Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
This tutorial will guide you to make sequential thumbnails or screenshots of a video file. Sequential thumbnail means it will autometically take screenshots from a video after some interval and scale them to a smaller size.
Our result will have a single image page containing several thumbnails or screenshots from a video. A great thing if you are sharing a video. People always wants to see what is in a video before they download it.
First we need to install a free software (open source) called Media Player Classic
Download:
Media Player Classic for Windows XP and Windows 2000
Media Player Classic for Windows ...
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
RapidShare.de is the most popular file sharing service around. This tutorial will guide you to download a file from RapidShare.de/RapidShare.com
If you have any download manager or download accelerator running (like Free Dwnload Manager or FDM, Download Accelerator Plus or DAP) please disable them before you start downloading (unless you have a premium account). RapidShare does not allow using such softwares with free accounts.
Step 1:
A rapid share download link usually looks like the following.
Click on the link.
Step 2:
This will take you to a page like the following.
Scroll down and click on the FREE button.
Step 3:
In the next page you should see ...
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Over a post in Google Webmaster Central Blogs Vanessa Fox stated that when your site goes down for maintenance tou should configure your server to return a status of 503 (network unavailable) rather than 200 (successful). This lets Googlebot know to try the pages again later.
Searching for how i can make my Apache webserver return the 503 - Service Unavailable status code for a particular site on a shared hosting environment i found the following solution over http://wiki.splitbrain.org/503.sh
To return 503 (Service Unavailable) status on Apache Web Server:
Step 1:
Create the following shellscript named 503.sh:
#!/bin/sh
cat <<EOF
Status: 503
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD ...
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Saturday, August 12th, 2006
This tutorial will guide you to upload a file over RapidShare.de for public sharing.
RapidShare.de is one of the most popular file sharing service around. You can upload upto 100mb file size. Be noted that if the file doesnt get any upload in 30 days, it will get deleted.
Uploading file using RapidShare.de
Step 1:
Go to
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Thursday, August 10th, 2006
This tutorial will guide you to download files using a download manager called "Free Download Manager (FDM)"
Why using FDM (or any other download manager)? Because it allows you to resume downloads if you get disconnected and much more features including a faster download.
As the name says FDM is a totally free download manager. No ads, nag screen or limitation.
You can download Free Download Manager (FDM) from www.freedownloadmanager.org
Lets download and install it first!
Go to www.freedownloadmanager.org
Click on the "Download" link.
Download and install it.
How to install? Save it to a location and run the downloaded installer. Follow instructions.
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