The title pretty much says it all. It’s 2 of the most useful AdSense ads tips for bloggers in my opinion. Obtrusive ads have the unnecessary effect of driving away readers after they have found what they needed. Unless you have amazingly great content, the chance of them becoming a loyal reader is rather low …
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Sometimes you would want to check if a string is an acronym or an abbreviation by testing if it only contains capitalized letters from A to Z and nothing else. There are 2 ways to accomplish this simple task in PHP. ctype_upper() Use the native ctype_upper() function and you will know if the provided string …
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Do you know you can actually change the CSS styles of the entire editing area / editor where you create the post content in WordPress? It doesn’t have to be the default styles and since version 3.0, people can freely style the TinyMCE rich text editor shipped with WordPress however they want to by a few …
Lots of people ask this question and most of them probably made the matter complicated by editing the DNS Zone from WHM in the DNS Functions. But they actually should just do it in cPanel which is A LOT easier. Just log in your cPanel which manages the domain that you want to add support …
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This post is dedicated to one of my friends, Coolie (not his real name but he preferred to be called that way among friends), a father and self-entrepreneur who created the outstanding Delphi VCL component for FFmpeg that makes it extremely easy to develop audio and video applications for Windows. For those who are not …
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I’ve been with Aweber for nearly 2 years and they are good. But I eventually decided that newsletter is not my type of thing — there are people who are making big bucks by building and maintaining a high profile email list, but I’m just not one of them. So I left Aweber and switched …
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Recently uCertify approached me and asked me to do blogging on about Zend PHP-5 exam PrepKit. Since this is an interesting topic to me and as I would get a free simulator, I agreed. uCertify produces the preparation kits for many different IT Certifications including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, CompTIA, Adobe, etc. The uCertify PrepEngine looks …
Avalanche 15% Off Promo: Click here to get 15% discount off, then enter code KAVOIR in the box to claim the 15% discount off the Avalanche theme. After digging into Magento for a few months and trying to start my own tangible business (I only deal with digital goods as of now), I failed in …
While you can somewhat rely on the name extension of a file to determine the mime type, it may not always be accurate. For example, .jpg and .jpeg files are very probably image/jpeg files and .png files are very probably image/png files, but there’s always an exception because file extensions can be faked. To accurately …
Other than making your 404 error page user friendly, you can redirect it to your index pages such as the homepage, sitemap, or search page, to make it useful for the users. Instead of relying on them to correct the error themselves, you offer the new orientation. How to redirect a 404 error page to …
It’s not unusual to respond to the user actions by dynamically modifying some content of the page. For example, you can employ JavaScript to change and load another image based on the <select></select> option the user has just selected. This is the snippet you need: <select onChange=”getElementById(‘front_image’).src=’/images/’+this.value+’.jpg’;”> <option value=”1″>1</option> <option value=”2″>2</option> <option value=”3″>3</option> </select> <img …
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My friend Xiaobo has been developing for WordPress for the last 4 years — a truly master he is about the themes, plugins, and any customizations you may need about WordPress. He has helped hundreds of professional bloggers. If you ever run into any problems or are simply in need of a developer like him …
You can save re-usable data in database such as MySQL so you can load them among different scripts / script sessions, though it may be a bit overwhelming for simple tasks because you have to set up a whole database and the connection credentials, etc.. File system is probably a better approach with regards to …
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I deal with quite some code examples across some of my blogs and sometimes they contain too long lines to fit in nicely, which makes it hard to read the latter part of a long line. But you still need to maintain the pre-formatted text with the <pre> tag. The solution is to use CSS …
The power of social media now beginning to be felt, there may be some “powers” better left alone. Scientist now say Social Media participation may be causing users’ brains to be REWIRED! Now there is some startling news. Facebook, Twitter, and now g+ use being on the upswing, it’s no wonder all our time is …
How Social Media is Ruining Our Minds [Infographic] Read More »
A quick notification for my readers. As VeriSign is increasing the registry fee of .com by about $0.5 by Jan. 15, 2012, you may want to renew all of your existing .com domains by then. The name registration fee is on a rise ever since the dawn, depending on your personal finance, renewing earlier is …
.com Renewal Promo Code – VeriSign .com Registry Fee Increases by $0.5 Read More »
I was debugging about some mod_rewrite errors caused by the .htaccess file on one of my sites and couldn’t solve the problem myself so I opted for a help thread on the SitePoint.com forum. Turned out it’s not the problem of my mod_rewrite rules in .htaccess but some incorrect file permissions that were causing the …
These days it seems everything is automated. Some marketers even try to automate the two way conversation of the so called social media revolution, but there’s always got to be a human sentiment and senetient being behind communications. Especially the closer our network interactions become. However, despite the need for up-close-and-personal two way communication, there …
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/nyunderground/docs/nymain.html It was 2001 when I first got on the Internet and this was one of the first web pages that I visited. It’s been 10 years. And it’s still there. How many more 10 years could I have……………
Data centers are the fastest-growing energy vacuums in the IT industry in the UK, Europe, and beyond. As data centers grow larger to store the world’s data, their energy us is growing, too. Utilizing more environmentally-friendly power sources is tremendously important for the data center industry. Using renewable energy saves money, conserves natural resources, and contributes …
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