Archive for March, 2004

Designing search engine friendly PHP pages

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

Designing search engine friendly PHP pages can be a real challenge. Most search engines have difficulties getting to, and ranking dynamic PHP pages. This article discusses many of the issues encountered when trying to make PHP scripts rank well.

New Firefox Wallpaper

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

I was a little bored last night, so I decided to make a new desktop wallpaper that sports the Firefox logo (designed by Jon Hicks). I have listed them here for your download.

Firefox Wallpaper
800×600 | 1024×768 | 1152×768 | 1200×1024 | 1600×1200

Enjoy!

iPhoto + PHP Gallery = iGallery

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

iGallery is a tool for OSX that publishes pictures in your local iPhoto database up to the PHP Gallery web application.

The program offers the following features:

  • Looks for duplicates, ensuring you don’t waste time by uploading the same picture twice
  • Maintains filename and caption
  • Checks if any file exists on the web server that do not exist in the local iPhoto database

Using PHP DOM XML and mySQL

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

Using the DOM XML functions to create XML files from SQL data is a tutorial that is intended for developers who wish to extract data from a database and insert it into XML files so that it can be processed in some way.

With Flash MX 2004 being so good at processing XML files, this may be an interesting technique for displaying data within your Flash application.

File movers

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

I’ve noticed a few FREE web-based services that let you move your large files around. The size of the files that can be transfered vary from 50MB to 1GB depending on the service you choose, and all the listed services use a combination of HTTP and Mail to handle the transfer of files.

  • Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time.
  • SendThisFile – The Sender makes a couple of clicks and the file uploads. They notify the recipient the file is available. The recipient clicks on a couple of links to download the file.
  • YouSendIt let’s you send photos, audio, documents or anything other kind of file. Your file will be stored by YouSendIt without ever filling up your recipient’s mailbox.

Uninstalling Firebird Extensions

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

Chris Pederick (of Web Developer Toolbar fame) has created another excellent Firefox extension.

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Personalized Google

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

Google Personalized Search is a nice addition to Googles arsenal of search utilities. Google Personalized will filter your search results based on categories that you choose.

Once you search, you can then apply how much personalization will be applied to your results. Very cool!

The ‘ly’ Detector

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

The Passivator is a passive verb and adverb flagging bookmarklet for Mozilla-derived browsers.

Writers try to avoid adverbs whenever possible. This bookmarklet will flag adverbs and passive verbs with the aim to help you write better.

Windows Media ActiveX Control Not Just for Internet Explorer Anymore

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

Streamingmedia.com: The Windows Media ActiveX control is not just for Internet Explorer anymore. The Mozilla/Netscape team has built ActiveX support for Windows Media directly into their latest browsers.

This article shows how to sniff for browser support for Windows Media, and embed your video for everyone.

Quicksilver (and link to new manual)

Monday, March 29th, 2004

If you use a Mac – you will definately want to check out Quicksilver. This free and soon to be open-source software will change the way you use your Mac. In a nutshell, Quicksilver allows you to launch any application, folder or file by simply typing in part of the filename.

It acts as simple personal search engine for every file on your system.

Initially, Quicksilver was launched without any documentation, but now the fine people at Blacktree Inc. have released a comprehensive Quicksilver Manual.