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Fix WordPress 2.5 Bugs with 2.5.1 Security Release [Quick Online Tips]

Posted: 26 Apr 2008 08:44 AM CDT

Its time to upgrade wordpress again and fix the bugs affecting wordpress 2.5. However, its not optional - its a security release and intended for all wordpress users, particularly those using open registration.

If you need only security fixes, simply download wordpress and replace these corrected copies via FTP
wp-includes/pluggable.php wp-admin/includes/media.php wp-admin/media.php

But if you want to grab the 70 other fixes, then you need to upgrade to the full wordpress 2.5.1 that focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance.

Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
Better performance for those who have many categories
Media Uploader fixes
An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
Widget Administration fixes
Various usability improvements
Layout fixes for IE

Though Wordpress 2.5 has changed by writing habits, yet some veteran wordpress bloggers are still unhappy with Wordpress 2.5 and some bugs should be fixed now.

Always remember to back up your database before upgrading, and if your database backup emails are not reaching your inbox, see how to fix the issue and reduce database file size. You can try the InstantUpgrade Plugin for performing automatic wordpress upgrades. Put your blog in Maintenance mode so your visitors see a professional scheduled upgrade message. Some bloggers try faster multiple wordpress upgrades via Shell Access. If you land up with unusual wordpress bugs, then check for uploaded files on your server.

I upgraded easily in minutes and secured my blog. You can do it now too. Note that database upgrade was needed.

SproutBuilder - Build and publish widgets for your website [Online Tech Tips]

Posted: 26 Apr 2008 06:35 AM CDT

Are you amazed at some of the websites you visit on the Internet? Many of them have awesome video applications that are mind blowing. The multimedia content being displayed on these websites look extremely professional. However, don’t be fooled by it.

Numerous applications are popping up all over the web to allow you to bring this media rich content to your website with ease. MySpace and YouTube have become tremendously popular because they are able to introduce the world to interesting videos.

SproutBuilder is a wonderfully new website that provides users with rich, interactive multimedia content for their personal websites and blogs. With a few simple steps, you’ll be able to build and create your very own content called "sprouts".

In order to begin the creation process, select one from multiple templates or create one from scratch. To make your "sprout" special, add various widgets, audio, text, or other customizable features.

Some of the best features of the SproutBuilder are the interactive ones. Users can add a phone and chat function to communicate with visitors. There is also a "fundraising" feature that allows you to collect money from others. Just simply insert your current Paypal address to receive the donated funds.

The vast number of components that can be added to your personalized "sprout" is phenomenal. The ability to drag and drop tools into several areas makes SproutBuilder a user friendly application. Within a few minutes you’ll have a nicely created web tool for anyone to view.

The best part of using SproutBuilder is that it does not require advance programming knowledge. It has a clean interface that is simple to operate and understand. Building fancy multimedia web content won’t have to be such a hassle with this application.

Before publishing the final version of your "sprout", you’ll be able to preview it first. This is a handy feature that will let you catch any mistakes beforehand. I love the way Sproutbuilder turns the complicated task of Flash building into something that even I can do.

Instead of having to spend hours learning how to make impressive Flash web content, you can churn it out in a short time. Although this free tool is still in Beta, it works well. To view "sprouts" from other users, visit the home page and click the "Gallery" section.

You’ll be able to admire someone else’s hard work as well. In three easy steps, the world could be exposed to your masterpiece. Whether it’s a widget dedicated to your favorite artist or an event you need others to know about, SproutBuilder is one of the best ways to do so.

Ms Yokum
Tech Enthusiast & Blogger

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Hosting with Mosso Cloud Hosting [Brajeshwar]

Posted: 26 Apr 2008 06:31 AM CDT

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Cloud ComputingThe architecture is a massive network of “cloud servers” interconnected as if in a grid running in parallel.

Media Temple

Media Temple is a very good Web Host. It is just that it didn’t work out for me. I was with MediaTemple for quite sometime, even returned back twice, gave up on the last one with their VDS after wasting a whole year’s payment (they did gave me good discount though). So, I’m not asking people not to try out Media Temple, it seem to work flawlessly for many people and also disastrously for many other people.

