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A Quick Feedburner Coding Tip

I see a lot of blogs featuring a Feedburner email subscription form in their blog’s sidebar. At the same time showing off how many readers they have through the feedcount chicklet, also from Feedburner. I have provided a quick guide on how to place the feedburner feedcount chicklet inside your feedburner email subscription form to provide a nice clean look.

This is the sample code for the email subscription form:

Feedburner email subscription code:

<form style=”border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center;” action=”http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverify” method=”post” target=”popupwindow” onsubmit=”window.open(‘http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1391240′, ‘popupwindow’, ‘scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520′);return true”><p>Enter your email address:</p><p><input type=”text” style=”width:140px” name=”email”/></p><input type=”hidden” value=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=1391240″ name=”url”/><input type=”hidden” value=”Orangeinks” name=”title”/><input type=”hidden” name=”loc” value=”en_US”/><input type=”submit” value=”Subscribe” /><p>Delivered by <a href=”http://www.feedburner.com” target=”_blank”>FeedBurner</a></p> paste the feedcount chicklet code here </form>

After you paste the email subscription code in your website all you have to do is insert the feed count chicklet code in the email subscription code form. You must insert the chicklet code (sample below) before the </form> tag.

Feedburner feedcount chicklet code:

<p><a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/orangeinks”><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/orangeinks?bg=f0f0f0&fg=000000&anim=0″ height=”26″ width=”88″ style=”border:0″ alt=”" /></a></p>

There you have it. You will have a neat email subscription form with your feedcount in it (you can check out my sidebar). You can also edit the text inside the form to provide a more personal touch in your email subscription form.

Tags: chicklet, codes, email, feedburner, form, tip

Double Meaning Domain Names

I have posted a few months ago about some tips in choosing a domain name for starters. It’s not much really, and I bet most of you know the rules in choosing a decent name for your website.  But, I seemed to have missed a few points. Apparently, when choosing a domain name, you should take into consideration on how other people might interpret your online name. Remember that not all people think like you and some will definitely misinterpret/misread a domain name especially when they are all cramped up together and are always in lowercase text.  I personally don’t recommend the use of dashes when registering a domain name, but there are always special cases when you have to break the rules. And one of those special cases is for the domains listed below.

Who Represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is  www.whorepresents.com/   (Top Search is Paris Hilton – Most will think that they got the domain right )

Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange Advice and views at www.expertsexchange.com/

Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
www.penisland.net/

Looking for a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at
www.therapistfinder.com/

The Italian Power Generator company,
www.powergenitalia.com/

The Mole Station Native Nursery in New South Wales,
www.molestationnursery.com/ (Are you going to send your kids to this nursery? Thank goodness they moved the site – its on domain parking now)

The First Cumming Methodist Church Web site is
www.cummingfirst.com/

The Speed of Art is a designers website
www.speedofart.com/

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Firefox Tip: Make Firefox Browse Faster

This is an old Firefox trick that I have been using for a few years now. It is said that when you download Firefox it is initially optimized for dial-up connection browsing. Meaning it can only load one file at a time. This tweak will open up that restriction and allow multiple objects to be downloaded simultaneously by Firefox for a given time depending on your connection. Just follow the instructions below:

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return(Enter). Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining

network.http.proxy.pipelining

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

When you enable pipelining it will make several requests at once, which will really speed up the page loading. What is pipelining? Normally, HTTP requests are issued sequentially, with the next request being issued only after the response to the current request has been completely received. Depending on network latencies and bandwidth limitations, this can result in a significant delay before the next request is seen by the server.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true“

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number between 8 and 30. This means it will make x requests at once. Remember to be careful on choosing your value for this, for if you set it too high it might also affect your browsing negatively. But, if you really have a high speed connection, then give it a high number.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere (on the white part of the about:config page) and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you are afraid that you might screw things up and you don’t want to go to all that tweaking the configuration and go Jedi Master with Firefox, you can download this Firefox Extension that will pretty much do the same thing. Just download and install the plugin and restart Firefox.

After restarting your browser, click on the Tools menu and hit Tweak Network Settings and a window like the image above will open. Just click the Power button and the settings will change. Remember, if you are going to play around with the values and got a negative effect on your browsing speed, just hit the default button and the settings will reset. Enjoy the tip and happy browsing.

Note: This tweak only works for Broadband users

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Windows: Bandwidth Thief?

This video claims that Windows reserves 20% of your bandwidth for Windows Updates. This will show you how to reclaim that bandwidth by modifying the local computer policy and enjoy the full service that you have paid for.

Tags: bandwidth, increase bandwidth, tip, Windows, windows tweaks