Google I-Phone Blogger Test

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's going to work, but all the other problems I've had with mobile/shared device/one note integration issues, I just want to try it out first. But I am sure that once it is confirmed to be working, there is no doubt that ether Google or Blogger FIU,

Productivity Problems

It doesn't matter how many "Getting Things Done" or "7 Habits" books you read, follow and try the facts are the invasive mindset of the latest, youngest, and precious programmers will thwart you with their stupidity.
For example.. all I wanted to do was write a short blog concerning some OTHER issues in technology and browser capabilities. That's it. Log in. Write. Get out.

But instead I'm met with popups concerning the new 'dynamic view' of blah blah blah, and more trash pushed at me by these overpaid, pompous assholes. After closing it down three or four times, I finally decided.. screw it and move on. But.. that didn't really work either. It looks like after writing this I'm probably going to have to spend 30 minutes or more just looking around to see why I'm getting the message and how to stop it. That wasn't on my GTD list today, but it will have to be addressed.

The reason these programmers do this is simple. They haven't been able to make the connection between the number of hours spent on this kind of stuff for the users...and their income. All they know is that they are Google/Microsoft/Facebook/ whatever employees and their future is secure. At least they think it is. What they can't put their heads around is that while they are wasting the users time with these invasive tactics...their users productivity is being driven down. Since their users productivity is being effected, so is their users income. Because the users income is less, they won't be able to spend the money necessary to support these programmers products.

I'm no longer going to waste my breathe/life trying to explain this. If you don't get it..so what. My plans are to take the steps to protect myself from them, ie: dropping services from companies that insist on these tactics.

Change JomSocial Latest Groups Background

Project: Change the Latest Groups background color on a JomSocial website?

Description: If you install JomSocial on the Rocket Theme Panacea - you will get an issue with the color and size of the fonts in the 'Latest Groups" area on the right hand side of the FrontPage when logged into JomSocial. You will have white fonts on a white background, which makes it impossible to read. I'm sure there are many fixes for this… however this is my solution. Disclaimer: One of the things we presume in this example is that you have FTP access via an FTP application, or via some sort of explorer application your hosting company provides you via a GUI. If none of the previous sentence makes any sense to you, then you probably shouldn't be trying to do this anyway, so please consider hiring a professional to do this for you. If you don't know one…then contact us and we will provide you with a quote for the work. If you try to do the steps outlined here and it breaks your site, causes your girlfriend to leave you, bankrupts your company, or keeps you any other type of grief and sorrow, please be assured that we will not accept responsibility for it. We can probably help fix it, provided you request a little thing we like to call 'an estimate'…which in turn gives us something called 'income' that allows us to pay the 'expenses' which are related to keeping our homes and autos.

Project Goals: Create a step by step explanation of how to manage the colors and sizes of the fonts in the 'Latest Groups" area of a JomSocial installation. Even though this example is for Rocket Theme's Panacea template, the files you would change on any installation would remain the same.

Step by Step In order to accomplish this you will have to change the code for the display of Latest groups in two files. You have to change the components\com_community\templates\blueface\css\style.css and the \components\com_community\templates\blueface\frontpage.latestgroups.php files . Make copies of those files and put them in a place where you know you can get to them if you need them First we are going to add a background color to the text area by opening the style.css file…find the code below around line 613. You will need to add the 'background:#eceff5;' to the file. When you're finished, it should look like the area below. #community-wrap .frontpage-right .latest-groups li.featured { text-align: center; margin: 0 0 5px -2px; padding: 0; width: 214px; background: #eceff5; Now go to somewhere around line 27 and look for the line that says <h2 class="title"> and change it to say "<h4> (removing the class tag). Then go to the line that says </h2> and change it to <./h4> . Basically that area should look like the area below when you've finished. <h4> <a href="<?php echo CRoute::_('index.php?option=com_community&view=groups&task=viewgroup&groupid='.$group->id); ?>"><?php echo $this->escape( $group->name ); ?></a> </h4> Now save both files and upload them to your server… over writing the ones that are there. That's it.. It may not be the way a hard coder would do it… but it does work, and as far as I know it doesn't break anything. If you have a better way, please share.

