Website Review

Free Photo album software – Visual lightbox

May 10, 2011 by admin 2 Comments

Did you ever want to create a photo gallery or a “online photo album” ,but did not know how to do it or construct the code to put it online on a website , now this free software “visual lightbox” makes this job real easy

Free photo album software

Visual LightBox JS is a free wizard program that helps you easily generate web photo galleries with a nice Lightbox-style overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code. Just drag&drop your photos into Visual LightBox window, press "Publish" and your own web gallery with beautiful LightBox 2 effects will open in the browser instantly! No javascript,css,html coding, no image editing, just a click to get your gallery ready.

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Check out a demo of the visual light box gallery over here

Visual LightBox is available as Prototype or jQuery plugin, for Windows and Mac, it is translated by volunteers to 28 languages! its also recently been updated to work with bloogin software joomla. Now you can create Joomla module for you Joomla website.

Online gallery creating software Visual lightbox features

Visual box has support for Flickr and photobucket and also enables you to create slideshows. it also boasts a built in ftp client and has some basic gallery themes and a auto thumbnail creating feature. For more features visit the –>> Visual lightbox webpage

This software is free and quick and easy to produce albums and online galleries and also easy to use for the beginner.Go grab it !!

No daddy or go daddy !! Don’t lose your domain

February 12, 2011 by admin 6 Comments

Today i was just glancing through my renewals of domains that keep popping up often and something caught my eye , i saw this little note telling me that i could lose my domain if i didn’t renew it by the 20th of the month

GO daddy domain renewal

Note at end of renewal email :

NOTE: For certain ccTLDs† you must renew no later than the 20th of the month prior to the expiration date. If you fail to do so, your domain name will be placed on non-renewal status and you will only be able to renew the name by calling Go Daddy.

I was shocked , imaging loosing a domain that you have worked hard on for the last 5 years. Off course do put it on auto renew and it gets renewed auto , bu then when you have so many domains you dont want to put all on auto re-new

Dont lose your Domain !! ACT NOW

Anyway i did a little more research and here is what i found

Go to here –> http://documents.secureserver.net/show/document.aspx?plvid=1&name=reg_sa

and there is further explanation

For certain ccTLDs (.am, .at, .be, .cn, .com.cn, .net.cn, .org.cn, .de, .eu, .fm, .gs, .it, .jp, .ms, .nu, .nz, .co.nz, .net.nz, .org.nz, .tc, .tk, .tw, .com.tw, .org.tw, .idv.tw, .uk, .co.uk, .me.uk, .org.uk, and .vg) You must renew no later than the 20th of the month prior to the expiration date, or Your domain name will be placed on non-renewal status. When the domain name is in non-renewal status, You can renew the domain name only by calling Go Daddy and requesting that the domain name be renewed. You cannot renew the domain name through your Account Manager . If You fail to manually implement the renewal before the expiration date, the domain name will be cancelled and You will no longer have use of that name.

You agree that Go Daddy will not be responsible for cancelled domain names that You fail to renew, either automatically or manually in the timeframes indicated in this Agreement. In any case, if You fail to renew Your domain name in a timely fashion, additional charges may apply. If You signed up for domain masking, domain forwarding, or any other similar service, with Your domain registration, these services will be automatically renewed when Your domain registration is up for renewal, and You will incur the applicable additional renewal fee unless You cancel in advance.

Therefore i feel this is sorta forcing you to get your domains on auto –renew for your safety as well as their profit.

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Embed playlists of different videos from you tube , Daily motion Etc With a nice Video player

December 27, 2010 by admin 2 Comments

Did you wish you could have your own video player look on your website , something that looks better than the you tube video player or the my space or dailymotion video. Well now you can thanks to embedr.com.

This sites pulls the video from these major video sharing sites like YouTube, MySpace, Vimeo, DailyMotion and more and you can mix and match videos from these websites to make yourself a nice playlist of videos or then just a better looking video player with your video displaying on your website or blog.

The new Video embedding website on the block – embedr.com

Embedr does not host any videos. Embedr simply let’s you take your favorite videos from all over the web and make them into a playlist. Most of the top video sites like YouTube, MySpace, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and Blip.Tv work with Embedr right now. Here is a complete list of all Embedr compatible sites.

Embed your You tube Videos with a nice looking Video player

Take a look at this example at of of India’s leading local newspaper mid-day.com or then a few other playlist created by users at this website like most-watched-music-videos-vevogo-com ,lsome indonesioan my-video-playlist_19707 , worldwide-water-conspiracy-theory-with-jesse-ventura

This website can embed videos in two ways , A Standard Playlist is made up of a list of specific videos you choose in the order you specify or the you can go for the smart playlist , A Smart Playlist is a playlist of YouTube only videos that is constantly changing depending on a list of keywords you specify. The playlist can pull videos from all of YouTube, or from a specific YouTube User ID. Both relevant to the keywords you specify. What videos display in the playlist depends on how the date the video was created and how highly rated it is.

In the websites own words here are how they describe themselves “Embedr is a free service that lets anyone create a custom playlist of videos from the top video sites on the web. Now start building that playlist of the best 80s music videos that are spread throughout YouTube, MySpace, Vimeo, DailyMotion and more”. » Learn More About Embedr

Get Multi user blogs on wordpress

June 6, 2010 by admin 1 Comment

I wanted to create something like this for a long time and i was looking in all the wrong places. I searched for “wordpress cms themes” on google I searched for “forum blogs” and “multi user blogs” etc but got nowhere. The suddenly while browsing one of my favorite forums i chanced upon a thread “wpmu Blogs” and ended up doing more research.