A Dedicated Server

I did moved to a dedicated server with some real good juice — those 2GB RAM, Pentium 4 thingy server — but it was too costly, at about $250 /mo, for my site and I could never use all its power. It was from MediumCube and the technical guy whom I’m in contact with was the best, most fanstastic Sys-Admin ever. Its full power remained untapped during normal traffic but during some of the very few Digg Effects that I had, it could not handle the onslaught.

Mosso: the Cloud Hosting (My Current Host)

Scale with Mosso Cluster After desparately looking around for an economical yet better solution, Mosso came highly recommended by coupla friend. I went for it and till the time of writing this article, I’m satisfied and happily hosted with Mosso. Yes, it isn’t as fast as my earlier Dedicated Server but it is good enough for my site. I particularly like the fact that I’m being part of those early adopters of new Technology, the Cloud Hosting in this case.

Mosso’s earlier bad repuation

During the early days of Mosso, I think they had acute problems and I assume that was more from the fact that the technology was new and they were more or less in experimentation mode. So, if you google around, you’ll find more bad opinions than good ones about Mosso.

Mosso is good and easy cloud hosting

Now, Mosso have improved a lot and is highly reliable, comes with attractive enough features. So, for the less-needed, not-so-techie who don’t want to mess with Amazon AWS, etc, Mosso is perhaps the easiest and affordable solution.

Another notable features is that of their hybrid environment for your hosting needs — Linux and Windows — on a single account/site.

So how does it all happen? Right behind our firewalls (which keep your files ultra secure), we’ve employed quite possibly the most advanced load-balancing technologies ever. Going a step beyond traditional approaches, Mosso actually checks the type of each file, sending files to the native clusters where they will perform the best. So every Windows-based page is served from a cluster built and optimized especially for Windows, and every Linux-based page is served from a cluster built and optimized especially for Linux.

Their control panel is home-grown and might pose some extra time to master for those hard-core cPanel people. Otherwise, everything else is pretty much like your typical hosting environment. You can scale your usage requirements when the demand comes and don’t always have to piggy-bg along those extra power ready for the ‘just-in-case’ moments. Mosso allows you to host unlimited multiple websites and they’ve their support, billing system to take care of your clients/customers.

But at $100 per month, is it economical?

Mosso’s $100 /mo comes with 50GB Storage, 500GB Bandwidth and 3,000,000 request. Well, it looks very good to me except for that 3 million request ceiling. Even an extremely popular site will find it really hard to fill up that 50GB (unless there are lots of video, audio files), 500GB Bandwidth is sufficiently good enough even for most high trafficked site.

That 3 million request is where I really wish Mosso will do a re-thinking. Though Mosso claims that majority of the sites don’t really hit this ceiling, I’m sure any well trafficked site can hit that easily. My site hits it roughly mid-way during its monthly cycle. However, I would like to disclose that my site is in operation for quite sometime and I do have lots of files for downloads, media files and of course the traffic. Not to mention the fact that my site is not the best optimized site that can boast of less-optimized HTTP request calls.

On lighter note, it is a different story that Mosso’s Account Manager, Roland Barrera (roland (at) mosso.com), phoned me when I signed up with them. Further talks and emails were exchanged between us till I moved altogether to Mosso within a month’s time of signing up with them. Everything was fine except for the request ceiling which when I calculated in a week’s usage, I realized that my site will hit it pretty soon. Further talk with Rolan turn out to be fruitful, my limits were increased more than thrice at the same old $100 per month price. I’m currently enjoying their 10,000,000 request limit besides the increased bandwidth and storage.

Calculate the Cost to see how much will it cost you beyond Mosso’s default $100 per month.

I would not be wrong to say that if you’re hosting 10 or 20 odd websites, hosting it on Mosso is indeed economical. It is just $100 per month for all your sites and you can host an unlimited number of sites (Linux or Windows environment). And if you have a high trafficked site that crunch about 3 million request per month, Mosso’s $100 is still economical.

