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Google’s New Speed Tool Makes Websites Run with Blazing Speed

Posted by on October 1, 2011 8 comments

Google initiatives towards making the Web faster are setting new dimensions now. Google latest release, A free software that could make many sites load twice as fast, is one such result.

Web performance is a primary issue today. Increasing the speed of a web page, whether by serving less bytes -through better compression or caching-, minimizing round-trips and optimizing the order of resource download for the browser as some ways to achieve high performance.

The software is known as mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources to improve the performance of their web pages when serving content with the Apache HTTP Server. The software will be automatically updated.

It includes filters for optimizing JPEG and PNG images & also  optimizes JavaScript, HTML and CSS stylesheets.

Google already offers a tool called Page Speed that measures the speed at which a website loads and suggests ways to make improvements.

Supported platforms

  • CentOS/Fedora (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Debian/Ubuntu (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Apache 2.2

Installation

Installing mod_pagespeed will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep mod_pagespeed up to date. More on Installation[...]

To install the packages, on Debian/Ubuntu, please run (as root) the following command:

dpkg -i mod-pagespeed-*.deb
apt-get -f install

For CentOS/Fedora, please execute (also as root):

yum install at  (if you do not already have 'at' installed)
rpm -i mod-pagespeed-*.rpm

Where it can be used?

Performing on-the-fly optimization in the Apache™ 2 HTTP Server, it can help:

  • Webmasters
  • Companies using content management systems.
  • Web developers

“We think making the whole Web faster is critical to Google’s success,” says Rabbat, Product Manager for the new project.

Google tested mod_pagespeed on a representative sample of websites and found that it made some sites load three times faster, depending on how much optimization had already been done.

If you have any queries & suggestion please share with us & comment your views.

Twitter debuts New optimized Mobile Website for Mobile Users

Posted by on September 28, 2011 No comments

Twitter, the most popular micro-blogging platform have launched a new mobile website, an optimized one for those user who tweet using their phones. According to the company, plenty of people were still accessing its old Web site when tweeting from their phones, so Twitter revamped the old site http://m.twitter.com for them.

Twitter debuts New optimized Mobile Website for Mobile Users

New optimized Mobile website will help those users who are not using special apps like Tweetie or Twidroid.

Here also, Redesign & optimization is the major work that can be seen on the new website. When you log in, there are four tabs for your Twitter stream, mentions, favorites, and direct messages.

Twitter debuts New optimized Mobile Website for Mobile Users

Twitter’s mobile team, said the site works best on Webkit browsers on the Android, iPhone, Nokia S60 and Palm Web OS phones. The company will work out a better interface for Blackberries and other phones later on.

But the infamous fail whale, signaling the service is over-capacity and down is still there on Twitter mobile too.

New Streamlined version of Orkut is on Facebook Footprints

Posted by on September 24, 2011 1 comment

The spanking new version of Orkut is the latest buzz among Orkut lovers. And why not, because of redesigned version that not only looks awesome but this time Orkut developers have concentrated on performance as fewer pages, faster browsing are implemented in this new design.

New Streamlined version of Orkut is on Facebook Footprints

Recently Google Waves came with web buzz & Yahoo came with Yahoo Meme overstepping Twitter.

Orkut has had strongest markets of India and Brazil. So, The race among major social networks like Facebook & FriendFeed is getting more close. In September, Orkut attracted 51 million unique visitors across the world, down from 54.5 million in July, according to comScore.

Facebook is about six times larger than Orkut worldwide, and even Twitter recently surpassed it with 58.4 million global visitors just to Twitter.com

Major Improvements & Changes new Orkut are:

  • Simpler and faster

    Lesser page clicking & faster access of pages.

  • One-stop notifications

    Larger pictures, easier to access notifications, targeted friend suggestions, and key updates closer to the top of your homepage.

  • Fast photo uploads and photo sharing

Select multiple photos and upload them 3x faster.

  • Personalization power

State your status! &  customize your profile and homepage with your    choice of 5 colors.

  • Video chat

    Face-to-face just got a lot easier,  new video chat feature rolls in.

  • Friends’ updates on your homepage

Inline comments for status messages, photos and videos, plus easy to   use inline video play.

So, what do you think this redesign on orkut can put more challenges to major social networking sites like Facebook & Friendfeed? Would this new streamlined Orkut will attract a larger social network now?

Comment & share with us your views.

How to Backup and Synchronise Bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox

Posted by on September 23, 2011 No comments

If you bookmark a lot of websites & love to save important webpages as bookmarks, it’s always a good idea to have them backed them up somewhere. The best backup place, of course, is the Internet where all your bookmarks stay safe from any possible hardware failures that may cripple your PC.

We are going to How to effectively backup and synchronize your bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox, one of the most widely used web browsers.

