“Unable to load stream. Please make sure port 7446 is open on your NVR.”

5 Sep
2016

In case you are seeing the error message “Unable to load stream. Please make sure port 7446 is open on your NVR.” when trying to watch the live camera stream on your Unifi Video NVR system from Ubiquiti, then the solution is rather simple. The error is caused by the self-issued certificate that comes by […]

Running several Firefox versions simultaneously

21 Oct
2011

Ever been in the need of running more than one instance of Mozilla Firefox? Well, I have. Multiple times. I use Firefox for my browsing and development. Combining both in the same profile has been a pain many times especially when ones development is intensive leading to high memory and CPU consumption unfortunately ending with […]

Google+ integration

21 Oct
2011

I wanted a tighter integration with my blog and my Google+ stream to avoid having to visit two places. I have added a little widget which will display the latest posts.

Lightbox 2 and XHTML 1.1 validation

14 Apr
2010

I recently started using the Lightbox 2 WordPress plugin on my Marbella news site to automatically add the zooming overlay effect to certain images. It is really plug & play and works out of the box. I did encounter however that my pages stopped validating as XHTML 1.1 which is the standard doctype on all […]

WordPress + CDATA nightmare

9 Apr
2010

Do you know what is worse than not knowing the solution or even the reason to a problem? Well, that must be, knowing that you have experienced the same problem in the past and resolved it, but no matter how much you try, you can not remember at all what the problem was due and […]

Thanks Ryan!

31 Mar
2010

My gratitude goes to Ryan Marganti from SoulSizzle Design for taking the time to notify me about my dysfunctional comment form. Thanks to his email I realised that apparently my blog suffered from an incompatibility between my latest active theme and the excellent spam stopper plugin. This caused all submitted comments to fail. This has […]

Upload & Insert images as a WordPress contributor

24 Mar
2010

For my Marbella news site I recently hired an excellent free-lance writer on Elance to assist me in composing quality articles. As the site is also powered by WordPress I added him as a contributor to start of with. He explained he had some trouble adding images per the guide I sent him. The “Upload/Insert” […]

Facebook bummers

16 Mar
2010

EDIT: Links are dead. Move on. I am not a Facebook user myself but I must admit that after reading through some of these bummers it seems as a funny place. My friend Oliver recently launched a collection of these Facebook bummers and so far there is no lack of hilarious content.

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