So what do you think of the new theme? It’s cool right?

So if you haven’t Akismet running on your blog and you want to have a spam free blog, then you really should give it a try.  The installation is very easy; Download the plugin (via the plugin page in the admin part if you’re using Wordpress), get your API Key & activate Akismet and you’re good to go!

So what have I been up to lately?

• Well, the last couple of weeks has been extremely busy at work; trying to order the stuff we need and get everything in our warehouse on time, dealing with some complaints, a lot of sick colleagues (including me for over a week and half!) and much more!
• As you perhaps recall, I’m going to back to “school”. So I spend several hours a week to my study and preparing myself for my first exam which will be in the end of January.
• Designing a new theme for this blog… Yeah I’m working on a very new cool theme for this blog but it doesn’t go as fast as I would like to.. Lack of time!
• Doing a lot of things in/around the house.

• Getting ready for the Christmas time, setting up the Christmas tree.



• And much more… but don’t want to give you a headache!

More then enough reason to take a few days off at work and just relax and enjoy the holidays! And that’s exactly what I’m going to do! So for the next couple of days (long weekend) Jannie and me have planned a lot of cool stuff to do!

Will keep you updated!

I don’t know why, but some theme authors embed links in an encoded footer. Now it’s not that we don’t like to give credits to the theme authors, but what if the theme author has placed a lot of sponsor links which doesn’t have to do with your blog (or with the theme author!) or what if you want to add some information to the footer? When a theme’s footer is encoded, then this is just impossible. However you can remove this encoding by following the next steps:

1. Go to your index.php file
2. Find a line that says:
   <?php get_footer(); ?>
3. Place the following marker text above the line:
   <!-- Evil Footer Devil FOUND -->
4. Place the following marker text below the link:
   <!-- Evil Footer Devil BEGONE -->
5. Now save the index.php file and view the source by pressing CTRL+U in FireFox.
6. Now look for the HTML code between those two markers and copy it.
7. Make a copy of your existing footer.php file (or just paste the HTML code in your existing footer.php file) and save it.
8. Now you’re able to change the links etc which was encoded in the first place.

NOTE: Don’t forget to insert the <?php wp_footer(); ?> before </body> tag.

I’ve used the method above and it did the job for me. Perhaps this might be handy for you too!

While I had Windows XP installed on my pc, I was able to change/set the file type associations under Folder Options.. However ever since Vista, Microsoft has decided to move it to somewhere else! If you would like to set/change the file type associations in Vista and don’t know where to look then follow these steps below:

• Go to Start
• Open Control Panel
• Click on Default Programs followed with Set Associations
• Select a file type in the list and click Change Program.
• In the new screen you’ll see a list of Programs along with a description and the current default program.
• Now click on the Change program to set or change the current defaults.

Easy right?

We had actually booked at the first hotel as the last time however we ended up in another hotel, which was even 10 times better! Why? Well, at the first hotel (The Loca Blue Lagon) they mixed up our hotel room and gave us a shitty room. A room which was 10 minutes a way from the main pool, bar, restaurant etc.. That’s not the worst part.. They offered us a room with 2 single beds! Yeah.. exactly on our honeymoon!  After complaining we were transfered (almost immediately) to the Palazzo Del Mare hotel which is even more luxurious then the first one! From then on we could enjoy our honeymoon perfectly!

Click here to go to the gallery and view the pictures or click on the picture above!!

It was really a beautiful day and fortunately we’ve a lot of pictures (1100+!) of our wedding just to remember the day! I have made a selection and you can view them in the gallery by clicking here or clicking on the picture here below!

Enjoy watching them!

In the past I had tried some plugins but they didn’t do the job as I would like to. While surfing on the net today, I found the solution to my “problem”. The solution is actually a plugin called: Miniposts. Kinda obvious! So from today on you’ll see my 5 newest miniposts in the tabbed sidebar which can be found to your right!

So why display miniposts?
Well, minipost can be very handy in case you like to share a link, video or anything else to your readers and you just don’t have the time to write an post about it.  You can also use miniposts to let your visitors know that there’s a new post on one of your other blogs etc. With other words, you can use it for almost anything!

In case you would like to have miniposts on your blog too, just head over to the plugin’s page and follow the instructions there!

Anyway, in the meanwhile I had some time to update the gallery page! A lot of people and friends didn’t liked the way the gallery worked and asked me if I could change it… I actually hadn’t thought well about this so I had to look into it. The problem was that I used the build-in gallery option in Wordpress and linked/opened the picture in the attachment page. By doing the whole site needed to be reloaded over and over again which is actually pretty annoying and slow, right? So I had to look for another option.