Mosso’s Cloud Hosting is evolving and improving rapidly.

Media Accelerator

One of the very interesting feature was their recently launched Media Accelerator (MA), some sort of an infrastructure feature that will improve the server response time for static media types. MA checks HTTP request at their load balancers and automatically directs request for static media files to a high performance cluster that’s optimized for rapid cached delivery of the files.

The good part is that, this feature do not need intervention from the user end and is taken care of at Mosso’s infrastructure. Some of file request they’ve initially enabled MA are — JPG, GIF, PNG, MP3, WAV, WMA, and SWF files. Nonetheless, assuming Mosso’s MA algorithm looks at file-type under the static category that can be cached, it should also serve the likes of FLV in the same fashion as the other static files. (No confirmation from Mosso yet.)

Though no user intervention is required at our end (not HTML change, etc), it may be noted that the cached media files stays for about 30 minutes before they expire from the cache. Files uploaded via FTP/SFTP are automatically flushed from the cache and the new file displayed immediately. It may also be noted that Cookie information is not stored in the cache nor are files that are protected by “HTTP-Basic” password protection.

If you manually would like to extend the object life in the cache or bypass the cache entirely, you can do so. It may so happen that some of your video, audio or image files don’t need to be changed at all for weeks!

Here is a .htaccess fragment that sets expiration for 7 days for various media files. There are 604,800 seconds in a week. The leading A indicates that the Expires header should be set to 604,800 seconds after the time the image was accessed by the client browser. This will cause your images to be stored in the MA cluster for longer thus improving performance.

 ExpiresActive on ExpiresByType image/jpeg A604800 ExpiresByType image/gif A604800 ExpiresByType image/png A604800 ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A604800 ExpiresByType audio/mpeg A604800

You can bypass the caching mechanism in various ways.

<img src="logo.gif?cache=0"> will stop caching at the individual file level

Disable caching for all media files in a particular site without changing any HTML code, through .htaccess.

 ExpiresActive on ExpiresDefault A0

Disable the cache for a particular type of file, through the MIME type defined in .htaccess.

 ExpiresActive on ExpiresByType image/jpeg A0

Disable MA cache for a particular file.

 <Files logo.gif> ExpiresActive on ExpiresDefault A0 </Files>

Disable MA cache for a file matching a particular pattern.

 <Files *.jpg> ExpiresActive on ExpiresDefault A0 </Files>

More Mosso;

Pricing
FAQ
Blog
Status Blog (subscribe to this if you are hosted with them)

Incentives

If you’ve read so far, here are few good things to sign-up with Mosso. Sign-up before May 1, 2008 and you can get a free Navicat License and the promo-code is NAV-Win, NAV-Mac or NAV-Lin.

If you don’t care about the Navicat License, you can get a $20 sign-up discount by entering my coupon code: REF-OINAM.

You do get a 30 day money-back if you’re not happy with them.

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Convert Photoshop designs to CSS website [Online Tech Tips]

Posted: 26 Apr 2008 06:13 AM CDT

Are you a kickass Photoshop person? Can you create amazing looking designs using your Photoshop skills? If so, you might find yourself creating web site mockups in Photoshop for clients and then passing on the design to web site coders to get the final product in HTML.

If you’re one of the many people who create web sites in Photoshop, you might be interested in a free online service that will let you convert your Photoshop design into a strict XHTML compliant CSS web site!

Trying to understand and code a CSS website can be a difficult and arduous task (thanks to Microsoft and there four versions of IE in the market!). It’s much easier, at least for me, to play around in Photoshop and create simple yet cool-looking designs.

PSD2CSSOnline is completely free and allows you to upload files in either Photoshop or GIMP, so if you don’t have a copy of Photoshop, you can use the free open-source photo-editing program, the GIMP.

When creating your web site design, you need to make sure you use layers as this is what PSD2CSSOnline reads to figure out the different parts of a web page. The trick is to keep the parts of your page that you want separate in different layers of your .PSD file.

There are a couple of simple guidelines you should follow in order for this process to work.

