Here’s a small little trick in Facebook that allows you to create a grid view or photo collage out of your friends list. This is how I do it:
Usually before a domain meets its expiry date, an email reminder will be automatically generated from the web host to the domain owner. I usually get 3 notices from my web host when domains get near expiry date but I’d always renew as soon as I got the first notice. To understand how bad this will affect Advertlets, I had a chat with Melvin over IM to understand more about this domain expiry matters.
Say you’ve forgotten to renew and your domain expired, where does it goes to and what happens next?
An expired domain will undergo the Renewal Hold for 3 months. During these 3 months, the owner can renew the domain directly from its registrar. If the owner fail to renew within these 3 months, the domain will then go into the Redemption Period, it’ll cost the owner an extra fees of RM600 (excluding the renewal fee) to get the domain back.
If the owner did not reclaim the domain after Redemption Period (which last about 1 week to 6 months) , the domain will be publically opened, however getting the domain back isn’t easy. If the domain has a high rank or popular, chances are bots are waiting to purchase them. These bots are scripts that constantly checks for domain that are near expiry, and when the domain is dropped these bots will register it. Bots can be owned by anyone and usually when bots registered a domain, it’ll hold them for 10 years (maximum years a .com can be hold) or sell them away at a luxury price. Sometimes the registrar will take over the these domains themselves, and sell at a higher price.
Tired of having your online photos ripped by someone else, watermark them with PicMarkr. PicMarkr is a web service that helps you add custom watermarks to images, for free. This free web service works in 2 ways, you can either
[Mac only] By default, iTunes doesn’t come with the function to export your songs from playlist or iPod back to your computer. Here’s a situation that always happened on me, friend plug his iPod onto my Mac but I’m unable to retrieve his/her songs unless I depend on 3rd party application to do it. iTunesFS is a project by ZNek that allows you to free your songs from iTunes playlist or any attached iPod. I wouldn’t say iTunesFS is an application because its isn’t something standalone, but better still, it uses FUSE file system that makes all playlist songs listed painlessly fast inside folders in Finder.
iTunesFS requires MacFUSE Core version, so be sure to install that before you install iTunesFS. Ready to free all your songs off your iPod to your Mac?
Sometimes you might notice photos taken (particularly with digital camera) are not as nice as you expect them to be when it’s viewed on your monitor. Here’s a little Photoshop trick I used often to enhance the photo colors, making it livelier overall.
Here’s a sample image taken with digital and camera opened up in Photoshop, you might think the color here is fine but you’ll see a difference when we compare this and the final output later.
Situations like these following leave you no choice but to undergo a mass find and replace to get the problem fixed.
Here are few methods I’ve come to know that allows one to mass find and replace in WordPress blog entries. And as always, please do a full database backup to avoid any data lost.
Yesterday I was helping a reader solving his WordPress error, so I thought I might as well write an entry, just in case we all encounter this in the future. If you ever run across this error (or warning) in your WordPress with the message saying:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at //home/htdocs/wordpress/wp-config.php:1) in /home/htdocs/wordpress/wp-login.php on line 12
or something similar, chances are you have messed up your wp-config.php leaving some unnecessary spaces inside.
If you are not too impressed with MooURL’s short and personalized URL, here’s another one to consider – SnipURL. SnipURL does the URL long-url-shortening-thing, and apart from that it also comes with these few unique options:
(Windows only) Are you a windows user that admires the Mac interface? You can install the entire Mac OSX Leopard on your PC but if you are not ready convert fully yet, you can try FlyAKiteOSX.
FlyAKiteOSX is a free windows application that upon install, replace your windows interface giving it a MacOS look and feel.
Does your mobile phone supports browsing? Well, you just got something that helps kill the boredom. Avot mV is a video delivery platform that allows you to plays video from all over the internet. It comes with functions where you can search and further personalize your account.
Getting bored using TinyURL’s short URL? Here’s something for a change. MooURL also offers short URL service. That means you can convert your long URL from:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/12-creative-advertisements-from-big-brands/
into:
http://moourl.com/fu5o5
(Mac Only) Warp is a free application developed by Kent Suntherland. It allows you to switch between spaces in your Mac OS X Leopard without using keyboard. All you need to do is just hover your mouse at the edge of the screen and it will switch automatically to the next spaces. This free app comes with a donation request. A demo of Warp in action is available on the website.
[Windows Only] Looking for a free online virus scanning service? Try NanoScan. NanoScan uses the Panda technology that promises to be fast and and effective in terms of virus and threat detection. All you need to do is just pointing your browser to nanoscan website and click NanoScan my PC . In order for NanoScan to work properly, your machine needs to fit the following requirements:
Just few days before year 2007 leaves the blogosphere, another local ad networks managed to fit in the slots, that’s 4 advertising network startups created in the Malaysian Blogosphere for the year 2007. Here’s a recap their official date of birth:
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