Alex from Zirona has released a Wordpress plugin that allows visitors to donate money in return for a back-link of their choice. The process has been automated and no interactions are required making this a great revenue generator for power-bloggers and niche hobbyists who can now be rewarded for their efforts.

The donations cloud is something like a tag cloud, only that it displays – donations. The more a person donates, the larger the link to his/her website will be.

There is a critical bug in 0.1.1 (currently available version at time of writing) whereby if you increase the value of DC_MIN_LINK_AMOUNT and a visitor donates a value less than your DC_MIN_LINK_AMOUNT amount the donation will not be visible and the visitor who just generously made a donation will call foul.

To resolve this issue do the following:

1. Open an FTP connection to your website
2. Edit donationscloud.php (/wp-content/plugins/donationscloud/...)
3. On line #45 change the value of “5.00″ to be the same as what you set for DC_MIN_LINK_AMOUNT within settings.php (/wp-content/plugins/donationscloud/...)
4. Save changes

By increasing the minimum value that visitors can donate any future donations will appear in the donation cloud. Looking at the source for Donations Cloud it seems there is no minimum amount checking meaning someone who donates $4.99 will not receive a back-link, this should be announced to visitors and/or a server response mentioning that a donation of less than the minimum amount will not generate a backlink.

conditioner3 asked…

how can we delete unused applications installed on P1i?

It turns out the Sony Ericsson P1i does have an uninstaller for removing software/applications you no longer require in your phone memory. The Uninstall feature can be accessed from:

1. Open Main Menu
2. Open Control Panel
3. Open Other
4. Open Uninstall
5. Select the application you would like to uninstall from the list
6. Press Uninstall
7. Press Yes to Confirm the deletion of the software from both your phone and PC
8. Press Done

Antu28 asked…

how to disable area selection in Sony Ericsson P1i model which comes in main screen below the Network Name?

This one’s easy!

1. Open Main Menu
2. Open Control Panel
3. Open Messaging
4. Open Area Information
5. Uncheck the fields Cell information and Area information
6. Press Done

I’m not sure why Sony Ericsson decided to place this function in Messaging on the Sony Ericsson P1i but there’s your fix.

I’ve had 3 days with my new laptop and am impressed by the quality, performance and functionality of the new HP Pavilion dv2000 series.

HP have always been a “sub-par” mass-producer of stock personal computers, worse even than Dell, ever since their acquisition of Compaq which incidentally was one of my first home computers. But, given a few years of development it seems evident HP have cleaned up their reputation having done extremely well out of the production of this and other high-end HP Pavilion models. My HP Pavilion dv2700 is a definite keeper!

For life on the go, you need a light, powerful notebook computer built with your media and mobility in mind.

HP hit the mark on this statement with the following features:

• Vista Home Premium
  Get work done, and when you’re not doing that relax in style with the new Windows Media Center that comes packaged with Vista.
• Fingerprint reader
  Great for identifying yourself (assign anyone of your four programmed fingers to log you in) and other users at start-up.
• Media Center remote control
  Save your back the stress of changing the video or song playing by whipping out the included remote control, be up to 10m away and within line of sight to make best use of this little beast.
• Dual-headphone jack
  Playing your favourite track on the train and want to share the tune with your best friend, plug in a second headphone and kick off your very own headphone party!
• Touch-style media controls
  The media player buttons above the navigation are touch-based, just tap the surface to action the command. After experiments at the office you cannot change the track by flicking rubberbands at the next button, you actually have to ‘press’ it with your finger. Cool!

Overall, a sweet purchase for under $1800 AUD and one I can without reservation recommend for light-medium demand mobility users. Also, in case I missed anything here are a list of killer features from HP.

Dual-core processing with Intel’s® Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology or AMD’s Turion™ 64 x2 Mobile Technology

Intel® wireless technology with WWAN

Built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam

HP QuickPlay

Optional fingerprint authentication technology

Optional broadband connectivity—without a hotspot—with the Verizon Wireless V740 1XEVDO PC ExpressCard.**

Over the past month I’ve been stretching a vanilla installation of Wordpress (now 2.5.1) into a secure Intranet site for distributing news updates as well as an enabling technology for performing electronic tasks across the workplace.

To date it’s been a complete hit with staff placing high and frequent demand on the system from a staff base of 15-20 employees. The majority of staff and client details are sourced from a maintained SugarCRM installation which are regularly referenced by Wordpress.

I’d like to be able to shortly discuss what components were used and steps to creating your own Wordpress-powered intranet system.

I added a feedback page to allow staff members to contact me with suggestions for improvements, feature requests and to file bug reports. Various staff members are now seeking to further integrate critical tasks (quote generation, time management, etc.) into the web-based platform.

The New Zealand comedy pair Flight of the Conchords regularly transcend space, time and beyond in their bizarre and often dry efforts at contemporary humour.

The show focuses on the professional and personal lives of several characters working at Sacred Heart Hospital, a fictional teaching hospital. It uses first-person narration, verbose characters, segues between subplots, fast pace, and surreal escapism (presented as the thoughts and reveries of the main characters), counterpointed by poignant pieces where the characters address how doctors deal with real issues relating to the practice of medicine and their personal lives.

Watch episodes of Scrubs now

Straight from Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay…

I fear that I will always be,
A lonely number like root three,
A three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath a vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321

Such is my reality, a sad irrationality
When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three
Has quietly come waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
And with a wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued
And love for me has been renewed.

Watch the Boeing Cortina take off and float away!

Kudos go out to Patrick Nufer (via Facebook) for spotting this clip.

The President of Awesome (Barney Stinson) passed on the following knowledge.

The three beginner techniques to picking up a woman at a bar are…

1. Isolate her from her friends
2. Repeat her name in conversation
3. Subtly put her down