[SOLVED] Migrating Google Reader from GMail to Personal Domain Google Apps with Starred Setting
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Google, Hosting in General, Howto, IT in General
I was using a mix of personal domain email and GMail for a long time. I now migrate to Google Apps and find that Email and Calendar can be transferred easily. The harder one to figure out is how to export the starred items in my Google Reader. Here’s how to migrate starred items.
- Login to your gmail (old account)
- Goto Settings -> Import/Export
- Export OPML file and save it
- Goto Settings -> Folder/Tags
- Check the box for “Your Starred Items”
- Above that, click on “Change Sharing” and choose “Public”
- Click “View public page” (preferrably on a new tab) and click on the “Atom Feed” icon
- Copy the URL to the clipboard
- Logout of your old account and login to your NEW account (works with account switching too)
- Goto Settings -> Import/Export
- Import the OPML file you downloaded earlier
- Go back to Google Reader main page
- Click on “Add a Subscriptions”
- Paste the URL from the public page atom feed
- You will now have a new feed for all your old starred items. Star each of them now.
- After you star each of them, you may remove the atom feed and also delete the other feeds from your old account.
[SOLVED] WPG2, NextGEN Gallery & 1and1.com Unzip Utility
Posted by Mr. IT Guy | Filed under Featured, Hosting in General, IT in General, Linux, Microsoft
I am working on my friend’s site yesterday. She wants to have a photo gallery and wordpress. I checked out Gallery2 and found that there’s a wordpress plugin for it. I installed both (including imagemagick to use with Gallery2) and added the WPG2 plugin. While trying to activate WPG2 on WordPress I kept on getting the message “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error”. I have made sure that I followed the instruction on the readme.txt to the dots, but nothing still comes up.
Therefore I try another plugin called NextGEN Gallery. Everything works great except for the slideshow. Once again I’m stumped on what’s the problem.
When I look at the HTML code, the slideshow code is trying to read a file called “nggextractXML.php”. I try to type in the URL and gets a 404 message. I thought that it was a bug, but I found out that on the server it was listed as “nggextractxml.php”. I download the file to a Windows machine and unzip it using WinRAR. The file name is correct with the upper case.
At that moment, I realized that the problem lies with 1and1.com unzip utility. I have been using the “unzip” command from the CLI and it has always been extracting using the -C option. To solve this I create a “.bash_profile” file under my home directory and added the following line:
alias unzip='/usr/bin/unzip'
If you’re having the same problem as I do, you can either create the file by using the instruction above or run the following command from the SSH:
echo "alias unzip='/usr/bin/unzip'" >> ~/.bash_profile
Or, you could just also download, unzip and upload the Bash Profile