A lot of Friendster users seems to have the same problem after getting bored with particular Friendster apps (widgets) installed. They were unable to remove these applications because the delete button (or icon) was no where to be found. So instead, I install some application and attempt to remove them myself. Things went fine, perhaps the delete button wasn’t there and was added by Friendster recently?
Removing Friendster applications (widgets)
All your installed apps will be listed in My Apps tab. Here’s how you can remove them:
Good news for bloggers who once sold text link ads but drop the idea because fearing that Google might de-rank or de-index your blog again. Linkworth, ad network with text advertising service similar to Text-Link-Ads is now allowing you to put an optional "nofollow" in text links you sell.
LinkWorth, however does not encourage you to put this option on, but if you want to make money from selling text links again and avoiding punishment from the big G, this looks your only option.
Got a file to send to your friends via the Internet? Try WikiSend. This free file sharing services is simple, no registration or account activation is needed. Just browse to your file, and upon successfull upload, you’ll be given the following information:
Official Google Blog recently announced a new service - Google Ads Manager. In a nutshell, it is a control center for all the ads have in your website, or blog. If you need to edit the HTML, templates or blog widgets to get a new ads reflected on the website, this is definitely what you are looking for. It helps you to manage all ads in one central place. Also with Google AdSense the biggest player in the ad network industry, it’s pretty convincing that publishers will want a Google Ads Manager account.
Google Ads Manager is currently on invitation only, why not request for an invitation? I’ve submitted mine.
Inserting an image together with a blog entry is a great idea, apart of drawing the attention to the entry, it also helps readability. But bloggers can sometimes face the problem of finding the right image for the right article. I’ve previously mentioned 30+ stock photos and royalty free images websites. If you think that’s not enough, or would like to have more choices for image resources, try this compilation done by folks at arcagility.
From most popular, to community power contents, artists welcome, and so on, these guys has compiled a total of 100 legal sources for free stock images. Just when you thought there’s enough resources for stock images.
There are various of terms when it comes to calculation of web traffics. Some statistics give you report in terms of daily and monthly unique visitors; some provides more - Pageviews, Hits, etc. You could have heard webmasters claiming their sites to have more than 1 million hits a month. But how big is 1 million hits, does that means they have 1 million visitors every month? Here’s a brief explanations for those who are confuse how figures in these web statistic terms are generated.
Hits
Measuring traffics in hits usually returns you a proudly large number. Hits is also known as request and it’s the total number of files loaded when a single page is requested from the web server. So how hits are calculated? Picture this - a single web page with 20 images (transparent.gif, header-background.gif, etc)is loaded, that’s 20 hits for starters. The web page has 10 photos (jammie.jpg, group-photo.jpg, etc), that’s another 10 hits. if you add up the CSS files, Javascript files and all the external files, each time a web page is loaded, it can easily build up more than 50 hits. If you clear cache, reload the page, another 50+ hits again.
Hits are rarely used to to judge a website’s traffic nowadays as they are not really accurate. The numbers are big and certainly cool, but generally useless.
Sometimes when you sent someone a web page URL, you just want them to focus on particular points, sentences or paragraph. But in order to do that, you’ll need to add a bit of description along side so your friends will know what you’re trying to introduce. awesomehighlighter is the kind of web services that allows you to share web pages with your friend, and top of that you can highlight the text in colors so recipients understand better what you are trying to share.
Some refers premium themes as themes that have more quality in terms of design, or maybe layouts (magazine, grid, showcase, etc) that differs them from the majority free themes. It’s also fair to label them as themes that allows you to do more customization, or even displays content in a different formats. Most premium wordpress themes are paid themes, that means you’ll only get to see a demo unless you are ready pay for it.
However let’s not put an equation between premium wordpress themes and paid themes. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve nothing against paid premium themes. It’s just that you should also be aware of some of the cool premium themes out there that are nicely done, and the best part - free. Here’s a showcase of 16 free wordpress premium themes that’s definitely worth a look. 3 themes upfront, full list after jump.
These guys in the video sure made designers and developers who build any interfaces not too proud because they re-paint the entire Gmail interface up from scratch, bit by bit with the use of Styrofoams. The entire interface looks as good as a real one, except that you cannot check nor compose email. But seriously, hats off for the amount of work they’ve put in. Watch the video yourself.
