All you’ve gotta do is download Monolingual, run it, select the “Languages” tab, and select the languages you want to delete. Keep in mind that this is a permanent thing. If you want to reinstall languages, you’ll have to reinstall the operating system entirely, so don’t accidentally delete your primary language.

Depending on the size of your application library, this process can save gigabytes of space.

So how do you review a solid state disk? I think it boils down to only thing – speed. After all, what’s the point of spending so much more compared to a traditional platter drive if the read/write speeds are comparable? All solid state disks tend to offer more reliability and less power consumption since there are no moving parts, but they greatly differ on I/O.

Here’s an excerpt from an XBench benchmark conducted on my Intel quad core workstation:

The numbers of interest are in the far right margin. Though I didn’t do a benchmark on my original boot drive (320 GB, 7200 rpm platter), it’s safe to say that this SSD blows it away. And for ~$100, I think the added reliability and speed is well worth the cost.

Here’s a possible solution (keep in mind that the process of flashing video cards has potential risks, and I’m not responsible for a.) ruining your card or b.) the process not working). This is merely another option for you to try.

Assumptions

1. You’re running Netkas’ PC EFI v 10.6 as your bootloader.
2. You don’t have any keys/strings in the com.apple.Boot.plist file (under the bootloader’s “Extra” folder) which try to load a specific ATI rom. In other words, you don’t have any “-useATIrom” flags.
3. Third, your XFX 4890 card has two DVI outputs and one S-Video output. HDMI outputs will not work.
4. You’ve updated your computer to 10.6.2. With this assumption, I’m hoping you followed Netkas’ guide to update the sleepEnabler kext (the 10.6.1 version will not work with 10.6.2).

Process

1. Boot OSX in safe mode by highlighting the Apple icon on the bootloader screen and typing “-x” followed by the return key.
2. Once you’re at the desktop, download the 10.6.2 combo update from Apple’s site. This may take a while depending on your Internet connection.
3. Download Cindori’s Zeus flashing utility.
4. Download the XFX 4890 EFI rom (link to rom).
5. Download Netkas’ quartz enabler package for 10.6.2.
6. Launch Zeus, and click on “Browse” under the ATI tab. Navigate to the XFX 4890 EFI rom, select your OS (Snow Leopard), and click “Flash.”
7. After successfully flashing the card, install the 10.6.2 combo update. When the installation is finished, you’ll be prompted with a screen to restart. At this point, install the quartz enabler package. Only after this is also complete, then it’s okay to restart.
8. Boot into OSX as you normally would, except this time, with your fingers *and* toes crossed. The graphics card should be recognized and operate with dual screens (both DVI with no DVI-VGA converter).

If you have any questions, please leave a comment and hopefully I’ll be able to address them. Usually I just edit kexts or build my own, but this process worked for me, and hopefully it’ll work for you too.

1. Rename the zip file to “update.zip”
2. Connect your Droid via a compatible USB cable to your computer
3. On the Droid device, select “Mount” (so that your SD card is now accessible)
4. Drag the update.zip to the top level of your SD card
5. Completely power off the Droid
6. Restart the Droid while holding down the “X” key
7. When you see a “/!\”, press both the “camera” key and the “increase volume” key.
8. Use the onscreen menu to install the update you dragged to your SD card.

It’s recommended that you root the Droid after the 2.0.1 update is installed (otherwise you’ll root, update to 2.0.1, and then have to root again). Also be sure to check out DroidForums for more info regarding this topic.

This is made possible by brothercake’s docking boxes JavaScript. I’ll show you how to port this feature to your StudioPress/Revolution WordPress theme.

First, you need to download the script package here. Upload dbx.css, dbx.js, dbx-key.js, and the images folder to your theme’s directory (where header.php, footer.php, comments.php, etc. are located).

Next, in your theme’s header.php file, place the following code after the <body> tag:

<script type="text/javascript" src="dbx.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="dbx.css" media="screen, projection" />

Then in your footer.php file, add this code before the <body> tag:

<script type="text/javascript" src="dbx-key.js"></script>

The code additions above load the necessary docking box files (two JavaScript files and one CSS) into your theme. Now navigate to your Widgets manager and add a new text widget. This widget will contain all your docking box code. At this point, I should note that it’s a good idea to have a plugin like Exec-PHP installed so you can call the PHP functions which will generate your recent comments, recent posts, blogroll, etc.

