Personal Web Tech Development

Capture Underwater Moments with your Underwater Digital Camera

Web Tech — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:52:12 +0000

Please listen to me when I say that even waterproof cameras cannot withstand underwater photography. Be sure to check your underwater digital camera’s viewfinder to check the right picture angle and size that you want. Like me, you are just some photo junkie who wants to capture underwater moments and just cant figure out how without ruining your cameras. These casing will turn your conventional digital camera into an underwater digital camera. And when I say anywhere, I mean that memories are even created underwater – so the creation of underwater digital camera. But I think it is safe to assume that you, my reader, are neither a marine scientist nor a professional photographer.Check out Sony, Nikon and Canon’s website for available underwater cases for your digital cameras. Also, remember to always wash of salt when you’ve used it under salt water.Memories are created just about anywhere.Silica gel will keep the moisture from forming inside your camera case. Make sure that no grain of sand or piece of hair is stuck in between the seal to make sure that water will not permeate the case and thus wet your camera in the process. Macro lenses will help you capture small things without getting too close and startling your subject. In cases when sands seem to get into the case, they are better washed off with streams of water. Before using your underwater digital camera, submerge the camera in the water first for several seconds then check if there are leaks through the case. (more…)

How to change .htm/.html into PHP or ASP pages

Web Tech — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:37:20 +0000

If you have a website with lots of .htm or .html pages indexed on Google (or other search engine) and they have many backlinks, I’m sure you won’t let them deleted just because you want to serve dynamic content and change their extension to PHP or ASP pages. That’s enough reason why you have to read the tutor below on how to interpret .htm/.html into PHP or ASP pages in order to make them could serve dynamic content.
That could be done without changing the extention on the Apache Web Server for PHP or IIS Web Server for ASP.

Change .htm/.html to PHP pages
You could tell your Apache Web Server to interpret your .htm/.html files as .php files and serve dynamic content. Just add the following code:
AddType application/x-httpd.php .html .htm

On some Apache servers, they might require the following code line: (more…)

All Systems Go – Three Compatibility Options for HDTV

Web Tech — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:09:15 +0000

HDTV is an excellent advancement in technology that provides superior picture and sound quality when compared to traditional analog television. But, there are many different ways to take advantage of this technology, mainly broadcast antenna, cable, or satellite.

Broadcast Television
ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and the WB all broadcast prime time shows in high definition. In fact, the FCC ruled that commercial broadcasters such as these had to begin changing over to digital transmission as early as May of 2002. According to the National Association of Broadcasters, 1155 of over-the-air broadcasters in the United States met this initial deadline.

In addition, the FCC has supplied broadcasters with sufficient bandwidth to broadcast HDTV programming. Despite the FCC’s regulations and assistance with bandwidth, the government agency has not has not established any form of checks and balances to ensure broadcasters are, indeed, broadcasting in HDTV. (more…)

Choosing a Reliable Hosting

Web Tech — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:34:34 +0000

Let’s say, you already have a good domain name that give you a powerful domain presence, designed a good page(s), with loads of optimized keywords, “a very interesting website that will deliver loads of visitors”, but how about chosen a right web hosting (not free hosting) that capable to host ‘friendly pages that will be crawl easily by a robot?”

In fact, your web hosting has a significance role on delivering traffic, the more traffic mean more money for your home based internet business, more money mean financial secure (like my financial advisor said). (more…)

Nokia 7510 Supernova, Flips Out

Web Tech — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:24:38 +0000

Nokia introduced its new flip phone that comes with a nice name, the Nokia 7510 Supernova. It sports a classy hidden external display and an ‘organic’ main desktop that adapts to your behaviour over time. Interestingly, this clamshell handset also has a built-in A-GPS receiver, allowing the phone to guide you out of the traffic jam. The 2 megapixel camera also features NIPS, Nokia’s proprietary photo processing algorithm for low-light situations.
It uses Nokia Maps 1.2 software for maps navigation, routing, and local search. Moreover, it provides an advanced 2 megapixel camera module that boasts a NIPS, LED flash, and 4x digital zoom capabilities.

