podPress, the famous wordpress podcast plugin leads me to this simple yet elegant flash audio player. Well, if you have wordpress installed and plan to have it as the publishing platform of your audio files, you can just install podPress and use it in the add new post page. Otherwise, you may try the standalone version which is incredibly easy to use.
Play audio (MP3, WAV, …) on a HTML web page with simple Flash audio player
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under 3rd Party Scripts and Softwares, Free Web Development Tips, Quick Tutorials & Howto
RackSpace Cloud Hosting Launched!
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Coupons and Promo Codes, Hosting Tips & Coupons, Reviews
How to Recover or Reset MySQL root Password after You Forgot and Lost It
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Linux Server Administration Tips, Quick Tutorials & Howto, SQL and MySQL
MySQL has come with a safe mode wherein access privileges are not checked, which essentially enables you to log in anonymously to change anything in any database.
Work Around Zend Studio 5.5 PHP Class / Object / Method Auto-complete Problem
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under 3rd Party Scripts and Softwares, Free Web Development Tips, PHP Tips
Don’t know if it’s a glitch of Zend itself but I frequently encounter this problem on Windows with Zend Studio when writing PHP. Function / object methods names auto-completion saves a lot of time by suggesting candidates and a quick flyover tooltip with the synopsis, however sometimes it doesn’t work with newly created functions and object methods. It’s really annoying and it severely damages your productivity in that you have to check manually the usage of a function or object method yourself by switching to other file tabs.
Best CSS Books to Learn CSS Web Design
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under CSS & HTML Tips, Client Side Coding Books, Web Design
While HTML is the concrete of all web pages and websites, CSS is the spirit. It specifies the aesthetic aspect of all the web pages by design through presentation, conveying the ideas and sensations by visual languages. The first class of all web designers start with CSS.
Best Books of HTML and XHTML to Learn How to Create Web Pages / Sites with HTML and CSS
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under CSS & HTML Tips, Client Side Coding Books, HTML & CSS Beginner, Web Design
HTML is the language of the Web and all websites are written in HTML (XHTML). To learn creating website, the first thing you will need to learn is HTML. Period.
Best JavaScript Books for Learning JavaScript Programming and Development
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Client Side Coding Books, JavaScript Tips, Programming
Thanks to the computer scientists who set the standards of JavaScript, in the arena of event programming and behavioral manipulations of windows and objects, it is the one programming script that is so powerful that you can virtually build any possible interactive applications with it.
Best Books of Apache Web Server to Learn Apache and Use It
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Apache Web Server, LAMP Developer Books
As the most popular web server for hosting websites, Apache is second to none. It thrives for a reason, that is, it’s versatile and adapts to all situations and answer to even the slightest demands of a website. Below are some books from Amazon about administering Apache that may give you a new perspective and upper hand in handling the web server.
Best MySQL Books to Learn MySQL Database Programming and Development (+ PHP Applications)
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under LAMP Developer Books, Programming, SQL and MySQL
MySQL is by far the most popular and widespread database on the entire planet. It’s used in a wide array of industries and the Web is probably the most prominent scenario, websites database. Below are some hand selected books for you to learn MySQL: both database administration and database SQL programming, for both professionals and beginners.
Best PHP Books for Learning PHP Development and Programming (with MySQL)
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under LAMP Developer Books, PHP Tips, Programming
If your goal is to enter the PHP domain as a novice beginner and start from the very basics, these books are reviewed the best by actual readers.
JavaScript: Open or Redirect to Another Page / Site / Location
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Free Web Development Tips, JavaScript Tips
One of the most common uses of JavaScript is to redirect the user to or automatically open up another web page location. For example, when the user clicks a button, the JavaScript will redirect the user to the location selected in the drop down select menu. It’s just like the user has typed the web page location URL.
JavaScript: Split and Divide Text String by A Delimiter
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Free Web Development Tips, JavaScript Tips
Spliting and dividing a string into several chunks is a rather basic need for text parsing. You can do it easily in PHP by the help of explode() function or preg_split(), in JavaScript, you can achieve this task by the split() string function.
