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Saturday, July 31, 2004

English-Pilipino-English online translator

This English-Pilipino-English online translator doesn’t translate sentences at all. Translating single words are more or less accurate. And don’t even attempt to translate a web page. It spits pure garbage.

Thursday, July 29, 2004

XHTML 1.1 layout

It’s been a year since BLOGGED had a new layout. Waahh. Just shows you how lazy I am. So here’s a new and simple layout taken from Ruthsarian layouts. It’s a three column CSS-based layout that allows for separate background images for each column. This layout will degrade in version 4 and under browsers but retains the logical structure. It also uses Horizontal and Vertical navigational elements based on unordered lists. It’s nothing special but it has all the elements I want.

It’s supposed to be XHTML 1.1 but I will still have to validate it when I have more time.

Thursday, July 22, 2004

Download Gmail Notifier for Firefox

Gmail Notifier- A Gmail notifier that integrates into the browser’s user interface.

Very handy extension and doesn’t clutter up the toolbars or menubars like other Extensions. If you have Gmail, already, then get this!

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Focus on your world

Those with cameras…. maybe you might want to join this photo contest of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with the sponsorship of Canon Inc., it’s holding its fourth International Photographic Competition on the Environment under the title “Focus on Your World".
“Focus on Your World” will create a visual journal depicting the challenges facing Earth’s rich environmental diversity. The first prize for the Youth sector (15 to 24 years old) is $5000. Deadline is still October 24. more here.

Monday, July 19, 2004

Free Broadband internet

I wonder if this is true,

JUICE is the solution for millions of Internet users who are frustrated by having a slow Internet connection and is the ONLY real alternative to Broadband. JUICE offers a revolutionary and unique internet service to anyone who wants to experience it, world wide and for FREE.

JUICE is 4 times quicker than broadband and 40 times faster than dial-up however, the best thing is it’s totally FREE and available via any telephone line worldwide.

It is revolutionising the way millions of people are connecting to the Internet. It is unique and takes 1 minute to install and is very easy to use.

No more Internet bills or call charges, ever again.

All you need is a telephone line to get JUICE broadband for FREE.

I wonder what the catch is . It says to register before October 2004 because after that date, it’s not free. If you sign up today you will get JUICE FREE for life. CLICKETY…

Sunday, July 18, 2004

I want this doll

AI dolls are handpainted and designed precisely. And also very expensive. Starting at $800. Eeps.. When I get really rich, I’ll buy one of these:

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Saturday, July 17, 2004

Traffic Power can get you banned

Two weeks ago, my aunt who is based in the states told me that a certain Caleb, of Traffic Power (they aren’t listed in Google). The thing was this guy called through my aunt’s cellphone so my aunt thought he was one of the many guys I met online. Ha, I don’t even know my aunt’s cellphone number. Anyway, this guy starts giving this sale pitch that my webhosting really needs to be no. 1 in the search results. He even invited me to tour their facilities in Las Vegas. What shit!! $4000 for one year of service with a guarantee of EIGHT (8) Top 10 listings.

Doing a google search shows:

1 . Traffic Power customers being banned from Google because of Traffic Power’s practices - Tons of unsuspecting site owners who had put their faith and trust in one particular Search Engine Optimization (SEO) company had woken up one morning to find that their sites had completely vanished from Google, and in some cases, Yahoo. Imagine paying thousand of dollars only to get completely banned from Google.

2. 18 complaints filed at the Better Business Bureau with a lot of warnings about dealing with them.

It made me wonder…why was he contacting my aunt in the first place? So I googled:

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Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Upgrade mozilla and firefox users

Upgrade with the newest security patch or download the latest version of Firefox 0.9.2 and the Thunderbirdl 0.7.2

The security patch:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/shell.html

more here

Friday, July 02, 2004

One of those auto install script thingies

Whee…NO school today.

What did I accomplish so far? In my control panel, there are like 37 auto-install scripts. Out of curiousity, I auto-installed the Cube Cart Script., a shopping cart script. Wow, it took only 5 seconds, and I have shopping cart. Of course, I hacked it a bit but that was also easy. I finally decided to make it a permanent fixture in my small web hosting business.

Go shop!

Saturday, June 26, 2004

Latest wordpress hacks

BLOGGED latest wordpress hacks :

threaded comments hack -I had problems with the original files since I use private entries. With Princess Daynah’s help, it now works.

WP Subscribe To Comments- This plugin will allow your readers to get email notifications when comments are left on a post after their own. The install is very simple and does not modify any WP core code. As well, it’s future-proofed to work, as is, with the next version of WordPress without your needing to upgrade the plugin.

WP Users Online With Detailed Statistics- You can see it here. I like how it separates me, guests and bots.

Contextual Related Posts in WordPress - related posts from your own blog, so more linkage; links listed according to relevance;"fuzzy” matching of posts/titles