XML sitemap add-on for sNews CMS v1.7

This is an add on for sNews CMS v1.7 to generate a valid XML sitemap for search engines to use. If you're not familiar with XML sitemaps, you should read up at sitemaps.org.

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Setting a solid color wallpaper for Android devices

Adding solid color wallpapers/backgrounds for Android devices, the easy way.

Recently when I upgrade my little Dell Streak 7 to Honeycomb 3.2 I lost my favorite wallpapers. I don't really like the default wallpapers available & most of the downloadable wallpapers are just too "busy" for my tastes.

So to get started again I decided I just wanted a simple solid color for a background. Having a heavy graphic wallpaper on a PC is one thing, where much of your actions are menu driven, however on my tablet I have my "desktop" loaded with all my favorite apps & widgets & the live wallpapers seemed to take away too much from the experience for my tastes.

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Debian & XFCE 1024x600 netbook wallpapers

Here's a couple of 1024x600 netbook wallpapers I made today for my netbook running Debian Linux & the XFCE Desktop.

I'm including the Gimp .xcf files in the .zip download for anyone that wants to modify the wallpapers, remove/change logos, etc. I typically make my wallpapers dark and avoid too much contrast, so feel free to change them to suit your tastes.

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Automatically add auto-generated short URLs to your sNews CMS

This is my first sNews CMS mod/hack to be made public in quite some time, I hope someone finds it useful. This modification will add rel="shortlink" & rel="shorturl" tags to the head of your published items.

What do I mean by published items? Basically all your articles & "pages", not the default category/home page views or hard-coded sNews pages (contact, sitemap, etc). We don't really need/want shortlinks to ever-changing pages (home, category views, etc) anyways.

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HTC Droid Incredible keeps disconnecting from Wifi

Recently I noticed that my HTC Droid Incredible was constantly disconnecting from my wireless router at home. It would connect if I went into the wireless settings page, and then drop off within a minute or two.

Using a widget, I could see it was constantly stuck at "establishing a WiFi connection...". Naturally I searched all the Android forums and Google for a solution.

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Getting back to work on my site

Well, time sure flies, I haven't posted a single thing in nearly 6 months. Not that I haven't been busy, that's for sure. I've been extremely busy actually with my "real job". Considering the economy of late, I'm not complaining.

Though I haven't been entirely absent from maintaining the site. As several of you know, I still answer emails as best I can given my time constraints.

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