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  • WordPress plugin to create Google XML-Sitemaps

    Here’s a WordPress plugin that will create an XML-Sitemap that can greatly enhance your website’s presence, which is supported by Ask.com, Google, Yahoo! and MSN Search. Here are also some links to help you with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) ranking: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webma… http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx Hope you find this post helpful.

  • Adding whitespace in your WordPress posts

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    Here’s a how-to in adding whitespace in your WordPress posts, as the WordPress system currently wipes them out: For a blank line:<p align="none"> </p>For a double blank line:<p align="none"> </p>For an indented beginning (or any other space formatting), format the text in a simple text editor, enclose it in the following code, then copy-paste the whole:<pre…

  • Car Brands: Who owns what

    Interesting list…check it out here.  As examples: Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota also owns: 51% of Daihatsu, 20% of Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru), and 6% of Isuzu. Nissan Motor Company (Japan) Renault owns 44% of Nissan. Nissan also owns: 15% of Renault.

  • How-to: Unable to cast object Microsoft VisualStudio TestTools UnitTesting TestConfiguration

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    I was getting this error when running one of my unit tests: Unit Test Adapter threw exception: The type initializer for ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfiguration’ threw an exception.Unable to cast object of type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection’ to type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection’. The issue was due to a versioning problem in the .config file (I upgraded to VS 2008).  The section that you’ll…

  • How-to: Outlprnt error when printing from Outlook 2007 calender

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    I tried printing an Outlook 2007 calender entry memo style for a meeting, but received this error: Unable to save the printer settings. Make sure the file C:\Document and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlprint is not missing or write protected. I found a KB article pointing to a solution: KB253966; however, I found that in my profile I…