During the last couple of weeks I was involved in redesigning a news portal, the layout I created requires some help from jQuery to make some features work as intended. And during the process, I discovered several neat jQuery plugins that brought my attention. And I’m planning to write about them here in geekTips.

For the first part, I’ll wrote about jQuery tooltip. We can use tooltip to give users a slight idea about the information on a link before they click on it, you can also use tooltip to display information on a web form about what user should type in the form fields. Read more…

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Watch Obama Inauguration Live (cnn.com)

History will be made today. Barack Obama, the first African-American U.S President will be inaugurate today. Most of TV stations around the globe will be broadcasting the ceremony.

I bet many people are eager to watch the ceremony on TV. But what if you’re too far away from TV and the only thing you have in front of you are PC/laptop and a broadband internet connection?

Well, good news for you! Many sites are broadcasting the ceremony over the internet to help people that are away from TV to be able to watch the inauguration ceremony live through the internet. Read more…

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Facebook Connect

Facebook recently launched a new feature called Facebook Connect, it enables Facebook users to share their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any websites they wanted. According to Facebook, this features will enable any websites to implement and offer more features of Facebook Platform.

Adding Facebook Connect to your or site is a bit tricky, but if you’re using WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal, VBulletin forum or MediaWiki you can add this feature easily because those CMS have a plugin/module to help add Facebook Connect in just a few steps. Read more…

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High quality free magazine-style WordPress themes is kinda hard to find, because most of WordPress themes out there are mostly focused on blog-style theme. And most of high quality WordPress themes are usually released under commercial license with the price range starting from $30 – more than $100 per theme.

But fear not, there are still great WordPress themes developers out there who are still willing to share their high quality magazine-style WordPress themes to others who need it. And here are some of their themes that you can freely use on your blog. Read more…

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I experienced this weird situation after I uploaded all of WordPress files from my computer to geekTips.net web host. It was OK when the site was still on my localhost, but strangely after I set everyhing up on the web host I realized that the Add Media buttons was missing from the top of WordPress HTML editor.

Wordpress Add Media Button Missing

I tried Googling and found no possible clues of any sort about the problem, I found some sites that was saying that the problem was possibly caused by Customize WordPress plugin. Customize this plugin usually used to customize the WordPress theme layout from the back-end. Read more…

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WordPress 2.5 have just been released couple weeks ago, it have a new design and obviously more features added.

Here are few simple steps to upgrade your previous version of WordPress to WordPress 2.5. Before you do theses steps, make sure you have backup everything (including files and database of your site). Read more…

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There are so many free examples of Ajax tabs out there. It kinda difficult to find them in one place, so I decided to make a quick recap of several Ajax tab examples. All of these Ajax tab scripts are free to use and implement on any site.

I hope that this information can help you decide which Ajax / DHTML tab script to use on your web applications. Read more…

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This is my first experience on installing eAccelerator and to my surprise the installation process went very smoothly.

FYI, eAccelerator an open source PHP accelerator, optimized and dynamic content cache. By using eAccelerator, it will increase your PHP script performance by caching those scripts in their compiled state resulting the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. Read more…

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If you’re new to Ubuntu, you might be wondering how on earth I can play DVD (movie, music, program) on my Ubuntu? Well, before you can play DVD on your Ubuntu you need to do several things.

1. First thing first, open the terminal window
2. Type this command in the terminal window and execute itsudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3
3. If you’re being ask for password, just enter you SU (Super Administrator) password.
4. Then, type another commandsudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

That’s a wrap, you can now play DVD on your beloved Ubuntu machine using Totem movie player.

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A year ago, its kinda hard to find high quality free Drupal theme on Drupal.org. But since the birth of Drupal 5, many theme designer interested in creating free Drupal theme, and some of theme create a really beautiful Drupal themes. Read more…

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