IE7 End of the Free Browser

Since IE7 and Fire fox 2 have been released there have been number of reviews available online comparing the two. What many of the reviewers fail to mention is the number of Firefox extensions that allow you to customize your browser.

I have recommended some Firefox extensions that will enhance your web browsing experience greatly. Being able to customize your browser to this degree is something totally unique to Firefox.

The biggest complaint that I have with Internet Explorer 7 is that it is no longer free and the IE team no longer plans on developing it for platforms other than Windows. Slashdot recently interviewed Dean Hachamovitch the General Manager of IE at Msft.

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Amazon Affiliate Link Generator

I made my own Amazon Affiliate Link Generator using PHP. I think it is the best generator out there because it so simple.

You must know what the ASIN of the item is. You also need to have an Amazon Associate ID, which you can get from the Amazon Affiliate website. On their website they offer a more advanced Link builder, which is great, but you have sign in and fill out a more complicated form .

Here is an example link using my Associate ID. I have some ideas for possible future development on a similar tool.

Firefox Ad’s

I know this is probably old news but I wanted to post it in celebration of the release of Firefox 2.0! The stupid IE logo cracks me up everytime. Weeeeeeee.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3291785230023779795

Update: I removed two of the videos because the Weee one owns them all. You can download a higher resolution version here. I found this on the firefox flicks website.

ImageSorter: Sort by Color

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The program ImageSorter takes a different approach. The methods for content based image retrieval are not used for searching but for performing an automatic sorting of huge image collections. ImageSorter sorts images by the similarity of their color layouts. Images are sorted in such a way, that similar images are positioned close to each other. This sorting scheme makes it much easier to find a particular image within a huge set of images.

ImageSorter will let you sort images based on color and composition. It would be cool if Google images or the other online image respositories were able to someday do something similar. Right now images.google.com will only let you search by black and white, grayscale, full color and the default any colors. Google’s Picasa would be another good program to integrate this technology.

Image Sorter: Download (please don’t link directly to this file)

A similar service that was recently added by yotophoto.com allows you to search by color. This doesn’t seem like a complicated thing to do if you have a massive imagery collection like google. In fact I could write a program that sorted all their Imagery and added the color properties to a database. Yotophoto lets you search by the conical name as well as by hex code of a particular color.

Adding Tags to WordPress

Neato : Ultimate Tag Warrior 3

Ultimate Tag Warrior is a multi-headed hydra of a plugin. It allows you to add tags either through the Write Post page in wordpress in a tag box, on posts using an AJAXy box, and in posts using special syntax from external editors (or internally, if you’d like). From the write post page, you can also get suggestions for tags

I added tags to my site using this wordpress plugin. I like it alot although I haven’t figured out a few things. It is fine for now I think. The plugin comes with a normal plugin that you upload to your plugins folder but also some pages to searching.

After uploading everything and activating the plugin, here are some tips to getting it working on your site. In wp-admin goto Manage > Tags. I have URL setting unchecked because I couldn’t get it working. Meta keywords and embedded tags are turned on to help the search engines and for advertising. Primary Content tags I have set to “After Content” as you can see. I have tagsetsimplelist and prefix is a simple P tag with class “headertext”.  This css class is something that is specific to my wordpress theme.

This plugin adds two tables to the database to keep track of different tags. I think it also adds a field to the content table that is associated with tag ids in the tag table. I like having tags on my wordpress posts much better than categories. Now I just have to figure out a way to make it so I can add tags to my posts via performancing.

Getting Youtube and WordPress Working

Viper007Bond.com » Viper’s Video Quicktags

Tired of copy/pasting the code to embed videos from sites like YouTube and Google Video or for self-hosted videos into your posts? Well then this plugin is for you!

I had some trouble embedding the videos from youtube and google videos into my wordpress site because I believe the TinyMCE editor that wordpress uses parses out the object tags making it near impossible. I came across this plugin that works well.

It adds buttons to the TinyMCE editor allowing for the videos to easily be inserted into wordpress posts. The plugin also adds a bbcode tag allowing you to easily type out the URL of the video if you are using a different editor like Performancing to publish content to your website.

Pretty easy huh? Now enjoy a video that I found. :) Wierd Al’s song called White and Nerdy.

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This video has helped Wierd Al climb into the Billboard Top Ten.