When Is It Time To Upgrade to a Dedicated?

Shared servers are just that shared. It means that if someone on your server has a spike in traffic to their website one day, resources may be taken away from your website. If hundreds of other websites on your server have a spike at the same time there is a good chance that performance will be affected. Think of it this way. A web hosting server is just a computer do you share your work computers processor and RAM with 400 other people? That is exactly what you are doing if you are on a shared hosting plan. Though sharing brings its benefits, the biggest one being low price, there are some situations where you need to consider upgrading to dedicated server.
Before go for the upgrade, you must be aware that you have to keep the website running, it’s software platform and the partition that you take on the server and adjust it to your specifications, or to hire technical expert to support it. With more resources, come along more cost. Before moving to a delicated hosting account, make strict and correct conclusions what will be your needs. It is not advised to upgrade if the tech part is way more above your pay grade.
Dedicated server hosting provides you with the highest caliber of stability and performance rates. With your growing business at hand, you may want to consider visitor traffic utilizing your resources effectively. Although it may seem like an expensive upgrade, keep in mind the amount of business you face losing if your shared hosting plan cannot keep your business website up and available to your customers online all the time.

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on 2 September 2008, and the public stable release was on 11 December 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. As of August 2010, Chrome was the third most widely used browser, with 7.54% of worldwide usage share of web browsers, according to Net Applications.

The Essential Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers

We’ve taken some of most useful Chrome Extensions which may help for your works.

1. Firebug Lite for Google Chrome

Firebug Lite for Google Chrome

Firebug Lite is not a substitute for Firebug, or Chrome Developer Tools. It is a tool to be used in conjunction with these tools. Firebug Lite provides the rich visual representation we are used to see in Firebug when it comes to HTML elements, DOM elements, and Box Model shading. It provides also some cool features like inspecting HTML elements with your mouse, and live editing CSS properties.
This version was conceived to put the Firebug Lite in a new level, by allowing code reuse from Firebug's original source.

2. Web Developer for Chrome

Web Developer for Chrome

The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the popular Web Developer extension for Firefox written by the same person.
It has loads of options for examining and understanding web page layouts, including showing block element stacking orders, displaying CSS style information about certain elements, browser cache controlling, and much more.

3. Speed Tracer (by Google)

Speed Tracer

Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low-level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Speed Tracer is available as a Chrome extension and works on all platforms where extensions are currently supported (Windows and Linux).

4. Resolution Test

Resolution Test

Resolution Test changes the size of the browser window for developers to preview their websites in different screen resolutions. It includes a list of commonly used resolutions and the ability to customise that list. It also gives users the option to turn on Google Browser Size.

5. Pendule

Pendule - Web developer tools for Chrome

Pendule extends the built-in Developer tools in Google Chrome. The extension gives its users plenty of features such as one-touch markup validation using W3C’s automated web services, hiding images on a web page, viewing scripts included in a web page, and more.

6. IE Tab (for Windows)

IE Tab

Use Internet Explorer to display web pages in a Chrome tab. Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome. Great for web developers who want to test the IE rendering engine, users who use sites with ActiveX controls, and users who want to use the explorer view for local files (i.e. file:// URLs).

7. Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper is a Google Chrome extension that gives you the ability to determine a color on any web page. What’s more is that it presents a color wheel and color swathes (found in most graphics software) so that you can experiment, tweak and pick colors.

8. SEO Site Tools

SEO Site Tools

A well-formed web page with great markup ultimately leads to awesome search engine results. However, if you would like to evaluate your website in terms of known search engine optimization factures, try out the SEO Site Tools, a Chrome extension that gives you a plethora of useful tools and features for evaluating SEO. It can pull tons of on-page and off-page metrics, social media information, and more.