In your newly created text widget, you will need to follow the code format below to generate your boxes. It’s pivotal that you retain the “dbx-group”, “dbx-handle”, “dbx-box” and “dbx-content” classes as these are tied to both the stylesheet and JavaScript. The code below is a sample which will display my blogroll (links).

<div class="dbx-group" id="purple">
<div class="dbx-box">
<h2 class="dbx-handle" title="Blogroll">Blogroll</h2>
<ul class="dbx-content">
<?php wp_list_bookmarks('categorize=0&title_li='); ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

The “dbx-group” class will encompass all your boxes. To generate additional boxes, create more “dbx-box” calls. For example:

<div class=”dbx-group” id=”purple”>
<div class=”dbx-box”>
<h2 class=”dbx-handle” title=”">BOX 1</h2>
<ul class=”dbx-content”>
<?php SOME_PHP_FUNCTION FOR BOX 1 ?>
</ul>
</div>

<div class=”dbx-box”>
<h2 class=”dbx-handle” title=”">BOX 2</h2>
<ul class=”dbx-content”>
<?php SOME_PHP_FUNCTION FOR BOX 2?>
</ul>
</div>

<div class=”dbx-box”>
<h2 class=”dbx-handle” title=”">BOX 3</h2>
<ul class=”dbx-content”>
<?php SOME_PHP_FUNCTION FOR BOX 3 ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

Leave a comment if you have any questions!

For logged in users, WordPress has assigns a value to the $user_ID variable; therefore, you’re interested in serving the Woopra JS to people who do not have this variable defined. Insert the following code into your theme’s footer.php file.

<?php if (!$user_ID) { ?>
<script src=”http://static.woopra.com/js/woopra.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<?php } ?>

• All the statistics one could ever want
• Real-time site views
• Ability to chat with site viewers
• OS X, Linux, and Windows desktop clients
• Online interface (real time) for web-based access
• Still in the beginning stages of development, so a lot more is to come.

With any analytics software, webmasters are worried about the strain the additional Javascript will have on their site’s performance. As part of Woopra’s installation process, you place the following code before the </body> of your site’s footer: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.woopra.com/js/woopra.js"></script>

The problem with this method is that whenever your page is loaded, an additional HTTP request (for the Woopra JS) must be made on an additional domain (Woopra’s site). Rather than doing this, if you’ve already got JavaScript files loading regularly on your site, simply add the minified Woopra JS to the end. For example, on RK.md, I’ve got several JavaScript functions loaded into a “main.js” file. I just appended the minified code to the bottom. This saves you both the extra HTTP request and domain request.

For those users who do have a reason to implement such a feature, here’s how:

1. Open comment-template.php (located directly under /wp-includes) and search for the start_el function. On a vanilla install of 2.7.1, the function begins around line 1200.
2. Add the following code to the beginning of the function:

global $comment_num;
if(isset($comment_num)) {
$comment_num++;
} else { $comment_num = 1; }

3. The beginning of your start_el function should now look something like the following:

function start_el(&$output, $comment, $depth, $args) {

global $comment_num;
if(isset($comment_num)) {
$comment_num++;
} else { $comment_num = 1; }
$depth++;
$GLOBALS['comment_depth'] = $depth;

4. Next, find the comments.php file for your theme (located in /wp-content/themes/your-theme/)
5. Add a call to the global $comment_num variable by adding the following code to the file:

global $comment_num;

6. Finally, select where in the code you would like for your comment number to appear and add this code:

echo $comment_num;

This method was developed by PannPann and kindly distributed through the WordPress.org support forums. Read through the read to find out how to modify the start_el function to support comment numbering for paged comments.

Keep in mind that flashing a ROM will erase most things which aren’t on your storage card (programs, system settings, etc.) Follow these steps using a Windows XP box which has ActiveSync installed:

