Youtube RSS

to get the RSS of a youtueb user, jut change USERNAME in the url below:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/USERNAME/uploads

to get someone’s subcription RSS feed:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/USERNAME/newsubscriptionvideos

Pretty URL or so called Vanity URL for Facebook fan page

To get a vanity url for your facebook fan page, got to this page: –> http://www.facebook.com/username/

then you’ll click on “Set a username for your Pages.” on that page.

Remote Post WordPress Autoblog

A few ressources regarding remote posting to WordPress with PHP, I have listed 3 methods:

- the best solution first: using WordPress XML library –> Posting to WordPress with php and XML RPC

- using CURL (but you’ll need to make sure that the CURL and standard xmlrpc libraries are activated on your server first:
–> Initial Source (in French)
–> in English (but less information)

- using wordpress library without XMLrpc (not the best solution because the function wp_insert_post will sanitize/change your code)
–> not the best solution for WordPress remote posting…

Adsense Spy

Want to know if the webmaster of a site is managing a few others? Then you can spy what he’s doing by tracking his Adsense ID.

Example with the site EcoGeek.org:

- With ServerSiders.com: Domains using the same Adsense account as ecogeek.org
http://serversiders.com/ecogeek.org

- With DomainCrawler.com: in the story of ecogeek: “The Analytics/Ad-codes pub-0578044100560991 and UA-385778 is also present on the domain, which it shares with 10 websites.”
http://www.domaincrawler.com/domains/view/ecogeek.org

- Ownerspy http://www.ownerspy.com/

- AdsSpy.com http://adsspy.com/search.php?q=ecogeek.org

- Google http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=pub-0578044100560991&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Note 1: Domains hosted on the same IP-address can also give clues, but you have to filter the results if it’s a shared hosting. Can do a reverse ip search with Bing:

- MSN Bing Reverse IP Search

Note 2: Quantcast, Alexa Google analytics and ad networks id other than adsense’s can also provide with clues, don’t ignore those tidbits of information!

Do you have other tricks to stalk and track a webmaster?

Domain Transfer to Godaddy

There is a really nice tutorial about how to transfer a domain to Godaddy at: Ahsfame – Domain Transfer

Just one thing on the authorization code has been validated, you may have to wait up to 5 days to get control of the domain in Godaddy’s panel.

WordPress Import Size Limit – How to increase?

I wanted to import a WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) file into my blog which is 8MB, but the limit on my blog is just 2MB.

I could have updated my php.ini but that’s too complicated.
Better to temporarily update the htaccess file by adding the following snippet:

#Change upload limits
php_value memory_limit 34M
php_value post_max_size 33M
php_value upload_max_filesize 32M
php_value max_execution_time 600
#Change upload limits end

then I was able to upload my wordpress import file.

Virtual PC with VirtualBox

To create a virtual PC on your computer I suggest to use Sun’s VirtualBox: it’s free and powerful!

–> Virtual Box Official Site

I needed a virtual installation of Windows XP on Windows 7.
Installation is really smooth and easy.

Just one thing, don’t forget to install the Virtual Box Guest Additions (check in the explorer of your guest operating system), it will make things easier to share a folder and to control the mouse.

DNS Queries

One can make a few DNS queries at –> this site

DNSQueries lets you make every needed network test such as domain health tests, DNSBlacklists checks, dns queries, ptr queries, host geographical informations

WordPress RSS MAGPIE Cache Change Update Frequency

(WordPress 8 and up, older version look at thirstyofmind)
If you want to use the rssparser from wordpress and want this parser to always update, here’s the procedure to follow:

In the folder wp-includes, edit the file rss.php:

1 look for RSS feed constant and update Magpie User Agent as below:
define(‘MAGPIE_USER_AGENT’, ‘Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 GTB5′);

2 look for function fetch_rss ($url) and update:
function fetch_rss ($url, $NoCache = false)

3 quite close to fetch rss look for ( MAGPIE_CACHE_ON ) { and change with:
if ( MAGPIE_CACHE_ON | $NoCache) {

4 now if you call teh fetching function like this: fetch_rss ($url, true) , the cache will be turned off and you’ll have the latest items from the updated feed

5 look for class RSSCache
and change $Max AGe to something lower (12 hours = 43200 secsonds by default, thats too much)
for my part i updated to $MAX_AGE = 10;

Gzip – Mod Deflate – Site Compression

Use compression to reduce page load time:

To activate Mod Deflate, use the snippet given by Elliott at:
Website Compression with mod_deflate
–>site comp with Elliott

To learn how to update the conf file, check this page:
Compressing web pages with mod_deflate
–> compression explained by mediatemple

For IIS server: –> with coder

To get a website compression report: –> check with pipeboost