In Germany it is not legal to use Google Analytics without a indication. (Heise Online [German], a serious publisher of computer magazines). Therefore I’m not longer using Google Analytics. If you are surfing on akeller’s world no data will send to Google. Anyway Google knows already too much, on the other hand Google Analytics is not really reliable. All visitors that disallow Javascript (advisable) get not traced.

Nevertheless I’m interested, why (search-query) my blog is visited. For this reason I’m using SlimStat. In the last time more and more visitors are searching for a “PhotoScape Manual”. Hence I want to link to the good screencasts on the PhotoScape-Homepage. The screencasts are without spoken words and therefore somehow multilingual. Just watch and try it by your own. If there is a specific question you can leave here a comment or use the contact-form. If I’m able I will answer.

In the SemanticScuttle forum I promised that I will release this weekend a sneak preview of the SemanticScuttle Theme I’m working on. Unfortunately I had no time to finish it, therefore here only a screenshot of the theme, it is named “Miss Monk”:

As far as I finish it you can download it here but I have to ask for your patience because the next weeks I will be very busy.

Maybe you are also working on the style of your SemanticScuttle installation than this cheat sheet is maybe helpful for you:

It shows the basic elements of the standard cascading style sheet. If you want to print it you can download the PDF-Version.

Possibly you get an error-messages after installation. There are two known issues at the moment.

Opening-Tag <?

In the file templates/top.inc.php at line 52 is “<? ” used as an opening-tag. This is valid according w3 but some web-server do have a problem with this tag. Just change it to “<?php”

Warning: setlocale() [function.setlocale]

Maybe you get an error-message like:

Warning: setlocale() [function.setlocale]: Passing locale category name as string is deprecated. Use the LC_* -constants instead in C:\web\SemanticScuttle\includes\php-gettext\gettext.inc on line 131
Warning: setlocale() [function.setlocale]: Invalid locale category name LC_MESSAGES, must be one of LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, or LC_TIME in C:\web\SemanticScuttle\includes\php-gettext\gettext.inc on line 131

I had this once with an local XAMPP-installation. As far as I find out this is a problem of the web-server. For details visit PHP.NET.

Because this is only a warning you can avoid the output of this message by modifying
/includes/php-gettext/gettext.inc, at line 131 you find:

$ret = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, $locale);
Just at an @ before setlocale:
$ret = @setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, $locale);

Today I rediscovered the program PhotoScape and I like it very much.

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After we installed in the first part Semantic Scuttle we want to make some adjustments to our installation in the second part.

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Today this blog had a lot of visitors from all over the world and all want the same … loading a file named: register.php. Strange, there is no file “register” in the blog. Why would over 100 people load this file from here? At the first moment I thought that this is just an other attack against a wordpress-installation but there is no file with this name. Also aunt Google had no clue …
Maybe this is related with Scutte? Since I publish some articles about Scuttle this accesses started and the file-name would also fit. Strange, because you have to visit “My Bookmarks” to reach my Scuttle-Installation and for registration you have to go here.
Update:
Since yesterday I redirect all requests, ending register.php to this entry. In the last 24h there were 386 requests for this file. Could please somebody, who is looking for the file leave a comment what is the meaning of this request? Is this black hat seo? This is boring me …

It seems, that the developer Marcus Campbell (Scuttle) doesn’t have time at the moment to take care about his Firefox Add-on Scuttle.

Therefore I publish here a short instruction how to modify the Add-on to work with Firefox 3.

1. Download the Add-on here
2. Rename the file scuttle-0.3.1-firefox+fl.xpi to scuttle-0.3.1-firefox+fl.zip
3. Extract the zip-file
4. Open the file install.rdf in an editor and search

   <em:maxVersion>2.0.0.*</em:maxVersion>

5. Change the version-number, e.g.:

   <em:maxVersion>3.0.2.*</em:maxVersion>

6. Generate a new Zip-file of the project with the modified file and change extension to .xpi
7. Open the Firefox 3 add-on window and drag and drop this new file

Now you can use this Add-on also in Firefox 3. The Add-on is not very complex, I guess it will do also with further versions of Firefox.

For all, who don’t want to do this modification them self, you can download my modified version: scuttle-0.3.2-firefox+fl.xpi.

Changes against original:

• Version changed to 0.3.2 for better differentiation
• Version will run with Firefox Version: 1.0 – 3.0.*
• I added also a German translation, but there is still also English included

Credits to Marcus Campell for Scuttle.

[Update:]
Since FF 3.5 my modified Version (V 0.3.2) is not working any longer. Therefore you can download the next Version 0.3.3 here, this will work with FF less than version 4.0

Semantic Scuttle is an open source social bookmarking system and a further development from Scuttle. Some well known hosts uses Scuttle, e.g. Alltagz.de.

In this short tutorial I will give a short description how to install Semantic Scuttle.

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