9. CSS Scan

CSS Scan

Inspired by the Firefox Extension CSSViewer, this Chrome extension allows you to easily scan an element's basic CSS properties without having to delve into the inspector window.
The extension adds a button to the toolbar. Clicking this button will enable the extension; you can then continue using the page, with the difference that a quick overview of CSS properties for the element your mouse cursor is hovering is displayed. To disable the CSS scanner, simply click the icon again.
Elements being scanned are highlighted with a red outline so the user can easily see the structure of the page. Most CSS properties are supported; however, feel free to leave a comment if you feel like there's any missing.
NOTE: For some reason the extension does not work on this page (or any other in the chrome extension gallery)! It seems to work fine on any other page.

10. Webpage Screenshot

Website Screenshot

This is the first Chrome extension that takes the screen shot of full webpage (not only the visible page on-screen) no matter how long the page is and saves it in a JPG file format. This is a useful extension if you want to display available ad slots on your website or want to show all the sections of your website that are on one page.
This is a local extension which means it does not send any data to any server and is completely private. It has options to upload and share the screenshot image and resizing it to specific size.

11. Chrome Editor

Chrome Editor

If you make changes in the html code of your website quite often, this extension will be a great help for you. Chrome Editor lets you make changes in your website’s html code inside browser so that you do not have to flip between a code editor and a browser. You can save the code locally in your computer for reference or email the code to a friend.
The extension comes with W3C validation service and auto saves the code as you type. There is a list of shortcuts to save your time while coding.

12. MeasureIt!

MeasureIt!

Draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

13. MultiSwitch

MultiSwitch

Whenever you have the need to simply switch between development, test and productive hosts you should use MultiSwitch. You are now able to customize the title of your environment. In this latest version the ip:port bug is also fixed.

Find Somethings Missing?

Have you ever use one of the Google Chrome Extensions above here? Do you know of an extension any other? Share experiences here with us to know the same people.

Google Buzz Tips - The Missing Manual

1. Disable email notifications

When someone replies to one of your Google Buzz messages, Google sends an email notification to your Gmail account. If you don't like the notifications or they clutter your inbox, create a filter that archives or deletes all the messages that are labeled "buzz" (a built-in Gmail label). Make sure you type label:buzz (you could also use is:buzz) in the "Has the words" box and ignore Gmail's warning.

2. Connecting Buzz to Twitter via Google Reader Shared Items

If you’re sharing links via Buzz you’ll probably want to share them with your Twitter followers, too. You can do that in a few different ways.
Twitterfeed lets send anything you share on Google Reader to your Twitter account. Just go to your Google Reader Shared Items page, copy the Atom feed and paste it into Twitterfeed. Then just authorize your Twitter account to sync them up.

Reader2Twitter uses the pubsubhubbub protocol to perform real-time sync. A new version has already been released that works specifically with Google Buzz. Just sign in with your Twitter account via Oauth. You can even add your bit.ly account so you can shorten URLs and track analytics. All in all, it’s a simple but powerful little tool.

Facebook’s FriendFeed can also connect Google Reader to Twitter very easily. Just click “add/edit” on your Friendfeed profile and look for the Google Reader service under “News.”

3. Sharing Stuff with Google Reader

If you use Google Reader then whatever you share there shows up in your Google Buzz stream. It’s all done via the "Shared items" feature. Look for it under "Your stuff" in Google Reader.
You can share anything you’re viewing in Google Reader by clicking the “Share” button at the bottom of every post you’re reading. (Click “Unshare” to stop sharing it)
You can set privacy controls and only allow specified groups of people to view the items you share. This could be important for those of you that are using Buzz for work.

1. Go to Google Reader
2. Click on “Shared items”
3. Click on “Sharing Settings”
4. Change the setting for “Your shared items can be viewed by” to: “Protected (Shared with Selected Groups)”

You can manage your groups via Gmail’s Contacts. Note that selecting the “Public” option means just that: Everyone is be able to see everything you share via Google Reader and Buzz.

4. Don’t Like Google Buzz Or If It’s Not For You? Then…

Turn Off Google Buzz

If you do not like Google Buzz or it’s really not for you so there is a way that you can keep it out of your Gmail inbox. You would need to go down on the inbox page and there is an option that say "turn off buzz"

5. Hide Your Buzz Contact List from Prying Eyes

It is not a good thing to show to the world the contact info and email (Google profiles are generated from your Gmail account). Because Buzz is not centered on follower numbers (like Twitter is) you should definitely and first hide that information.

