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How to Change the Favicon For a Joomla 1.5 Website

The favicon used for a Joomla 1.5 web page is located in the directory for the template which the web page is currently using. For example, if the website template you are using is named “foo” then the favicon.ico file will be located at “/templates/foo/favicon.ico”. Simply replace that favicon.ico file with your custom favicon.ico file and any page that uses the template will display your new favicon. If your website uses multiple templates, then be sure to replace the favicon.ico file for each template your website uses.

If you change your favicon and it doesn’t immediately change when you refresh your web page, try deleting your web browser’s cache. You can also try loading the favicon.ico file directly in your browser to “force” your browser to update it’s cached copy of the image. To load the favicon file directly use the URL http://www.yourwebsite.com/templates/foo/favicon.ico. Change the template directory name to whatever template you are using on your website.

If you need help generating a new favicon.ico file there is a great website which allows you to upload a picture and the website will convert the picture to a favicon.ico file for you. Here is a link to the website.

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Avoid Speed Traps with Trapster

Trapster is a website that uses Google Maps to show you where police speed traps are located. Combine this with a GPS-enabled cell phone and you can get a warning whenever you are approaching a “speed trap”. Users of the website can mark new speed traps they encounter to warn other users of the site. Here is a video demo of Trapster in action:

http://www.trapster.com

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How to Configure CentOS for Graphical X11 or Multiuser Mode on Boot

Sometimes when I install CentOS it does not start up in “graphical mode” – that is it starts up directly at the command prompt rather than automatically starting up X Windows. You can configure CentOS to start up in whatever mode you want including graphical mode by editing the file /etc/inittab. To change the startup mode of CentOS open that file with a text editor.

# nano /etc/inittab

The file should look like the following:

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
id:3:initdefault:

As you can see, the file gives you the number-to-mode mapping at the top. All you need you do is change the number in the last line listed above. So for me I needed to change the 3 to a 5:

id:5:initdefault:

So my final /etc/inittab file looked like the following:

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
id:3:initdefault:

Reboot your computer and it should now start up in whatever mode you specified.

How to Fix the Problem of an Album Appearing Multiple Times in the Zune Software

There is a problem with the Zune software in how it handles some albums. In particular compilation albums which contains songs from different artists. The problem is that the same album will appear many times in the album listing in the Zune software. This can be very annoying. To fix the problem of an album appearing multiple times in the Zune software perform the following steps:

  1. Download and install the free MP3Tag program
  2. Launch MP3Tag and navigate to the folder on the hard drive which contains your MP3 or .wma files.
  3. Select all files in the album
  4. Click the “Actions (Quick)” button
  5. Select action “Format Value”
  6. Select the value “BAND” in the top drop down box
  7. In the bottom text box, specify: %album%
  8. Click OK to commit the changes
  9. Relaunch your Zune software and now you should only see one listing for your album

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