Hence the next step – an Accelerator for Internet Explorer to track FedEx package! Here are the installation instructions:

Click on the button below in Internet Explorer.

Install FedEx Accelerator

Once the Add Accelerator dialog appears, select “Make this my default provider for this Accelerator Category” and click Add

Voila!

Now every time you need to track a FedEx package you only need to select the tracking number anywhere on the page, click on the Accelerator button and select FedEx tracking – the tracking page will open automatically in a new tab

Enjoy!

This App is so obvious and is so easy that it pains me to see its absence: Voice recognition for iPad, the one that does speech-to-text, recognizing whatever you say and spellchecking it!

Imagine being able to comment this Youtube video with your voice – made into words!

Updating Facebook status, twittering, saying a post instead of tediously typing it in, reply to your emails, edit documents type in internet addresses, searching the internet, commanding the iPad with your voice!

There should be a App for that, trust me.

Since Buzz is integrated in GMail this means that it may accept gangets. Ince such gadget, call it RateBuzz or anything, that actually once activated, allows the people to rate buzzes, more them up or down, see people who has “liked” or “disliked” any particular buzz (with their permission).

We have the “like” button, granted, but I also want to make sure that I also get the dislike button.

If you want I can try to add UPS and any other functionality that might be needed. But insofar this does the trick:

Installing

Download FedX extension from Google Chrome Extension Gallery and it will install with a small icon near your address bar .

Usage

Click on the FedX button and it will request for FedEx tracking ID – and show you the current state of the package, just as you see it on FedEx site, but without all the hussle.

Uninstall

FedX extension does not store anything on you computer, it only needs internet to function. So to uninstall right clikc on the FedX icon and choose Uninstall option. Voila!

Any questions? Suggestions? White me a comment! And I sure will appreciate a link back to sunshine.by!

Однако случаются и неприятные моменты. Например, прямо сейчас, когда я пишу эту статью, GMail парализован. У меня нету доступа к моей почте, я не могу ничего принять ли отправить. И если на счет принять не беспокоюсь – до этого случая Google ни разу не потерял моей почты, то на счет отправить у меня есть очень даже серьезные возражения.

Множество моих друзей рассеяно по разным временным зонам. Держать их всех на связи и так проблематично, но если не работает GMail – как же мне отправить им письмо? Проще простого, как оказывается.

Если у вас есть GMail (а я полагаю, он скоро будет вообще у каждого), то у вас также есть доступ в Документам Google. Docs.google.com хорош не только тем, что предлагает сотни тысяч шаблонов самых разнообразных документов. Суть его сводится к тому, чтобы люди пользовались этими документами одновременно.

Вы уже поняли, да?

Достаточно просто написать своим друзьям письмо в Документах Google, а затем предоставить им доступ. Приглашение отправляются от вашего имени через внутреннюю систему google, так то вам нужно только выбрать получателей (или ввести их адреса вручную) и добавить от себя пояснительную записку.

Вообще-то, если совсем неймется, то можно просто всю переписку вести в Документах Google, но это будет очень, очень олд-скул!

Кстати, я все чаще пользуюсь docs.google.com, когда меня просят что-то перевести – мало того, что за результатом работы можно следить вообще не отрываясь, но еще и работать можно синхронно! Так, можно видеть кто сколько перевел и кто сколько набрал текста; творить, вместе писать книгу… Что-то меня увело от почты!

В любом случае, отправили таким образом приглашение, вы обеспечите доступ в необходимой информации нужным вам людям!

OpenID logo

Upon upgrade for Wordpress 2.8 and sometimes even without it I have encountered an interesting problem: when trying to login using OpenID (or add OpenID via admin panel) I was getting this peculiar message: OpenID login failed: Invalid openid.mode ‘<No mode set>’.

As you know, my Wordpress theme ioni2 is highly customized so I though at some stage that this would be a problem within the code, but the solution was just a few clicks away, really.

What happened?

I would input any OpenID (http or https), be redirected to the OpenID provider site (say, blogspot), confirm my identity and then be redirected back. This is where the blog would give me the error so it was clearly the plugins fault.

Interestingly enough, any similar OpenID plugin would produce the same results. Yadis, Another OpenID plugin – all of them. So I figured out – the problem was not with the ioni2 theme but rather with the underlying server configuration!

Moreover I have seen this problem only and exclusively with Hostgator. For instance Bluehost, where my other projects are hosted, does not seem to have it. Line by line comparison showed that their configurations although difference, are more or less alike. So.. support call!

Solution:

It appears that OpenID was triggering a mod_security rule set by the hosting company:

[*] Rule ID: 340163
[*] URLS Affected: /openid/consumer
[*] Description: Remote File Injection attempt in ARGS (MM)

So the solution was to whitelist the domain within this serverrule. Just request your hosting support something like:

I am running Wordpress and OpenID plugins. OpenID is a well-known standard (you can check it at openid.net) and very secure open-source project, same as Wordpress. However it seems to trigger mod_security as it considers is as a intrusion.

Please whitelist my domain

This should solve the problem of No+mode+Set in OpenID.

Moreover, I believe that the same goes for any server configuration with Drupal, Joomla and any other CMS which relies on this absolutely wonderful DiSO plugin

ioni Pagination in action

One day I was just had enough. I was tired of Page Navi plugin. It uses excessive code, unnecessarily calles database and generally is not at all so customizable. So I have decided to make my own pagination plugin – and use only native Wordpress code.

Basically you just have to upload the plugin to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it using the standard Wordpress routine

In you theme, wherever you want to put the pagination, put this code:

<?php ioni_paginate();?>

This will insert the <div > id=”navigation” at the place of insertion according to default settings – or your changed ones.

However if you want to make things a bit more secure – make sure you insert this code:

<?php if (function_exists(‘ioni_paginate’)) ioni_paginate();?>

This will also check if the plugin is actually activated, so I suggest you use this code instead of the short one.

Download ioni Paginate

So the final list looks like the following:

1. Fav Icon for ioni2 (what a Premium WP theme without an Icon?)
2. Check translations (currently English and Russin)
3. Open ID. This suka just would not work.

At this stage I can actually call it Known issued with ioni2

In calling ioni2 Smart Wordpress Theme I mean that it relies heavily on the Wordpress routines with minimum reliance to the side plugins (only for fancy things!)

So let’s start!