Delicious for all!

Del.icio.usDelicious is no stranger to us, being the largest online bookmark organizing and sharing service. Meanwhile, Delicious also offers official add-ons for Firefox and Internet Explorer that keep the bookmarks in your browser and your Delicious account completely synchronized. If you’re using another browser, simply grab the Bookmark on Delicious bookmark-let and use it to save bookmarks in your Delicious account (rather than your browser).

You can add Inforids.com on delicious.

Of course, Delicious isn’t the end of the world, and you can choose from various other options if you want to. Read on!

Mozilla Firefox

We all love Firefox. With over 6000+ add-ons and counting, there are always more than one ways to get something done with this browser. And backing up bookmarks is no exception.

Like IE, manually backing up bookmarks in Firefox is dead simple.

Using Xmarks

Xmarks (previously Foxmarks) is a solid add-on that can sync your bookmarks and even passwords across multiple PCs. In addition, Xmarks can suggest tags for new bookmarks, and show information about your visited sites based on this bookmark database.

Xmarks is also available as Foxmarks for IE 6 / 7 and Safari 3(Mac OS X only), though with significantly less features.

How do you organise, backup and sync your bookmarks? Let us know your techniques. Say in the comments.

How to Post Updates of Google Sidewiki Entires Directly to your Blog | Video Tutorial

Posted by on September 22, 2011 No comments

Google Sidewiki launched to the world as an entirely new way to share information across the web. This new Google Toolbar feature allows you to contribute your own insight to any webpage, as well as read information shared by others right in your browser’s sidebar.

Google Sidewiki uses a special relevancy algorithm to display the most helpful entries first, and also has built-in technology to display your entries on other sites which contain the same snippet of text.

Also you can use Google Side-wiki’s ability to post your Google Sidewiki entires directly to your blog. You can watch a quick video tutorial of how it all works below:


After this Blogger blogs are powered with connection with google Sidewiki. This can be a good source of traffic to their sites. So, Blogger who use & comment alot using Sidewiki can use this feature to direct post their sidewiki entries on their blogs.

Using .htaccess to Prevent Images Hotlinking & Saving your Web Hosting Bandwidth

Posted by on September 21, 2011 2 comments

Did you ever noticed that your images are being hotlinked on someone else’s server and consuming your server bandwidth? This is actually is direct linking to a web site’s files (images, video, etc.).without your permission.

It is bad, as it not only stealing our images, it also take advantage of our bandwidths. Since web hosts charge based on the amount of data transferred, bandwidth is an issue.

Hotlinking should be stopped because others undesirable consequences like switcheroo can often occur.

Using control over.htaccess is one of the most efficient way to prevent image hotlinking. Go through the following steps:

Creating & Placing .htaccess in Root (main) directory

Simply open a notepad & save it as .htaccess without any extension behind. If already have the .htaccess uploaded to your server, simply edit it like in step 2.

Editing .htaccess File

Paste the following code in the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite2.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ http://yoursite.com/other_image.jpe[NC,R,L]

Note: In Last line of the above code the image other_image.jpg is not hotlink protected or your server can go into an endless loop.

In the above code yoursite2.com can used be stop hotlinking from specific outside domains only, such as myspace.com, blogger.com and livejournal.com

If you want to display 403 Forbidden error on hotlinking simply paste the following code instead of the code shown above.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite2.com [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ - [F]

Remember, Hotlinked images can only be replaced by other images, not with an HTML page.

Using .htaccess to prevent hotlinking helps you block some legitimate traffic using these techniques.

What do you think about other ways to prevent images hotlinking on your blogs? Do you like this technique? Share with us your views.

How to Avail WordPress Ping Facility to get Max Exposure and Inbound Links

Posted by on September 19, 2011 No comments

In my last post, We have just seen how to update all those popular & most used search engines in one click, about blog updates using Ping-o-Matic.

For WordPress user, updating & notifying different services & search engines becomes more easy as wordpress as integrated Update Services Feature.

Update Services are tools you can use to let other people know you’ve updated your blog. WordPress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each time you create or update a post.

In turn, Update Services process the ping and updates their proprietary indices with your update. Now people browsing sites like Technorati or Sphere can find your most recent posts!

