiant.com; Web of Letters; Spell your word with images found on the web, uses the Yahoo API.; Which Office Moron Are You Generator; YellowSnow; Write a message in yellow…in the snow, and send that picture.; Image Generator Links more links

Please note!

I copied this whole list from here

Last but not the least, check out customsigngenerator. Have fun!

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WordPress pranks – prank no. 2

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Netty Gritty

You can’t post images in comments in a worpress.com blog post. But wait! What if it is your own blog?

If you are logged in you can edit any comment and once you are in the comment-edit mode, you can choose to modify it in several ways. Click here to see all the options.

Please note that there is an “img” tab. Are you thinking what I am thinking? YAAAAAAAAAAY! When you are logged in you can post images in your own comments!

Let’s party! So here is how to do it:

1. Log in

2. Press “edit” for any comment where you want to add images.

3. Out of several tabs that appear choose the “img” tab.

4. You will be prompted to write the image url. So paste the url of an image that is already online somewhere.

5. You will now be prompted to write an “Image description”. Write the desciption here.

6. Save, view and get surprised!

Did you honestly believe you will see the image? Well, there won’t be any.

So here is an imaginary conversation I had going on at the back of my mind.

Sanjida: I inserted images in my comment using the “img” tab after logging in. But the image is not appearing although the image url was showing before i saved the comment. What am I doing wrong?

WordPress Support: All images are stripped off for security reasons.

Sanjida: Yes, I know that. But I was logged in to my own account and did it in the admin using the “img” tab. Any help will be much appreciated.

WordPress support: C’mon, did you honestly believe that “img tab” will give you special privileges? It was just a prank!

Well, what can I say. Seriously, I’m dumbfounded.

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How to “automatically” generate text links for social bookmarking services for worpress.com blog posts

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Netty Gritty

Finally, the Genie in the bottle is released. Go to http://www.toprankblog.com/tools/social-bookmarks/ and create the codes for social bookmarking test links under your wordpress.com posts.

Your choices are:

That’s quite a lot, isn’t it! {drool}

If you click any of the links above, you will be able to bookmark this post. Some of the services are defunct though!

Step-by-step instructions:

Choose which services you need
Choose “Text Links”, instead of drop-down menus, as wordpress.com does not allow javascript, necessary for drop-downs to work.
Choose code type – choose “For a static page”, not “Blog specific”. (Static Page - Creates one set of links for one single page.
Blog Specific – These links tie directly into WordPress, Blogger, MovableType or Textpattern blogs and will re-generate for every post.)
Enter url and title of your blog post
Choose seperators (this will help you configure whether you want the icons one under the other or in a row and if in a row how much space should be between each link)
Copy the whole code
Paste under your blog post
Save, view and enjoy!

It is perfect if you prefer to have text links instead of images. For example, in my future art blog, I will probably use the text links.

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Further Readings

You can get the same thing done and in the same process by using ifeedreaders also.

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What if you want to have the visual icons?

In case you crave for the icons – gosh, don’t they just look beautiful? – then you will have to work a bit more. You will need to carefully select the appropriate code and link it to the representative icon. Or better still, try this – you can choose from as many as 50 social bookmarking options.

Alternately, if you are satisfied with a select few services (eleven in total and very good ones at that!) try this method . It’s basically a two-click process and very easy!

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How many blog-related terms do you know? Let urbandictionary enlighten you!

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Netty Gritty

I had no idea there are so many funky blog-related words until I visited urbandictionary.

Here is a favourote of mine:

Blog Troll

1.(n) -A pathetic and moronic person who maintains a blog with an unhealthy obsessive-compulsive drive, especially angsty goths (sorry to all the likeable goths out there). The content of their blogs usually includes events that no sane person would care about. Here’s sample of what a blog troll might write on their blog:
“today, I ate a sanwich. It bad – it was just ok, mediocre, I guess you could call it. After that I read a few chapters out of an Anne Rice book and was deeply moved by her erotic descriptions of gay vampires fornicating. <Insert narciccistic remark here>. Then I took a nap.

2.(n) -A depraved individual who sits in front of a computer all day and posts flames of an idiotic or pseudo-intellectual nature on public forums and private websites. Many of these people actually become emotional about what is said on the afore-said mediums and feel it is their duty to punish those who disagree with them. They too may pursue this object in an obsessive-compulsive manner.

Goddamnit! Blog Trolls are such fucktards! Don’t they have anything better to do other than posting stupid bullshit on the forums.

Wanna give it a try? Pick a word and see what it means! Many more are available at the website!