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Openinviter Twitter Plugin ‘Unable to get contacts’ Error Fix

Maher — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:14:32 +0000

If you’re using Openinviter, you probably got this error while trying to use the Twitter service:

'Unable to get contacts'

Same thing will happen using the online demo.

This is due to a recent Twitter update forcing SSL on mobile version (The Openinviter plugin is not using the official API methods but a clever interaction with the mobile version of Twitter).

To fix that issue, just open the /OpenInviter/plugins/twitter.plg.php file and change all the http references to https.

Btw, this will also fix the send invitations problem (if you ever succeeded to get contacts).

It should work flawlessly

Facebook Open Graph tags for WordPress

Maher — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:41:34 +0000

Maybe you heard about the Opengraph Tags used by Facebook ? Basically “including Open Graph tags on your Web page, makes your page equivalent to a Facebook Page”:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/

And yes, you’ll get a nice like Thumbnail of your web page using this stuff (knowing that the share function is now deprecated: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/ and has been replaced with like).

This is a quick code for WordPress (minimal tags), just adapt, then copy & paste to your wordpress theme header:



/wp-content/path-to-your-logo"/>



"/>

Right there you can put your Facebook account or page ID in content, you can leave it empty:

This one is an old syntax, still useful for a thumbnail somehow:

/wp-content/path-to-yout-logo"/>

Finally, just check your page using the Facebook validator tool:

http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

That’s all

Find out the source code source :]

Maher — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:59:38 +0000

Wondering about the license, version, and the original project of that piece of code you’ve got ? Just use this new search engine to find out:

http://www.antepedia.com/

Howto: Display home link in wordpress menu

Maher — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:20:08 +0000

Good trick:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-show-home-page-link-in-wordpress-3-0-menu/

Get a rid of all IE7 problems

Maher — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:15:10 +0000

Internet Explorer 7 getElementById killer, this saved my life:

http://www.impressivewebs.com/avoiding-problems-with-javascript-getelementbyid-method-in-internet-explorer-7/

Using wordpress native lightbox

Maher — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:00:48 +0000

Don’t bother yourself installing 3rd party plugins, use the classy WordPress native lightbox, read more here:

http://manchumahara.com/2010/03/22/using-wordpress-native-thickbox/

Get RSS feed of a Twitter account

Maher — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:31:27 +0000

There’s a very simple trick to get the RSS feed of any Twitter account, check it out:

Twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/w3c

RSS Feed: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/w3c.rss

Most of all, it works for any Twitter account !

slow internet after kernel upgrade

Maher — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:31:23 +0000

You recently upgraded your Linux kernel or changed your distro and Internet became suddenly slow ? You tried everything from disabling ipv6 support, MTU improvement to DNS tweaks ?

Generally the connection behaves normally for a few minutes and then speed dramatically decrease

Well if you’re using Wifi (especially an Atheros chipset), it’s probably a stupid module problem try typing:

sudo modprobe -r ath5k
sudo modprobe ath5k nohwcrypt

Now check if the connection is as fast as usual, if it’s OK, you can make this modification permanent using this command (tested with Ubuntu) :

sudo sh -c "echo 'options ath5k nohwcrypt' >/etc/modprobe.d/custom-wireless.conf"

Enjoy fast surfing!

howto: Speed up your Linux up to 10x

Maher — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:24:48 +0000

You’ve probably heard about the 200 lines kernel patch that makes wonders ? Well there’s an easier way to dramatically increase your Linux Distro reactiveness and obtain a similar result, I tested it and it’s really working , this is for Ubuntu:

“Script To Automatically Apply the “200 Lines Kernel Patch” Alternative In Ubuntu”

For other distros:

“Alternative To The “200 Lines Kernel Patch That Does Wonders” Which You Can Use Right Away“

Remember, to enjoy acceleration with your apps you’ll have to launch them from terminal or write a simple bash script and point launchers to it (ie: firefox):

#!/bin/bash

mkdir -p -m 0700 /dev/cgroup/cpu/user/$$ > /dev/null 2>&1

echo $$ > /dev/cgroup/cpu/user/$$/tasks

echo “1″ > /dev/cgroup/cpu/user/$$/notify_on_release

firefox

To verifiy if everything is working just check the directory /dev/cgroup/cpu/user/ you’ll see some subdirectories and files (0 octets) created and deleted every time you launch an app.

Enjoy

Swiftfox no flash sound problem

Maher — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:41:17 +0000

You’ve installed Swiftfox and you’ve got no sound while playing flash videos ? If you’re an Ubuntu user don’t bother yourself with the myriads of proposed solutions and install the flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound package.

Swiftfox is a closed source app, there’s an excellent open source alternative : Swiftweasel, give it a try it’s as fast and lightweighted. For Mac users try Camino.

Both of this two apps can be translated using the official Mozilla language files, go to this url:

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

Select your version and check /linux-i686/xpi/ click on your xpi language file and it will install automatically.