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A little landmark moment…

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This may not be the most thrilling post, but I’ve finally secured every variant .com and .co.uk domain for my name 8) For quite a few years I’ve owned rachaelbond.com, rachael-bond.com, rachel-bond.com, rachealbond.com, racheal-bond.com, rachaelbond.co.uk, rachael-bond.co.uk, rachelbond.co.uk, rachel-bond.co.uk, rachealbond.co.uk and racheal-bond.co.uk. The one domain I didn’t own was rachelbond.com. The registration was finally dropped this evening and now belongs to yours truly. Not exactly a momentous occasion, but a little landmark none the less.

How to remove meta links from WordPress 3.0

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wordpressWordPress has always included a lot of unnecessary head/meta links.

Since the way of removing some of them has changed with the release of WordPress 3.0 I thought it might be worthwhile to record the new instructions.

Open the WordPress theme’s functions.php file and directly below the first line (“<?php”) add:

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URL Masking

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PHPI know that hiding the true URL of web pages is frowned upon. It can lead to abuse and be used for fraud. However, I really want to be able to use subdomains in WordPress for some of the more static content of this site such as the “photographs” and “recipes” sections. Normally the masking of URLs is done by using frames. The problem with this though is that the user can easily get “stuck” inside the frame.

The other standard option is to use PHP to redirect from one page to another:

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How to correctly encode .mp4 files for streaming

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LinuxFor HTTP pseudo-streaming to iPhones, and RTSP streaming to other mobiles, .mp4 files need to be correctly encoded.

Normally a .mp4 file has its data information included at the end which, if streamed, would require the entire video to be downloaded before playback can begin.

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