Wibiya creates a Javascript-powered toolbar that attaches to the bottom of the screen and stays there without any jumping as the user scrolls. Wibiya is currently in invite-only mode, but you can request an invitation be sent to you and a few days later be creating your account, invite in hand. The toolbar improves the user interface of almost every website by providing a … [Read more...]
HTML5 Video and Audio tags BBCode for phpBB
HTML 5 has brought a few cool things with its arrivals. With browsers starting to understand these features and people updating their browsers, we can start to implement some of these items and get them into every day use. The ability to embed audio and video without being required to wrap it in an external player and require that your users also have that plugin is a great … [Read more...]
Product Review: Sprint’s Airave Femtocell
The inside of my apartment was a cell phone dead zone (cue creepy music left-over from Halloween) and I've written about the problem before. My first attempt at a solution, the zBoost zPersonal Cell Phone Signal Booster, fell flat and didn't do anything to boost my signal (in fact, it was hard to tell if it was doing anything at all). Fortunately, Amazon allowed me to return it … [Read more...]
How to Take Down a Copyright-Infringing, Scammy Site
I took down PCwilleasy.co.cc! There, I'll admit to it. I am the one who did it. I know this might disappoint the 1500 followers the pcwilleasy Twitter account still has, but it was for everybody's best. Here's the why: PCwilleasy was a copyright infringing site. It copied articles word for word from legitimate sites and often displayed the images, hotlinking them from the … [Read more...]
Smarter WordPress Through Plugins
Blog posts about WordPress plugins and list after list of plugins are dime-a-dozen and appear on the front page of social news sites at least weekly. Heck, I even wrote a post earlier this earlier titled The Best WordPress Plug-Ins. Instead of creating just another list, I wanted to share some of the plug-ins I use here on 404 Tech Support because they're functional and have … [Read more...]