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Dewplayer FLASH player, simple easy to use

October 26th, 2009 carlgreat No comments

A good flash player, a web page or blog can insert a string of code, interface refreshing.
Interested friends can studies.
Dewplayer est sous licence Creative Commons, son utilisation est libre et gratuite même dans un cadre professionnel ou commercial.
The easiest way to put mp3 audio files on your web pages! This flash animation is very light and easy to use. It downloads and plays the mp3 file whenthe play button is pressed.
Dewplayer is under Creative Commons license. The Usage is totally Free even for Commercial purposes (but not reselling it).

The SWF file is to put on your website. Do not hotlink please, download the SWFfiles and put them on your site!.

dewplayer

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30 Useful SEO Tools for You

October 5th, 2009 carlgreat 6 comments

SEO(Search Engine Optimization) is a rather complex and never ending process. You have to analyze a lot of things including what keywords people are searching for, the density of those keywords in your sites, how many sites link back to you, how popular your links are and so on. Doing all this manually can be a huge pain.

Google Search Based Keyword Tool

Google Search Based Keyword Tool

Google’s tool provides keyword ideas and suggestions siphoned directly from Google’s search data. This is slightly different from the Adwords Keyword tool in that it suggests keywords not already associated with your Adwords account and provides a lot more information.

Just key in your site and normal keywords and let it provide you with a plethora of new ideas.

WordTracker

WordTracker

An excellent tool, with a paid counterpart, which lets you find out related keywords you might have missed out on so far. It also provides rough estimations of the search volume generated by the keywords.

SEOBook Keyword Suggestions

SEOBook Keyword Suggestions

This tool cross references the keyword you input with multiple search engines to provide suggestions.

Microsoft’s Keyword Forecast

Microsoft's Keyword Forecast

This tool predicts search volume and impressions for the keywords you enter into the system. Useful tool when you are about to launch a SEO campaign. Also provides a ton of target demographic data you’d want to take advantage of.

Trellian’s Keyword Discovery

Trellian's Keyword Discovery

Another popular keyword research tool with a paid version available for those who want additional features. Just type in your basic keywords and let it generate a list of top keywords which will work well for you.

Keyword Density

The number of times a keyword occurs in your page’s content is extremely important. Be too skimpy and your site won’t be counted for that keyword. Go overboard and you’ll be penalized for keyword stuffing. The optimum numbers seems to be between 2 to 4 percent and these tools will let you make sure you make this number.

SEOBook Keyword Density Analyzer

SEOBook Keyword Density Analyzer

Just enter your URL and let the tool do its thing. It shows you which keywords are present most in your content, how many times it occurs and how much place it takes up relative to the other words on the page.

iWebTool Keyword Density Checker

iWebTool Keyword Density Checker

Another tool which looks through your page and creates a tag cloud. If you prefer raw data, it also shows you how many times each keyword occurs on your page.

Webconfs Keyword Cloud

Webconfs Keyword Cloud

Webconfs’ tool produces a keyword cloud for easy perusal. Just like with other tools it also produces a listing of which keyword occurs the most and its density.

Search Engine Rank Checkers

Link Vendor’s Page Rank Checker

link Vendor's Page Rank Checker

This Page Rank checker lets you find out your Page Rank at individual Google data centers.

PageRank Tool

PageRank Tool

This tools lets you find out your page rank quickly with minimal fuss.

Self SEO Rank Checker

Self SEO Rank Checker

You can find out your PageRank and Alexa rating along with a bunch of other useful info using this tool.

Link Popularity

A major part of SEO is getting linked. The number of backlinks you are getting is a fair approximation of how well your site is doing and makes tracking this statistic an important affair. Using these tools, you can find out who links to you, which pages are linked the most and a lot of other data.

WebMaster Toolkit Link Popularity Checker

WebMaster Toolkit Link Popularity Checker

Just enter the URL in question and it’ll show you how many pages popular search engines link to through their search engine result pages.

SEOCentro Link Popularity Check Tool

SEOCentro Link Popularity Check Tool

Lets you know how many incoming links you have and breaks it down to individual search engines. Also provides an interesting table of sites with differing numbers of incoming links for reference.

