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Booking Calendar Lite 1.2 released!

Calendar demo

This post is to inform you about update of "Booking Calendar Lite". New release is whole about bug fixes and optimization and it does not provide any new features. But it is still recommended to upgrade your current installation to improve reliability and performance.

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Subscribers Text Counter – New WordPress Plugin

I would like to announce that my new WordPress plugin is available to download. It is "Subscribers Text Counter". This plugin creates very easy to customize "Feedburner rss subscribers" and "twitter followers" text counters. You may see sample widget created with this plugin on top of my right sidebar.

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How to remove “Powered by MiniUrlz…” from your footer?

Introduction:

As most of you know MiniUrlz is offered as a free script. But it cost me a lot of time to expand it with new features, bug fixes and support for all of you. It is why I have decided to license it under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. It let you to use it for free under my conditions. And as most of you know my only condition to use it is to keep footer like this on your front page:

Powered by MiniUrlz © 2009 KreCi

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MiniUrlz 1.5 with new features released!

New version of MiniUrlz url shortening script have been released. It have some great and very useful new features. Here is a list of some that may be most interesting:

  • Redirect all traffic from deleted or not existing shortcuts to url of your choice,
  • Click count,
  • Last click date,
  • Shortcut creation date,
  • General code cleanup - improved administrator panel readability.

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MiniUrlz 1.1.1 released with bug fix!

New version of MiniUrlz url shortening script have been published and is available to download. There are no any changes but one bug fix. In previously released version (1.1) there were some problems with installation of the script as it have been creating wrong .htaccess file. In new version (1.1.1) there is improved setup script that should be working on all web hosts. If you will experience any problems please let me know (may be comment under this post). Script can be downloaded as usual from this page.

Win 320GB Seagate FreeAgent Go portable disk!

SeagateSeagate wants to celebrate 30 years in the industry. They have announced a contest. To win one of five beautiful "Seagate FreeAgent Go" disks you must submit them your photo. But it is not as easy as it must be a 30 years old! They accept photos made in 1979. It is the year when they first hard drive ST506 have been released. It was as huge as 5MB of storage... really! And it was pretty much for the 1979. More details is available on the contest page. Good Luck!

Selling my blog…

This post is just a quick note to let you know that I am selling my blog. No... not this one. I am selling my web hosting reviews blog. If you are interested you may find auction on flippa (inactive link removed). And you may see the website I am selling right here. What is this website about? I have described it some time ago in this post.

UPDATE (2009-11-30)

Blog have been sold. Congratulations to the new owner!

MiniUrlz 1.1 is available to download!

It is just a quick note to let you know that new version of MiniUrlz - url shortening script - have been published on it's homepage. Here is a list of changes for this version:

  • Improved setup script
  • Improved pagination for links in administrator area
  • Fixed bug in template engine (closed BODY tag)
  • Some code cleanup

If you don't know MiniUrlz, here is the demo. More details may be found on it's homepage.

Booking Calendar Lite 1.1 released!

New version of "Booking Calendar Lite" have been released. This great script is best choice to publish if some resource are reserved, occupied or free. It is very quick to setup and easy to manage. In this version you will find a lot of improvements. Here is the list:

  • improved installation script,
  • improved administration - all settings may be changed in admin panel (no need to edit configuration files in notepad as in previous versions),
  • possibility to disable copyright notice with one click  (Powered by…),
  • optimized MySQL queries (less server load and faster responses),
  • some more code cleanup.

If you are interested in new release you may get more details on Booking Calendar Lite page.

MiniUrlz – url shortening script released in free version

As I have written some time ago I have decided to release most of my script to public (first was Booking Calendar Lite). Now it is time for "MiniUrlz". Script that may help you build url shortening service in a few minutes! It is very easy to install.

Some of most important features:

  • No database required!
  • Unlimited number of urls with unlimited url lenght!
  • PHP totally separated from main page template!
  • Administrator panel to mange submitted urls
  • Quick 1-2-3 setup

You can download and get more details about my url shortening script here.