The majority of this site’s contributers are from the Kitchener/Waterloo area or go to school at the university of waterloo. While putting fingers to keys in our luxurious office (the Waterloo tech library) we overheard some exciting news, the University of Waterloo is hosting the Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference this summer. It’s a week long… Continue reading What to do in Waterloo | Waterloo to host exciting event in the mathematical sciences this summer
Buy Cheap Textbooks
For almost all of your 100 and 200 level courses, and some of your 300s and 400s, you can probably find the international copy of your textbook on eBay. These versions of the textbook are paperback, intended for resale in developing economies and, for that reason, are usually about a quarter of the price of… Continue reading Buy Cheap Textbooks
Add Description Meta Tags to WordPress
This guide explains how to add description meta tags to your posts and pages in WordPress Head into the backend/dashboard of your WordPress site Go to the posts section Click on post that you want to add a description to Go down to the Custom Fields section Add a new custom field called: description Enter… Continue reading Add Description Meta Tags to WordPress
FLAC Audio Files To MP3 for iTunes on Mac
Although Flac gives you a far superior sound quality, the files are large and impossible to transfer to most big market mp3 players. In order to get these cumbersome files into itunes on your mac we need to get a piece of open source software called Max which you can get here . Decompress and… Continue reading FLAC Audio Files To MP3 for iTunes on Mac
WordPress on BlackBerry | Edit WordPress from Blackberry
This guide explains how to use the new WordPress BlackBerry app to edit your WordPress site from your Blakberry smartphone. WordPress 1.0 was released for the BlackBerry smartphone today. This awesome little app lets you add and edit your posts, comments and pages all from your Blackberry. This guide walks you through the process of setting up your WordPress site so that you’re ready to edit on your BlackBerry and then explains the steps of downloading, installing and setting up the mobile application on your BlackBerry device.
Add a Disclaimer to Arthemia WordPress Theme
This guide explains how to add a disclaimer to the bottom of your Arthemia themes WordPress site. Head into the backend of your WordPress site Select Appearance -> Editor Select Footer (footer.php) from the menu on the right Find the following line of code: <!– <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. –>… Continue reading Add a Disclaimer to Arthemia WordPress Theme
How to Add a UNIX User to a Group
If we take the user julian, and we want to add the user to a prexisting supplemental group, apache, then you can use the following command: usermod -a -G apache julian [ad#Google Adsense] If you would like to change the primary group of user julian to the group prexisting group, apache, you can use the… Continue reading How to Add a UNIX User to a Group
Add Mailing List to WordPress
This guide explains how to add a mailing list to WordPress and let users subscribe to the mailing list on your WordPress site. First of all, a mailing list needs a backend, so any time you want to set one up, it’s going to be a two-step process, but don’t worry! It’s easy. The first… Continue reading Add Mailing List to WordPress
Submit Your WordPress Site to the Search Engines
This guide explains how to submit your WordPress site to the major search engines. It also explains a useful plugin for keeping your site’s internal pages up to date with the search engines.
Submitting Your Site to the Search Engines
This guide explains how to submit your URL for entry in the major search engines: Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask