GabSoftware

Website updates

Dear visitors,

We are now in the process of updating our website and improving the user experience. During that time, if you find any problem related to display, accessibility, readability or any other problem, do not hesitate to report it in the comments of this post.

By the way, Internet Explorer 6 and 7 support has been dropped some time ago, but those browsers are still an important part of our audience. We kindly invite our users to upgrade to IE 9 if possible, or IE8 for Windows XP users.

Best regards,

Gabriel Hautclocq

New WordPress plugin: Vertical Admin Bar

GabSoftware proudly introduce the Vertical Admin Bar plugin for WordPress. The plugin let you display the WordPress toolbar vertically.

More information on this page.

Counterize 3.1.1

I received tens of comments and emails yesterday about various issues with the new release of Counterize, and so I fixed most of the problems in a new version of Counterize (3.1.1).

 Release notes:

• Corrected an issue with ip_files/countries.php: does not use PHP short tags anymore
• Added an updated Spanish translation by José Delgado (Thanks to him!)
• Added a warning message when no Counterize plugins are activated
• Set all the plugins to the version of Counterize because a WordPress bug nag users to update the plugins and report a wrong version information.

Chinese New Year and Counterize 3.1.0!

Dear users and readers,

I will be unavailable for about 10 days because it’s the Chinese New Year there in China.

I uploaded the new version of Counterize (3.1.0) into the WordPress repository so you will be able to upgrade.

If you worry about the upgrade, please wait for about 10 days and I will be able to answer questions and provide support.

Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快乐！

Update 1: There was a (stupid) error in the file “counterize_install.php” for early updaters, I am sorry for that. You can grab the new file in the ZIP on the WordPress plugin repository, or on my website in the download section, or you can manually replace “counterize_countries()” by “counterize_countryTable()” in the file “counterize_install.php”.

Update 2: I have a slow Internet connection, but I will try my best to address ASAP the various issues that Counterize users may have during those 10 days.

Counterize 3.1.0 almost ready

Users of the much appreciated Counterize plugin for WordPress will be pleased to hear that the next version will be released pretty soon. It’s been several months without the plugin being updated, because of a lack of free time. Still, a considerable amount of work has been done for the next version. Read more…

Website update

The website has been updated:

• New front page with the latest news below the “Welcome” section
• Refreshed style-sheet
• Added support for post featured image
• Headers are now displayed correctly (they were previously all the same size)
• Pagination on the bottom of the front page
• Better menu with less entries and fixed CSS issues
• Improved readability

We hope that you will enjoy browsing our website more than before!

New “Tips” section

A new section was just opened in the website. Welcome to the tips section !

You will find here some experiences, advices, how-to, anything that we are willing to share if we think it can be useful for someone. We hope that you will enjoy this new section !

There are already two tips :

1. How to extend XHTML using XSLT, deal with email obfuscation, link obfuscation, Javascript and CDATA sections
2. How to install Gnome 2.28.2 in a fresh installation of OpenBSD 4.7

And more to come !

Good reading.

Regards,

Gabriel Hautclocq from GabSoftware

GabNetStats brings back the blinking XP network icon to Windows 7 notification area

Presentation

If you installed Windows Vista, Windows Seven or newer, you probably already noticed that Microsoft removed the blinking icon which provided informations about the network interfaces traffic and connectivity in the notification area. The new icon does not give you any information about incoming and outgoing traffic activity, and now only give you the choice to open the Network and Sharing Center and to resolve connectivity problems, no direct access to the network interfaces of your computer is provided anymore. This is a notable regression in functionality, if you come from the 2000/XP world.

Read more…

Gab Captcha, an efficient captcha plugin for WordPress

Gab Captcha 1.0

GabSoftware proudly present its captcha plugin for the comment section of WordPress based blogs, Gab Captcha.

Gab Captcha in action

Based on the simple but efficient Amcaptcha from Alexey Moskovsky (with great thanks), Gab Captcha improved the security and customization of the plugin, but not only. The interface has been improved and the code has been cleaned up. Valid XHTML should be produced as well now. It is now possible to display 3 questions and to specify whether each checkbox should be checked or not by humans, thus improving security against spam bots. The three questions can be modified as well, as it was possible to do it on Amcaptcha. Read more…

New runtimes section

It is now possible to have a global view of all the different runtimes you may need to run our applications. You can go to check this out here.