Few readers were asking if I’ll release a guide on creating the furly tiger / leopard skinned "X" I’ve used in the Leopard wallpaper. Well, if you want it I’ll try my best to illustrate the guide on creating them. But first, I’d like to declare that this isn’t an original idea of mine, rather a design I pickup when browsing through a Photoshop book in some store couple of months back. The steps should be similar, although I can’t remember much of the details in the book. Full tutorial after jump.
Step 1
Create a new document at your preferred size and create an alphabet in the middle. For your reference, I’m using a canvas at the size of 500 x 400 pixels, Adobe Garamond font.
Step 2
Change the alphabet’s color to orange color [#ffa70e]. Choose Lasso Tool, hold SHIFT key, and randomly highlighting small portions within the alphabet.
Step 3
Create a new layer on top of your alphabet, name it spots. Select black color [#000000] and fill up the highlighted parts. Your design should look something like this image below.
What’s better news than downloading paid applications or scripts for free. I’m not talking about torrenting, but rather developer themselves releasing it for free. Here’s few applications and scripts released free by developers this week. Full list after jump.
Easeus Deleted File Recovery - Giveaway for the Day
Today folks at Giveaway is giving out a Easeus Deleted File Recovery, a windows software that provides smart solution to recover deleted files from any types of media - Hard Disk Drives, Floppy Drives, Smart Media, Compact Flash, Memory Sticks, and more. Free downloads expires in 2 hours time as I wrote, but do check out the site for more daily free downloads.
We’ve seen latest iMac inside out, what about the Macbook Air? Folks at TechRepublic has recently ‘disected’ the world thinnest laptop so you can see it from the inside out with more than 20 high resolution photos on the parts and components of Macbook Air. So does it still looks like a gadget worth few grands to you?
It’s really irritating and it spreads like mad. I hope you know what I’m saying. MSN messages like the above title, some goes by "Is that you on that photo…" or similar has been popping on my Instance Messenger on daily basis. If you are receiving these messages like I do, that means your friend on the other end has been infected by a MSN virus. I not sure if its deadly, but it’s sure disturbing.
These viruses goes by various names, MSN Virus Project 1; Generic2.EXO; Backdoor.Generic3.SAT. Once infected it will spread across your contact lists and sends out the above said (or similar message). If any of your IM contacts clicks on it, they will be brought via Internet Explorer to download a file name photo656.pif. If the user downloads it, there goes another users.
If you are unfamiliar with the term Desktop blogging client, think of it as a tool to blog with application instead of logging into your Blogger or Wordpress. In fact, a lot of bloggers and probloggers has been using them for quite a while and there’s tonnes of reason why they love it. Desktop blogging clients allows one to manage multiple blogs of multiple platforms, write articles on the fly, as well as perform functions like those you can do on admin page. And because it is a desktop client, you don’t wait for pages to load.
In terms of writing articles for blogs, bloggers can generally fall into 3 categories:
Blogging with desktop blogging client
I’ve been using ecto, then later marsedit. I also once thought ScribeFire was cool. The point is, if you are using your favourite blogging client it is also good to know what are other alternatives out there. You could have found a new favourite, you’ll never know.
In search for suitable desktop blogging client
Desktop blogging clients have a different list of supporting blogging platform. If you manage blogs of different platforms, you’ll need to know what are your available options of these clients. Most of them have the similar core functions, but what differs them could be little capabilities that matters a lot to you. Spell checking for instance, some find it a mandatory need, some can’t be bothered. Consider what you need most, choose wisely. Pay for it if you need to.
No idea what’s a desktop blogging client
Start getting one and give it a try (get the free ones). You’ll be amaze at it’s efficiency and the amount of time saved in blog writing.
Here’s 20 desktop blogging clients retrieved from my del.icio.us bookmarks. I figured you might want to have a look, and if you think there’s any blogging clients I’ve missed out, appreciate a heads up. Full list after jump.
BlogJet
Platform: Windows only
Price: Free trial / €29.95
Supports: WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger, MSN Live Spaces, Blogware, BlogHarbor, Squarespace, Drupal, Community Server, etc.
If you think putting your head up famous magazines like Time, Forbes, GQ, etc is fun, wait till you try this. Faceinhole says forget about the magazine covers, let’s make you a celebrity. Turn yourself into Fabio Cannavaro holding the world cup trophy, superman, Austin Powers, G.Bush, Osama Bin Laden, etc with the different scenerios provided by Faceinhole.
