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Why HP Gave Up On webOS Too Early After Investing Billions

This past week HP announced something very surprising, and that was their plans to spin off their PC business and move away from webOS. It all started over a year ago in April of 2010 when HP decided to buy Palm for $1.2 billion. During that year they announced a few new devices and only a few like … [Read more...]

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Flashback Friday 2/4/11 – Make A PHP IP Logging Script

One of the problems with blogs, especially those with tons of content is that the older posts get forgotten. That’s because the posts are ordered in a reverse chronological order putting the oldest on the bottom. That’s where Flashback Fridays help. Every Friday I post a link to an older blog … [Read more...]

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Flashback Friday, 12/10/10 – How To Install WordPress.org

One of the problems with blogs, especially those with tons of content is that the older posts get forgotten. That's because the posts are ordered in a reverse chronological order putting the oldest on the bottom. That's where Flashback Fridays help. Every Friday I post a link to an older blog post … [Read more...]

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How To Make A More Advanced PHP IP Logging Script

A while ago I made a tutorial on how to make a simple PHP script that logs IP addresses from visiting users. It was a very simple little script that really just logged the IP address. Sometimes you want  more information though, like where the user came from, what operating system and web browser … [Read more...]

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Flashback Friday, 12/3/10 – PHP Forums, BBPress, MyBB…

ZL Studios is now filled with older blog posts from the end of last year. Those old blog posts aren't really getting many views. To be honest they aren't as good as they are now, but they still exist. Something I'm starting is Flashback Friday to help send you, the readers back to older blog … [Read more...]

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New Design, ZL 13.0.0 “Aluminium” Is Here

It's a month early, but in this case early is probably good. You might have noticed each month of the year a new version of ZL is announced with new things. I usually don't announce it on the blog but I'm going to start announcing it now at version 13. Version 13 is probably one of the bigger … [Read more...]

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How To Set Up A Jinzora Media Streaming Sever

If you are like me and have a server and lots of media on your computer it can be annoying trying to access all that media on all the devices. You can set up a media server called Jinzora so you can stream media onto all of the networked computers. Jinzora is a free, open source, PHP based media … [Read more...]

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How to Make a PHP IP Logging Script

PHP is my second favorite programing language. Sometimes you might have a spammer you want to block on your website, this script can help you get the spammers IP and log it so you can block them. The first thing you will need to do is start the PHP script so the browser knows what is happening. To … [Read more...]

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PHP Forums

If you have wanted to have your own forum website that you have complete control over installing PHP forums is a good idea. Setting up your own PHP forum website should take less than one hour. This tutorial explains how to install MyBB PHP forums. First you will need to download the files needed … [Read more...]