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Ever hear the end of a news broadcast on TV and wonder “what’s that all about?” Simply visit IceRocket for the latest in blogs, Twitter, images, videos, and news stories about any topic. It’s fast and simple!
Free web hosting is a risky business to go into–if you don’t plan right, or have a dishonest server provider, things can go very wrong very fast. Although it’s not as good as running your own server, MyOwnFreeHost helps you start a free host without as many risks (assuming you trust their parent company, but I’ve had no problem with them).
After creating an account for free, you can add your own domain (I don’t suggest using the free domain they suggest, it makes you seem unprofessional) and start advertising your host. You are able to customize your host’s main page, and moderate accounts using the “Reseller Panel”. The support forum is very active and you can exchange tips with other users of the service.
The reseller account is free, but you can upgrade your users plans for a fee. Eventually, when you have experience and the money, you’ll probably want to move to an actual server, but MyOwnFreeHost is a good start!
Tags: hostingGoogle Books now offers complete archives of many magazines. You can read them online for free, so check them out right now! There is no way to list only magazines, so you must either reload the page and look at the randomly displayed titles, or type the name of a specific magazine in the search box.
Tags: googleIn honor of their 10th birthday, Google has added an archive of their index from 2001. You can check it out here.
Try searching for Windows Vista. I also noticed in 2001, this existed (look at the first result). And I thought my name was original.
I googled my own site and this showed up. Not very accurate, because they say I get 10 times as many page views per day as I actually do, and I don’t even have any ands to make revenue on ($7.07 per day… I wish, but all the ad providers require you to be 18, which I’m not). Wikipedia is said to make $412,503 per day on ads, but they don’t have any ads, and are nonprofit. As I said this site does not provide very accurate results, but it might be worth checking out if you’re in need of an ego-booster.
Update: I clicked the “update the results” button on the site and it increased to $7,095. 0_0
I am getting one of those when I get a car!
After a long day of web programming, why not relax for a while? These sites will help with that.
If you’re like me you probably have a blog as well as another site. I have found that an effective way to get vistiors to the blog is to link to it from the main site, assuming that that site is more popular. RSS (Really Simple Syndicate) is a way of syndicating your blog to other areas of the web. It is based on XML and generated automatically by Wordpress.
A PHP RSS parser is MagpieRSS. We will be using it in the following tutorial.
<?php
require_once('rss/rss_fetch.inc'); //Include the MagpieRSS include file
$url = 'http://yoursite.com/blog/?feed=rss2'; //Set a variable containing the URL to your blogs RSS feed
$rss = fetch_rss($url); //Retrieve the posts
$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 5); //Only show the first 5 posts (the second number can be customized to suit your needs)
$posts = '';
foreach ($items as $item) { //Loop through the items
$href = $item['link'];
$cat = $item['category'];
$title = $item['title'];
$date = $item['pubdate'];
$text = $item['content']['encoded'];
$text = preg_replace('/<img [^>]+\/?>/', '[image]', $text); //Replace images with [image]
$text = preg_replace('/<\/?[^>]+>/', '', $text); //Get rid of HTML
$posts .= "<li><a href=$href>$title</a> <em>".substr($text, 0, 100)."</em></li>"; //Print the current post title linked to the page on your blog, and the first 100 chars of the post
}
echo $posts;
?>
A few weeks ago I discovered Google Reader. If you read a lot of blogs, Google Reader is for you. Put in the URL to the RSS feeds of the blogs you read, or you can also select pre-selected packages of blogs. Then, the site will aggregate all the posts together onto one page. It’s web-based so you can access it from any computer.
Tags: Blogs, googleMy last post about this didn’t get much response (probably because of the stupid title and writing)… but if you want a link in my blogroll, leave a comment on this post. It’s looking sort of empty.
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