Welcome to stratos.me
A blog where I write anything that comes to mind.Mailbox full of spam? Your fault!
This must sound aggressive but it's 100% true. We all complain nowadays about the amount of spam landing on our inbox. My mailserver's traffic is more like 80% spam to 20% legit emails. This is a huge problem for any mail provider and, in the end, the end user. So, i...
TweepMe: Good or bad?
The microblogging platform called Twitter, started a wild climb on the social media ladder the past year. Since the release of their API many services have jumped out on the internet world and have helped or swamped tweeple. Just recently this new service called...
BloggerBuddy Hacks: Change the look and feel
With this post i am starting a small series of posts about customizing and maintaining BloggerBuddy. As you know BloggerBuddy is built upon the Adobe framework, AIR. This actually allows a programmer to use web development techniques and languages (HTML, Javascript)...
Feed problems when editing .htaccess on WordPress
Coding BloggerBuddy a couple of months back let me find out about some stuff that are common as a practice but i had no idea of. One example is the complete redirect of a blog's feed to FeedBurner. According to some marketing and SEO masters out there one shouldn't...
Creating a search page on WordPress
You all know i had a theme change about a week ago. This theme is great and i really love it. As it seems you guys love it too. Anyways, since day one i noticed there is no search field nowhere in the theme. That was a pretty strange fact i hadn't seen in any theme...
The 200th post!
Yay! This is all i can say... It's been over a year now, since i started this blog, and almost eight months since the 100th post. This is another milestone reached. It all started back in February 2008 as a "what if" and then i just installed WordPress and started...
Easily create paragraph sidenotes
When i talk about WordPress you all know that i prefer doing something by hand rather install a plugin to do it - provided that the task at hand is easy to do. I have already shown you how to get rid of the various sociable plugins and do it yourself easily through...
Google’s dangerous monopoly
Eleven years ago the internet was like the world back in the dark ages. Wonderful things where happening all over it but no one would find out about it. It was growing so quickly though that a way of finding out the information you are looking for easily was a must...
The new theme
I think it's quite obvious for my readers that the site has, once more, changed a theme! It's been quite some time since the last one (June 2008) so i started getting bored of the old one. Also, i decided i needed more from my theme. And when i say more i mean being...
Hosting variables 101
I've been active around my online friends lately and i noticed something i thought didn't exist. There is much confusion about what are all those variables when having to choose for a webhost. Bandwidth, memory, disk space, CPU, managed/unmanaged etc are some terms...