Most software developers provide several compressed file formats for users to download their programs.

However, you may run across a software program that is only available for download in the .tar.gz file format.

Unfortunately, the Microsoft Windows "Extraction Wizard" can not unzip .tar.gz files. One of the easiest and fastest ways to unzip .tar.gz files is using 7-Zip, a FREE software/open source file archiver.

Unzipping .tar.gz files is quick and easy using 7-Zip:

1. Create a folder for the .tar.gz file to be extracted into
2. Select the .tar.gz file and hit "extract"
3. Double-click the .tar folder
4. Select the .tar file and hit "extract"
5. Select the contents folder and Double-click to view the contents

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Recently, the WebCodePro Blog was relaunched with new features and improvements. The new features include installation of these excellent WordPress Plugins created by Lester Chan:

WP-Polls 2.31
Adds an AJAX driven poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll in blog posts and/or pages.

One of the hardest parts of writing blog posts for WebCodePro is including "copy and paste" examples of web page code.

If you place a snippet of code into a WordPress blog post, WordPress will erase the code completely when you hit save.

WordPress also does not display quotation marks and apostrophes in a "text" format which is necessary for the code to be read by other programs.

If you want to include code samples in your posts, it is necessary to convert the entire code into numeric character references or character entities.

A feed reader (also called a feed aggregator) aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines and blog articles into a single location for easy viewing.

There are several methods of subscribing to and reading RSS Feeds:

Web Based Aggregators
Some of the more popular web based aggregators are My Yahoo!, Google Reader and Bloglines.

Do you have to remind yourself every January 1st to change the copyright year on your web pages?

Use the PHP Date Function to update the copyright year in your web pages automatically every year!

PHP code can be embedded in HTML/XHTML. However, in order for PHP scripts to work, the web page(s) must be saved with a .php extension.

Below are PHP Code Samples showing how the PHP Date Function can be formatted:

After a somewhat brief hiatus, the WebCodePro Blog is now BACK with new features and improvements including:

• Blog Post Ratings System
• Highest Rated Posts Sidebar Widget
• Ajax Driven WebCodePro Poll
• Post Views Tracking System
• Most Viewed Posts Sidebar Widget
• Popular Posts Sidebar Widget
• Printable Version of Posts
• Technorati Widget - Fav This Blog
• FireFox Links Sidebar Widget
• WordPress Links Sidebar Widget

Not too long ago, I wrote a post listing my Favorite Photoshop Tutorial Websites. Recently, I stumbled upon an awesome Photoshop Tutorials website: