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Update your wordpress plugins

Posted on January 11, 2008
Filed Under wordpress | Leave a Comment

Recently, I encountered an error after updating my wordpress to its latest version(not really, a version before the latest). An error like “wp_post2cat’ doesn’t exist”. I checked the database and compared my installed wordpress blogs if the others have post2cat table but to my surprise my other blog and this blog don’t have that table and alvin’s blog has. So I googled the error and found out that some plugins are causing this error. I have to disable every plugin and check if it fixes the problem.

Anyways, I’ve already solved the problem. It seems that Simple tags plugins, Asides plugin and other plugins which uses categories would cause this problem. The reason is that newer version of wordpress doesn’t have wp_post2cat table but uses other table name like wp_term.

Everytime you update your wordpress, make sure you check your plugins if it’s compatible with the new version and if it’s not then update your plugins as well.

By the way, this also covers wordpress themes because new version of wordpress uses different template tags.

How to Setup Gmail Email in N73

Posted on January 2, 2008
Filed Under N73, mobility | 1 Comment

I’ve been using Nokia N73 for almost a year already and when I came back here in Riyadh I was able to use its features. one of the features that I am really thankful of is the email and settings wizard. Setting up your N73 to receive and send emails is easy.

Go to Tools > Setting Wizard > E-mail > Choose your Country/Region and Operator (Mine is Saudi Arabia, and Mobily KSA Prepaid) > choose your email provider (we’re using gmail) > Outgoing mail Server (choose smtp.gmail.com) > type your complete email address (youremail@gmail.com), then your user name and password > then press Options and select Ok.

Once you’re done, go to Messaging and you should see a Gmail folder below My Folders. Congratulations You have just setup your gmail account in your N73 phone.

This actually applies to other N series nokia phones.

Before retrieving your messages, I suggest you modify your email settings. Go to Gmail folder then click options, choose email settings > Retrieval Settings > Email to Retrieve (choose headers only so only the sender and subject of the email will be retrieved) then press OK.

Retrieving your messages. Messaging > Gmail > Options > Connect. It will update your gmail inbox with the headers of the new messages. Remember that we choose headers only in retrieval settings so you have to mark every headers of the message that you want to retrieve. By choosing headers only, we were able to save data downloaded.

Prices vary from Operator. Here, based on my experience, 1mb of data transfered including upload(send) and download(receive) costs around 2 Riyals which is expensive compared to other Operators worldwide which offers per hour basis and sometimes unlimited browsing.

How’s Broadband Status here in Riyadh?

Posted on January 2, 2008
Filed Under Broadband, DSL, Internet, Riyadh | Leave a Comment

Five years ago, Internet here in Saudi Arabia is much more like the others. Still, dial up through 56k modem is the main gateway through the internet. Prepaid cards then were sold for 20 Riyals for 20 hours. I think we also pay for additional charges through our telephone bill.

Three months ago, I came back here in Riyadh and was surprised that there are already a lot of broadband users. Yes, I saw them because they are connected through WIFI. But then ISPs rate are expensive excluding the devices. And down speed is slow compared to my connection, myDestiny, in the Philippines. I am not connected directly to the modem because I am using wifi but still I experience slow connectivity and intermittent connection. The access point is in the room above our flat.

I am still trying to convince my father to get us a broadband connection. In that way, I can test whether broadband here in Riyadh is really slow. Anyways, thanks to our neighbors for their wireless connection.

By the way, Another thing that I noticed is that their wireless connections are not secured. And if it’s secured, most of them are using WEP encryption which is more vulnerable to hackers.

The good: Lots of unsecured wireless connection, free wifi, a very kind neighbor.(grins)

The bad: Expensive subscription, down and up speed, lots of blocked sites.