Browsershots.org – Test Your Website Compatibility Online



Ever wonder how your own blog layout looks like while browsing under other browsers? Does it flip away or running properly? Maybe you may try to access your own website using different browsers that already installed likes Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, or even Safari in Windows version. But have you test under Mac OS? With Browsershots.org, a free open-source online service created by Johann C.Roholl that makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. Before directing you to what’s HongKiat had talked about it, let me show my ChemstudioWEB.COM running on this testing.

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Alexa Toolbar Is Now At Firefox, Sparky



Dated on 18th July 2007, folks at Alexa had released a statusbar that accompanies you as you surf, providing useful information about the sites you visit without interrupting your Web browsing. Note the trendline plotting and the blue bar gives you how exactly is the popularity of the website that you visited at the bottom right. On top of that, Alexa’s famous patented Related Links feature can help you find the similar sites on your browser. The free Firefox plug-in is free for download and no spyware found at all. Clean and easy to use.

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How To: Make An Invisible Folder

This is a bit tricky and may trick on yourself if you are not sure what are you going to do. Sometime I’m going to use it while trying to hide my ‘private’ stuff but yet lazy to make it real tough to open.

  1. Create a new folder
  2. Rename the filename by press [ALT + 0160] (use the numpad for numeric key) to make filename invisible
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SDS Been Hacked: Hacker Everywhere



Seven Days System has been taken down by hacker today, 10th July 2007. There’s nothing much information provided but SDS has forced to close down the SDS website as the hackers are trying to hack into other accounts to profit the credits. They are still able to pay for June accounts and the website will be up to live until it’s been fully recovered.

 
Audacity: Podcasting Freeware to Record and Edit

PodCasting – The name becoming vogue since 2004 from iPod and broadcast which a podcast is a multimedia file that is distributed by subscription (paid or unpaid) over the internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile services and personal computers.

Music and/or sound effects can compliment a podcast nicely. However, there’s a fine line between that and overkill. A nice piece of music from a favorite song can serve as a great intro to your podcast. Audacity recording and editing software allows you to play with the audio file and add effects like a fade-in or out, which makes the podcast sound all the more professional.

Remember that anything over 44.1KHz is too much. Sound effects used during a podcast in a moment of spontaneity can be fun, but again, watch out for overkill. You do not want to alienate your audience with annoying sound clips.

Audio should never dominate over your content, either; breaking up the flow of conversation in your podcast with needless sound effects can turn off an audience in a hurry. Remember that content is king of the podcast.

 
ViraLink System: Increase Technorati Rankings

ViraLink System can help to increase Technorati Rankings dramatically by the following instruction given below:

Note: When you have finished copying Andy’s Viral Link below, go to Jimmy Huen’s of Foundercafe ViralTags and copy it too!

———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions below this line———

Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all you need to do is copy and paste the grid into blog and add your own link to one of the other spare stars, and tell others to do the same!

 

Viralink

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New Addition: When I receive a ping back once you have added the Viralink to your site I will add your link to this grid, and each person who copies the grid from here will also link to your site!

———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions above this line———

More details and graphs are provided at here.

 
Why Do Chips Taste So Good?

Ahead of me, I can see the golden arches of a McDonald’s flashing into my field of vision like a warning sign.

Fries!

Not good. I’d only eat them and feel empty afterwards. I know carbohydrate snacks make you hungry. Eat on and you want another. Successful products are the ones that do not satisfy. Fries have a glycaemic index of 75 – few foods raise your blood sugar so fast.

My research shows that the unnamed French, or possibly Belgian, chef who first discovered the process of double-frying potatoes in the 1890s; that’s what makes chips crisp outside and fluffy inside. By that time, US soldiers who returned from the trenches of World War One and asked their wives to cook French fries.

Two McDonald brothers, Richard J. McDonald (Dick) and Maurice McDonald (Mac), who reopened their fast-food diner in San Bernardino, California, with a brilliant idea: ditch everything on the menu that requires the use of a knife and fork. Business boomed. People drove kilometers for their hamburgers and fries.
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Egyptian Inscriptions Saved by Software


Today, I had read an article and never noticed that how good to live in this digital age. Never thought that how powerful a software can be. The hieroglyphics engraved on the columns and walls of Egyptian temples are in danger of washing away. Groundwater is constantly seeping into the stone that holds the precious inscriptions and Egyptologists just can’t work fast enough to trace them by hand.

The solution proposed by scientific experts? Dump the tracing paper and pens and go digital!

Researchers working at the temple of Amun-Renear Luxor in Egypat are hoping that a simple software tool, developed by a team at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Strasbourg, France, will speed up the process.

Instead of tracing each image by hand, the software will transform photographs of the objects taken from different angles into a flattened, head-on image that will be stored in a searchable database.

 
Pros and Cons for Adding A Forum To Website

I am considering of getting a forum for my website but there are some distinct advantages and some real disadvantages. Will I get succeed of getting a forum or I am just getting another stone ball? A research shows the pros and cons of having a forum associated with a site.

Pros: The very first to be considered of getting a forum is generating traffic into my site, and people can get very devoted to forums. Anything can be discussed inside the forum if directories are pretty organized. And this will check in quite a number of people every day and watch their favorite topics. Sign up one or two moderators working behind on the workload if the community members are growing could have save your time on that forum again, whereas, concentrating back to my site’s content. I can see that’s a 2 ways win-win situation. I could have just carry forward the posts in forum into my site and save more time consuming. The forum is also a great way to become an expert in your subject and a great way to point people toward the stuff on your website. Then, it is very possible to leave the forum alone with your moderators back up.
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