The way to do that is by editing your Google profile and checking off the option “Display the list of people I’m following and people following me”.

Do not show follower-following

5. Post from email and SMS

A really cool feature that Buzz offers from the get-go is email posting. Just email to buzz@gmail.com from your Gmail account (either web or mobile) and the Subject of your email becomes the title of a new buzz. You can also attach a picture file and it will be added to your buzz.
You can also fine tune who sees those email posts, by going to your “Connected Services” page (just make sure you’ve posted at least one buzz email) and select which group sees those.

6. Mastering Google Buzz Keyboard shortcuts

Using Buzz with your mouse (or touchpad) can be a pain, as posts can be short or long based on the number of comments they have and embedded media.
If you are a Google Reader power user, you already know about the keyboard shortcuts there. You’ll be happy to know that they too work on Buzz.
First, you need to enable keyboard shortcuts on Gmail. Just go to the Gmail settings page and enable keyboard shortcuts.
These are the two keyboard shortcuts I use the most: “n” and “p” allow you to move to the next and earlier buzzes. You will see a little arrow on the left top side of the buzz to let you know which one is selected. That way you can navigate through the buzzes fairly quickly.
The second one is the “m” key, which mutes a buzz. That way, if you are not interested in the comments or activity of a buzz, you just mute it and it will be forever archived, unclogging the good stuff you do want to follow. I also believe by muting buzzes, Google’s system can start to learn what’s interesting to you and what isn’t (although that’s more of a hunch than a statement, maybe someone from Google can confirm that).

This is a must-have for power users. The Google Buzz Cheat Sheet is a keyboard printout with notes on top of the keys to help you learn and remember the quick shortcuts built into Buzz. Note that you have to enable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail Labs (Click Settings, Labs, and “Enable” Keyboard Shortcuts).

7. Don’t import echoes

One thing that gets really annoying is echoes of content from the same source. For example, if you are importing your Google Reader items to Twitter and you are also importing Twitter to Google Buzz, users will see your shared Google Reader items twice. Same goes for FriendFeed (it’s usually a safe bet to not import FriendFeed into Buzz, unless you’re just posting original content there). Just make sure you’re bringing the good stuff just once to your buzz community.

8. Mark Up Your Text

Google Buzz understands some very basic text markup language. That means you can spice up your text entries on Buzz by using bold text, italics and strikethroughs. Here's what you do:

• *Make your text bold by placing an asterisk at each end of your word or sentence*.
• Using underscores at each end will italicize this Buzz comment_.
• Use a dash at each end for a strikethrough-
• For an em–dash, just place two hyphens side–by–side

9. Get Those Buzzes Out of Your Inbox

Three kinds of Buzz updates will be automatically sent to your inbox: Whenever anyone comments on a buzz created by you; when another user comments on a buzz created by someone else that you have also commented on; or when someone tags you in a Buzz through the @reply system.
Google send these notifications to you, because the company believes you'll want to be notified when things happen on Buzzes you are actively participating in. But if you find these notifications annoying, Google doesn't have an obvious way to change this behavior. So it's up to you to use the power of Gmail filters and labels to take control of your buzzes.

10. Subscribe to Someone's Buzz via RSS

If you want to subscribe to someone's Buzz in your feed reader, just go to their Google profile page. Once there, you'll see the orange RSS icon appear in the browser's address bar. Click the icon to add Buzz to your favorite feed reader.

11. Send direct messages

If you'd like to send a private message to someone, type @ and use Gmail's autocomplete feature to find the email address of your contact. After typing the message, make sure that the private option is selected, click on "Post to other groups" and create an empty group. You could call it "No one", "Empty group" etc. Now you can send your message.

Send direct messages

When you send a private message, Google Buzz lets you select one or more groups that will receive message, but you can also include the contacts in your message.

