OpenDNS is a custom DNS server that you can use instead of using your IPS’s DNS server. It checks any address that you lookup against its own list of bad sites (phishing scams, and other things) and redirects you accordingly. It also provides a simple way of enabling/disabling blocking of adult websites. It often used [...]
Introduction There has been a lot of talk recently about the micro blogging. Micro blogging is a blogging platform that lets you post very small updates about your life, to help keep you and your friends up to date with each others lives. The services are kept very simple so anyone can use them easily. [...]
If you build it they will come. That’s the mentality that most people have when building there first website. That’s just not the way the internet works. You have to advertise, you have to tell people that you exist. Ask your self how you found the last item you purchased from the internet. Did you [...]
In my last article I talked about how to create a very simple Facebook Application. We created a simple hello world application that didn’t do too much besides login to the Facebook API. In this article we are going to use the Facebook API to access you and your friends information. We are then going [...]
We are going to build a simple facebook application to demonstrate how to use the Facebook API. Requirements: Basic knowledge of php A webserver running php5 that is open to the internet. A facebook account (sign up) Directions Add the developers application to your facebook account. Goto: http://www.facebook.com/developers/ and add the developers application to your [...]
I was reading some of the posts on the top three contest by dailyblogtips.com. One that caught my attention was 3+1 things bloggers should never ever do Stealing others content Being rude to your commenter Posting invalid facts Stealing others ideas The stealing others ideas has a great example of how Adobe aka 500 gorillas [...]
The project was to create a status web page that showed the temperature of a room. The temperature of the room changes rapidly and I wanted the changes to appear on the page without my users having to click refresh every time they wanted an updated value.The ideal solution was AJAX. I would use a [...]
I get asked this question lot, how to change the default size of the thumbnail that wordpress creates when you upload an image. There are two different ways of doing it depending on what version of your WordPress you have installed. If you have WordPress prior to 2.1 Open /wp-admin/inline-uploading.php and look for the following [...]
Technorati is becoming one of the biggest players in blogging. Its a great tool for ranking one site against anther and its also a search engine of content. Before I make a post I do a quick search on Technorati and see who else has written about it. After I make a post I search [...]
Recently Daily blog tips ran an article about Robots.txt files. The article gives examples of other major websites and there robots.txt files but fails to mention the reason behind each rule. I am going to run thou my robots.txt file and describe each and every rule. Hopefully by the end of this article you will [...]
When creating a new website you want to create as little duplicate content as possible. Most host let your users access your website from either the http://abluestar.com or the www version http://www.abluestar.com. This can be dramaticly reduce your site’s Page rank because is that most search engines see the ‘www’ and the ‘non www’ version [...]
I have talked before about creating timeless content but never in detail till now. Its one of the first things I check when searching for content is when it was written. Content is king. The internet is about content, about finding answers to your questions, it’s supposes to make things easier. As people search the [...]
Good landing pages are a key to creating conversations from your advertisement. It’s the first page that your users see when they click on one of your ads its got to be exactly what they want. I created these tips for creating killer landing pages when I was helping a good friend of mine fixes [...]
I recently reached the 200 mark in subscribed RSS feeds it was becoming unmanageable and I spent maybe 4 hours a day reading posts instead of making posts, not very productive. Then I decided to clean out my subscription list and shrink it down to 10 feeds. It wasn’t as hard as I expected it [...]
I try to keep a list of good blog and article writing tips in my head while I am trying to write posts for you. I don’t always follow them all but I try my best. In no particular order Use bulleted lists – Bulleted lists help a lot to break up paragraphs and make [...]
I am often asked who is the best web host?, what web host do you use? and what makes a good web host good? This question gets asked a lot on the internet and there are lots of other people that also have written articles on selecting a good web host, but I have yet [...]
A few days ago I was asked to find out where or close to where a user of ours was coming from. so i created this GEO location script Where does this IP Address come from When ever a ISP buys a block of IP address they are entered in to a database. When a [...]
To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information. The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. [...]
One of the most important WordPress plugin’s for any blogger, ImageManager alowes you to resize, crop, rotate, flip or scale uploaded images. Having an image included with your posts make it stick out, but if that image is huge or has random crap in the background it can become annoying. I highly suggest this plugin [...]
Thank to the help of herebox.org I was able to add the ability to get new links from my del.icio.us account and post them on this site once a week. the script uses curl instead of fopen which is much more secure. I made a few changes to the script. Instead of posting the links [...]