LinkVendor’s Link Popularity Tool

LinkVendor's Link Popularity Tool

An excellent tool which provides a plethora of information including how many web sites link to you, how many individual linkbacks you get, your PageRank, your Alexa rank and so much more.

Site Analytics

Monitoring your site’s traffic, page views and visitor behavior is extremely important once you’ve finished the initial SEO to make sure your plan is sound. Use these tools to track down your site’s statistics.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics

Google Analytics provides an extremely slick summary of your data. Use it to check which pages get linked to the most, how much time people spend on your site, what percentage of visitors are new and a lot more.

Compete

Compete

Just like Google Analytics, this tool presents an extremely pleasing way to monitor your site’s well being. As a fun feature, it lets you compare the stats of up to 5 different sites.

Mint

Mint

If you don’t mind a paid solution, Mint is a top-notch analytics suite which a lot of developers swear by. It features a beautiful interface to present all the data.

Crawl tests

Understanding how your pages look to spiders (heh) is important while optimizing for them. This lets us strip out all the visual elements and see the page as a crawler would see. Such a test helps you understand how accessible a page is to a crawler and lets you weed out potential issues before full deployment. These 3 tools let you do just that.

SEOTools Spider Test

SEOTools Spider Test

This tool not only lets you see how your page looks to spiders but also returns a lot of useful information including the number of words in the page, the keyword density and pages you link to.

iWebTool Spider View

iWebTool Spider View

If you are just looking to find a tool to simulate a spider without any extra frills, this is the tool for you. Crawls through your site and lets you see how it looks to a bot.

WebConfs’ Spider Simulator

WebConfs' Spider Simulator

WebConfs’ Spider Simulator simulates a spider crawling through your site. Shows you how a page looks to a spider and also nets you the list of sites you link to, the meta description and meta keyword.

Original Link: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/the-only-seo-tools-youll-ever-need/

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WordPress Plugin Thumbnails Anywhere

September 20th, 2009 carlgreat 1 comment

Plug-in Name:

Thumbnails Anywhere

Plug-in functions:

  • Call log the contents of the pictures show the log thumbnails, thumbnail links to the original logs, or the original larger image.
  • Home Thumbnail: Home Each log displays thumbnails.
  • Random Thumbnail: Call random log thumbnails, full stop anywhere on the display.
  • Latest Thumbnail: Call the latest log thumbnails, full stop anywhere on the display.
  • Related Thumbnail: Call-related log thumbnails for the log pages.
  • Category Thumbnail: call log thumbnails under the current classification for the classification page displays; call logs under the specified categories thumbnails, full stop anywhere on the display.
  • Thumbnail any specified quantity, size, distance.
  • Specified the first picture shows the log or logs of arbitrary images.
  • Support for sidebar.
  • Support the classification name and label name to exclude the log thumbnails.
  • For the station images, automatic generation of thumbnails; for the outer chain of images, automatically downloaded to the local, automatically generated thumbnails.
  • Right Yupoo, Flickr, Picasa pictures outside the chain, to provide special support can be directly outside the chain of reference to the thumbnail.
  • Plug-in Download:

    Version 2.1.11 Download:

    http://niaolei.org.cn/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/thumbnails_anywhere.zip

    Plug-in installation:

  • Background installation, activation;
  • Settings: Options – thumbnail;
  • Place code or in the background and a small tool to enable the sidebar;
  • Back to the home page points to open a few logs; / / This step can not be omitted.
  • Plug-in use:

    1. Home Thumbnails

    Code:

    <?php if ( function_exists(‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_homepage’) ) {thumbnails_anywhere_for_homepage();} ?> <? php if (function_exists ( ‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_homepage’)) (thumbnails_anywhere_for_homepage ();)?>

    Placement: on the homepage template index.php, placed the_content or the_excerpt before, such as:

    <?php if ( function_exists(‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_homepage’) ) {thumbnails_anywhere_for_homepage();} ?> <? php if (function_exists ( ‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_homepage’)) (thumbnails_anywhere_for_homepage ();)?>

    <div> <div>

    <?php the_content(__(‘Read the rest of this entry &raquo;’)); ?> <? php the_content (__(‘ Read the rest of this entry »’));?>

    </div> </ div>

    <div> </div> / / If the style stays out, please fill the phrase used to clear the style.

