Want to create your own software? I know I would! I have often wanted some software application to help me with something or another (such as, network chat– I still cannot find a good network chat program), but have no idea how to go about it. Plus, I like to tinker.
Well anyway, here’s a Software development tool I have heard about: REAL Studio software. There’s a demo video at the website and I found it absolutely fascinating. The demo shows how to make a web browser! The software looks incredibly easy to use. I’m very impressed! If you have even a mild curiosity about creating your own software, or seeing how it is accomplished, do check out the website.
Other things that jumped out at me as I perused the software description:
You can download a trial version of REAL Studio to see if you like it.
REAL Studio is compatible with all versions of Windows, Mac, and Linux.
There are a lot of tutorials and information available.
The makers of REAL Studio have gone the extra mile by providing excellent tutorials, a detailed Help section, and a forum for support. Wow!
REAL Studio has a 90-day money-back guarantee, and that’s even after you check out the trial version for 30 days.
REAL Studio is affordable! The Personal Edition is $99. Other, more extensive versions exist for server and larger studio needs.
Here’s an introductory video from the site. It gives you an idea of how simple REAL Studio program can be:
I think this is a great application– for making software AND for teaching basic software creation lessons. I’m downloading the software trial version, and will definitely have my children get familiar with it. Who knows, maybe we’ll get our own network chat software after all!
Remember, I’m a pro-blogger and I am sometimes compensated with stuff or money to mention or review products! This was one of them. You can read more about my blog policy on my “About” page.
The illustrious Content Gallery Plugin for WordPress blogs has recently issued an update. The plugin is now named Featured Content Gallery Plugin. That’s a very nice name, but with the name change comes a little scare if you are unprepared– updating to the new name knocks out the plugin’s effectiveness on your blog. In other words, after you update, the plugin won’t work right away. There’s something else you have to do after you update this plugin, before it can get going again: you have to go into your Theme Editor and rename the code– you must tell the theme to point to the Featured Content Gallery plugin, not the Content Gallery plugin. Here’s the quick and easy way to do this:
>> Update plugin.
>> Go to your Theme Editor.
>> Find the code for the Content Gallery plugin (it’s usually in the “home.php” file but your location may vary depending upon where you have the plugin inserted).
>> Find the code that says:
<?php include (ABSPATH . ‘/wp-content/plugins/content-gallery/gallery.php’); ?>
>> Replace it with this:
<?php include (ABSPATH . ‘/wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php’); ?>
>> Save.
>> Check your website and refresh. You may need to clear your cache to see the change.
I don’t know why these instructions were not clear on the WordPress plugin gallery site, nor the plugin homepage. I had no idea you had to change the code– I merely updated the plugin, only. So I freaked out after updating the plugin, because when people viewed my home page, all they saw was a bunch of scrambled code nonsense where the Gallery should be.
Hopefully, this will spare plugin users the agony of an ugly home page and the scrambling for a fix. Hope this helps.
I’ve got another goody coming out of my grab bag! I found this very cool site that will fix your text– called Text Fixer. It will fix all sorts of things:
Put text in alphabetical order
Capitalize sentences
Remove line breaks and whitespace
Create Javascript pop-up windows
And more…
I love the alphabetical order and remove line spaces features. I am fussy about my formatting– when I want a line break after the phrase “pet beds” or whatever, I don’t want a line break after the phrase! And I do a lot of alphabetizing, too. This makes it sooo easy.
Wonder what all that babbling HTML nonsense is all about? I found a terrific websit that lists what those HTML tags are. And it’s in plain English! This is a very good site to bookmark and have handy when you are doing any kind of coding writing or reading (or are just strangely curious about how to read HTML, like me!). The website is called HTML Tags. It’s free to peruse. But if you want something like a handy chart– one that you can actually handle and refer to physically, the site offers foldable charts in various sizes, font sizes, and colors. It’s neat, like your own little HTML personalized books! Check out the site and bookmark it when you need it. A great tool!
Live and learn. And I usually learn the hard way, lol. Nothing like experience to aid a little lesson along.
I’ve discovered that toggling on and off the hotlinking features in my cPanel (where I host my blogs) messes with my blogs’ permalinks. This seems to be a common problem. What happens is that the hotlinking changes the coding to the .htaccess file of your blog.
For your information: “hotlinking” is the term we use for the stealing of bandwidth. Let’s say you upload a photo of your weight loss pills to your web host’s server, in your image folder. You then post the photo onto your blog. That photo is being hosted by your web host, at your expense. (Sites like Flickr and Photobucket host your photos for free). Hotlinking is when a person takes the url of your photo from your web host, and puts it on their website. The “energy draw” for the photo at your site and at the thief’s site is coming from your web host and thus using up your bandwidth– a service you are paying for. You are being robbed. You can prevent hotlinking by turning the feature on at your web host’s cPanel, but you risk changing your .htaccesss file, and ruining your permalinks. (Basically what toggling the hotlinking feature does is it deletes the line “RewriteEngine on” line from your .htaccess file. Adding this back in to your .htaccess file will restore your permalinks.
But you DO want to stop the hotlinking of your images. So I found some sites with information about it. Mind you, I am still learning about the process! But so far, preventing hotlinking is working for me for one of my blogs. I just have to get around to adding the code to the rest of my blogs’ .htaccess files.
Remeber– ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS back up your files before changing them. Your .htaccess file is crucial to the functionality of your blog. Don’t mess with it unless you know what you’re doing and until you’ve backed it up.
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