Archive for May 2008

WordPress 2.5 have a very neat image uploader that will allow you to upload several images at one go. There are three options when you want to insert an image that you have uploaded into a post, namely Link URL, Alignment and Size.

The default settings for these options are as below:

WordPress 2.5 Insert Image into Post Default Settings

By default, the image will link to the original image that you have uploaded, with no alignment and medium sized. As far as I know, there is no way to change these default options and it is definitely annoying to have a few extra clicks every time an image is uploaded just to make your image to be displayed at your liking.

The only solution I have discovered for the time being is to modify the maximum width and height of the medium sized image. It can be done via Settings > Miscellaneous.

Modify maximum width and height of a medium sized image on WordPress

After changing the maximum width and height of a medium sized image, you can now skip the step to change the image size from medium to full size.

Please do kindly let me know if there is any better way for modifying the preset settings of the image uploader.

If your Firefox give no respond when you click the Page Up, Page Down, Home or End button, you might have activated caret browsing. You might also notice that there will be a blinking text cursor when you click on a passage or text on a website.

You might have accidentally activated the caret browsing without noticing it and started scolding when those buttons won’t work.

Caret Browsing - Firefox

To solve the problem, just simply press on the F7 key.

NO to EntrecardNothing to do with how great or how lousy the system is. Nothing to do with Entrecard in general, just that I cannot disagree more on how people behind Entrecard handle things.

In short, an Entrecard member’s account was deleted because he claims (pure claiming with no proof) that he could drop 300 cards within 5 seconds. This alone has got my disagreement. But things doesn’t stop here.

The member who got his account deleted was questioning for the reason, and the reason given was because he claims that he could drop 300 cards in 5 seconds, even without any concrete proof. Proof such as logs are not given—instead, Entrecard insist that they are doing the right thing to delete a member’s account with the claim alone.

Entrecard also mentioned that in order to restore his account, he must either:

  1. Provide us with the details of the method you utilized to subvertEntrecard security or
  2. Post publically on the same forum thread with the following exact wording:
    I wish to apologize to my fellow Entrecard users for undermining their faith in the Entrecard system in order to boost my ego. I do not in fact have a method for automatically dropping cards rapidly. I also apologize to the Entrecard programmer, who is in fact awesome.

Entrecard also demanded for a scan or digital photograph of a piece of paper, signed and dated by the member, with the following wording:

I commit henceforth never to abuse, or claim to abuse, the security systems of Entrecard.

This shows how proud Entrecard could be of itself. To me, all these shows that they doesn’t appreciate their members or even respect them at all. This have nothing to do with me, but it is enough to make me boycott Entrecard.

Visit the actual forum thread for more details.