    Can also be placed in the category template file or label template file (usually archive.php), In short, everything that contains the_content or the_excerpt of the places can be placed, professional speaking, within any loop can be placed.

    2. Random Thumbnail:

    Code: (support side column)

    <?php if(function_exists(‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_random_posts’)) { thumbnails_anywhere_for_random_posts(); } ?> <? php if (function_exists ( ‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_random_posts’)) (thumbnails_anywhere_for_random_posts ();)?>

    Placement: anywhere.

    3. New Thumbnail:

    Code: (support side column)

    <?php if(function_exists(‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_recent_posts’)) { thumbnails_anywhere_for_recent_posts(); } ?> <? php if (function_exists ( ‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_recent_posts’)) (thumbnails_anywhere_for_recent_posts ();)?>

    Placement: anywhere.

    4. Related Thumbnail:

    Code:

    <?php if(function_exists(‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_related_posts’)) { thumbnails_anywhere_for_related_posts();} ?> <? php if (function_exists ( ‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_related_posts’)) (thumbnails_anywhere_for_related_posts ();)?>

    Placement: Log page template (single.php) anywhere.

    5. Category Thumbnail:

    Code:

    <?php if(function_exists(‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_category’)) { thumbnails_anywhere_for_category(); } ?> <? php if (function_exists ( ‘thumbnails_anywhere_for_category’)) (thumbnails_anywhere_for_category ();)?>

    Placement: Category page template (usually archive.php) anywhere.

    In addition, the plug-in call with parameter provides a way (without the parameters, using the background set): followed by the number of num, width width, height height.

    thumbnails_anywhere_for_random_posts(‘num=10&width=100&height=50′) Random Thumbnail: thumbnails_anywhere_for_random_posts ( ‘num = 10 & width = 100 & height = 50′)

    thumbnails_anywhere_for_recent_posts(‘num=20&width=200&height=60′) Latest Thumbnail: thumbnails_anywhere_for_recent_posts ( ‘num = 20 & width = 200 & height = 60′)

    thumbnails_anywhere_for_related_posts(‘num=30&width=150&height=70′) Related Thumbnail: thumbnails_anywhere_for_related_posts ( ‘num = 30 & width = 150 & height = 70′)

    Category Thumbnail: thumbnails_anywhere_for_category (5) shows a thumbnail of classified ID as a 5, location, any place. You can even make a simple classification album.

    The corresponding parameter values can be changed to give you full freedom.

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    WordPress Plugin Mail To Commenter

    September 19th, 2009 carlgreat No comments

    This plugin helps user to notify reply to previous commenter in same post via simply insert ‘@+user+blank’ or ‘@+user+:’ (like twitter) to specify user name in comment.

    1. The main funciton of plugin is to detect comment content and automatically send mail notification if associated option is activated.
    2. Using <?php mailtocommenter_button();?> to generate button to earier insert code or generate link to comment. This function is almost the same with reply to plugin except the style of button can be fully customized by admin.

    Basically, all settings can be easily configured via option page under dashboard. Admin has ability to:

    1. Activate mail notification.
    2. Activate usage of ‘@all’ which allows user to group send reply to all previous commenter in same post.
    3. Set the output and style of button which is used to help user to easily insert code (‘@user ‘ or ‘@user:’) in their comment.
    4. Cutomize the mail templete (subject and message.). User is encouraged to use pre-defined variables to customize owner template. template.txt file provides some default text content of mail template just for your reference.

    Various options with corresponding explanation are listed in ‘Mail to commenter options’ page, you can customize the using of plugin by setting different combination of options. For example, you may not want to use mail notification, but you also can use <?php mailtocommenter_button();?> function to create a hyperlink to comment.

    Click here to see change log. Note:

    1. Plugin will automatically load language pack according to wordpress language defined in wp-config.php. Default is english. Available language pack: English,Chinese, Belorussian (Contributor: Fat Cow).
    2. Chinese user please check here for chinese instruction.