12. Link to a Google Buzz message

If a message is public, it has a permalink that could be used to share the discussion. Gmail shows the links without having to use additional options, but it's not obvious that the timestamp of the message is actually a permalink.

13. Hide Google Buzz's counter

Google Buzz's message counter is distracting, so it would be nice to hide it. Unfortunately, there's no Gmail option that lets you hide counter, but you can hide the link to Google Buzz. Drag "Buzz" to the "X more" drop-down and you can hide the Buzz label.

14. Find public Google Buzz messages

If you thought that Google Buzz's search box is restricted to your social connections, think again. Google Buzz's search feature shows the latest public messages that match your query.
Some useful searches:
author:<insertname>@gmail.com - find all the messages written by a specific user (you can also use a partial name instead of an email address)
commenter:<insertname>@gmail.com - find all the messages that have a comment from a specific user
has:photo, has:video, has:link - restricts the results to messages that include photos, videos or links (such as: vancouver has:photo)
source:flickr, source:twitter, source:reader- restricts the results to messages imported from Flickr, Twitter, Google Reader (such as: vancouver source:flickr)

15. View Google Buzz photos in a slideshow

When you upload photos to Google Buzz, they're added to Picasa Web Albums. If you click on a thumbnail, Google Buzz will open a light box to help you quickly navigate between images. Unfortunately, there's no option to view the images in a slide show, but Picasa Web Albums has this feature and there's a small link that opens the photo album. Click on "view all" and you can select the slide show option, export photos using Picasa or print photos.

16. Access Buzz before it’s enabled for your account

If Google hasn’t enabled buzz for your account yet, you can get a sneak peek by turning on Multiple Inboxes in Gmail Labs and set is:buzz in one of the empty panes. Bam! Now you’re buzzed! Sorry this doesn’t work for Google Apps yet, but I’d assume that once they start to add it to Apps, you will be the first to know!

17. Add a “Buzz it” widget to your blog

Have a blog? Increase your traffic by adding a simple Buzz widget. In your blog’s theme, simply use the following URL (replace the appropriate data):

<a href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=[YOUR POST'S URL HERE]&title=[YOUR POST'S TITLE HERE]&snippet=[YOUR POST'S DESCRIPTION HERE]&srcURL=[YOUR BLOG'S URL HERE]&srcTitle=[YOUR BLOG'S NAME HERE]"><img src="buzz-icon.png" alt="" /> Buzz it!</a>

18. View a summary of your own Buzz activity at Google Dashboard

Buzz Dashboard

The Google Dashboard provides a private, consolidated summary of the data associated with your Google account, as well as direct links to control your personal settings. As of today, Buzz has its own section on the Dashboard, so you can see how many people you're following, how many people are following you, and information about your recent posts, comments, and likes. You can also access your Buzz settings right there on the page.
That's all for now - but if you have Buzz tips of your own, feel free to share them in the comments below!

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Beginning Effective date: October 14, 2009, the PayPal User Agreement, Payments policy and buyer protection policy will be modified to include several new currencies as holding currencies and add additional withdrawal countries and the related fees and charges have been modified to include these new currencies. New currencies include: Filipino Peso, Taiwanese Dollar, Thai Baht, Malaysian Ringgit, Argentinean Peso, and Brazilian Reais. Bank account withdrawal countries being added include Vietnam, Malaysia, Argentina, and Brasil. Several of these currencies are restricted currencies and not all PayPal features will be available with regards to a restricted currency and not all customers will have access to restricted currencies.

This is really interesting, Before Oct 14, Vietnam PayPal accounts only for the purpose of payment but not allowed to receive money. Today, Today, Vietnamese PayPal accounts can send, receive and in-country bank withdraw funds from Oct 14.
If you are a Vietnamese, when you come to PayPal sign-up page:

PayPal Offerings Worldwide

Flag of the Vietnam appeared in the Send and Receive Payments Worldwide securely, although there are some limitations and features are not like other countries in ASEAN but it is not that not too important, we have the world recognize of e-commerce, meet the provisions and requirements of e-commerce world.

