Archive for June, 2007

Game – Playing With Fire 2

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Playing With Fire 2 is an updated and expanded version of the original Bomberman clone, Playing with fire 2 offers different boards to play on and smarter AI opponents. Avoid getting hit with bombs while picking up the bonus items.

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SEO – Onpage Optimisation Techniques

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Just depends on Wordpress SEO plugins, definitely won’t make your website rank No.1.

That’s why recently I have been dealing with a lot of different types of SEO techniques. Half of my online hours has been spent in SEO sites. :(
After suffering from the last traffic dropped, I do really done my homework to understand more about SEO.

Here’s some SEO techniques for blogging.

A synopsis of Onpage optimisation techniques(SEO techniques include Onpage optimisation techniques and Offpage optimisation techniques.) is listed below:

1. Title - A good title makes Googlebot understand your site quickly.

2. Meta keyword – Keyword(s) that you want to emphasize in your blog.

3. Meta description – Sprinkle your key words in description, meta description should be precise and clear, this will be stated beneath your title in SERP.

4. Place your keywords in Header tags(H1,H2, H3,H4)

5. Put keywords in the first sentence - The first 20 words in your article are important.

6. Place your keywords in the post name - That’s why your permalink structure should be in short and clear.

7. Add keywords to Alt tags of images – Put a description for your images. Google crawls images too.

8. Add keywords to tilte attributes

9. Keywords in the anchor text to internal pages – Always link back your previous post.

10. Keywords in the internal link can go the home page - Link back to you homepage too.

11. Reduce the loading time of your webpage - Images, javascript, flash and etc.

12. Keep the keyword density between 3 and 7 percentage

13. Don’t be a content copycat - Googlebot hates to crawl the same content in different sites.

14. Read JohnChow.com K-Director.com. – You’ll get the latest SEO techniques here in future. I promise.

Besides that, you also can get some SEO tips from Johnchow’s ebook.

If you have any more SEO techniques for blogging, share it with me. :D

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15 Important Wordpress Plugins

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The list below is a compilation of all the wordpress plugins that I have installed in k-director dot com. If you’re new to Wordpress and looking for some plugins to boost your blog’s performance, these are the plugins you should have a try. :D

Name
Description
Rate(Out of 10)
Add Meta Tags

Adds the Description and Keywords XHTML META tags to your blog’s front page and to each one of the posts, static pages and category archives.

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AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget
Help your visitor promote your website or blog. Put the AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget on your site or blog, so any visitor can easily bookmark it. The widget works with all popular bookmarking services.
5
Adsense-Deluxe
Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts.
8
Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template.
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Dean’s Permalinks Migration
With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t hurt your google pagerank.
10
Enforce www. Preference
Provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www.
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Google Sitemaps
This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.
10
Related Posts
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
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SEO Title Tag
Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags. Create a customized title tag for any post, static page, category page, UltimateTagWarrior tag page – indeed, any URL! And will auto-insert the tag name into the title on tag pages generated by UltimateTagWarrior plugin. Admin allows for mass editing of title tags.
10
Share This
Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Thanks to Thomas McMahon for footwork on the URLs. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README.
6
Show Top Commentators
Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your Wordpress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one).
6
Subscribe To Comments
Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
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Top Posts By Category
Top Posts By Category Plugin. Manage options by going to Options->Top Posts
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Ultimate Tag Warrior
Ultimate Tag Warrior is a tagging plugin, that’s heavy on tag visualisation.
10
WP-ContactForm III
WP Contact Form III is a simple drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. Just add <!–contact form–> where you’d like the from to show up.
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[Descriptions of plugins are copied from the plugins’ homepage.]

You can find additional plugins for your site in the WordPress plugin directory.

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Adobe Director MX 2004 Free eSeminar Series

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Adobe.com is going to organise an one-hour free online seminar to learn how Adobe Director MX 2004 from Adobe is being used to quickly create online and downloadable games, multimedia training and educational content and multimedia applications.