    Download:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailtocommenter/

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    WordPress Theme Releases for 09/17

    September 18th, 2009 carlgreat No comments

    Elegant

    Elegant

    A simple but elegant looks wordpress theme. Valid XHTML, 2 column dark theme, widget ready. Also available are the other themes by the same author.

    Travel

    Travel

    Three column, widget ready theme with two right sidebars.

    BerryPress

    berrypress

    Two-columns wordpress theme, inspired by blackberry 7230’s vodafone theme, has a cool sidebar with accordion style widget.

    Coralis

    Coralis

    Coralis is a three column WordPress theme with two Sidebars on the right side. This free theme is widget-ready and SEO optimized. This light weight theme has been designed to accommodate 125×125 Adsense blocks in the left sidebar and a Wide Skyscraper Ad (160×600) in the right sidebar. The Favicon of this theme can be easily replaced with your own.

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    Open-Source-Stiftung CodePlex Foundation wird von Microsoft mitfinanziert

    September 17th, 2009 carlgreat No comments

    Microsofts Senior Director Sam Ramji erklärt in einem Interview die Open-Source-Stiftung CodePlex Foundation genauer. Als Ziel der Stiftung erklärt Ramji, dass Softwarehersteller und Open-Source-Entwickler mit der Foundation eine Schnittstelle für den Austausch hätten. Man wolle nicht mit anderen Stiftungen konkurrieren, sondern man wolle Standard-Open-Source-Lizenzen schaffen, um “geistiges Eigentum” zu schützen und damit geordnet zu veröffentlichen.

    Mit an Bord sind Personen aus bekannten Open-Source-Projekten und Unternehmen: Novell wird durch Vicepräsident Developer Platform Miguel de Icaza vertreten, DotNetNuke durch den Chef-Architekt Schaun Bruce Walker. Unter anderem diese Personen beteiligen sich finanziell an der Stiftung. Weiter wurde ein Advisory Board eingerichtet, vertreten durch Mitarbeiter von Microsoft, SugarCRM, HP, MindTouch und Monty Program AB.

    Was sagt ihr zu der CodePlex Foundation? Ist das von Ramji vorgestellte Ziel realistisch, sinnvoll und durchführbar? Braucht die Welt eine weitere Open-Source-Stiftung?

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    WordPress Plugin WP Silverlight Media Player

    September 9th, 2009 carlgreat No comments

    This plugin allows addition of Silverlight-based media players to WordPress blog posts and pages. The players can be used to play Windows Media Video (WMV) encoded video content.

    The plugin has the following features:

    • Default player configuration settings, such as size, thumbnail, auto load and auto play.
    • Per-instance player configuration settings that can be used to customize each individual player within or across blog posts.
    • Unlimited number of players within the same blog post or page.
    • Option to not load players on the home page of the blog. This helps to reduce the amount of content to download for visitors who do not want to watch a video.
    • 6 player styles
    • UI for uploading of video files and for inserting media players into blog posts and pages
    • Tracking and reporting on how many times the videos have been watched

    This article explains how to encode a video content for WP Media Player plugin by using the Windows Media Encoder.

    Step 1: Download and install Windows Media Encoder.

    Step 2: Download the Windows Media Encoder Profiles. These are used to help you run the Windows Media Encoder with the appropriate settings to output a media file in a format supported by Silverlight.

    Step 3: Extract the contents of the Profiles.zip archive to the Profiles folder in your Windows Media Encoder program folder (typically C:\Program Files\Windows Media Components\Encoder).

    Step 4: Start the Windows Media Encoder by clicking “Start” and typing “media encoder” in the search bar.

    Step 5: Click “Custom Session” on the “New Session” dialog:

    New Session Dialog

    Step 6: In the “Session Properties” page, find the “Source from:” radio buttons and choose “File”. Then specify the input video file by either typing in the full path or by using the “Browse…” button.

    Session Properties Dialog

    Step 7: Click on the “Compression” tab and then click “Edit…” button next to the “Destination” drop down list:

    Compression Tab Page

    Step 8: In the “Custom Encoding Settings” dialog click “Import…” button and then choose the encoding profile that best suits your web server’s network bandwidth. I usually choose WMV Web Server 256k DSL because my server’s bandwidth is pretty low.

