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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
photo credit: manu contreras
Whenever you create something (take a photograph, make a logo, write an article, etc) the copyright for this product is yours, whether you express it or register it or not. No one can use this product without your (usually written) permission.
However, now people start seeing more benefits of sharing their work […]
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
A while ago I started to get interested in Ruby, or so I thought. I found out that it’s actually Ruby on Rails (RoR) I fell in love with.
I’ve dedicated some of my time to studying the ins and outs of RoR. There seem to be a lot of information about RoR in blogs and […]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
When I started blogging, on A few good notes I used Google Earth a couple of times to give readers an idea of the locations I was writing about. I wrote about an area, created markers on GE to show where it is, and upload the kmz files.
People can add there own pictures and links […]
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
I finally got to installing cPanel 11 today. I did run in to the same problems I described before. No mails were accepted from external servers. In the exim_mainlog I was getting “unrouteable mail domain” rejections, and mails were bouncing.
I searched the cPanel forums for answers, asked for help, but all the advise I was […]
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
When I wrote the previous article about waiting for the stable release of cPanel 11, I never thought I would be waiting a month longer. I’m still not sure!
According to the cPanel release schedule the release of STABLE has been moved to July 31, more than a month later than it was when I wrote […]
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
I got a notification that Web Host Manager/cPanel is in transition to version 11, “the most extensive update ever”. Virtually every section will get an upgrade. This upgrade will be provided in 2 stages to handle the mass. The first stage will contain most of the necessary code and the second stage will provide the […]
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
In an article about helping your visitors to browse your content on Blogging Notes, I explained why providing search is important for a blog. In that article I mentioned that you can even make some money by adding Google Adsense for Search to your website.
Google Adsense for Search can display results of searches on your […]
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
I often see that templates are made with transparent PNG images, which show a gray background in Internet Explorer 6, instead of the transparency. However, with a couple of extra steps, it’s easy to create a transparent PNG image with The Gimp that also works in IE6.
What’s up with this bug?
For some reason Internet Explorer […]
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
Today, when I checked Technorati, I noticed some changes.
Some terms changed
“Incoming links” are now called “Authority”, those who favorite your blog are called your “Fans” and blogs posts linking to your blog posts fall under “blog reactions”. I’m not sure yet what they try to do gain with the term changes. Gary’s guess is […]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Most web designers look for ways to get the websites up and running in less time. Nowadays there are a lot of Content Management Systems (CMS) to download on the net. They all have their benefits.
The problem with existing CMS is that you need to customize it to suit the needs of your customer. It […]
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