PPC is the next big thing. PPC is synonimous to advertising online. It’s the only effective thing, many claim.
Gurus from all over the world claim banner advertising is dead. Their explanation is very cunningly satisfying. “Do you ever click on banner ads?”, they ask you. “Nah, who even looks at them? Clicking them is far from the picture…”, you say to yourself mentally.
The magic has happened, and you’ve been convinced that banner adveritisig is prehistoric (in Internet time, that’s the late 90s or early 2000s.)
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February 20th, 2010 · Games
Tonnes of people play FarmVille. Is that guy cheating? How is he so good? People who are not good at FarmVille feel that way.
When we begin playing a game, we do one of the two things. We either jump directly into the game, realizing rules and strategies of the game with time, or we research.
We try finding good strategies beforehand. This puts us in an advantageous position instantly, because we know things that other newcomers, or even fairly seasoned players might not, however trivial. This doesn’t just apply to FarmVille, but even those heavy-graphic First Person Shooters. I remember gaining such an advantage in Team Fortress 2, by just simple research.
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February 20th, 2010 · Guitar
If you want to learn guitar fast, then you should give this article a good read, because you may be disappointed.
Learning guitar takes time. It is simple to learn, but it isn’t easy. There is a difference between something being simple to understand and easy to do.
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Most of the tutorials for installing zencoding are outdated, explaining the installation of 0.5.x versions, which has a completely different hierarchy.
First of all, a new version (as of now), 0.6.1 has been released. If you have just 0.6, then get this new one. Also, delete any previous attempts of installation, i.e. delete any project you created to install zencoding (probably called zencoding), or this won’t work.
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February 17th, 2010 · Guitar
Many people who start learning guitar with great enthusiasm give up within a few months. Why? They can’t play like their favourite rock star. The primary problem is expecting extraordinary results without putting any effort.
Anyways, there are a few things in the beginning of guitar learning that takes a bit of patience.
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February 16th, 2010 · Guitar
You have a guitar in your hand, or will likely have it soon, and you want to learn it as fast as you can. Who doesn’t want to become a pro in an instrument so dear to him?
First of all, learning guitar does take time. It also takes quite a bit of effort. However, I’ve listed some resources here so that none of your efforts go wasted due to unsystematic learning.
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If you open a web page in say, Firefox, click ‘print’ and use a PDF driver like PrimoPDF, PDF995 or anything else, you will find that the hyperlinks are not clickable.
This is quite annoying. I recently download a book (in HTML format) from Project Gutenberg. The clickable Table of Contents are really great. But I prefer converting it to PDF and reading it there (for many reasons).
What’s the solution? Simple… I opened the HTML file in OpenOffice Writer/Web (sweb.exe). I used the PDF Export option to write the PDF file. And you’re all set! The hyperlinks would work great.
At least, I can now enjoy reading those books. I hope this solves your problem.
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When I ask this, I’m not talking about applications you create and put up for download. I’m talking about the snippets that you post on your blog or website.
Surprisingly, many simply copy and paste scripts they have created on their website for users to use without any appropriate copyright or license information. This is mostly because we often create scripts for ourselves, and adding license information is the last thing we do, if at all we do it.
I don’t know about the legal mumbo jumbos in the United States. But it’s always safe to declare that you’re releasing your snippet “as-is”, and you’re not responsible for any damage arising from it, etc.
Also, potential users of your script/snippet might want to know it’s licensing terms for various reasons.
It’s good to release your script under an open source license or under Creative Commons (any flavour of it). This way, your works can be adapted by others for their own need.
By making your small snippets open source, you also contribute to the open source community. Your snippet might become a part of a vital tool, or a larger project. It also helps gather creative minds to improve upon your ideas.
Anyway, I do not imply that closed-source software is bad. You may release proprietary software. However, if you’re releasing a small script or snippet for others to use freely, consider one of the open source licenses.
Who knows? Your contribution might become a thing to be proud of in the future.
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January 20th, 2010 · Wordpress
When you try to upload a file through WordPress, you get the following error:
Unable to create directory /home/USERNAME/public_html/wp-content/uploads. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
To solve this:
- Go to Miscellaneous Settings in your admin panel
- The “Store uploads in this folder” will probably have the complete path to your upload folder. Change this to the default value of “wp-content/uploads”. The default value is also mentioned to the right of the same option’s box.
- Hit save, and try uploading again. This solved the problem for me.
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Note: I’ll soon be releasing a GUI tool for doing this same task, for those who don’t have Perl installed and would like to have a no-brainer solution.
All right. Many people like to create nifty little PHP Redirects for outgoing affiliate links, or any other kind of link. People have no knowledge about PHP are not comfortable editing a PHP file (even though it’s just one line) because they may mess up on certain things.
I was quite surprised to find some software being sold that does this “PHP Generation.” Well, not really surprised at the software being sold, since not everyone is a programmer, but rather, the limited capability of the software.
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