A picture of Jannie and me on our holiday in El Gouna (Egypt).

After giving it some thoughts and playing around with a dozen of plugins, I actually found the perfect solution: Slimbox!
Slimbox is a visual clone of the popular Lightbox 2 script and to be honest.. this wasn’t actually what I was thinking about when I started but I really like this plugin! It works really simple (download, install and you’re good to go!) and it’s really fast.

Now you are able to view and navigate between the pictures in the gallery very quickly! Give it a try and let me know what you think!

So a couple of days ago I stumbled on a tweet of Darren Wilson saying he used “Twikini” to tweet from his Windows Mobile Phone. After checking the pictures, reading about Twikini I decided to give it a try and installed the application on my HTC TP2.

The download size of the trial is just 110 KB which is very small and after the installation I was actually pretty amazed. Twikini It offers you a lot of features (which I missed in a lot of other applications!) and it’s still very fast! With Twikini you’re able to use your phone’s camera, GPS, Media, touch screen, keyboard, graphich and storage capabilities of your device. Great isn’t it? Some of other features are:

• You can choose from some theme. All of them are simple and uncluttered and customizable user interface.
• Post your tweets using a full screen editor (another thing which I missed on other applications..)
• Optionally you can decide to set your location(manually, using GPS coordinated or geocoding) along with your status updates.
• Send and receive Direct Messages.
• View your “@” replies and much more!

Do you own a Windows Mobile phone and are you looking for a good Twitter client for your phone? Then you’ve to try Twikini! Believe me when I say that it wouldn’t let you down!

At first I didn’t know what to expect but after spending 30 seconds on playing with the options, I have to say that this is a great add-on! It makes browsing even more easier, I mean take a look at the screenshot here below!

As you can see you can also add breadcrumbs to the URL segment and as I already mentioned; This is very handy to use and to navigate websites with! Give it a try, I know you’ll like it!
PS: See here below a screenshot of my preferences of Locationbar2..

Requires: FireFox
Publisher: Dao Gottwald
OS: Windows 95,98,98SE,NT,2000,XP,Vista, Mac OS X, Linux etc.
Current Version: 1.0.3
Language: English
License: Freeware
Download: Click…

Something which has been deleted from my sidebar is the Blogroll. Well, I haven’t deleted the blogrolls, I just have created a page only for the blogrolls! So from now on you’ll find the blogroll in their own page instead of my sidebar.

So what’s going to replace the blogroll!? Well,I’ve decided to display my 15 Popular posts, which are being sorted by total views. This is a good idea to make sure that new visitors will read those as well..

Another thing which has been changes is the re-placement of “A Year Ago”. From now on you can access this from my tabbed sidebar. I figured that this was a better place to display it, right next to recent posts, popular post and post from a year ago!

So with this chanegs I’m once again very happy when it comes to my sidebar! I hope you’ll like the changes too.

So make sure you visit my new blog and leave a massage!!

You might like to check out our free PDF-to-Word service too — http://www.pdftoword.com. You do it all via our website rather than downloading and installing software.

Well, as it sounds good to me and it made me curious so I went to check it out. The first thing I noticed was that PDFtoWord.com is another free software from Nitro PDF Software. Yes, the creators of “PDF Download Add-on For Firefox“. So before I started writing this post I wanted to check and see how the service works and submitted a pdf file containing images and off course texts just to see how it works. Converting a pdf to a word document file using this free online converter is very easy and it’s done in 3 very easy steps:

1. Select your pdf you want to convert.
2. Now make a choice; convert the pdf file to .doc or .rtf (Rich Text Format). Personally I would suggest to go for .doc.
3. You’re almost done.. Now fill in your email address and the converted file will be e-mailed to you.
   Within a couple of minutes you’ll find the converted file in your inbox. Now you can open the .doc (or .rtf) file and start editing and/or using the file!

Pdftoword.com is another great service from Nitro PDF software and I have to admit that this works much easier and faster then having a software installed! Now go ahead and try it out yourself! 

So yeah, today is the first anniversary of BioTecK.net and it’s time to celebrate! I actually wanted to hold a contest or a give way around this one, but due the lack of time I wasn’t able to do so. Remember my post about how fast time flies, Another Week Passes By…!? It sucks that I still can’t buy time anywhere! Anyway, maybe some other time!? 

Now 1 year later, BioTecK.net got a PR2, some post pages even have PR1, 708 posts, 2120 comments & counting, received a lot of Blogging Awards (Sorry if I didn’t pass on the awards!!), got some very nice reviews and much more!

So I guess it’s time to say THANK YOU  ALL, yes every 177.233 one who have visited BioTecK.net the past year and a ::hug:: for helping me get this off the ground! I hope this year will be even better then the last year!

Now just a couple of days ago I recieved an email from Foxmarks (like many other Foxmarks users) about a very important news about Foxmarks.

Foxmarks is becoming Xmarks. We’re not just changing our name, we’re also enhancing our browser add-on and web site with new capabilities.

With Xmark you’ll still enjoy bookmark sync and all other “previous” feature but there are some new cool features like;

1. Smarter Search
   From now on Xmarks will highlight the 3 sites in your Google results that have been bookmarked by the most people; this is a quick and easy way to tell which sites are most valued by real people like you.
2. Site Info
   Xmarks adds a small blue information icon in your browser location bar. Click it to learn more about the site you are on and see recommendations for the top 5 similar sites. This is a great way to uncover the best of the web.
3. Xmarks.com
   Visit Xmarks.com from any browser to write your own site reviews and to see even more similar site recommendations.

To learn more about Xmarks click here. So if you liked Foxmarks, you’ll love Xmarks too!

Ow I almost forgot: In order to manage/edit your bookmarks from any computer, you’ll have to log in via login.xmarks.com.
NOTE: Xmarks is currently Firefox only, but it syncs perfectly with your existing Foxmarks account and Foxmarks add-ons for Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari.

Requires: FireFox
OS: Windows 95,98,98SE,NT,2000,XP,Vista, Mac OS X, Linux +
Language: English, Dutch and many more!
License: Freeware
Download: Click…

In order to transfer files using FTP, you need:

• The FTP Server address;  This could look like “ftp.domainname.com” or it could look like “11.231.231.234″.
• Username and password. Some FTP servers let you connect to them anonymously so you don’t need a username and password.
• An FTP Client.

Now, there are a lot of FTP Clients, some of  them you have to pay for and some of them are freeware. One of the free FTP clients is FileZilla.
FileZilla is powerful Open Source, so it’s free, FTP/SFTP client with many features. FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client with a lot of useful features, such as:

• Resume support for downloads and uploads.
• Site manager to store all your connection details and logins.
• Available in many languages.
• Configurable transfer speed limits.
• Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more.
• Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).
• Firewall support and many more.

Installing FileZilla is very easy and using is even more easier! FileZilla is a great FTP Client with a clean design and I suggest tring it. I use FileZilla at work and at home and I’m really happy with this free FTP Client.
So if you’re looking for a FTP Client with a lot of great features which comes in for free, then you really have to try FileZilla!

Publisher: FileZilla Project
Version: 3.2.3
OS: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Linux,  Mac OS X, BSD.
Language: English, Dutch, Chinese and much more!
License: Freeware
Download size: 3.89 MB
Download FileZila: Click here…

Anyway, this is what we’ve done in the past couple of weeks:

Cocody Party Centrum

After spending a lot of time searching for the right place to celebrate our wedding we’ve finally found the PERFECT place! The perfect place to have a nice diner, receive our guests and give a great party on our wedding day!

We actually made our decision some weeks ago but again as we were very busy I didn’t have that much time to write about this. Anyway, the place where we are going to celebrate our wedding is called Cocody Party.
Cocody is located in Geldrop (a small city near Eindhoven) with a very nice view over the nature and lake. It’s a great and beautiful location as you can see here below!

We really love this location and we can’t wait to celebrate our wedding there. As you can see it also looks very nice on the inside.

Our honeymoon

For a long time we didn’t knew where to go on our honeymoon, but Saturday we finally booked our honeymoon! After giving it some thoughts, we decided to go back to Kos island in Greece. As you might know/remember, we have also been there two years ago and we really had a wonderful time over there! The island, hotel, food, the swimming pool and actually everything was just perfect and as we want to have everything perfect for our wedding we decided to go back to Greece.

Now we know where we will celebrate our honeymoon and we have a party location, we can now focus on some other stuff like the wedding cake, wedding card and a lot of other things!
So we still have a lot of things to do an believe me when I say that I wouldn’t get bored for the next couple of weeks!

I mean think about ALL the junk and temporary files stored on your computer, all those broken registry keys / unused files when you un-installing an application etc. So it’s no wonder that your computer is getting slower and you notice a loss on your computer performance, right? So what can you do about this? The answer to the problem is very simple: Use Auslogics BootSpeed 4!

