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24
Mar
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Too many updates on your Facebook homepage? Try FbHC

With the new update to Facebook, we have users aghast at the change, screaming, yelling, blogging, twittering and voting against it.

So, if you’re one of them, or you just hate the millions of application updates on your homepage and prefer just reading comments of your friends, then this one is for you.

Facebook Homepage - Before FbHC

Gautam Arora has put together a simple Greasemonkey script that will allow you to clean up all these updates from your homepage and all you’ll see is the personal updates that your friends make.

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About Ajay

A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.

31
Jan

Dynamic JavaScript with PHP

Early this morning, I released Top 10 – A Page Counter and Popular Posts plugin for WordPress. I detailed my experience while designing this plugin. The major problem that I faced while working with this plugin was with WP Super Cache. WP Super Cache creates a static file of your post and displays this to the viewer. As a result, any PHP code that is present in your WordPress blog template is executed only once and the cached file is then served to your visitor.

The initial version of Top 10 used PHP to record the page views as well as display them and so using WP Super Cache ensured that both of these would never increment.

This is where JavaScript with PHP comes in. I ended up using AJAX to record the page views. However, for displaying the count I chose to do so by serving the PHP file as a JavaScript file.

Here’s how you go about it.

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About Ajay

A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.

18
Jan

Google Analytics Tracking Code Updated

And you don’t need to make the change.

Christina explains the change:

So why the change? Adding the try and catch to the snippet removes the possibility that your visitor sees a JavaScript message that doesn’t apply to her. It’s a fairly rare occurrence because messages like these (frequently in the form of an alert box) can only appear if JavaScript messaging has been enabled on the browser. Most browsers have JavaScript messaging turned off by default, but sometimes people unintentionally turn it on. For those visitors who have enabled messaging, the try and catch will have the effect of halting any messages from the Google Analytics tracking code snippet.

The updated code is:

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" ==  document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript  src=’" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js’  type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker =  _gat._getTracker("UA-50020-1");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}
</script>

Have you updated the code?

About Ajay

A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.

17
Jan

FTP blocked on your connection? Use net2ftp

A few years ago, I faced a major problem with uploading and downloading files via FTP. My internet connection blocked a lot of ports, FTP among them and switching ISPs wasn’t an option.

It was an extremely frustrating situation, until I stumbled upon net2ftp.

net2ftp is a web based FTP client with features that rival several desktop based FTP clients.

  • Navigate the FTP server
  • Upload files
  • Download files individually or via ZIP files
  • Zip/Unzip files
  • Install software
  • Copy, move and delete
  • Copy or move to a 2nd FTP server
  • Rename and chmod
  • View code with syntax highlighting
  • Plain text editor
  • HTML editors
  • Code editor
  • Search for words or phrases
  • Calculate size

net2ftp

And, the best part about net2ftp is that you can download and install it on your own servers. Installing this on your own servers ensures that you can change the upload / download limits, the execution time of the php scripts.

This is something I have done personally. I have net2ftp installed on my own VPS and pushed the limits of the files to a high level allowing me to upload big files and unzip them.

Have you tried net2ftp? Do you have it installed on your own server or do you use net2ftp.com?

About Ajay

A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.

14
Jan
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Add Multimedia to Your Website with Apture

I came across a new service called Apture a few days ago and had decided to blog about it. Many bloggers may be aware of Snap Shots. Snap Shots launched a few years back and took the web by storm. Apture is similar in this respect, though I must say, their popup window is better looking.

Getting started with Apture is rather easy.

You first need to register on their site and add your blog(s). Apture currently supports the following platforms:

The following platforms are not yet Apture compatible. So, if you are on one of these, you’ll just have to wait it out.

I initially checked out the WordPress plugin. It’s a simple plugin that allows you to add Apture to your WordPress blog without much hassle. You can add your Apture Site Token on the settings page.

I chose to go with the manual option and added the script tag directly in my WordPress theme footer.php.

Once you have the code added, Apture will automatically create links for Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube and several other services.

Additionally, when you visit your site you can hit the letter ‘e’ on your keyboard (this is configurable from the Apture site) and you are presented with a dashboard that allows you to manually add links. Apture will search for content as shown in the screenshot below. You can also upload your own content or just create a simple link.

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I chose to link to a Wikipedia article and a link was created on the page with a Wikipedia icon next to it. Check out the term greenhouse gasses in my post Is Google endangering our Planet?

You can also open up the editing of links to all your visitors. Now, this isn’t something I recommend. Alternatively, you can add a few select members as editors and they can add links.

Additionally, you can add the ‘aptureAutolink‘ class to any link to Apturize it automatically. To prevent Apture auto linking links, add the ‘aptureNoAutolink‘ class.

Also, you can add the following code so that Apture links are created only between these sections:

Start of content region: <span id="aptureStartContent"></span>

End of content region: <span id="aptureEndContent"></span>

I’ll be running Apture on this blog for a while and would love some feedback for the same. Do you like it, or do you simply hate it? What would you like to see?

About Ajay

A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.

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