Ping Services That I Use

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://bblog.com/ping.php


http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2


http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php


http://ping.feedburner.com


http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php


http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/


http://rpc.pingomatic.com/


http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2


http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping


http://topicexchange.com/RPC2


http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates


http://xping.pubsub.com/ping


http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2http://1470.net/api/ping


http://api.feedster.com/ping


http://api.moreover.com/RPC2


http://api.moreover.com/ping


http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2


http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping


http://bblog.com/ping.php


http://bitacoras.net/ping


http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC


http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc


http://blogmatcher.com/u.php


http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc


http://coreblog.org/ping/


http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt


http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/


http://ping.amagle.com/


http://ping.bitacoras.com


http://ping.blo.gs/


http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/


http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc


http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/


http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc


http://ping.feedburner.com


http://ping.myblog.jp


http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php


http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php


http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php


http://ping.weblogs.se/


http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2


http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/


http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2


http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/


http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/


http://rpc.newsgator.com/


http://rpc.pingomatic.com


http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping


http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2


http://topicexchange.com/RPC2


http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php


http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b


http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php


http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2


http://www.blogoole.com/ping/


http://www.blogoon.net/ping/


http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates


http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1


http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php


http://www.blogsnow.com/ping


http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi


http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php


http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud


http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php


http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php


http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2


http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/


http://xmlrpc.blogg.de


http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

This is the list of Pings that I use to notify & update different services. This is a recommended ping list for a WordPress blog.

If you want the update services to be pinged, just Copy & Paste all the above update service URIs listed under “Update Services” on the Setting -> Writing under the administration screen.

Every time you post these services will be notified of your blog post increasing your online exposure & inbound links.

How to Send Blog Updates to 25+ Search Engines Instantly for Free

Posted by on September 19, 2011 3 comments

Bloggers need to update the Search Engines regularly to index the most recent content URLs. Going to each search engine & updating then separately is not a good option. Why not submit you blog at once & update all those popular & most used search engines in one click? Yes, Its possible using Ping-o-Matic.

Ping-o-Matic is a free service that updates different search engines that your blog has updated.

This site pings blog updates to 25+ different blog search engines including WeBlogs, Feedburner, Technorati, My Yahoo, BlogLines, News Gator, Google Blog Search etc

Just go to the site & enter your Blog name, Blog home page (URL) & RSS URL.


Select the services to ping & Click the Send Pings button. And its done.

Yahoo Meme Oversteps Twitter | Allows you to Meme Text, Photo, Audio & Video

Posted by on September 17, 2011 No comments

Meme (meme.yahoo.com) from Yahoo! is a light blogging and self-expression tool available in beta. With that launch, Yahoo Meme can be accessed to everyone who is having an Yahoo account.

Connect With Inforids on Yahoo Meme

Meme helps people quickly share what they are interested in and passionate about – including text, photos, video, music – with the world. Its design is incredibly simple to use and supports multimedia and text formats.

Just Meme Photos, Audios, Videos in Addition to Text

Yahoo Meme is built just an Step Over Twitter, the most popular Mini-Blogging platform. Why? Lets see.

What Yahoo Meme offers to People?

* Post own content(Text, Photo, Audio, Video) and repost the content of others that they find interesting
* One-Click reposts for simple and easy publishing
* Follow other Meme users and comment on their posts
* Remove content from their Meme including previous updates, reposts, comments, etc.
* Check out the most popular posts
* Consume and create content via their mobile devices
* Content limits are up to 2,000 characters and up to 7MB per photo

What Yahoo Meme offers to Developers?

Meme offers an open API built on top of the YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) platform. Developers can use this open API to create new applications based on Meme as well as easily create mashups with other products through YQL.

Follow Inforids on Yahoo Meme (http://meme.yahoo.com/inforids/)

Does Your Website Meet all the Necessary Requirements to get into the Money Business?

Posted by on September 17, 2011 5 comments

In my previous article which is concentrated on the first essential steps you need to prepare before you start with making your blog a money making machine.

Here we are going to take a close look on the necessary requirement your Website or Blog must meet before you get into the Money Business.

Does your website meet all the necessary requirements?

  • Valid URL: If you manage a blog or other account within a larger website, you should provide the URL of the specific page that you manage and not the URL of the entire hosting website.

But if you have your own website, all the link should work well(Avoid Page Not Found 404 errors)

(Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22819374@N07/3165682990/)

(Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22819374@N07/3165682990/)

  • Fully launched website: Make sure that your site is live and functioning at the time & afterwords you submit your application.

Write about well written 20 to 30 post on your new Blog. These things you should know before writing any blog article. So, that there is some content which readers finds to look on.

  • Unique content: Publish content that’s interesting and unique. Avoid using “doorway” pages created just for search engines, or other cookie cutter approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content. If you’re participating in an affiliate program, give people a reason to visit your site first.

Regularly update the content on your website. So, that every time your blog is visited there is some new content to read on.

  • Blog Design: If your blog design is incomplete that would really not suffice. So, Go for simple & completed blog design.

Before going for any program that would help make you make money online, you must read the Program Policies, to understand it well & avoid future mistakes. So, For Google AdSense read their program policies here.

Now that you have all the necessary information, now’s a good time to apply for the Program. You can Apply for Google AdSense here.

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