WMM2 does crash terribly on a new pc. If you`re experiencing crashes every 2 minutes using Windows Movie Maker 2, try disabling codecs. Go to Tools > Options > Compatability. Try unchecking a few codecs, especially “Avisplitter”. It worked for me!
If you cannot solve the crashing, try this page: http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Issues-Acceleration-and-Codecs.html
After a quick search I didn`t find how to simply switch off new user registration in Drupal. But it has even better feature - access roles. You can specify what usernames/emails/hostnames can access the members area or even register as user.
To disable new user registration, you have to add access rules for existing users. Go to yoursite.com/admin/user/rules/ and add a new rule. For example, first add an allow rule for user “admin“. Then for other existing users. After you have finished, add a deny rule and write “%” in the username field. This will allow to login only the allowed usernames and deny everything else. If the username is not defined it cannot be also registered.
You can even make private site and say to your friends add e.g. “-foo” to their usernames. So you make an allow rule with “%-foo” in username field.
The reason I need to block new user registration is spam. New users register everyday with random spam usernames.
Today I received an email about my client`s celebrity photo website. It was from unknow sender Matt Priest (i`d like to give him credits to his site, if I find it out). It was a friendly warning message about a link exchange I had done with a fraudulent site - Nachofoto.com.
This site offered me link exchange five days ago, I put my link up and they put mine. After that I checked their site - I couldn`t find my link in the source code of nachofoto.com. But I did see the link on the page. I checked for iframes - nothing. So I said to myself, let it be, and forgot about it. But it turns out, they`re cheating by using javascript. Some exchangers might notice it, some may not.
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Horrible combination, spent all day on this!
My goal was to take some data (which contain UTF-8 unicode characters), generate a CSV file using PHP and send it via mail. The problem is that Microsoft Excel doesn`t accept UTF-8 CSV files.
Some people suggest using mb_convert_encoding($contents, "ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8"); or mb_convert_encoding($contents, "UTF-16LE", "UTF-8");, neither worked for me, though I have multibyte extension installed
It seems that the solution is different by server setups. This solution worked for me:
$message= iconv("UTF-8","WINDOWS-1257",html_entity_decode( $message ,ENT_COMPAT,'utf-8'));
Today we encountered a problem. Nothing showed up in Google Analytics tracking campaigns. We used a clickTAG code to swfobject (a.k.a FlashObject) like this:
so.addVariable(”clickTAG”, “http://domain.com/some_page/?utm_source=Banner&utm_medium=Banner&utm_campaign=Banner3″);
But the banner link only went to “http://domain.com/some_page/?utm_source=Banner”. After a bit of research I found out that Flash didn`t accept anything that’s after the ampersand &. Some suggested using & instead of &, but it did not work. I`m not sure if it`s a problem of Flash or SWFobject, but anyway I found a simple solution - use javascript escape() function to translate the URL, like this:
so.addVariable(”clickTAG”, escape(”http://domain.com/some_page/?utm_source=Banner&utm_medium=Banner&utm_campaign=Banner3″));
I knew about site Chitika.net for a few years. (i think it sounds better chikita not chitika :D) The didn`t accept my site back then (www.celebritysnap.com), but a few months ago they updated their policy and accept new sites. I tested both on celebritysnap.com and my furniture site www.antique.lv, both perform very poorly, about 10% of Google Adsense performance, no matter how many success stories Chitika writes. It just doesn`t pay. I tried more of their advertising features. 99% it shows IPOD ads that lead to www.amazon.com, I`m not sure if anyone is interested in such ads. Screw Ipod`s!
I`m waiting to get my first payment and then I`ll quit using Chitika :/ Maybe I`m doing something wrong, but the CTR is 0.05% and below which isn`t effective at all!
Google Chrome - A New browser! Who did expect? And its good, really good! This is a revolution on Internet! Today Google stocks had reached 463 dollars, 10 dollar fall since yesterday. I`m almost sure that recent news about Youtube advertisments and this new browser will skyrocket google stocks back to 750 and maybe even more!
Now I need to find a way to buy Google stocks in Latvia..
Google chrome - Is This The Day Mozilla and Iexplore Died??
Update:
I`m just sick of how many new features there are, e.g. check this screenshot for simple stats about google chrome:
Google reveals it`s data to the world. Google External Keyword Tool has been updated to show actualdata - keyword search count during last month and average search amount. And of course it displays Adwords publisher competition. This is definitely the best news for any internet marketer for the last months and should become the most used tool for many SEO people. Here is a screenshot:
Link: Google External Keyword Tool
Scite is one of the best text editors out there - functional, fast and lightweight! If you write a lot of text that is not in english (read: UTF-8) it becomes pretty annoying as every time you open Scite.exe it defaults to 8-bit character set. To write or see the opened document with UTF8 characters you have to click File > Encoding > UTF-8. While there is no graphical interface for options, you can still change the default encoding manually. Here is how:
Most of web users have noticed one of the most useful tools on the web - Netvibes.com . Now it has released its “Ginger” update and offers all users to create their own profile pages. This takes social networking one step further. Now its pretty easy present public information about yourself in one place - all your profiles at myspace, facebook, flickr, youtube, favorite feeds - all in single place. It`s like a new type of personal homepage! Or your digital dynamic CV. No more need for personal domain?