Don’t make a bunch of layers - If you are an advanced Photoshop user, you might have created many layers that all combine together to make a single object. For example, your logo might actually be made of 5 to 6 different layers - but the logo is still one object. Do not upload the file with the logo still separated out into the 5 or 6 layers - merge them together into one single “logo” layer.

Opacity and Blending Options - You need to rasterize any layer with opacity at anything other than 100%. In Photoshop, you can rasterize a layer by right-clicking on the layer and choosing “Rasterize Type” or “Rasterize Layer“. In the Gimp, create an empty layer just below the one you want to rasterize and then right click on the new layer and choose “Merge Down”. This will rasterize the layer and merge it.

Modify Gimp Layer Sizes - For some reason the Gimp likes to make layers the same size as the image. This makes inefficient as you end up with lots of big image files in your web page. For any layer in the Gimp where the object is smaller than the whole page (most of your layers), click on the layer, then in the layer menu choose “Autocrop Layer”.

4MB PSD File Size Limit - This is the largest file size that you can upload, but it was just a random number picked by the creator. You can email him and he’ll let increase the limit!

That’s all you need to keep in mind! Go ahead and create your web page in Photoshop or GIMP and then upload it to see how it turns out!

Hopefully, the look you had created comes out in your final HTML output. You can also try out a couple of other online services for converting PSD designs to web pages, but they are not free:

http://psd2css.com/

http://www.xhtml4u.com/

http://www.psdslicing.com/

http://www.htmlblender.com/

This service is also called PSD slicing, if you want to know the technical term for it. If you don’t feel like paying people to do this slicing for you and PSD2CSSOnline didn’t work out for your complicated design, you can do the slicing yourself!

Here are some cool tutorials and guides that you can read on how to design a site in Photoshop and then convert it into HTML:

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/design-website-photoshop

http://www.entheosweb.com/photoshop/layout.asp

While PSD2CSSOnline may not be the best tool for big designers, it’s a great way to get started if you’re not very familiar with CSS and HTML coding. And it’s free, so it’s always worth a shot! Enjoy! Source: ToThePC

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Five Softwares to Install in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron [Recommendation] [Killer Tech Tips]

Posted: 26 Apr 2008 05:03 AM CDT

The much-awaited 8.04 version of the Ubuntu Desktop named ‘Hardy Heron’ was released yesterday. I downloaded the 699 MB ISO and managed to install it today. There have been really worthy improvements. We can only hope that this latest version brings a lot of users into the Linux World.

Ubuntu comes with functional and free software for all your needs, but still I’d like to recommend you the following five software that’ll make it even more better:

1. Compiz Advanced Settings Manager

Ubuntu comes with a set of graphic effects that are really a treat to your eyes, but you can just choose between three levels - normal, extra, and no graphics. Ubuntu doesn’t give you options to configure/add additional snazzy graphic effects for window movements.

By installing the Compiz Config Settings Manager, you can control the magical graphic effects by using a GUI. For instance, you can alter the window opacity settings, and add a bunch of rotating cube effects, etc.

Compiz Settings Manager can be installed by typing:
$sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

2. Startup Manager

Ubuntu does come in with a little msconfig-like startup program manager that can be accessed from System > Preferences > Sessions but it doesn’t give you many settings to play with.

You can download and install a program called Startup Manager that can help you modify a few cool settings. Have a look at the screenshot above this paragraph. It’s got the options to alter the GRUB settings, menu timeout, colours, background image, menu resolution, grub password, etc.

Startup Manager can be installed by typing:
$sudo apt-get install startupmanager

3. GParted

Did you know that you never need to defragment your Linux filesystems? So, a defragmenter is unneeded. However, you might want to manage your hard disk partitions if you have cluttered data all around.

GParted does the job for you. It’s an excellent, open source partition manager that can format, resize, delete and perform all sorts of operations on your hard disk partitions. If you keep tweaking your system, this is an essential utility.

GParted can be installed by typing:
$sudo apt-get install gparted

4. NumLockX

I use the number pad on my keyboard most of the time, but the fact is that when I boot into Ubuntu, the NumLock key is not switched on by default.

