This is not a difficult task but people often don’t know what directory permissions are. While we need not go into depth, just know 0755 is the recommended setting for all directories. For changing a directories permission from cPanel, follow the following steps: Login to your cPanel. Find File Manager and click on it. Select… Continue reading [How-To] Changing directory permissions from cPanel
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[How-To] Use facebook chat with pidgin
Now that facebook supports XMPP protocol for its chat, any messenger which supports XMPP would be able to use facebook chat without much effort. Follow these steps to add your facebook chat to pidgin: Start the pidgin and press Ctrl+A to bring the Accounts dialog box. Click on Add. Select XMPP as protocol from the… Continue reading [How-To] Use facebook chat with pidgin
[Solved] “Error saving media attachment.” error in WordPress
WordPress might give this error on uploading an image from media library. It means that wordpress isn’t able to save your file. It is really easy to fix. However, this may not work for all: Go to Settings->Media. Change the path in ‘Store uploads in this folder’ option to ‘wp-content/uploads’ (without the quotes). If this… Continue reading [Solved] “Error saving media attachment.” error in WordPress
[HOW-TO] Restore recovery partition on Asus 1005HA
A friend of mine who has Asus 1005HA deleted his recovery partition to free up disk-space. He didn’t knew what the consequences could be. He felt the need of recovery just few days after it and he realised that he couldn’t use the recovery mode anymore. He gave me his netbook. It took me a… Continue reading [HOW-TO] Restore recovery partition on Asus 1005HA
[HowTo] Optimize Mozilla Firefox for better performance
Firefox is getting very popular lately, mainly due to its customizability. I use firefox as my main browser and use all sorts of addons which help me in web-development. These addons make my firefox hungry but I can’t do without them. So, instead I tweaked around some settings in firefox which made it much responsive… Continue reading [HowTo] Optimize Mozilla Firefox for better performance