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Removing Spyware

Title: Removing Spyware and Malware

Content: Removing Spyware/Malware and Viruses is a tricky business. The people that write the stuff have criminal, devious minds…and this is reflected in the way that they attack your machine. You will notice that I didn't say 'smart'. Most of the stuff that they do is actually very simple, but the results can wreck your day, week, month. In the beginning there was really no reason for them to do these kinds of things. All that has changed in the last few years. With the popularity, easy access, and total obliviousness to reality that the Internet has brought us… these deviants can now attack your wallet from the comfort of their mom's basement. All they have to do is write a virus… then charge the unsuspecting victim to remove it. It's called Ransomware. What it means is that your machine is held for ransom, until you pay them for their removal process. Don't ask who would pay for their services. Plenty of people pay them or else they wouldn't engage in this type of activity. At any rate… here are my notes on a few things you can do to remove Antispyware from your machine. Each version is a little different, so some of these may not work on your actual installation. If none of this works, then contact me through the comment section of this post and I'll provide you with other options.     Check for any files in windows/system32/drivers with 0KB file size and delete them. The way I do this is to boot the PC using a PE disc, use the command line to browse to the system32 directory… then run 'dir' and physically look for a file with a 0KB size…then delete it using the del command. If you have a better way, please let me know. If that doesn't work...You can try the following method. 1. Insert you're windows installation disk. 2. Type R in XP installation disk or select recovery mode in vista installation disc 3. Select command prompt 4. Type this command --> cd %windir% sfc /scannow (this will scan your registry and Windows will attempt to fix any corrupt files by extracting them from your original CD) If it's attempting to scan every three seconds… then copy the below into a text file…save it to your desktop as 'fix.reg'… double click it…and hope it stops the scanning. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00     [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe] [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\secfile] [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\secfile] [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\open\command]     [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command] @="\"%1\" %*"     [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe] @="exefile" "Content Type"="application/x-msdownload"     I personally use a suite of AV /Malware/ Spyware apps that do a good job of keeping me protected. I'll be getting a list of those up soon… Author Contact: Stan Bush Contact Phone: (478) 227-4736 or (478) 227-4SEO

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How to use the Robots.txt file

Project: Create a page explaining the tools need to learn how do you block a site using the Robots.txt file?

Description: A short tutorial on what the robots.txt file does.

Project Goals: The basic lines of text that are in the robots.txt file are important in terms of what the search engines index on your website. How to do that is explained in this page, taken from robotstxt.org … one of the best sources for learning more about what this file does. This page is here, so that I can keep the information easily accessible to me, and others…

About /robots.txt In a nutshell Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol. It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say http://www.example.com/welcome.html. Before it does so, it firsts checks for http://www.example.com/robots.txt, and finds: User-agent: * Disallow: / The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site. There are two important considerations when using /robots.txt: robots can ignore your /robots.txt. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention. the /robots.txt file is a publicly available file. Anyone can see what sections of your server you don't want robots to use. So don't try to use /robots.txt to hide information. See also: Can I block just bad robots? Why did this robot ignore my /robots.txt? What are the security implications of /robots.txt? The details The /robots.txt is a de-facto standard, and is not owned by any standards body. There are two historical descriptions: the original 1994 A Standard for Robot Exclusion document. a 1997 Internet Draft specification A Method for Web Robots Control In addition there are external resources: HTML 4.01 specification, Appendix B.4.1 Wikipedia - Robots Exclusion Standard The /robots.txt standard is not actively developed. See What about further development of /robots.txt? for more discussion. The rest of this page gives an overview of how to use /robots.txt on your server, with some simple recipes. To learn more see also the FAQ. How to create a /robots.txt file Where to put it The short answer: in the top-level directory of your web server. The longer answer: When a robot looks for the "/robots.txt" file for URL, it strips the path component from the URL (everything from the first single slash), and puts "/robots.txt" in its place. For example, for "http://www.example.com/shop/index.html, it will remove the "/shop/index.html", and replace it with "/robots.txt", and will end up with "http://www.example.com/robots.txt". So, as a web site owner you need to put it in the right place on your web server for that resulting URL to work. Usually that is the same place where you put your web site's main "index.html" welcome page. Where exactly that is, and how to put the file there, depends on your web server software. Remember to use all lower case for the filename: "robots.txt", not "Robots.TXT. See also: What program should I use to create /robots.txt? How do I use /robots.txt on a virtual host? How do I use /robots.txt on a shared host? What to put in it The "/robots.txt" file is a text file, with one or more records. Usually contains a single record looking like this: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /~joe/ In this example, three directories are excluded. Note that you need a separate "Disallow" line for every URL prefix you want to exclude -- you cannot say "Disallow: /cgi-bin/ /tmp/" on a single line. Also, you may not have blank lines in a record, as they are used to delimit multiple records. Note also that globbing and regular expression are not supported in either the User-agent or Disallow lines. The '*' in the User-agent field is a special value meaning "any robot". Specifically, you cannot have lines like "User-agent: *bot*", "Disallow: /tmp/*" or "Disallow: *.gif". What you want to exclude depends on your server. Everything not explicitly disallowed is considered fair game to retrieve. Here follow some examples: To exclude all robots from the entire server User-agent: * Disallow: / To allow all robots complete access User-agent: * Disallow: (or just create an empty "/robots.txt" file, or don't use one at all) To exclude all robots from part of the server User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /junk/ To exclude a single robot User-agent: BadBot Disallow: / To allow a single robot User-agent: Google Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: / To exclude all files except one This is currently a bit awkward, as there is no "Allow" field. The easy way is to put all files to be disallowed into a separate directory, say "stuff", and leave the one file in the level above this directory: User-agent: * Disallow: /~joe/stuff/ Alternatively you can explicitly disallow all disallowed pages: User-agent: * Disallow: /~joe/junk.html Disallow: /~joe/foo.html Disallow: /~joe/bar.html Clipped on 28-December-2010, 3 : 53 PM from http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html Other Notes

Author Contact: Stan Bush Contact Phone: (478) 227-8260 or (478) 227-4SEO

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