1. Set ActiveSync to “not allow USB connections” on your computer.
2. On the Omnia, go to Settings -> Connections -> USB Connection, and toggle “Mass Storage” as the USB function. Then turn your phone off (hold down the power button) and plug it into the computer.
3. Open the UMDL program you downloaded earlier.
4. Select “Unified Image File (*img) on the left column and search for the CF03 ROM you downloaded earlier.
5. Select “Detect” in the lower left part of the UMDL program, and then turn your phone on. Cross your fingers. A dialog box in the bottom left should say that a PDA device was detected. The ROM will automatically be uploaded to the phone, and upon finishing, the Omnia will restart. Don’t bother restoring your system preferences at this point.
6. Choose one of the third party ROMs available for the Samsung Omnia i910 (remember, i900 ROMs are not compatible with the i910). I use Blazingwolf’s WM 6.5 ROM.
7. Simply turn your Omnia off and connect it to the computer, download the ROM file, open up the UMDL software, click on “PDA” at the top left (instead of unified image loader as you did earlier), navigate to the ROM’s location, click on “Detect” on the bottom left, and turn the Omnia back on. Just as before, the ROM will automatically upload itself and the phone will restart upon completion.
8. Before reconfiguring your phone’s settings, go to Start -> Settings -> Personal -> Phone -> Services Tab -> Highlight GPS and click “Change Settings” -> Toggle “Location On”
9. Next, dial *228 and hit option 1. This will reprogram the phone. Then dial *228 again and hit option 2 to update the preferred roaming list.
10. Enjoy adding applications, themes, and whatever else you want.

Sociable, a very popular plugin for WordPress, allows you to select from a list of popular social networking sites you wish to display on your blog. The plugin automatically generates the proper icons and links to submit a post/page from your blog to the site. The problem is when users want to display more than one site. Each site contributes one additional HTTP request (to download the icon associated with the site). For example, to to display Facebook, Slashdot, Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit, you’re adding five additional HTTP requests to your site’s overhead. Yuck.

This dilemma can easily be resolved using an image map. An image map is essentially a single image which has different “zones” which can link to different sites. For example, RK.md’s site header is a single image which has zones for my RSS feed and Twitter page linking to their respective sites. A quick Google search will inform you more about image maps.

In the context of social bookmarking, using your favorite image editor (like Adobe Photoshop), download the Sociable plugin, go under the “images” folder, and select which social networks you’d like to use. Create an image (a transparent background will probably be a good idea) which is 25 pixels in height and ~300 pixels in width. The width will have to be adjusted based on the number of icons you intend to use. On my site, a width of 191 pixels was sufficient to house nine social bookmark icons.

Piece the images together side by side leaving a few pixels between each icon. Save the image (I use the .png format) and upload it to your site. Navigate a web browser to maschek.hu’s Online Image Map Editor, enter the URL of the image map in the “An image on the Internet” field, and select “Accept.” Your image will now be displayed in a box.

Using your mouse, you’ll drag and drop rectangular boxes onto each icon in your image map. This process is creating the “zones” you’ll need in a later step. For now, fill the name of the site (ie, Facebook, Digg, etc.) in the Href field. It takes some time, so play around until you get the boxes just right. Once you’re finished, click the “Code” button at the bottom and copy the resulting text into a text editor.

FTP into your site and open the index.php or home.php file (or whichever file codes for the posts/pages display) in your theme folder. Wherever you intend to add the image map, add this line:

<h4>Share This Post:</h4>
<?php
$permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);
$title = get_the_title($post->ID);
?>

The code above is assigning the permalink of the the current post/page to the “$permalink” variable and the title to the “$title” variable. Now open the sociable.php file located in the plugin you downloaded earlier. Scroll down until you start seeing all the social bookmark listings around line 40. Locate the relevant sections of code based on which icons you used in your image map. Go back to your text editor which is holding the code generated by the website where you created your image map. Replace your href fields with the ‘url’ fields from the sociable.php file for each site. For example, for your Facebook icon, change

href="facebook"
to
href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=PERMALINK&t=TITLE"

Now go back through your edited list of code. For each instance of “PERMALINK”, replace it with:

<?php echo $permalink; ?>

For each instance of “TITLE”, replace it with:

<?php echo $title; ?>

For example, now your Facebook code should be the following:

href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=<?php echo $permalink; ?>&t=<?php echo $title; ?>"

Perform this replacement for all your icons’ href parameters.

Finally, add your finalized image map code below the code you added to your index.php or home.php earlier. Then add a link to your actual image and tell it to use the image map you created. Here’s some sample code:

<map id="imgmap200952015830" name="imgmap200952015830"><area shape="rect" alt="" title="" coords="2,125,16,135" href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=<?php echo $permalink; ?>&t=<?php echo $title; ?>" target="" /></map>

<img src="http://www.mydomain.com/myimage.png" usemap="#imgmap200952015830" alt="" />

Notice how the name of the image map is identical to the “usemap” parameter of the image (“imgmap200952015830″).

Whew. Now you’re done. With a little bit of styling and some playing around, you’ll be able to perfect this technique to save your visitors a lot of HTTP requests and still be able to broadcast your site’s content to whichever social networking sites you want.