When I scouted for a way to turn it on, I came across this little package called numlockx that does the job perfectly. At less than 75 KB, this tool does what it says - turns on the NumLock key when the GUI starts.

Numlockx can be installed by typing:
$sudo apt-get install numlockx

5. Adobe AIR

AIR-based apps are getting quite popular by the day, and since I’m an active twitterer, I really need twhirl to access it. Twhirl is Adobe AIR-based, so I had to install the runtime.

Adobe AIR installation was quite easy, thanks to the installation guide from Sizlopedia. There are many other useful AIR apps available. Don’t forget to check them out.

Besides all the above five, I also installed Avant Window Navigator and Gnome Do (read my Gnome Do review)
Do suggest your favourite software apps for Ubuntu in the comments! I’m all ears.

Interesting Testimonial - From TR Cosby [Daily SEO Blog - SEO tips for wordpress and blogger users]

Posted: 25 Apr 2008 11:30 PM CDT

TR Cosby, is a graphic designer from Atlanta, Georgia. An ardent reader of DailySEOblog, Cosby sent me a testimonial today, I thought you might find it interesting. Here it is..(psst..bragging is a shameless thing to do I know, but this one sure is interesting, so…)

Before I read the Daily SEO Blog written by Mani Karthik, I was clueless as to what in the world I was going to do to try and learn Search Engine Optimization. I was new to blogging, and my expertise in the area of HTML, linking, keywords, titles… was virtually non-existent. I was an internet moron who didn’t have a prayer. I own several businesses and I have written a published book, so I knew I had to get on the ball at some point. I don’t remember how it happened exactly, but one night I was surfing the net and I came across Mani’s blog by accident. Thank God I did. Because of Mani’s amazing knowledge and willingness to help people, I am now quite schooled in the areas of blogging, HTML, keywords… and I am growing more confident with all of it every day. It’s safe to say, and it may sound rather cliche, but it is true, Mani Karthik has changed my life. When I do go on to make an online fortune I will be coming back and thanking this awesome SEO Professional. I salute you Mani, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your blog. - T. R. Cosby - Atlanta, Ga.

If you’d like to sent me a testimonial, feel free to do so here.

(Cosby, Thanks for the testimonial. I’m sorry but DailySEOblog will rank better hereafter for a google search on your name, hope that’s okay.)

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Bloggers on WP - Upgrade to the new version Wordpress 2.5.1 [Daily SEO Blog - SEO tips for wordpress and blogger users]

Posted: 25 Apr 2008 11:20 PM CDT

So that means there’s lot happening behind the scenes, eh? Shortly after the release of Wordpress 2.5, Version 2.5.1 is in the stable. WP 2.5.1 includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix (Does anyone know what the hell is this?). The wordpress community recommends that everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly. I’m guessing it’s got to do something with the “open registration” thing.

And yea, if you are not upgrading because you think it’s a boring process, there’s this cool Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin from Keith that let’s you do it in a few clicks! Yup, the wizard stuff.

Meanwhile, any guesses on what the vulnerability is? Developers?

Edit CSS, Add speaker notes, Insert videos : Google Doc Updates [Technospot.net]

Posted: 25 Apr 2008 10:05 PM CDT

Pretty Cool news that we have couple of new features on Google Docs like editing css of any document, Adding Speakers note and inserting video in presentation. This brings Google Docs one step closer in competing Microsoft Office.

new_docscss
new_offline
new_presonotes
new_presovideo

They also have added support for working off line and old style printing for the documents. You can see the complete list at Google Docs Whats New

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TellMe launches GPS Location based Mobile Voice Search for Blackberry Smartphones [Tech[dot]Blog]

Posted: 25 Apr 2008 09:42 PM CDT

These days, Blackberry seems to be a popular device for voice based mobile applications. Only last week, Yahoo! had released Mobile Voice search for Blackberry. Now Tellme, a Microsoft subsidiary, has announced the addition of a free, GPS location based voice search program for Blackberry smartphones. Instead of typing in a request or scrolling through menus to find information, people can simply hold down the ‘talk’ button, say a keyword and see the results on the phone’s screen, based on their physical GPS location. Then they can select an option to call the location, map it, get directions, or share the link with someone else.

