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PHP Script – Show Google Search Term That Brought Visitor to Your Website

Find the Google Search Term Keywords That Landed the Visitor on Your Website
I always wanted to know when displaying the webpage what search brought the user to this page.  You can always look at Google Analytics, or whatever statistics package you have on your server (Urchin, Webalizer, etc…), but that is after the fact.  So, [...]

Easiest Way to Have a USA IP Address

Free and Legal Method for Acquiring a Reliable USA IP Address For Testing and Surfing While Outside the USA.
Q. You’re located outside the USA and need to test what your website looks like to your USA visitors.  What’s the easiest way to accomplish this for free an without pesky and unstable ip cloaks and expensive [...]

Top 5 Must Have WordPress Plugins

If you are starting or already are maintaining a Wordpress blog, you must have these plugins mentioned here.  There are hundreds, if not thousands of plugins by now.  But eye-candy isn’t going to make your blog popular.  You need the right tools.
If I was the distro manager for Wordpress,  I would include all five of [...]

Wordpress 2.8 Bug – Visual Editor is Missing Menu

Wordpress 2.8 Bug
For those of you who have upgraded your blog to version 2.8 of Wordpress, which was released last week, there is a bug that is being reported in the forums.  The visual editor WYSIWYG menu is lost.  Users are reporting this problem in Firefox 3 and in IE8.  I have experienced the problem [...]

Ubuntu Server – Configure and Run Multiple Websites on One Server

Here’s a simple tutorial to get many websites running on one ubuntu server
Let’s say you have root access to your own server and want to run many websites on it. If you have Ubuntu Server running with Apache, I will show you in a few easy steps how to configure and run as many [...]

Ping Your Blog – The Essential Free Traffic Tool.

Every time you post a new story to your blog you should have a ritual of actions you take to ‘guerrilla market’ your blog.  Without letting the world know you exist, it is nearly impossible to grow your reading population.
Your post-blog ritual may include, Twitter, Digg, Propeller, & StumbleUpon.  You should also be automatically updating [...]

Must Have Free Windows Software

Free Must Have Windows Tools
You’ve just brought home a new computer and now you want to enable it with all the best software that’s available (mostly for free). (Let’s also assume that you didn’t take my advice to forget Windows and install Linux Ubuntu).
Here are some of the best applications you should have on [...]

MP3 Audio from Youtube Videos

Review: Download MP3 Audio from Youtube
Website review – YouTube Tracks – download mp3 audio from video clips
Ever wanted to grab the audio from a Youtube clip? Are there live versions of songs that you can’t get anywhere else? We’ve discovered this nifty utility that allows you to simply input the URL of the Youtube [...]

Linux – Save Youtube, Myspace Videos To Desktop. No Software Needed

I’m using Ubuntu, but this method should work on every Linux distribution.
Copy Youtube, Myspace, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Megafile, MegaVideo Videos to Your Desktop
When you watch a video on Youtube and other popular video file sharing sites, Adobe’s Flash Player is temporarily storing the file in your /tmp directory. Once you leave the page or [...]

Recover Corrupted Digital Camera Photos – No Software Needed

Digital Camera Photos Corrupted or Unreadable
We’ve all dreaded it. You take hundreds of photos with your digital camera at your daughter’s birthday party or a friend’s wedding, and when you plug in the Compact Flash, or SD card into your reader, and to your dismay the photos are missing or unreadable due to corruption. [...]