Buddypress & WPMU for multi user blogs

Turns out , its just what i was looking for so long. With “WPMU” or “wordpress Multi blogs” you can install it have have thousand of wordpress blogs from that one install and give permission to their people to run blogs of their own under your domain or hosting.

in my quest for this new multi user blog i also came across the “buddy press plugin” , for which i did not know much about and got it added to my wordpress install. Turns out it give nice added functionality like unique user profiles can be set up, and you can have your own activity rss feed and connect to other users of the blog. So buddy press is certainly a good plugin for a more interactive blog.

If you install buddy press on a WPMU which is a multi user blog , you get many more added benefits liek a very large blogging community that can speak and interact with each other.

So follow me as i experiment more with Buddypress and WPMU “wordpress Multi User blogs”. in the meantime check out some blogs that are online that use buddy press and WPMU

Blogs on Buddy press and WPMU

1. Harvey Norman Gadget blog

2. Tosh O

3. H mag

4. New York Times

5. Crikey.com.au

Here is what wordpress MU does !!

Features

Everything WordPress does.
Scaling to tens of millions of pageviews per day.
Unlimited users and blogs.
Different permissions on different blogs.
Ambiguity about how to pronounce its name

- A campus wide social network for your university, school or college.
- An internal communication tool for your company.
- A niche social network for your interest topic.
- A focused social network for your new product.

What can I use BuddyPress for?

BuddyPress is built to bring people together. It works well to enable people with similar interests to connect and communicate. Some of the fantastic uses might be:

Part 1( this one ) Part 2 == >> Part 3 to come

Google does the pac man !!ooh yeaH

May 23, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Pac..pacc.ppac man. Yeh no spiderman ..no superman ..!! hell yeah its the PAC man.

Internet giant Google marked the 30th birthday of Pac-Man by featuring the classic arcade videogame in the first-ever playable doodle on its home page. The game designed by Toru Iwatani was first released by Japan-based Namco into arcades on May 22, 1980.

Snapshot of the google.com.au home page with the playable pac man game

Web users who opened Google’s homepage including australia google.com.au after 1500 GMT Friday — which is midnight in Japan, where Pac-Man was born — were greeted by a small-scale Pac-man game set around a barely discernible "Google" in the middle of the game’s colorful maze. No suprise it is with small things like these that Google manages to keep its Goog pr in good stead with the general public

The playable Pac-Man doodle will stay on Google for 48 hours. ENJOY courtest google !! GO paC MAN. CHomp Chomp ..chomp

Secure your Facebook with proper privacy settings

May 19, 2010 by admin 4 Comments

MySpace recently has announced plans to simplify its privacy settings as it seeks to differentiate itself from social network rival Facebook, which is under fire over its privacy practices and recent privacy breaches due to facebook bugs.

Myspace said "We provide clear privacy settings, allowing not only restrictions on who can view their profile data, but also age restrictions to allow age separation of older and younger users.". The new Facebook features introduced last month include the ability for partner websites to incorporate Facebook user data, a move that would further expand the social network’s presence on the internet.

Securing your facebook with settings - A few key things to understand about friend lists:

You can add each of your friend to more than one Friend List
Friend Lists can have specific privacy applied to them

Your friends’ privacy settings will always default to the most restrictive friend list they’ve been placed in. For example, let’s say your friend John is someone you met at work but continue to hang out with outside of work. You may have placed them in your “Work Contacts” Friend List and your “Local Friends” Friend List. If your “Work Contacts” cannot see photos you’ve been tagged in and your “Local Friends” can, John will not be able to see photos you’ve been tagged in.

You can configure your Friend Lists by visiting the friends area of your Facebook.

Read the Facebook Guide to Privacy

At the very bottom of every page on Facebook, there’s a link that reads "Privacy." The linked page is "A guide to privacy on Facebook," which contains the latest privacy functions and policies. For example, with the latest changes in December 2009, Facebook discloses what it calls "Publicly available information." This is information that is publicly viewable to anyone visiting your profile, and includes sensitive information like your name, current city and gender.

When in doubt, use the "How others see you" tool on Facebook’s privacy guide to check and make sure your privacy settings are properly set.

Facebook’s new simple privacy settings page wants you to make all your posts and photos visible to the whole Web by default.

(Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET)

Show "limited friends" a cut-down version of your profile

You can choose to make people ‘limited friends’ who only have access to a cut-down version of your profile if you wish. This can be useful if you have associates who you do not wish to give full friend status to, or feel uncomfortable sharing personal information with.

If you’re not sure whether you’ve sufficiently protected what you share on Facebook, thenReclaimPrivacy.org has a bookmarklet to help you be as private as you’d like.

To run the bookmarklet and see how private you may or may not be on Facebook, simply follow these directions:

Drag this link to your web browser bookmarks bar: Scan for Privacy

Log in to facebook.com and then click that bookmarklet

You will see a series of privacy scans that inspect your privacy settings and warn you about settings that might be unexpectedly public.

For each area, ReclaimPrivacy will give you a green ("good"), yellow ("caution"), or red ("insecure") ranking. If you hit yellow or red, it’ll provide you with specific steps to fix the problem so you don’t have to waste time searching for the right setting.

I YOU STILL HAVE ANY CONCERNS you can go tot face book privacy settings page on face book itself to see what you can do to make your facebook more secure