All the voice recognition processing and rendering happens on Tellme’s servers, not on your mobile phone, similiar to Vlingo. The ability to speak a request and see the results not only allows faster entry of data but also provides a more natural, intuitive process for viewing and navigating results.

Here are some of the things you can do with TellMe for Blackberry:

TellMe Blackberry: Location based GPS Voice Search Application for Blackberry

Business Finder: Say the name of a business or business category, such as “coffee” or “hardware” driving directions, an option to call the business or share the listing with a friend.

Traffic: Say “traffic” and get a map with traffic conditions on major local routes, all using Live Search Virtual Earth.

Weather: Say “weather” and see a five-day forecast for your local area or say a different city to see weather for any other U.S. city.

Maps: Say “map” and, using GPS and Live Search Maps, see a map of the local area or say a new city and the map is automatically updated.

Driving Directions: Say “driving directions” and speak or type a destination to see step-by-step directions from your current starting location.

TellMe hopes to add sports scores, train schedules, voice dialing, text-message dictation and other functions to the service in the future.

To download Tellme for Blackberry from your mobile browser, go to m.tellme.com.

Enable Aero effects (3D Flip) in Windows with Shock Aero 3D [-| Life Rocks! 2.0 |-]

Posted: 25 Apr 2008 07:54 PM CDT

Earlier we had written about a freeware to get Vista Aero effects in Windows XP. One of our readers, Shobit pointed out about another freeware which gives aero 3D effects in Windows. This utility has task switching effect of Vista or Mac in Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista environment, optimised for users wanting much cooler PC environment.

This software is available in different language packs as well.

Download Shock Aero 3D

How to Delete or Add Folders in Yahoo Mail? [Lyte Byte]

Posted: 25 Apr 2008 07:35 PM CDT

After writing the post on How to delete Folders in Google Reader, I found that many people are searching for how to delete folders in Yahoo Mail. The folders in Yahoo Mail are very helpful to organize different mails and aids in easy retrieval. I just realized that I have created 42 folders to manage my inbox and it would be really great if they support nested folders like in Outlook.

In the new Yahoo Mail, deleting or adding a folder is very simple. As all that you have to do is right click in the folder area. I guess many are not aware that right clicking at the folders or mail in Yahoo Mail doesn't activate the regular Windows Options but its own Yahoo Mail Options. This works both for the folders and within mails.

New Folder in Yahoo Mail

So right click at any folder that you would like to delete and click delete to delete it. You can also use the rename option.

In the old Yahoo Mail Classic, to delete or add a folder, click the Add – Edit button near Folders at the top left corner. To add a folder click the Add button and to delete the folder click the Edit button. All the folders will be listed with the number of messages in each folder. Near each folder name, there will be Rename and Delete Option. Click the delete option to delete any folder.

Add Folder in Yahoo Classic Mail

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Turning The Pages - Perfect place to view rare books in 3D [Technospot.net]

Posted: 25 Apr 2008 04:15 PM CDT

Biritish Library’s Turning the pages is best place if you are looking to read some of the most rare books availble on earth. It’s more than just reading experience, the application actually allows you to turn pages by using your mouse and you can read the original text written on it.

You can zoom and read
Special notes or the alternative text.
You can hear the audio too.

Here is a small video I made to give you a clear idea on how it feels like

In case you cannot see the video use the link to view Turning The Pages Video

Some of the books which I found intresting were

Diamond Sutra - Hidden for centuries in a sealed-up cave in north-west China, this copy of the 'Diamond Sutra' is the world's earliest complete survival of a dated printed scroll. It was made in AD 868.
Sforza Hours is one of the most beautifully decorated Renaissance books of hours in the Library's collection.

In my opinion this is the best way to preserve the old books. This is the first time I am seeing an online library which allows you to see books in 3d. I am sure there would be many other which you might know. Can you share ?

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