If you're a big fan of using structured data (aka rich snippets) in your web development, you will appreciate this. So obvious, I wish I had thought of it!

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.

Adding solid color wallpaper or backgrounds for Android devices, the easy way.

Recently when I upgraded 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.

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.

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.