HTML Definition: What is HTML Defined – What does HTML stand for?
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Computer & Internet Literacy, Free Web Development Tips, HTML & CSS Beginner
HTML is the abbreviation of Hyper Text Markup Language invented by Tim Berners-Lee, who’s also been called the father of the Web.
HTML: Center & Centering
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Free Web Development Tips, HTML & CSS Beginner
While many still rely on HTML to center things or make page elements centered in the middle of the page, it’s actually the job of CSS.
HTML: Change Text and Font Colors
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Computer & Internet Literacy, HTML & CSS Beginner
As more and more social sites enable their users to make out custom HTML codes for their homepages, many want to learn about HTML and how to write and modify web pages by HTML.
CSS Definition: What is CSS Defined and Explained
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Computer & Internet Literacy, HTML & CSS Beginner, Web Design
CSS standards for Cascading Style Sheets. It’s a descriptive programming language that specifies how web pages look like in appearance and style.
Yet Another Joomla Template Including Original PSD, HTML + CSS and Fonts
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Free Web Templates, Freebies, Reviews, Web Design
Face2Face is the name of this Joomla template, released free by Template Kingdom. I don’t usually use Joomla but one has to admit there has been many excellent template themes for Joomla like this one, just as there are with WordPress.
Free CSS + HTML Template: Fashion Club Website (with fonts and PSD source)
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Free Web Templates, Freebies, Web Design
Template Kingdom is one of the best template and design sources on the Web. Other than a spectrum of website template sets for thousands of different niches and needs such as plain html templates, flash templates, css templates, joomla templates, wordpress templates and newsletter templates, they regularly releases free web templates.
T-shirt Affiliate Program
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Affiliate Programs, Business and Marketing, Make Money Online, Reviews
Custom design and printing is what characterizes online T-shirt businesses that have come into boom since a few years back. A lot of people are making good money selling custom design tshirt. To tap into this niche, you can either come out with your own designs and promote the merchandise at Cafe Press, or you can earn good money by marketing others’ tshirts, that is, by the tshirt affiliate program.
Best Damn Premium WordPress Theme for Professional Blogs: THESIS
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Free WordPress Themes, WordPress How To
Imagine the best WordPress theme you have ever used and then triple the pleasure you enjoyed with it – that’s what Thesis can give you.
How to Transfer / Move WordPress Blog from One Domain to Another
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Domains, SQL and MySQL, WordPress How To
Basically, the root URL of your blog which is your domain or subdomain is changing here. Though this doesn’t seem like a sane decision considering the huge SEO impact that might fall upon your site but with HTTP 301 permanent redirection, this can still make sense in some situations.
The best .com renewal coupon at Godaddy
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Coupons and Promo Codes, Domains
Searched all day yesterday for a $6.99 .com renewal coupon to use for my 30 or so .com domains at Godaddy.
MySQL: String Function to Replace Substring and Change Part of the Field Value
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under PHP Tips, SQL and MySQL, WordPress How To
A typical case of replacing a part of the string to another substring in a database table is switching between site domains or URLs, such as when you want to transfer your WordPress blog from one domain to another. You have to change all values containing the original site URL to the new one in the wp_options and wp_posts table.
Modify Index Homepage Title of MyBB Forum
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under 3rd Party Scripts and Softwares, Search Engine Optimization
Upon a fresh installation of MyBB forum software, the default homepage title is the name of the forum. Sometimes you want to add more keywords in it or change it in some way for the sake of SEO but don’t want to tamper with the forum site title itself because that’d make it look long and nasty.
Ask Google for Astronomical Unit, proton mass, planet or sun’s mass and radius
Posted by Yang Yang | Filed under Computer & Internet Literacy, Google Hacks, Cheats & Tips
To get the exact Astronomical Unit in kilometers:
astronomical unit 1 Astronomical Unit = 149 598 000 kilometers Read the rest of this entry »



