Yearly Archive for 2009

How to remove “Powered by MiniUrlz…” from your footer?

Introduction:

As most of you know MiniUrlz is offered as a free script. But it cost me a lot of time to expand it with new features, bug fixes and support for all of you. It is why I have decided to license it under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. It let you to use it for free under my conditions. And as most of you know my only condition to use it is to keep footer like this on your front page:

Powered by MiniUrlz © 2009 KreCi

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MiniUrlz 1.5 with new features released!

New version of MiniUrlz url shortening script have been released. It have some great and very useful new features. Here is a list of some that may be most interesting:

  • Redirect all traffic from deleted or not existing shortcuts to url of your choice,
  • Click count,
  • Last click date,
  • Shortcut creation date,
  • General code cleanup - improved administrator panel readability.

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6 ways to make money as a web developer

Money onlineAre you a professional web developer? Or a beginner in this industry? Are you looking for some extra cash? Or for a money that will make you living? If you have answered "yes" to any of above questions (mostly it would be really hard to say "no" to all) this article should be helpful for you.

Below I will cover most of possible ways to make money online from web development. I am sure there might be more but in most cases it would fit to one of below categories. So let's start the list.

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MiniUrlz 1.1.1 released with bug fix!

New version of MiniUrlz url shortening script have been published and is available to download. There are no any changes but one bug fix. In previously released version (1.1) there were some problems with installation of the script as it have been creating wrong .htaccess file. In new version (1.1.1) there is improved setup script that should be working on all web hosts. If you will experience any problems please let me know (may be comment under this post). Script can be downloaded as usual from this page.

Win 320GB Seagate FreeAgent Go portable disk!

SeagateSeagate wants to celebrate 30 years in the industry. They have announced a contest. To win one of five beautiful "Seagate FreeAgent Go" disks you must submit them your photo. But it is not as easy as it must be a 30 years old! They accept photos made in 1979. It is the year when they first hard drive ST506 have been released. It was as huge as 5MB of storage... really! And it was pretty much for the 1979. More details is available on the contest page. Good Luck!

Selling my blog…

This post is just a quick note to let you know that I am selling my blog. No... not this one. I am selling my web hosting reviews blog. If you are interested you may find auction on flippa (inactive link removed). And you may see the website I am selling right here. What is this website about? I have described it some time ago in this post.

UPDATE (2009-11-30)

Blog have been sold. Congratulations to the new owner!

Twitter updates from your tray!

twitterDo you want to be up to date with everything that is going on twitter? Do you spend hours on refreshing your twitter home instead of doing something other that you should? There is a great workaround to be up to date and not loose a lot of time on refreshing twitter webpage! You can very easily make a nice notification popup next to your clock on the tray! Here is an example:

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Increase your earnings with pretty links – Part 2

Affiliate EarningsYesterday I have been writing about affiliate pretty links marketing power (right here). Today I will learn you how to set it up. And believe me that It is really easy to do.

First you will need to set up a subdomain with your hosting company (or any other that manage your DNS). Usually you may set it up with your hosting web management panel (or ask you administrator to do it). When you have you pretty subdomain you may make your redirects with .htaccess. But then you would need to set it up for each of your affiliate links. But I would not suggest such solution as it is very time consuming and hard to manage. But there is a much better way to do it! It is your own URL shortening script.

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Increase your earnings with pretty links – Part 1

Affiliate EarningsThis post is about tools that most of you have already seen somewhere in the web. But most of you have never been thinking about such simple and effective use of it. If you want to increase clicks to your affiliate links for as much as 20% - 30% with traffic you already have you should keep reading.

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Be warned: WordPress update crash (2.8.4 to 2.8.5)

WordpressIf you are going to upgrade your WordPress installation soon you should read this post. A few days ago when I woke up and as usual turned on my notebook to check my mail and my sites stats. I have noticed and upgrade message in WordPress admin panel "WordPress 2.8.5 is available! Please update now". I have decided I will not ignore this update and it was the beginning of my trouble.

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