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Get better WiFi Speeds on iPhone 3G

August 31st, 2008 11 Comments »

Like everyone else, I was getting pathetic speeds (120kbps) from my 2mbps ADSL connection over WiFi, so I tweaked my router a bit and I get around 1.6mbps consistently now.

Backup or write down your current settings first so you can revert back anytime. So, here’s what to change:

Channel ID: Channel 9 (2452 Mhz)
Beacon Interval: 50
RTS/CTS Threshold: 2305 (Also try 1500, 2305 works better for me though)
Fragmentation Threshold: 2304 (Also try 1024, 2304 works better for me though)
DTIM: 1
Protocol: 802.11 b (This is the most important bit. 802.11 b works better for iPhone, for some reason)

Reboot router and reconnect.

Note: The max data rate of 802.11b protocol is 11 Mbit/s, if your connection speed is less than or equal to that speed, you’re good, if its greater (which is highly unlikely, unless you’re in France, Japan, or Singapore etc..), then your speed will be capped at 11 Mbit/s. My connection is 2mbps, so its not a problem for me.

Hope it helps! Let me know in the comments how it worked for you.

PayPal integraion for Zenphoto - zenPayPal

April 7th, 2008 19 Comments »

zenPayPal - A Zenphoto plugin that allows selling custom size/color prints using PayPal.

Features:

  • Sizes/Prices easily customizable.
  • Prices auto-update based on selection (sizes / color).
  • Picture Title + Size + Color becomes the Item/Product name during checkout.

Just update your PayPal UserID in paypal.php, Line 2. Thats all!

Demo:
Demo 1 (Basic) - Demo 2 (customized)

Download:
zenPayPal.zip 2 KB (1,764 bytes) - Installation instructions Included

If this helps, great! Let me know in the comments. :-)

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UPDATE: zenPayPal.v0.15 replaces the plain “Buy Now” button with an “Add to cart” feature.

Move Word Back/Forward in Firefox (OS X)

January 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »

UPDATE: Get the keyfixed firefox 3 final here.

StarryHope’s excellent KeyFixer for Firefox 2 (and here’s a patch for Firefox 3) fixes your Home/End keys.

However, to make your text navigation more “Windows” like, you might want to also change your default modifier keys (Alt) for Move/Select a Word Left/Right to ‘Ctrl‘.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Get the KeyFixer.

2. Load the dmg and save “keyfixer_firefox” to Desktop.

3. Right-Click “keyfixer_firefox” (on your desktop) and choose “Show Package Contents”.

4. Naviagate to Content > Resources.

5. Replace platformHTMLBindings.xml with this one.

Done!

Home/End KeyFixer for Firefox 3

December 23rd, 2007 13 Comments »

UPDATE: Get the keyfixed firefox 3 final here.

Here’s how to patch Firefox 3 to make the “home” and “end” keys work like they work in other OS.

1. Close Firefox (If open).
2. Browse to Applications > Firefox
3. Right Click > Show Package Contents
4. Browse to Contents > MacOS > Chrome
5. Rename/Remove toolkit.jar and replace it with this (toolkit.jar) one.

Done! :-)

Tested on Firefox 3.0b2

All Credits to StarryHope for making the original version.

Custom Image for Reset button, without Javascript

October 7th, 2007 2 Comments »

Several solutions for applying a custom image to a ‘RESET’ button already exist, but there is better (and easier) way to do it I believe, without Javascript and only a few lines of CSS.

UPDATE: “text-indent” doesn’t seem to work in IE. Check the updated code below.

Button Image:
Reset Button Dimensions: 62 x 22 pixels

HTML Markup:

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<input class="reset_button" type="reset" value="" />

CSS:

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.reset_button {background:url(../img/reset_button.gif) no-repeat; /* Define Image Path */border:0;width:62px; /* Define Image Width */
 
height:22px; /* Define Image Height */
 
}

Now, lets see it in action:

Hope it helps!