Life of Larry

Piwigo Fotorama Conflict w/ Embedded Video

Post author:larry
Post published:May 20, 2014
Post category:Application Gallery IT Software

Issue: After installing Fotorama plugin in Piwigo provided that there is Embedded Video installed, the following error message will be shown while clicking the slideshow button on top of the…

Piwigo Fotorama Plugin Bug!

Post author:larry
Post published:May 20, 2014
Post category:Application Entrepreneur Gallery IT Software Tech

Issue: The built-in slideshow feature of Piwigo has neither fading effect nor full-screen show. Though there is a CoolIris/PicLens plugin, it cannot work in iOS including iPhone and iPad as…

Secret of Mounting USB Storage on Cisco Linksys Router

Post author:larry
Post published:May 6, 2014
Post category:Hardware IT Network

Issue: Using either Dolphin File Manager or ftp, copying a directory of around 70GB to an USB storage formatted in NTFS stopped mid-way without notification at less than 10GB copied.…

iPhone WhatsApp Intermittent Missing Message Input Window

Post author:larry
Post published:Apr 24, 2014
Post category:Diary IT Mobile System

Issue:Suddently found that the message input window was missing. Instead there're only labels as Earlier and Later appearing at the bottom of screen, and you cannot find a way to…

zPanel Webmail Password Change

Post author:larry
Post published:Apr 17, 2014
Post category:Entrepreneur IT Network Tech

Issue: zPanel is using RoundCube as the webmail frontend. It's clean and user-friendly. However, if it is going to be used by ordinary mailbox users without zPanel admin access, users…

WordPress qTranslate Add Language Select on Header

Post author:larry
Post published:Apr 11, 2014
Post category:Diary Entrepreneur Tech

Issue: qTranslate is the best free multilingual plugin of WordPress, but its standard method to include language selector is adding widget. One deficiency of WordPress is that most themes do…

Correct Pricing Tables Ready Plugin’s Currency Position

Post author:larry
Post published:Apr 7, 2014
Post category:Diary Entrepreneur Tech

Issue: Ready! Pricing Tables is a great free plugin for making price tables in WordPress, but its gray template has a weird behaviour that the currency sign appear after the…

WordPress qTranslate Home URL Issue

Post author:larry
Post published:Mar 31, 2014
Post category:CMS Diary IT Software

Background: Using qTranslate on WordPress is good choice as it is a free plugin that can provide multilingual feature to WordPress, and present various languages neatly. Issue: After choosing secondary…

GIMP No Transparent Background

Post author:larry
Post published:Mar 4, 2014
Post category:Diary Entrepreneur Tech

Issue: After correctly using Gimp's Color to Alpha feature to turn white (or other colour) background into transparency. It appears also correctly in Gimp. However, every time export the image,…

Deployment of WordPress Shopp

Post author:larry
Post published:Feb 18, 2014
Post category:Diary Entrepreneur Tech

Background: Need to apply tiered pricing schedule for the service, however, WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing Extension is unreasonably high at US$129 for single-site license. Issue: There are some ecommerce plugins in…