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Migrated my blog from subText to WordPress

Posted in Internet, WordPress on March 4th, 2010 by Kent

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This blog had been running on subText, a .Net powered blog engine, since it’s first launched in 2004. I picked it because being a .Net developer I suppose to run my own blog on the same platform. But it turned out, WordPress won the war in the end, as I finally migrated it to WordPress a few months…

Twitter your blog post automatically through your feedburner account

Posted in Internet on December 16th, 2009 by Kent

If you have a blog and use FeedBurner burn your RSS feed, you may like this new approach FeedBurner recently added.

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Log into your FeedBurner account and go to Publicize tab, you will notice a new category listed at the left sidebar named Socialize, just under the FeedCount. What this new thing does right now is that once…

Google is considering adding site speed into search result rankings

Posted in Internet on November 18th, 2009 by Kent

It’s not a rumor. It’s from Matt Cutts on his interview with WebPreNews at PubCon.

there is strong lobbying in Google to introduce a new ranking factor into the algorithm. The new ranking factor has to do with how fast a site or page loads. Matt described this as one of his ‘what to expect in 2010′

Daily Reading: 7 VPN services to anonymize your P2P/Torrent traffic

Posted in Information Technology, Internet on November 7th, 2009 by Kent

Twitter finally rolls out Retweet feature

Posted in Internet on November 7th, 2009 by Kent

According to Twitter Blog:

We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy.

Yes, finally Twitter decided to roll out this long-waited feature, a…

Twitter ditched TinyURL for bit.ly for a reason

Posted in Internet, Stuff in General on November 5th, 2009 by Kent

Twitter ditched TinyURL for bit.ly as its default URL shortening provider a few months back, which basically put TinyURL to a very difficult position to survive and throw tr.im out of the business. I had been wondering why Twitter made the change because all in all, it’s just a service that shortens the URL and redirect…

Twitter is rolling out the new Lists feature

Posted in Internet on October 17th, 2009 by Kent

Finally, Twitter has started rolling out a very long missed feature, Lists, that is pretty similar to Groups or Favorite Users that are on 3rd party Twitter client tools. It first appeared on one of my two twitter account above the all status updates but disappeared now. So I guess they are still testing and working on this new feature.…

LinkWithin automatically adds related posts to your blog

Posted in Internet, WordPress on August 17th, 2009 by Kent

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You probably have noticed that I just added a widget in every post that automatically shows some related posts, the picture above is one example from one of my posts.

I didn’t actually write any code for this. All I used is to subscribe the service from an online web app, named LinkWithin. I came across…

Add Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools

Posted in Internet, Tips & Tricks on July 6th, 2009 by Kent

It’s not the sitemap that is meant to help users find the information they need. If you want to generate that type of sitemap, you may come to the wrong place. However, this WriteMaps web application may help generate the sitemap you are looking for.

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The sitemap I am talking about here in this post…

The first glimpse of Internet Explorer 8

Posted in Information Technology, Internet on April 16th, 2009 by Kent

We heard the good reviews of this new version of IE, and we also saw bad words of it as well, just like all other new things.  Unless you try it out yourself you can never tell who is right and who is wrong, or they could be all wrong. So I went ahead and downloaded the package and installed on…