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Firefox right click doesn’t Work Fix
Yesterday my Firefox right click suddenly stopped working, I couldn’t right click on any HTML pages, after Googling for a while, I realized that it was caused by a add-on I installed lately. It’s Yahoo! Toolbar. After going to Tools > Add-ons, and disable the Yahoo! Toolbar, my right click is back!
Another add-on that causes this issue is AVG SafeSearch. Have it disabled too if you want the right click. :)
Hope this helps. :)
Miss Universe goes Open Source
Miss Universe 2009
Miss Universe goes Open Source! The Miss Universe 2009 website was baked in CakePHP – the PHP MVC framework.
Check out the beauty of the CakePHP and the babes ;)
http://www.missuniverse.com/
Open Atrium
Open Atrium
Recently there are many Business intranet solutions appear online. Now there is a part intranet, part do-it-yourself project CMS with a kick of open source hotness. Open Atrium, a Drupal based app looks pretty cool.
Feel free to check it out at: http://openatrium.com/.
Domainers and Their House of cards
A domain name, something you can register for a mere 9 dollar or less, has involved into a billion dollar business. Does a domain name really have so much value? Let’s take a look at the top ten sites according to Alexa Traffic rank:
1. google.com
2. yahoo.com
3. youtube.com
4. facebook.com
5. live.com
6. msn.com
7. wikipedia.org
8. blogger.com
9. myspace.com
10. baidu.com
Ask yourself, which one of these names is an actual English word? The only one is live.com, the rest, I can say are all creative brand names that didn’t have any meaning before these brands rise to their fame.
Look at some domain names and their prices that some people pay:
MUSIC.MOBI = USD 616K
GAMES.MOBI = USD 401K
SPORTS.MOBI = USD 101K
MOVIES.MOBI = USD 82K
PHOTOS.MOBI = USD 51K
VIDEOS.MOBI = USD 51K
These six words are just a small portion of English words in the dictionary, just find any word you can think of or see in the dictionary, you will find a domain with that word is taken and listed on auction sites on the web. When there is absolutely no correlation between a domain name and its brand value. Millions are buying and selling domain names like crazy. Much like a stock market, but there is no value behind the price.
Domainers, a group of people who started purchasing large number of common domain names at early internet age, are trying everything they can to convincing investors with deep pocket that these domains can generate ‘revenue’. Let’s see what kind of ‘revenue’ a name could generate.
This is something interesting, something they call ‘type-in traffic’. For instance, a guy wants to know something about Beijing. Instead of search the keyword in Google, he type the domain beijing.com in the url bar directly, assuming the site is something about Beijing. So these ‘accidental visitors’ could generate ‘revenues’. Thanks to the media, this incredibly dumb idea is well packaged and now a genius business model.
Working in advertising agency, I have learned one thing, never think that customers are stupid, you may get their attention with a relatively simple idea, but later you MUST build some sort of connection between you and the customer. This domain name trick may work for a while, but exactly how long it’s gonna last?
Mirror Domain SEO
Many people want to know if mirror domain will affect SEO. If so, why some websites with good reputation use domain mirror. As many developers, I asked myself the same question when I was new to web development. Now after building, maintaining and upgrading many website, I gained some confidence to give my opinions.
A mirror domain is a server alias on the hosting server that allows you to access the same site content under more than one URL address. For example, you can have both a .com and a .net site that share the same site content.
A mirror domain can only “mirror” an existing account, as it is merely a server alias. A mirror domain is a “mirror” only in terms of address aliasing; it is not a physical mirror and there is no content duplication involved. Neither is it a “cloaking” or “domain gripping” facility.
So now it comes to WHEN you can mirror domain.
In many scenarios it is so much better to use a Redirect Domain if you want the same content accessible from different domains. This is where surfers to any alternative domains are automatically redirected to your primary domain, instead of seeing identical content at the alternative domains.
Almost all search engines will blacklist your domain if they find the exact same content at another domain, which will drop your site’s ranking very far down in their search results. If you want the same content accessible from different URLs, it is the best to use a Redirect Domain.
An example of when mirroring a domain doesn’t present a duplicate-content issue would be when unique content is dynamically generated or included based on the domain that’s requested.
simply put, consider the following PHP example:
<html> <head> <title><?php echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; ?></title> </head> <body> <h1><?php echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; ?></h1> </body> </html>
You can expand on that to include different templates, image directories, etc… based on the domain that’s requested.
So if you really need to display the exact same content on the same server, but you also care about duplicate content issues.
These examples assume that your domain is example.com, which is the one you care about seeing in the search results.
Option A uses the .htaccess file, and a second robots.txt file called robots2.txt, which includes the following:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Your regular robots.txt file should contain this, unless you have other entries you wish to keep:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Then, put this in your .htaccess file, replacing example.com with your domain name:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/robots.txt$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^.*example\.com$
RewriteRule . /robots2.txt [L]
Option B uses PHP code that should either be placed in a common header file, or included in each page. This simply adds the robots meta-tag for the mirrors.
<html>
<head>
<title>Hardcoded Title That Doesn't Change</title>
<?php
if(!stristr($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 'example.com')) {
echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />';
}
?>
</head>
<body>
Content goes here.
</body>
</html>
PDF Editor
To edit PDF, the best PDF editor is Foxit PDF editor. The programm is so much smaller that Acrobat and has many features that can do almost everything with a PDF.
You can find more infomation at the software website: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/editor/
Convert web page to PDF
To convert web page to PDF is simple, if you are a Firefox user, all you need is to install a Firefox addon called PDF Download. The web to pdf function could covert web HTML to PDF.
1. download and install the addon at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636
2. choose Save Web Page as PDF
Hope this helps!
Covert web page to jpg
To covert web page HTML to jpg is easy. If you use Firefox as browser, all you need to do is to download a addon called Abduction!
1. Download Abduction! at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3408
2. To convert the web page, click “Save Page As Image…” and then choose the format you want to save the image to, you can choose either save the HTML page as PNG or JPG.
Isn’t it very simple to use? Hope this helps!
Search Free mp3 on RapidShare
This article teaches you how to search and download free music on RapidShare, you can do so using Google, at Google search, for instance, you wanna to find Kayne West’s music, just use the query below and hit enter, and there you go! A list of music file like mp3, wma will appear in the result list.
+inurl:wma|mp3|ogg site:rapidshare.com Kayne West
Hope this helps!
Find Free mp3 on Google
This article teaches you how to search and find free mp3 on Google. Kind people leave music files in unprotected directories all of the time. Here’s how to get to them. Come get your free mp3s.
We all need music, free music. If you properly query Google, you can find open indexes of music files easily and instantly. Here are some hints to get you started. For instance, you want to get Franz Ferdinand’s new album Tonight in mp3 format, here is the way to ask Google:
Go to Google.com and search for: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” mp3 “franz ferdinand tonight”
You will get a list of websites to download the album mp3s.
Hope this helps! :)
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