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I have been doing some work on a ZenCart store based in the UK. The default currency is pounds and in various places the pound symbol was showing as an HTML entity instead of the actual pound symbol. To resolve this issue simply change the HTML entity to the actual symbol. Pound HTML Entities: £…
I recently needed to install Zend Optimizer which was required by a ZenCart addon using Zend Guard. Zend Guard encrypts some or all of a PHP application to help protect its contents from being copied or modified. So I was typically like to install everything on CentOS using the yum package manger to make sure…
Deleting mail from a Linux users local account is easy using the mail command line utility. The mail command can also be used to perform any other functions that you can think of to manage email such as replying to messages, reading messages, or just sending messages. It is very basic in nature but it…
Almost everyone has become used to tabs for their Internet browser. Applications that incorporate tabs make life a lot easier and cleaner for that matter. I have become used to tabs for my SSH client, tabs for Internet Explorer, tabs for Console, tabs for Trillian, etc. One thing I have always wanted but never took…
The newer versions of Skype, which include version 4 and above, appear to not provide a way to list or delete voicemail messages. There are two options I have come up with to resolve the issue of managing Skype voicemail messages. I would think that Skype will resolve this issue in the near future however…
You must login to iTunes to view your iTunes store purchase history. Viewing your purchase history can serve many purposes however one of the most important is the ability to contact the iTunes store customer service department about a specific order. In my case I accidentally paid for a iPod Touch upgrade that I had…
Posting a single picture from a NextGen Gallery into a WordPress post is easy to do though I always seem to forget the actual syntax to do so. There are two ways in which you can display the image within a post which are to use the NextGen Gallery button from the kitchen sink interface…
By default when you connect your iPhone or Touch to your Windows PC the device will sync with your iTunes. The sync not only synchronizes certain data as described below but it also does a backup of data stored on the iDevice as well. This backup will allow you to restore most items back to…
If you have lost your ZenCart admin password it can be reset as long as you have access to PHPMyAdmin on the server or direct access to the MySQL database. If you have lost the admin password however the admin account is configured with your email address you can simply use the “Resend Password” link…