    Custom Encoding Settings

    Step 9: Click on the “Output” tab and then clear out the check box next to “Pull from encoder …”. Check the check box “Encode to file” and then specify the name of the output file. After that click “Start Encoding”:

    Output Tab Page

    The encoding will start and Windows Media Encoder will show the progress and a preview:

    Video Encoding in Progress

    After the encoding is done you can upload this file to your WordPress blog for playback with WP Media Player plugin.

    Download    

    The plugin home page

    My favorite Wordpress Theme: Corpozine

    September 6th, 2009 carlgreat No comments
    Corpozine is the most simple one of  wordpress themes, two colums,I like it , so bookmark it . Otherwise it is free.
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    Group Office 3.2.3 is available

    September 3rd, 2009 carlgreat No comments

    Take your office online with Group-Office groupware. Share projects, calendars, files and e-mail online with co-workers and clients. Easy to use and fully customizable, Group-Office takes online collaboration to the next level.Clean interface, really easy to use.

    This is the free open-source version of Group-Office. It’s intended for Open-Source programmers who want to contribute to the project.
    It’s distributed under the terms of the Affero General Public License (AGPL). If you don’t want to be restricted by the AGPL license, you can offer a customized version of the Professional version to your customers.

    You can also try the latest development version. Be warned, this version might be unstable.

    Get it from Sourceforge.net

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    Use Facebook Chat without opening Facebook.com

    September 1st, 2009 carlgreat No comments

    If you find this a bit inconvenient, here are some good workarounds that will let you chat on Facebook from anywhere without even having to open the Facebook site in your browser.

    Facebook Chat Inside the Web Browser

    If you have Google Chrome or Prism for Firefox, you can open this address in your browser address bar and then create an application shortcut to Facebook chat on your desktop.

    Firefox users may bookmark the above link and set the “Load this bookmark in Sidebar” property to true in order to use Facebook chat from the Firefox sidebar.

    If you an IE user or hate to use Facebook chat from the sidebar, try Gabtastik – this is a minimal desktop client for Facebook that looks exactly like the web version of Facebook chat but will also send you notifications of new messages and chat requests from the system tray.

    meebo - facebook chat

    Meebo, the very awesome web based instant messaging service, now supports Facebook chat as well. You can connect your Facebook account with meebo via the Facebook Connect service (so there’s no need to share your Facebook credentials with anyone) and instantly chat with your online buddies inside the web browser.

    There are two advantages here – you can use Facebook chat even if the main Facebook.com site is blocked in your office and two, you can simultaneously connect with friends on other IM networks from the same website.

    Facebook Chat Clients for your Desktop

    facebook messenger

    ChitChat – If Facebook were to develop a standalone messenger on the lines of Yahoo! or Google Talk, it might look something like ChitChat.

    ChitChat is a Windows-only desktop client for Facebook that provides a tabbed window to make it easy for you to talk to may friends at once. It will also show notifications in the tray when your friends go online or when they have signed out. The application is in RC stage so expect a few bugs.

    digsby for facebook

    Digsby – This is again a very useful all-in-one app that helps you stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, LinkedIn and other online accounts.

    If you have multiple accounts on Facebook (like you and your spouse), you can associate all of them with your Disgsby messenger and chat with the combined buddy list simultaneously. Facebook doesn’t allow audio or video calls but Digsby indirectly brings that feature to Facebook Chat via tokbox.

    There were reports (1,2,3) that Digsby’s installer can add some crapware to your computer but that should not hold you back as there’s an alternate installer (direct link) that will bypass the non-essential stuff.

    pidgin with facebook chat

    Pidgin – While Facebook Chat is not officially supported in Pidgin, there’s a free plug-in that lets you connect to the Facebook chat server from Pidgin. And like Digsby, Pidgin too would let you chat with buddies on multiple Facebook accounts from the same interface.

    Pidgin vs Digsby – Pidgin will show all your Facebook contacts in one giant list while Digsby will group contacts under logical “Friends list” just the way you have them on the main facebook.com site. Also, Pidgin is purely for instant messaging while Digsby will also display notifications like when a friends sends you a message using Facebook email or writes something on your wall.

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