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08
Aug
2007

Google search result udpate August 2007

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I suddenly saw a boost in traffic from 2 major websites of my projects. A simple “site: “command, I found that one website, used to have 3000+ pages indexed in google with pages in supplementary search result after the first result page, has 7000+ indexed normally (out of supplementary results) after almost 6 months seo work.

The other one, used to have 300+ indexed (most of them are in supplementary results), has 483 pages indexed out of supplementary results after constantly building quality links.

Well, the hard work certainly pays!

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07
Aug
2007

How to enable asp.net / asp for IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista

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If you find you self in a situation that an aspx page cannot be accessed from IIS 7 on Windows Vista, read this.

go to Control Panel –> Program –> Turn Windows Features on or off

then expand Internet Information Services –> World Wide Web Services –> Application Development Features

Last, just check what features you need: ASP, ASP.NET, CGI, ISPI and etc.

enable ASP, ASP.NET, CGI on IIS 7 on Windows Vista

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02
Aug
2007

Windows most common shortcut keys

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Here’s a list of most common shortcut keys(hot keys) used on Windows OS or in Windows applications. I use those to improve productivity. And you can image that when my colleges see I do something without using the mouse they ask, how did you do that? Well, these shortcut keys are not secret. You can find it in Windows help or documentations.

Note: WIN is the windows key, the one with a Windows logo.

  1. WIN + E, open windows explorer.
  2. Ctrl + C, copy selected file(s).
  3. Ctrl + X, cutselected file(s) .
  4. Ctrl + A, select all files.
  5. Ctrl + V, paste selected file(s) in place.
  6. Ctrl + Shift + ESC
  7. WIN + D, show desktop
  8. WIN + R, show run dialog
  9. WIN + L, lock computer
  10. WIN + tab, show 3D windows list (in Windows Vista and theme enabled)
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26
Jul
2007

Free web templates, CSS styles and web design resources

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I came across a web design blog today and found a very resourceful article of a compilation of free web design templates and css websites. Even better is that all those templates, CSS styles are open source and made by their communities. I am pretty sure they can spark many design ideas for everyone. Make sure to check it out.

here is the link

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25
Jul
2007

BackLight Always On

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WIN32 APIs you needed to call:

[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
private static extern IntPtr SetPowerRequirement(string pvDevice, PowerState DeviceState, int DeviceFlags, IntPtr pvSystemState, int StateFlags);

[DllImportAttribute("coredll.Dll")]
private static extern int ReleasePowerRequirement(IntPtr hPowerReq);

Structure you will need:


public enum PowerState
{
PWRUNSPECIFIED = -1,
FULL = 0,
LOW = 1,
STANDBY = 2,
SLEEP = 3,
OFF = 4,
PWRMAX = 5
}

Actual methods:
IntPtr handle = SetPowerRequirement(”BKL1:”, level, 1, IntPtr.Zero, 0);

Note:
It works on Windows Mobile 5.0 with .net Compact Framework 1.0 or .net Compact Framework 2.0.

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10
Jul
2007

WordPress vs Joomla

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Well, I once again clean up my hosting space and switch back to WordPress after I have Joomla 1.5Beta2 installed for a month. As being a long time Joomla fan, I made my decision based on purely the purpose of this site, a search engine friendly blog about things I do. Like programming, building websites and stuff.

Back to the topic, there are many good articles about this topics, and here’s my 2 cents:

Joomla is good for full featured websites like corporate sites, product sites and etc. It’s extensive and complicated and yet powerful enough to handle all features a CMS system needs.

pros:

  • Powerful, extensive
  • Nice looking free template comes with it
  • Best php web framwork I’ve worked on

cons:

  • Not easy to crack it
  • Lack of SEO from the core, SEFU (however you do have some choices over either free or commercial SEO components to use)
  • Most recently, the GPL news, yes, it suppose to make things better, OSM, Yeah!, however it may cause negative effects.

I am not sure if the last one should be listed as one of the cons. Well, at least for now, some extension developers have stopped working on those wonderful components because of this. Actual users may only benefit from this after a while when many good GPL compatible extensions come and replace those are not.

WordPress, current stable version is 2.21

Pros:

  • Smaller file size
  • Easier to setup
  • SEO SEFU is built into the core

cons:

Conclusion:

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10
Nov
2006

Canon 30D EF85mm f1.8 Testing Shot

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My new lense. It’s a great lense for value as you can see from this photo, beautiful bokeh!

Canon EF85mm f1.8 test shot

It was taken in my home kitchen with customized WB and max Aperture with ISO 200. No Flash.

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