Recently in Web Site and Network Category

Let's see some hacker skills on Google Search.
Enter following query into Google Search box.

inurl:"viewerframe?mode=motion"

Click any results, you will see the real-time webcam.

This is the quick link here.

I have a Home Server at home.
It should have following functions:

• Printer server;


• Fire sharing server;


• AMP server, including Apache, MySQL, PHP for testing purpose;


• P2P client to download something for fun with web interface;


• Backup server, to backup the files on the desktops in home lan.

P2P software, I use aMule.

Backup, I want to use Restore, but failed. They don't have the release for Ubuntu 8.04. Someone said it is good on 7.10.
A lot of request for the 8.04 version posted on its forum. I have to wait for the new one.

The way to install Restore is here:
http://distro.ruffdogs.com/restore/

Joomla! is a wonderful open source CMS. But the performance of content on Search Engine Results is not good enough.

Some SEO (Search Engine Optimize) hacking should be taken to make it better on SERP.
The first one is H1 tag.

Joomla does not take H1 on it template. So the Search Engine can not find the important part of the page.

To add H1 on the page title, article title, you need to do following html hack.
Use whatever html editing tools you like, I use Dreamweaver now.
The template files are sitting here.
\website root\components\com-content\views\frontpage\tmpl\default_item.php
\website root\components\com-content\views\article\tmpl\default.php
\website root\components\com-content\views\category\tmpl\default.php
\website root\components\com-content\views\section\tmpl\default.php

Find "contentheading"
Then add <h1> </h1> around the heading tag.

Save them and upload them to site.

When you browse the page after H1 hacking, the title will looks bigger than before.
You can also use css to add H1 style for them.

There are many video formats in computer world. Say MPG, WMV, AVI, MP4, The FLV is a video format played by flash player, which is installed almost 99% of computers all over the world.

Video quality of the different formats widely vary. MPG compression is quite bad, a thing from the past. Regular FLV, WMV and MP4 have a similar, decent quality/ filesize performance. Quicktime 7 introduced a superior new codec (H.264) in 2004, which is used in MP4 and MOV files. Flash Player 8 introduced a similar impressive new codec, the ON2 VP6. And the latest Windows Media (version 10) has the excellent VC-1 codec. What does this mean? If you use one of these newer codecs you get great video quality at small filesizes, but since the software is less widely adopted, it's possible that your visitors first need to upgrade their plugin.

The only weak point of the flash player is that it solely supports its native FLV format, so you'll have to convert your existing videos to the FLV format. MP4 support is on it's way as well, but the required plugin version hasn't spread yet.

To make a better quality of FLV video. The following instruction are suggested.
1) Rescale the source (720x540) to (480X360) or 320x240 to an uncompressed intermediate file.
2) Use the 2-pass VBR converter, use a keyframe for every 2 seconds (50 frames) for video with little motion up to a keyframe every half second (10 frames) for video with a lot of motion.
3) Bitrate for the video: 200 - 1000 kbps. Audio is set to 32, 64 or 96 kbps mp3. 32 for just speech, 96 for cool music.

If you install new Joomla! 1.5.2 on your server, you get the 'Welcome to the Frontpage' title on your Frontpage. Sometimes, it is difficult to find, where you can change this title.

Go to your Joomla! 1.5.2 Administration site and login. In your administration site go to:

* Menus - Main Menu (now you are in: Menu Item Manager: mainmenu).
* Click on 'Home' link to edit this link (you are now in: Menu Item: Edit).
* Click on Parameters System in the right side and change or delete the Page title.
o If you change the Page title, changed title will be displayed on your Frontpage as a title.
o If you delete the Page title, Menu link will be displayed on your Frontpage as a title (in the present case 'Home' will be displayed as title, because 'Home' is the name of the link to the Frontpage).
o If you don't want to display any title, set Show Page Title below Page title parameter to 'No'.
* Don't forget to save changes.

I have compared High speed Internet services provided by Shaw and Telus two years ago. Now I want to compare the Bundles prices and services.

Now it is three items, including TV, Internet and Telephone.

You will see the warning of Google's SSL server certificate is expired when you login you Google AdWords account this morning.

The certificate is issued to www.googleadservices.com.
When login Google AdWords, it will check your google account through Google Ad Services site.

From the screen shot above, we can tell the details about this certificate.
Issued to Google Inc.
Issued by Thawte SGC CA
Expired on 2008-03-05

Anyway, this problem of certificate expired warning is gone.

Google introduced it Chart API last December.
For reference, I noted here my tips.

I need a 3D Pie chart. The code should looks like below:

The code can break down as shown here:
"cht=p3" is the chart type, in this case, a 3D pie chart.

"chd=t:50,10,40" are the chart values, text-encoded, and separated by a comma.
The number should be ranged from 0 to 100.

"chs=500x200" is the custom chart size, 500 by 200 pixels.

"chl=PR|HTTP Status|Whois" are the different labels for the pie chart sections, separated via the pipe character. Chinese is not supported by Chart API.

chart types include: line charts, bar charts, pie charts, Venn diagrams & scatterplots.

I got the invitation from Microsoft to join their Advertisement network as a Advertiser.
It is similar to the Google's AdWords.

I left my email to Microsoft adCenter because it accepted US customers only last year. Now it is open to Canadian,

I just registered, and added one ad campaign with one ad group.
Let me see how performance and will compare it with AdWords.

Microsoft has officially entered a bid to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion, just days after Yahoo cut staff by 1,000 employees. And Microsoft is clearly hoping to use Yahoo to gang up on search giant Google. On a conference call Friday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called a combination of Microsoft and Yahoo a more "credible" alternative to Google in the online advertising and services market. "By combining the assets of Microsoft and Yahoo we can offer a more competitive choice for consumers, advertisers and publishers," he said.

Yahoo's stock is up nearly 50% (28.71 per share) in morning trading.

Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
Microsoft's Bid For Yahoo

AliveWorksheet.com is a brand new site. Specialized on Math worksheet.

The worksheet is generated by program. So every time you click the "Create it" button, you will get a fresh worksheet.

You can choose the option for answer sheet. Or, you can put your daughter's name on the worksheet.

Aliveworksheet.com has eight free worksheets now.

Two addition
Two subtraction
Two Multiplication
Two Division

The multiplication section has a 9X9 multiplication table for kids.

The site is basically designed for the parents, daycare, elementary school teacher. And also include you.

Update on January 29: It is a big upgrade for the Publisher Center. Not hack.

Kontera is a good Ads provider.
Today when I login my account by click the "account login" from the home page of Kontera.

I got the plain page with the H1 tag. It said "It works!".

The information seems that Kontera is hacked by someone.

If it is a scheduled maintenance, they may post some detailed notes, not the shot text "It works!".

The text on the login page, " It works!" looks like some hacker really did something on Kontera.