Auslogics BootSpeed 4 is an all in one utility which really can speed up your computer.  With this tool you have everything you need to speed up and improve performance of your computer. You even can tweak Windows if you like too!

When opening Auslogics BootSpeed4 you’ll see a very clean design and you’ll see that it’s very easy to navigate through the options, which brings me back to the all in one part I mentioned before. Here below is a list which Auslogics BootSpeed offers:

• Computer Clean Up: With this option you can clean up your computer by cleaning your disk, registry, getting rid of unnecessary software and optimize the boot time of your computer by controlling which programs are allowed to start automatically on your computer!
  • Disk Cleaner: Clean up disk drives and get rid of junk files. See below for a screenshot of junk files which Ausoligcs BootSpeed 4 found on my computer! 4416 junk files which had a total size of 2,11 GB!
  • Auslogics Registry Cleaner: Clean up the Windows Registry and fix registry errors.
  • Auslogics Uninstall Manager: Add and remove programs and Widnows Updates.
  • Auslogics Startup Manager: Control which programs are allowed to start automatically on your computer. If you want to make sure that your computer startups faster I really recommend to check this out.

• Optimization: With this option you can improve your computer performance by defragmenting your hard disks, your registry and even your RAM memory. Beside that you can speed up your internet browser.
  • Auslogics Disk Defrag: Boost performance by defragmenting disk drives. See below for a screenshot. I had defraged my disk a couple of days ago, but still Auslogics BootSpeed did a good job!
  • Auslogics Registry Defrag: Compact and defragment the registry to speed up your system.
  • Auslogics Internet Optimizer: Speed up your web browser and Internet downloads.
  • Auslogics Memory Optimizer: Free up and defrag computer memory (RAM). This might be handy when you need more RAM for editing a movie or working with a large Photoshop file.

• Privacy and Security: Protect your computer from Internet Attacks.
  • Auslogics Track Eraser: Protect your privacy by removing tracks from your computer.
  • Auslogics PC Security: Prevent Internet attacks on your computer.
  • Auslogics File Shredder: Remove files and folders beyond restoration. Note: By doing this you wouldn’t be able to recover any files/folder with a recovery software anymore!
  • Auslogics Disk Wiper: Wipe your disk completely and make sure files you have removed earlier cannot be undeleted.

• Information and Control: Get detailed information about your system and tweak them if you would like to. However, this is an option for advanced users.
  • Auslogics Tweak Manager: Use many undocumented Windows tweaks to tune up your system for maximum performance. For examle you can  tweak Animation and Effects in Windows, the user interface, startup and shut down and more!
  • Auslogics Service Manager: Here you can find Windows system services settings which you can tweak or shutdown if you would like to,
  • Auslogics System Information: Here you can get detailed information about your computer (hardware) and the operating system.
  • Auslogics Task Manager: Get detailed information about which programs and processes are running on your computer. This is a bit different then the build-in task manager. For example: If you see a process and don’t know what it is, you can click on “Google it” and Auslogics BootSpeed will connect you to Google so you can find out what the process is about.

• Windows Tools: Here you’ll find some hidden Windows Tools which can be very useful when you want to optimize your computer and you even can decide which services should be running on your system.
  • Microsoft DirectX Diagnostics: Troubleshoot and change DirectX settings on your computer.
  • Windows Performance Monitor: Advanced users can use this program to monitor system performance.
  • Windows Service Manager: Control which services should be running on your computer.
  • Computer Management: Change scheduled tasks, see system events, manage disks and devices.

So like I said, you can do a lot of things with this small peace of software! At first I didn’t knew what to expect but once I got this installed on my PC I was actually pretty surprised! I mean all of this options in one software? That’s great, right? Usually for every option which Auslogics offer you have a different software installed so this is much handier to use! Give it a try, I know you’ll like it!

Publisher: Auslogics
Version: 4.3.9.185
OS: Windows All including 32 & 64-bit versions.
Language: English
License: Shareware
Trail: 15 days
Costs: $29,95
Download size: 4,89 MB
Download Auslogics BootSpeed 4: Click here…

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So to enable this option you have to follow this step:

1. Open the Ease of Access center by pressing Windows Key + U
2. Now Under Explore all settings, select: Make the mouse easier to use
3. In  this screen you’ll see the option which you have to active by checking the box: Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse
4. Now save your new settings and your done.

I don’t know if you’re going to like this option or not but give it a try! Anyway… it’ll take a while to get used to the new mode and if you don’t like this.. You can always turn it off by checking the checkbox off!
NOTE: The mouse has to be hovered over top of any window to switch focus to it.