"Error 1330 Installing Java Runtime Environment" (JRE)

This client’s PC running Windows XP kept refusing to install the latest Java Runtime Environment. It seems such a problem is not that rare…

To cut a long story short, I came across this RAC_Reaper’s post Re: Error 1330 (Invalid digital signature in data1.cab) installing 1.6.0_11, where he states:

“… I believe a regsvr32 initpki.dll is all [...]

“Restart Firefox to complete your changes” keeps appearing after add-on installation or update

Have you ever found yourselves in a situation with Firefox for Windows where you keep getting the message “Restart Firefox to complete your changes”, even after a restart? It happens if Windows has Offline Files enabled, the Firefox profile resides in an offline folder and you have installed or updated an add-on sensitive to the [...]

Ning Greek Localization Error in Translation

Localization is no easy task and translations can be tricky themselves. Four wrong Ning Forum’s terms in greek are such victims of an honest [...]

Twitter: Unable to follow more people (following 2000 limit)

Twitter has never been my favorite, especially compared to FriendFeed, but I can’t overlook the valuable community built around it. Lists have just made it much better, but there’s still no decent way to manage them that I know of and they come with limitations of their own.

Twitter: You are unable to follow more [...]

Outlook crashes when switching keyboard language? Check Outlook Connector!

Does your Microsoft Outlook crash lately? A client of mine’s kept crashing for the better part of two consecutive mornings.

To cut a long story short, each time he tried to switch the keyboard to EL (Greek), it would hung with no exception. Several times it even crashed by itself while (re)starting. Repairing the .pst file [...]

WordPress: External RSS Feeds Optimization with KB Advanced RSS

Apart from its own Ice Tea tech blog, Dipot.com also displays two external feeds relating to Optimization and Standards. I needed to optimize the post titles of these two feeds by getting rid of their long suffixes, both for better looks and for more content within the same space.

The feeds were served by the standard [...]

Feeds to Content & Categories Optimization in WordPress

At some point I added the category “Bookmarks” in Ice Tea tech. Thanks to the “YAAB” (short for Yet Another Auto Blogger) WordPress plugin, this category automatically gets its content directly from my Delicious feed. This way I get my own copy of what I put up there and my blog gets some added value [...]

WordPress Optimization: Compatibility between Themes & Plugins

The first incarnation of Ice Tea tech was in Joomla 1.5. I admit I can’t resist the temptation to tweak my own blog and never got to understand the Joomla philosophy well enough to do it extensively. So, with neTWire’s help (they set it up for me and successfully imported Joomla days’ posts), I [...]

Optimize Firefox with 9+1 Must Have Add-ons

During my early days as an IT support person (well before USB flash drives, external hard disks and recordable CDs), I picked up the habit to not be dependent on anything not included in Windows (v. 3.0, at the time) if I could help it. So I got used to working on the setups my [...]

News Reading Thoughts

I never have enough of a good thing. The first time I read the online edition of a magazine I immediately wished for a filtered edition which would only contain the articles of my choice. When Greek Naftemporiki newspaper’s online-edition provided filtered, personalized content, I immediately wished for a method to push the content to [...]