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HowTo: Screen Capture with Mac OS X Lion

8. June 2012 ·

To replace the defective Lenovo U400, my wife decided to get a different computer instead of having Lenovo ship us a new unit. We ended up purchasing a 13″ Macbook Pro from BestBuy. This being her first time to own and use a Mac, I had to help and teach her some of the basic [...]

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HowTo: Fix AJAX Problems in WP-Email, WP-Polls, WP-PostRatings or WP-PostViews Plugins

5. June 2012 ·

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HowTo: Fix AJAX Problems in WP-Email, WP-Polls, WP-PostRatings or WP-PostViews Plugins

Some of the most popular or more commonly used WordPress plugins in the community are plugins created by Lester Chan. About a two weeks ago, he released an update for the WP-Email, WP-Polls, WP-PostRatings and WP-PostViews plugins that included some changes like assigning the /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php file to handle AJAX requests. Due to those changes some [...]

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HowTo: Check/Fix Mac Infected w/ Flashback Trojan

6. April 2012 ·

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According to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web, there are about 600,000 Macs around the world that are infected by different variations of the Flashback trojan and are now part of a fast-growing Mac botnet. Of the 600,000 infected Macs the majority are located in North America – 57% from the US and 20% in Canada. [...]

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HowTo: Fix Leapster Explorer No Sound/Volume

3. April 2012 ·

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Earlier today, my son came to me and said that his Leapster Explorer handheld console had no sound. I checked it and tried to adjust the volume settings. When I hit the volume increase button nothing happens but when I hit the volume decrease button the volume bar shows up on the bottom of the [...]

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5 Ways Popups Can Drive Your Users Mad

14. February 2012 ·

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This is a guest post by Ada Ivanova of WinkPress. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. There are many annoyances on the Web and popups frequently top the chart. Of course, if you know how to use them, popups don’t have to be an annoyance but thanks [...]

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HowTo: Enable the W3TC Google Page Speed Report WordPress Dashboard Widget

8. August 2011 ·

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When I upgraded the W3 Total Cache (W3TC) plugin to the latest version about a week ago, I noticed one new feature under the General Settings tab – the ability to display a Google Page Speed report on the WordPress dashboard via a dashboard widget. For those who are using the W3 Total Cache plugin, [...]

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HowTo: Get A Job Using Social Media

4. August 2011 ·

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Believe it or not, more and more employers are using social media to find talent. According to a survey by Jobvite, 80% of employers are using to support their recruitment efforts and the top 3 channels being used are LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Getting a job via social media is without doubt common as much [...]

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WARNING: Zero Day Vulnerability Found on Timthumb.php

3. August 2011 ·

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A zero day vulnerability has been recently found on TimThumb, a popular image resizing utility widely used in a lot of WordPress themes. This issue was first discovered and reported by Mark Maunder after his blog got hacked via the timthumb.php file/script. The TimThumb zero day vulnerability allows malicious users, hackers and other third parties [...]

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Adobe CS3 Internal Error 2739 Fix (Windows 7 64-Bit)

1. August 2011 ·

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One of the most popular and most visited posts here on JaypeeOnline is my article on how to fix the Adobe CS3 Internal Error 2739. That article provides a step-by-step solution on how to fix that specific error on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista. Readers and visitors have been posting questions on [...]

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HowTo: Double Your Dropbox Referral Storage w/ A .EDU Email Address

21. July 2011 ·

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Do you want to get extra space on your Dropbox account? Usually, users get extra storage space by inviting family and friends or through link referrals. For its back to school promo, Dropbox* is offering users an opportunity to double past and future referral space bonuses by activating a .EDU email address on their Dropbox [...]

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HowTo: Create a Bootable USB Drive

8. July 2011 ·

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On Weekend Roundup #135, I mentioned that my wife’s Asus Eee 1005HAB was broken and that I was trying to fix it. One of the things I did to try to fix it was to flash the BIOS and since the netbook didn’t have a DVD/CD ROM drive, I had to do it via USB. [...]