phplist: A open source Newsletter Manager

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PHPlist is an open source software for managing mailing lists. It is designed for newsletters, news, advertising to list of subscribers management. It is developed in PHP and have MySQL database to store the information.Public interface is available in 35 languages. The documentation detailing the functions and features of the software is available in English and is partially translated into Spanish, French, and Dutch. PHPlist can manage a list of subscribers and send e-mail messages to large numbers of subscribers. The subscription management, registration, personal data changes, and unsubscribe requests, are automated. Subscriptions to one or more lists are made through a subscription page that can be integrated into a website.The information requested during registration, for example, country, language, date of birth, favorite food, etc is determined by the list…
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Adding Facebook Like Buttons to Your WordPress Blog

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Facebook`s new Open Graph API lets users to add their like button on their website pages. Facebook has their detailed documentation to help you for implementing the "Like" buttons onto your own website or blog, it's easier on some other platforms like Wordpress.There are dozens of Facebook Like plugins for WordPress available in the official WordPress.org Plugin Repository. These solutions are the easiest way to add a "Like" button to your site, but they don`t provide you a full control for customizing that button like you want  so you can get this by just inserting a few lines of code into your theme files.Open your single.php file in your wordpress theme, and in the post loop, add the following line wherever you want the button to appear: You can adjust the parameters like…
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Skype database viewer and merger

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Skyperious is a Skype database viewer and merger, written in Python. You can open local Skype SQLite databases and look at their contents: search across all messages and contacts browse chat history and export as HTML, see chat statistics import contacts from a CSV file to your Skype contacts view any database table and and export their data change, add or delete data in any table execute direct SQL queries and synchronize messages in two Skype databases: keep chat history up-to-date on different computers, or restore missing messages from older files into the current one Additionally, Skyperious doubles as a useful database browser for any SQLite file. Also, a command line interface is available with key functions like exporting, searching, and merging. Making a backup of the database file is…
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Skype multiple Instance in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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You can install Skype 4.x from skype.com and download the linux version and install. You can aslo install it from Ubuntu Software Center as well.Now you need to create new copies of Skype. Open terminal and run these commands: cp -r ~/.Skype ~/.Skype.one cp -r ~/.Skype ~/.Skype.two Now you have two installed instances of Skype. Now create a launcher for these two different Skypes.Now create a folder in your home directory to put these launchers in. I have created a folder "allskype", but you can name  it as yours whatever you want. Open a terminal  and run these commands: mkdir allskype gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/allskype/ - -create-new A new launcher box will pop up. Enter Name and pick an icon what you want . Now fill this in command field with command: skype --dbpath=~/.Skype.one And lets…
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PayPal Test payments in WooCommerce Plugin

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The PayPal Sandbox is a place where you can test your shopping cart and other PayPal integrations in a realistic way, except that no money changes hands. This means you can test your PayPal processes in the Sandbox and know they will behave the same on the when you go live. You need to follwo these steps 1. Login to the PayPal developer website Login to the PayPal developer website: http://developer.paypal.com. Use your PayPal username and password to login and navigate to Applications → Sandbox accounts. 2. Create Your Sandbox test accounts Now You need to create 2 test accounts – 1 for the merchant (representing your shop’s PayPal account) and 1 for a buyer (representing a customer/buyer). Click the Create Account button to create an account. 3. Configure WooCommerce PayPal settings Now login to…
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How to start LAMPP automatically in Ubuntu?

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For a web developer LAMPP is the primary application for web development, so to start it every time whenever you login. You can make a script which will automatically start LAMPP on login. Open terminal and run following command. [code]sudo gedit /etc/init.d/lampp[/code] Use following code in file & save and close the file. [code] #!/bin/bash /opt/lampp/lampp start [/code] Now run following command to make this script executable. [code] sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/lampp [/code] In Last run following command to install init scripts to all runlevel. [code] sudo update-rc.d lampp defaults [/code] Restart the system for confirmation, lampp would be start automatically & you can check it by running http://localhost in your browser.
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