Do you want to turn on “instant E-Mail notification” by default?

E-Mails can you help to get more replies on your forum. Therefore some forum admins turn on this option by default. How would I do that?

To change all current members to this setting – AdminCP > Import & Maintenance > Execute SQL Query > Automatic Query, chose “Instant Email Notification” from the dropdown menu, Click the “Continue” button, and on the next page under Confirm Query Execution click “Continue” again.

Reminder: You should have a current backup before running queries.

To set the default for future registrations – AdminCP > vBulletin Options > User Registration Options > Default Registration Options > Automatic Thread Subscription Mode, select “Instant Email Notification” from the dropdown menu, and click “Save” at the bottom of the screen.

Source: http://www.vbulletin.com/

Having a TOS (Terms of Usage) is a mandatory nowadays.

Here are some useful information and free templates you can use for your own site.
Actually, it’s a TOS for the UK, but you can easily make it fit your own country.

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/
http://books.elliottback.com/legal-notice/

Yesterday I opened my mail client thunderbird and suddenly a message pops up “Sending password did not suceed”. Wow, great!

After doing some research I finally found a solution. And it’s a well known bug:

The reason this happens is because many cPanel installs were done on top of a Linux install that had a POP3 daemon run from xinetd. You will need to change into the /etc/xinetd.d directory from ssh and find the popa3d and popa3ds files. The files look like this:

# default: off
# description: The POP3 service allows remote users to access their mail \
#              using an POP3 client such as Netscape Communicator, mutt, \
#              or fetchmail.
service pop3
{
        disable = no
        socket_type             = stream
        wait                    = no
        user                    = root
        server                  = /usr/sbin/popa3d
}
 
What you need to do is set the 'disable' parameter to 'yes'. It should look like this when you are done:
 
# default: off
# description: The POP3 service allows remote users to access their mail \
#              using an POP3 client such as Netscape Communicator, mutt, \
#              or fetchmail.
service pop3
{
        disable = yes
        socket_type             = stream
        wait                    = no
        user                    = root
        server                  = /usr/sbin/popa3d
}

Repeat the same for popa3ds and then run:

service xinetd stop
service cpanel restart
service xinetd start

Source

After that simply restart “POP3 service” via WHM/Cpanel and you’ll be fine again.
Annoying, but now it’s fixed!

To edit the layout of the password-protected page open the following file:

/wp-includes/post-template.php

This will allow you to change the submit form. Search for the following line:
function get_the_password_form() and you can start editing!

Windows 7 will allow you to take and save screenshots in a couple seconds through a built-in tool called “Snipping Tool”. Win7 runs a lot faster and I was able to open more than 200 firefox tabs without noticing any “lag”. This is truly a sign that this might improve your daily blogging life.

AeroPeek will help you to switch between windows and applications and Aero Snap will help you to compare content in two different browser windows. Multitouch-panning might not be used commonly right now, but might also change your daily blogging life as soon as you get a fancy touchscreen monitor.

Want to find out more about Windows 7? http://windows7themes.net

One of the best AJAX tutorials that helped me to learn the basics:

Ajax Tutorial Basics

Seriously after working through this tutorial I understood a lot more. I highly recommend to buy a book too, because this is a very complex topic but also a very important thing that might help you to boost your career.

Go AJAX Go!