Demonstration and product features review will be done by their Adobe Director experts in this coming eSeminar. The covered topics include:

• Author once and deploy anywhere

• Create content using the media of their choice

• Publish content across platforms

• Create sophisticated interactivity with a choice of scripting languages

• Utilize extensible authoring and playback environments to obtain features and functionality not provided “out of the box”

• Tap into the strength and power provided by a robust 3rd party Xtra developer community to extend the functionality delivered to the client

Date and Time

1. Wednesday, June 20, 2007 (9:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific)
2. Tuesday, July 24, 2007 (9:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific)

For more information, click here.

Verdict
Hopefully they review some of the upgraded features for coming Adobe Director 11.

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Insert Symbol Quickly by Using Character Map

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If you’ve ever wanted to know how to enter a trademark or copyright symbol, find the right Wingding, or the keyboard shortcut for an em dash, then you should check out this tool – Character Map.

Here’s the steps on how to run this program:

1. Go to “Start” -> “Accessories” -> “System Tools” -> “Character Map“.

Insert Symbol Quickly by Using Character Map
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Game – Boxhead 2Play Rooms

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This is another sequel to the famous zombie shooting game. Lots of new huge rooms. Play with a friend in Coop or a Deathmatch mode!

Play alone or play it with your friend. It supports 2 players in a room.
Kill the zombie with different weapons!

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How much sugar is in a can of soda?

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Watch this video to find out how much sugar you take when you drink a typical can of soda.

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Flickr Chinese Version has released

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Just a short post to let you all know flickr chinese version has been released. :D

Flickr Chinese

So now, there’s 7 languagues supported by flickr.

One more thing, Youtube chinese version will be released very soon according to this news.

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Adobe Director 11 Updates

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Here is the latest Adobe Director 11 updates. It’s a minor updates if compare with my previous post – Adobe Director 11 updated News.

Anyway, least is better than none. Let’s see the news I got from Adobe forum.
Dean Utian has mentioned

John Dowdell, an Adobe Developer Support person made some comments on his
blog in the last few days speculating that Director’s development cycle
is over. He is not part of the Director team and was just guessing. The
one positive result of his comment is that it has brought out some
public comments from key people in the Director development team to set
the record straight.

From Tridib Roy Chowdhury, Director of Products at Adobe
Adobe has invested in a large engineering team which is working towards
the next release of Director 11
We are also getting ready to start the discussions on the Director 3
year roadmap.

K Venkatesh, Senior Program Manager, Director-Shockwave.
Director-Shockwave combo is alive and kicking. The version 11 is due in
2H07 and I manage the release program of Director and Shockwave.

and he also answered the question of what’s the new features in coming Adobe Director,

Another big update is Unicode text. I’m not sure if you’ve had much experience
in this area. It is quite a significant change to text treatment and would be a
very large job to implement. So, Director 11 is bound to be more than a
maintenance release.

As I’ve said before, Macromedia neglected Director and let bugs and cracks
develop in the code. Part of Adobe’s update to the new Operating Systems is to
close as many of the cracks and legacy bugs and build a much stronger base for
future development
. So, while Director 11 may not have the wave of new features
we’d all like to see (like 3D engine etc.), I’m hopeful it will be the start of
a stronger future under Adobe.

If Adobe really wanted to depreciate Director, the could have written it off now
and avoided OS updates and things like Unicode. To me, this investment of time
and resources shows they ARE NOT looking at Director as a short term thing.

You can read more about the post here or news from Adobe official website here.

Stay tuned for more updates!

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View as slideshow on Gmail

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Gmail just launched a new feature – View as slideshow.

Now you can open a Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) file or Microsoft PowerPoint (DOC) file without downloading it to your computer. :D
You’ll read your email that attached PPT/DOC file as the image below.

View as slideshow-Google

Just click “View as slideshow” next to the .ppt attachment and it will be opened by Google Spreadsheets in a new browser window. It works the same with .doc attachments too.

So don’t worry to view your Gmail PPT/DOC attachment without Microsoft Office installed. Good trick Google!!!

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