An FM radio is on board, so that you can tune in to your favorite station, as well. Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) offers worldwide connectivity, and the integrated LED flashlight ensures you don’t get lost in the dark. Users can manage music with an FM Radio, an enhanced MP3 player, and Nokia Music Store and Nokia Music PC Client. Additional features include a link to YouTube, access to Nokia Maps 1.2 to navigate with free mapping, routing and local search, support of A-GPS and the Nokia WidSets service. (more…)

How to Choose Free Hosting PHP

Web Tech — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:31:40 +0000

It’s great if you could find a good list of Free Hosting PHP, or any cheap hosting php. There are many directory list of free hosting PHP on Google.

There are some factors that you should consider on choosing free hosting php:

Adverts
Yes, it’s not free anyway, they need money to run the server, that why they will put their adverts on your website that hosted on their free hosting.
Most free hosting put banners, and some use text link ads. Choose which that could fit to your layout. (more…)

How to avoid Wordpress Remote SQL Injection

Web Tech — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:18:00 +0000

Wordpress Remote SQL Injection could be a pre-disaster for your Wordpress blog, it has been discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability that allows an attacker to retrieve remotely any user credentials from a vulnerable site, this bug is caused because of early database escaping and the lack of validation in query string like parameters.
Wordpress Remote SQL Injection most likely not a destructive job for your Wordpress blog, they just inject a redirect or iframe to their own page/website. This is a blackhat SEO injection technique that could hurt your website SEO campaign.

To prepare yourself, read some tips below:
- Always check your AWSTATS to determine your suspicious visitor activity.
- Backup your Wordpress files and database weekly incase you need to restore it if needed
- Always update your Wordpress instalation to the latest stable version. On the main dashboard, you’ll always see new release information. (more…)

Nokia Acquires Plazes, Geo-based Social Network

Web Tech — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:18:46 +0000

Nokia is to acquire Swiss start-up Plazes in a deal which the handset maker says will help it develop location-based social networking. European geo-based companies continue to be a hot commodity, with Nokia announcing June 23 it has acquired Plazes, which develops Web platforms for location sharing and publishing. This is the second “mobile social network” in Europe to be acquired in as many months - Danish startup ZYB was acquired by Vodafone in May for 31.5 million Euro.
The deal allows Nokia to extend its context-based service offering with social presence and time-based activity planning features. Plazes adds the elements of place and time to social networking through features that allow people to alert friends and associates to their activities and locations.

Plazes, a privately-owned company of 13 employees founded in 2006, makes a “context-aware social activity service that people can use to plan, record and share their social activities: why they are at a given location at a given time, whether in the past, present of future,” Nokia said in a statement. (more…)

Wordpress Plugin for Auto Nofollow and Opened in New Window

Web Tech — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:33:56 +0000

Couple weeks ago I wrote about how to make your Paid Post safe for Google, and for this purpose I found a great Wordpress plugin to do this automatically. This Wordpress plugin will automatically make any link on your post to be rel=nofollow and target=_blank (will make it opened in a new window)
This could save your time if you have a large post on your Wordpress blog and make your selling link list more safe on Google’s eye. Great for any SEO campaign!

You can download the plugin here and read the manual instructions, it’s not too difficult anyway. (more…)

Free Games for Sony Ericsson W960

Web Tech — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:04:48 +0000

Here are some Free Games that you can download and play on your Sony Ericsson W960:

XtremeBlocks
XtremeBlocks Breakout arcade style game.
Bouncing the ball in the paddle we must destroy the blocks, we can take objects to help or to obstruct our mission.

Note
XtremeBlocks is compatible with other brands of mobile devices midp 2.0

Requirements
Minimum resolution 128×128 pixels.
Memory 200 Kb.
File size 72 Kb. (more…)