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Redirect WordPress sitemap from non www to www version without getting stylesheet error

On Wordpress , if you have set the www version as the default canonical URL and have redirected the non-www version to the prior, you’ll get an error saying that the sitemap’s stylesheet is missing. Same is the case if you set non-www as default and redirect the www version to the prior. The sitemap thus won’t load. This can cause a problem while submitting sitemaps to Webmasters or other places if you don’t use the default canonical URL form. Well here is a trick to fix it.

Some Tips for Surfing the Web in the Office

Some Tips for Surfing the Web in the Office

Recent reports have shown that the average company employee spends approximately 1 hour and fifteen minutes surfing the internet every day. While some managers don’t mind their workers spending some time for themselves, others do not take it as kindly. You can find some tips on surfing web in the office.

Humans.txt tells who is behind a website

What if you want to tell the world who is behind your site? You may say outright that there is already the about page to tell people about who is behind a website. But there are things that may not be suitable to include in the About page and everyone may not be interested in it. So, to tell other humans about who built a website or who is behind it, there is an easy solution: the humans.txt file.

Target your Facebook Posts by location and people

Facebook has added many options to control and filter your friend list, photos, your profile etc. You have lots of options to control your profile’s privacy settings to control the visibility of different sections of your profile. Well now you can also choose who to show your Posts on Facebook. For the pages you admin, you can select the countries and places where people would be able to see a post.

Wolfram Alpha now plots 3D graphs for bivariate functions

Wolfram Alpha the computational search engine makes your life easier by helping you do complex mathematical calculations within seconds. Enter any algebraic function and Wolfram Alpha will draw a graph for the function instantly. Wolfram Alpha now is not just limited to plotting graphs on the 2D Cartesian co-ordinates but can also plot 3D graphs.

3D views on Google Street View with a shortcut

Google Street View is the ultimate tool from Google to have panoramic views of cities and places around the world. Google Street View is getting immensely popular for users on both computer and handheld devices. Here is a cool trick with which you can see 3D views on Google Street View for places around the world.

Flash Firebug – An Application for debugging AS3

Flash debugging on Firefox or any other browser may not be easy as debugging HTML or Javascript. With Flash Firebug, this can be done much easily via an interface that is much similar to the Firebug’s interface. Flash debugging on Firefox or any other browser may not be easy as debugging HTML or Javascript. With Flash Firebug, this can be done much easily via an interface that is much similar to the Firebug’s interface. Flash debugging on Firefox or any other browser may not be easy as debugging HTML or Javascript.

Great Linux World Map

Igor Ljubuncic has created a map showing Linux users based on his envisions. It doesn’t show the actual popularity of Linux or its distribution. He calls it the Great Linux World Map and has tried to depict the world of the Linux desktop as a Typus Orbis Terarum.

How to remove parent category slug in Permalinks for WordPress

You might be interested in using subcategories for categorizing your posts in a better way. Wordpress by default lets you have the category name in the permalinks but if you use subcategory, both the category and subcategory slug appear on your permalinks. If you need to remove the parent category slug from Permalinks in Wordpress, you can do it using a plugin or modifying your theme’s functions.php file.

Disqus now enables tagging in comments

Disqus now enables tagging in comments

Avid commentators are pretty much familiar with Disqus. Disqus now adds a feature that lets people use “@” mentions in the comments like in Twitter and Facebook. You can tag any user with their Twitter or Disqus username using the “@” symbol followed by the username or any person who has commented on the same post.

With Windows 7 you don’t need to manually defrag your drives

Windows has an inbuilt defragmentation tool and there are plenty of other commercial defragmentation software as well. Running defragmentation regularly in a couple of weeks or months considerably enhances the speed of your system. But sometimes you may forget or even worse, you gradually give up the habit. But thanks to Windows 7 that automatically defrags your hard disk by default.

Help improve the new WordPress 3.2 Beta and the Twenty Eleven theme

Help improve the new WordPress 3.2 Beta and the Twenty Eleven theme

Wordpress has lots of developers contributing to its development. Wordpress regularly releases updates and each version is a big enhancement from the earlier version . Well you can also contribute to Wordpress 3.2 development even if you aren’t a developer. You can help improve Wordpress by reviewing Wordpress 3.2 Beta and the new Twenty Eleven Theme.

Windows Phone 7 marketplace hits 16000 apps

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace now has a whopping 16000 apps in different categories. There are 16069 applications as of now in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and the number is growing steeply.

See Facebook likes on Search results

See Facebook likes on Search results

When you search on Google, you get the results that Google thinks is the most relevant one. Wouldn’t it be great to quickly see the number of Facebook likes next to each search result on Google? With the Google +Like extension, you can have this benefit.

Bing Streetside from Microsoft

Bing Streetside from Microsoft

Google Streetview is getting widely popular and until now is the best means to get a panoramic view of streets around the world. The fact that Google Streetview captures images which many a times have risen questions of privacy violation by people in Europe and America. Recently, Microsoft has appeared in the scene with Bing Streetside. The service is currently available only in Seattle, San Francisco and Vancouver in Canada.

Use your tweet as your email signature

Generally, you add your name with a link to your website on your email signatures. Same is the case for signatures in forum posts. Twitfooter is an online tool that lets you add your latest tweet to your signature in email, forums or websites.

How to restore the icons on the Addons bar to the right hand side in Firefox

Firefox 4 has a completely revamped interface as compared with its earlier counterpart, the Firefox 3. If you use Firefox 4, you must have noticed that the addon bar that on Firefox 3 isn’t visible by default on Firefox 4. But you can turn it on from the customization options. On Firefox, you would have come across times when the icons on your Addon bar in Firefox shift all the way to the left from their default right hand side position. If you want to restore them to the right, here’s the workaround.