Tech Sharing Blog

I just started my new blog call (Share A Video) recently and the blog is mainly use to share all the video with my reader. And the video source are mainly the video I found is intereting from other web site such as facebook, youtube, and etc.

But I do face a problem where facebook don’t allow you to actually embed the video into other web site, after I googling for a while and finally found the script that help you to embed the video.

Every video uploaded on Facebook has a unique ID that you can find in the browser’s address bar (look for the value of parameter “v”).

Copy that number and replace it with xxx in the code below.


<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="400" height="224" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/xxx" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="224" src="http://www.facebook.com/v/xxx" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"> </embed></object>

From now, you may watch the video from facebook in your web site or blog without need to register or log in into facebook account.

The following video is one of the video from facebook

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Few days back, when I try to log into my Google Analytics to check my blog status, I’m suprise that my blog is not being tracking after I change to the new Masagana WP Theme. After try out few way including deactivate and activate back the analytics plugin, reinstall the plugin, but still no luck to make it work.

I try to google and finally found out that that’s not only my self have this problem, there are a lot of people who using the same blog with me also having the same problem.

I came across a post which highlights the solution to fix this issue.What has caused this issue is that a function has missing or left out from the theme which prevents WP Stats and Google Analytics from working. Apparently, the theme owner has forgotten to insert the function. To fix this issue, you need to edit the footer.php in your theme editor. From your WordPress’s admin panel, navigate to Design > Theme Editor > footer.php.

In the footer.php, just add the following code intot it, I believe the new downloaded Masagana WP Theme footer being encrypted, so just insert the code before the encrypted code to make it work.

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

Once done, update the file. WP Stats and Google Analytics should be working by now.

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Finally I decide and work for the new theme. After about 1 year of using the old theme – TechBlue Adsense-Ready Theme, I decide and move to change for the new theme call Masagana Theme.

The theme is develop by Padd Solutions with the features of post gallery, feedburner email subscription, twitter account integration, popular posts, automatic thumbnail resizer, adsense ready with the advertising blocks easily customize via an option page.

The following are some of the theme features:

• Compatible with WordPress version 2.7
• Twitter Account Integration
• Built-in Page Navigation
• Featured Post Gallery
• Option Page for Easy Customization
• Feedburner Email Subscriber
• Popular Posts
• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer
• Adsense Ready
• Advertisement Blocks Ready
• Gravatar Enabled
• Threaded Comments

By using this theme, you may also need to install some of the required plugins in order to make it work, the plugin include :

• Popularity Contest
• P-PageNavi
• Twitter for WordPress

What make me like this theme is the Features Post Gallery features, where you may post the photo as the slide show on the top of the blog, but after about few hours of testing, I still unable to set it out.

Click here to view on the theme official web site
Click here to download Masagana WordPress Theme

Tech blog with the new Masagana Premium WordPress Themes

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How can a company like Automattic make money if they are giving away all their products (including WordPress) for free? Someone asked this question to WordPress founder Matt at WordCamp India and he surprised, at least some of us, by saying that Automattic is profitable.

Here’s how WordPress makes money according to the creator himself:

1. Blog Hosting – WordPress offers blog hosting services at $500 per month to big publishers like Om Malik, All Things D and CNN’s Political Ticker among others. They use WordPress.com’s server infrastructure to host your blog and therefore the performance will obviously be great but unlike other web hosting services, WordPress VIP Hosting doesn’t accept everyone who applies so good luck.

2. Google AdSense - Free blogs hosted on WordPress.com may sometimes carry Google ads but these ads may only appear if all the following three conditions are met:

1. The visitor is not using Firefox browser.
2. He has logged out of his WordPress account, if he has one.
3. The referring source is not a WordPress powered blog. So a person reaching abc.wordpress.com from xyz.wordpress.com won’t see any Google Ads.

Even with all these conditions, the revenue generated from serving Google AdSense ads on WordPress.com hosted blog may still be significant as do around a billion page views per month.

3. Automattic Kismet – You don’t see Viagra spam in your blog posts because it all gets filtered automatically by Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short), the excellent spam protection plug-in available for WordPress.

Now Akismet spam catching technology is free for personal blogs but if you maintain a corporate blog or run a network of blogs, you are required to buy a commercial license of Akismet that starts at around $50 per month.

What may surprise you is that professional bloggers, or anyone who is making more than $500 per month in advertising revenue from a WordPress blog, also needs to pay a $5 per month fee for the Akismet license.

4. Premium Accounts – While anyone can host a blog on WordPress.com for free, they charge you a fee if you want to buy additional storage space for your multimedia files or want to use a custom web domain instead of the default wordpress.com sub-domain. These arepremium features.

There’s also (unconfirmed) talk that WordPress may soon allow users to add AdSense in their free blogs for a subscription fee.

5. Web Host Referrals – WordPress.org suggests of list of third-party web hosting companies where you may self-host your WordPress blog(s) for a fee. Now all these are referral links so Automattic gets a commission per sale.

In fact, this hosting referral system may be extremely profitable for Automattic because if you search for “WordPress Hosting” on Google (a very competitive keyword phrase), the first sponsored link on the Google results page is paid by WordPress itself and it says – “Top 5 WordPress Web Hosts – Chosen by the developers of the WordPress blogging software”.

6. WordPress Support – If you need help with WordPress (or WordPress MU) but the free support forums aren’t solving the purpose, consider subscribing to the Support Network of Automattic. The WordPress development team will help you solve problems related to your WordPress system and the response time can be as low as 6 hours. This service is primarily for Enterprise users who are willing to shell out a $2.5-5k per year for support.

7. Poll Daddy – I am not sure if Matt discussed this but Automattic also provides a paid version of Poll Daddy where you can have unlimited number of questions per survey and there’s no Poll Daddy branding in your polls or surveys.

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Check out the slide show to find out which blogger are you consider as?

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Tab Scope is a Opera a like tabs preview tool tips for firefox. The small pop up window will show up for the real time preview on the the tab contents.

Not only that, you may also navigate your web page within the small preview window, zoom it in and out, refresh the tab in the small preview window and lot more.

This maybe a good idea and useful add ons in firefox when you are actually open up a lot of tabs.

Main features:

• Real-time preview of tab contents
• Navigate (Back/Forward/Reload/Stop) through popup
• Scroll pages or frames in preview with mouse wheel
• Click links or buttons directly in preview

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