Posts Tagged ‘Discoveries’

Wi-Fi Antennas On the Cheap [802.11 Wireless]

It should be noted right off that I intend to research information regarding unconventional wireless networking use. You probably won’t find much here that’ll help with day-to-day wireless networking. Unless, of course, you’re desperate and don’t care that your setup looks ridiculous.
Probably one of the most popular things I’ve run across when looking into wi-Fi [...]

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100s of Free Worship Backgrounds & Graphics [Church Media]

I was recently hired by a church in my area to maintain their computers, networks, information services, and web site.  Being a poor college student, and previously, a jobless high school student, I’ve gained an appreciation for frugality. That, combined with witnessing disproportionate amounts of cash misdirected in other area ministries, I am determined to [...]

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Speeding Up Web Sites with Flushing [PHP Speed Tweak]

Though, you should be careful when using it because it may or may not be helpful, depending on your application.
When a client requests a php (or any other server-side page) the server parses the whole page, then sends the resulting code to the client when it’s finished. Once the client receives the page, it can [...]

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Sounds Effects on the Cheap [Free]

What blew me away is that I hadn’t come across this web site before! I’ve done a few sound projects before and I always had to deal with what I could find, what I was given, or have to make the sound effects myself.
Usually the web sites that offer sound effects offer low quality stuff, [...]

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How to Find Your Server Path [Path to Folder]

Usually, one can just look up their absolute server paths in the help files of their web host. Sometimes your host isn’t so helpful. Just put the following code in a .page and drop it in the folder you want to know the server path to and tada!
< ?php echo getcwd(); ?>
Don’t forget to remove [...]

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Google’s New Blue Fav Icon [Favicon.ico]

So… A new blue fav icon adorned my Firefox location bar this afternoon when I fired up my iGoogle homepage.
New Google Fav icon:

Old Google Fav icon:

Is Google redesigning their logo or was someone at Google just having a slow Friday?
Perhaps it’ll just change back on Monday and the world will never know!! No. No. Never. [...]

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SEO Page and File Names

Just  a quick note because I thought this was a really good piece of information to know.
As far as search engine optimization (SEO) goes, a file or page name like this_is_a_file_name.htm will appear as one word to search engines like thisisafilename. So its unlikely it’ll be picked up in searches.
However, if you use hyphens instead [...]

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