Send and Receive Payments Securely Worldwide

With me, paying and receiving money has become easier. Thanks PayPal!

Snipplr

Snipplr.com is like del.icio.us for people who write a lot of code. Snipplr covers almost every language from ASP, ASP.NET, PHP to Ruby, Django or AS3. With Snipplr you can keep all of your often used code snippets in one place that's accessible from any computer. By that way,  You can save your time by finding a source code as per your project need. Snipplr is one of my favourite sites for finding and sharing code snippets.

The best time of the days to publish your post

I often have wondered and have tried to test a bit when the best time to post a blog article was to increase your likelihood of getting into the social bookmarking sites and hitting a tipping point. Our readership is all over the world, but the most readers are on the east and west coast of the United States.
Of course, this also depends on the timezone in which the majority of your readers are from; you want to try and publish a post in the morning of when your readers in the most earliest timezone wake up.
Researching the best time and day for posting to your blog comes with a lot of things to consider. I have read some reference articles on this issue and synthesis as follows.

• I think from 8am PST to 11am PST is the best time to post.  It is at a daily posting low for English language sites, so it will not get as much competition, but it also overlaps with the morning of both east and west coasters who I suspect are in the habit of reading their blog entries in the morning.
• This is an important reason for those who publish on a daily basis rather than a weekly. Different hours of the day have differing levels of popularity.
• There are two levels of “traffic” to consider when examining best times and days: 1) blog reading traffic and 2) comments. They could be the same or they could be different.
• Find hot days which days of the week your traffic levels will be the highest helps you target the release of your most “powerful or poignant” content.
• For some, publishing every day is important, for others, many times in a day. If you have that much to say, then say it. Take care not to burn your readers out with feed fatigue, publishing too much information in a short time. If you only need to publish one or two posts a week, then do so. Just keep publishing fairly consistent and don’t publish just to publish. Publish when you have something of value to share.
• You need publish every day at the same or similar time, that way will train your reader comeback to your website.
• Find the days which days of the week gets the most comments then you need to train your readers to comment, especially on regularly scheduled blog posts that encourage comments, then that is the time you will get the most blog interaction, irrespective of traffic.
• For time-sensitive posts, such as one that is news-breaking, I would post it immediately for obvious reasons.

So, I’m curious to know, when do you publish your posts? I’m guessing that most people just hit the Publish button whenever they are done a post, but with the way I outlined above, it only takes an extra few seconds to achieve maximal results.

I Unsubscribed

Darren put a an entry asking why makes you unsubscribe from feed readingand the response went overwhelmed. Below are some ideas of responses of messages which I listed from that article.

A reference you might need if you noticed a reducing in your feed readers.

1. When the blogger doesn’t post for a very long time - I feel like the site is ‘dead’.
2. When the posting consists of short updates with no real content. eg, “hi just letting everyone know i won’t be posting tomorrow.”
3. Rehashing the same popular things that are already posted on blogs of a similar genre
4. I can read regular news on newspapers or dedicated websites (BBC, CNN, etc.). I can read commentary though, but thoughtful ones, that helps me think or see something differently.
5. I usually subscribe for a while to see what kind of content is being posted, what the blog is about, and then decide if I want to continue. Even if the content is very entertaining and of very high quality, I have to be interested in the topic. And that does not mean “one” topic.
6. Too many links interspersed throughout the text.
7. Too much text, without proper use of whitespace.
8. Too Many Grammatical Errors.
9. Excessively long posts
10. Multiple posts in a day
11. Low quality posts are a good reason to un-subscribe. I don’t like to waste my time.
12. I don’t want to be de-motivated. I want to be inspired. Negative messages, even if they are true, are not good for me.
13. Lots of personal rants and stuff. I am not interested in the details of other people’s personal lives. I am more interested in thoughts and ideas.
14. No Images in the feed
15. Too many quotes
16. Found other feeds that are better
17. Too much self-promotion
18. Incomplete posts. you cannot read them in the feedreader
19. One blog recently made you click through their sponsor to read anything more than the headline of the article.