Date: 11/10/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: browser, google

Opera Browser is the best in terms of search engine integration. It allows you to easily add your own search engines, access search engines by a single alphabet and finally set any search engine as the default. By default it comes with Google as the default search engine, but that can be easily changed. Contents How [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-easily-use-manage-your-search-engines-in-opera-browser/

Date: 11/11/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web, hosting, yahoo, google

Thanks to everyone who responded to my previous post...you guys are definately a great source of information!

I'm wondering what everyone thinks about the power of one-way links to your webpage. For example, getting links into smaller engines and directories like DMOZ, JoeAnt, Scrub the Web etc. I know a lot of people don't necessarily use them to search anymore but I have heard that having a lot of those sites linking to your site can help improve your rankings in the organic portion of Google and Yahoo! Can anyone let me know how accurate this is?

Also, this is slightly off-topic, but I'm looking for suggestions for FREE photo hosting sites. I use Photobucket but I need to compile a list of user-friendly ones to give to people who are using this website and want to host photos for things like the message board. Can anyone give me some suggestions?

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/368442.html

Date: 11/14/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, virus, microsoft, google

An error in Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare security product caused it to flag Google's Gmail service as a virus.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6135154.html

Date: 11/15/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: software, google

New software allows people to use smartphones to view online media offerings from sites such as YouTube, Google Video.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6135783.html

Date: 11/18/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: google

Hello, I have a question I hope some of you can help me with:

Recently I took a video of my friends jamming using a SONY DSC-W50 digital camera. The video is about 6mins long, 640x320 in dimension and 138mb in size. I'd like to know if there's any program(hopefully free) that'd reduce its size so that I can upload it to Google video or Youtube?

Thank you muchly in advance! :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1000776.html

Date: 11/20/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: google

I have been using GMail for some years. There are 5 things which I like most about GMail which makes it apart from competitors. 1. Ability to search using Google search engine. Google search engine is known for its uncanny ability to find relevant results. GMail shines above any online email competitor primarily because of its [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-things-i-like-most-about-gmail/

Date: 11/28/06 (Security)    Keywords: web, google

Google's search appliances could expose Web sites that use the products to information-stealing phishing attacks.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6138744.html

Date: 11/30/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: yahoo, microsoft, google

After being sued over copyright by Authors Guild, Google had subpoenaed Yahoo, Amazon and Microsoft to gather evidence.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6139565.html

Date: 12/01/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: html, xml, web, seo, yahoo, google

Do people still use these on their actual websites? I'm helping a woman launch her website and she would like to include a sitemap. I know you can generate XML and HTML ones specifically for Google and Yahoo! and things like that, but what about plain, easy-to-read ones to actually put on your website for people browsing your website to look at? Can that still be helpful in terms of SEO?

Thanks!

Edit: Two other questions...is it better to create your own sitemap or are programs that create them for you pretty good? I found one that I thought looked good: http://www.sitemappro.com/

Also, the site in question is password protected, only members can view certain sites...should every page still be on the sitemap even though non-members won't be able to access it?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/373692.html

Date: 12/02/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, virus, web, spyware, google

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/718593.html

Date: 12/02/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: html, asp, jsp, google

I got suckered into building a C2D system by my employer's discount program. I did my research- maybe someone else could also put it to good use.

This is for a Core 2 Duo E6300-based gaming system that is designed to be moderately overclocked, with good options for future upgrades.

First, the two reasons that I even needed the system:

Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion (there was a deal for $20 on amazon a few days back.)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000G6XH1W

Acer AL2016w 20" 1680 x 1050 widescreen LCD monitor $248.37@Burgess
https://www.burgesscomputers.com/display.aspx?PartNumber=ET.L640C.005

Oblivion + large-ish monitor = must get a fast system or else

intel_core

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1005890.html

Date: 12/02/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: google

If you are an open source developer, or need detailed code resources, Krugle is better than Google.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/56607980/

Date: 12/04/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web, google

I was just wondering if someone could tell me if this was at all accurate? I've been trying to help someone with their website, and I've been submitting them to various online directories (human-edited ones mostly like DMOZ) so that they will have more links going to their site. I was under the impression that will help with their Google rankings. They've recently retained the services of a professional internet marketing company and the company is telling them to stop submitting their site for links because if they get too many in a short period of time, Google frowns upon that and will possibly knock their page rank down. Can anyone tell me if there is any truth to that?

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/374075.html

Date: 12/06/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft, google

Live Search Books is similar to Google Book Search, though Microsoft is taking an opt-in approach to copyright works.
Images: Search this book!

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6141162.html

Date: 12/07/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, java, google

hello everyone,
i am trying to figure out the best way in css to make a navigation menu that uses transparent pngs for the links, but also has dropdown subnav items (also transparent images).

i know i'll have to use some javascript for the IE6 transparency, but i really want to keep this as clean as possible. i've searched google and a list apart - i know about image sprites, the suckerfish menu, and the transparency javascript, but how do i combine the drop down with the image transparency? i just can't get my mind around this one. any help would be so greatly appreciated.

thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1193480.html

Date: 12/08/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, html, database, web, spam, google

I've got an interesting problem that's stumped both the senior programmer and me.

