John Crumpton

My Blackberry pearl will only ring twice before going to voicemail. Which is never enough time to answer the call!

You can however adjust the amount of time (in seconds) that a number will ring if you dial the following code (press the green button then dial):

**61*901*11*25#

The last digits are the seconds before going to voicemail (25 seconds in this instance). The default is 15 seconds.

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To celebrate font studio Typotheque 10 year anniversary all fonts are half price for 24 hours on 22 September 2009.

Just enter discount code ‘10 years‘ at the checkout

Typotheque fonts

fedra-sans

Fedra sans is particularly strong for corporate use

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There are times when you want to hide Joomla’s breadcrumb, for example the homepage or search results.

In your template add the following where you want your breadcrumbs to appear:

<div id="breadcrumbs">
<?php
if ( ( $_REQUEST['option'] != "com_frontpage" ) and ( $_REQUEST['option'] != "com_search" ) and ( $_REQUEST['option'] != "com_xmap" ) ) { ?>
    <jdoc:include type="modules" name="breadcrumbs" />
     <?php } ?>
&nbsp;</div>

This hides the breadcrumb from the home page (com_frontpage) the search results (com_search) and the site map, in this case Xmap (com_xmap). Make sure your breadcrumb mobile appears in the “breadcrumb” module position.

To hide a specific page add:

and ( $_REQUEST['id'] != "8" )

Where 8 is the id of that page. You can also do this for a task as well as an option, just adjust $_REQUEST['option'] to $_REQUEST['task'].

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Adobe is working on a web-based PowerPoint alternative called Presentations, built in Flash.

It seems to have the same feature set as PowerPoint, however it’s all through the browser so different people can login and review/make changes. I like the fact you can share your work-in-progress presentation with your designer then login again to see what design improvements they’ve made. Saves sending all the back and forth versions through email for little changes.

It exports to PDF, however you can play your presentation through the browser.

It’s also completely free and they don’t have plans to charge for it as yet.

Try it out yourself at Adobe Labs.

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If you use several templates on your Joomla site, such as a homepage template and a global template, you’ll know that the search results page irritatingly uses the homepage template and not your global template.

It is possible to change this by adding a hidden field to the search module, here’s how:

Within your homepage template folder create a new directory called “html” and then “mod_search”

Copy the “default.php” file from /modules/mod_search/tmpl/ into your newly created “mod_search” folder under your template folder.

Open this file at near the bottom just before the end of the form add:

<input type="hidden" name="Itemid" value="2" />

The value refers to the menu item, we need to create a new hidden menu in the administrator, add a search menu item, make a note of the menu’s Item ID, then add this to the above code under the value.

Don’t publish the hidden menu in the module manager, we’ve just creating this to get the Item ID of the search page.

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