Situation:
A user is looking for a company to provide a service, they find our site at or near the #1 position on a google search result, they find a company where they need the service done, and they send a request for a quote via a php form. The form processes this request, logs it into the DB, and at a set time, that record is dropped into a MTA. This is the problem.

`From: $UserProvidedEmailAddress`

Problem:
In an ideal world, this would be fine, but thanks to spam... this sets of just about every single spam filter I know of and then a day/week later we are suddenly blacklisted by everyone including our own email service provider. In the last two months we've had to call up the spam database companies and get taken off the list (after a day or week of them doing necessary investigation to find we are in fact not spamming). The next logical step would be to replace the from field with a real email account like `info@ourserver.com` and then put the user provided email address in the `reply-to:` field of the email header instead. But my senior argues that we will still set off the spam filters and I agree and I can't see how to fix this.

So to review:
There are 3 parties involved in these script generated emails.
Customers who provide us their email addresses via the form. We protect the email addresses and flush them after 60 days (legal reasons)
Advertising clients who pay us to get these emails from our top listed site.
Ourselves, all transactions are bcc to us so we can track initial user to advertiser interactions and make sure we are providing the product our clients are paying us for( customers and web presence)


Why:
My employers want to keep it as simple as possible for our clients to respond to potential customers, hence the customer email address in the from field. But that doesn't work because of spam.


Thoughts:
Also, we can't put advertising client email addresses on the site or make them accessible to humans because spam-spiders will get them and proceed to spam the client's.
My senior has written a working prototype for an in-site messaging system using rails, but the fear is that some of our clients are to lazy/stupid to use it... I agree, some of these people are pretty dumb.
Another thought would be to put some sort of mailto: url in the emails, but not everyone uses html enabled email clients.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/518711.html

Date: 12/09/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, google

Fox, Viacom, CBS and NBC Universal are in talks about creating a video Web site to compete with Google's YouTube, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6142345.html

Date: 12/11/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, html, java, google

Hey guys,


My question is about iFrames. But let me backtrack and tell you about the kind of thing I'm trying to implement.

I'm actually using an iFrame to embed a blog to an ordinary HTML page. When the user clicks on "read comments," the php code fetches the site_url + #anchor. Ok? Now, this was fine in theory until I tried it out, and turns out that using URL + anchor in an iframe scrolled the PARENT window down, as well as the iFrame.

So, I googled around and found this script, which uses offSetTop to determine how many pixels the element is off the top, and then sets the scroller to that location thanks to scrollTop. This looks like just what I need actually, and with some modifications, it might work, but when it comes down to it, this script displays navigation buttons on the parent page (mine shouldn't do that) and also the buttons are generated by the iframe.


< script type="text/javascript" >
< !--

function goAnchor(id){
anchorPos = window.frames['anchor_iframe'].document.getElementById(id).offsetTop;
window.frames['anchor_iframe'].document.body.scrollTop = anchorPos;

}

// -- >

As a way of thinking myself out of this box, I figured that I could perhaps...make PHP embed the scrollTop value in the URL...(which is probably not feasible since scrollTop is DOM property, not HTML) and my second idea is using PHP to put out a few lines of JavaScript that scrolls the window after it has been loaded, and while I sense this might work, I wonder if there is a standard way of getting around the problem, which is the unwanted scrolling of the parent window to the anchor tag of the embedded iFrame.

Makes sense?

Sorry I can't provide a link to this implementation, since I'm working on it locally and can't take it live right now.

Oh...plus..do you know...if there is any way of fetching variable values from inside an iframe for use by the parent tag? Not DOM properties, mind you, but like some JS variable.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/375424.html

Date: 12/14/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: database, web, google

I run a photo studio. All artists in residence in the studio are working on the same project this year. We have almost a hundred models in our book, and need to find a way to share a calendar so that we can all put down when we're available, not available, have shoots scheduled, and the like. We also need to have an online database for all of our models where we can all see the models' information, write notes, share images, and the like.

In short, we need an online collaboration system.

We've looked at Google Web Apps, and that has nice shared email and a decent calendar, but nothing even close to a shared online database for our models.

Anyone have any suggestions? Free or pay, either is fine. I'm perfectly cool paying for something that works.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1010676.html

Date: 12/14/06 (Software)    Keywords: google

A friend's MSN Messenger always displays a dancing H when she type's any "h". The dancing gif is huge and very annoying. Between the two of us we don't know how to disable it. It happens to messages she sends me, but not to others. It appears the instant she presses h. It happens with no other characters. Her cousin set it, of course said cousin is unavailable to reset it. I don't know what this feature is called so I don't know what to type in Google to figure out how to disable it. Or if you can tell me how to disable it, that would be awesome too.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/software/68390.html