Adobe AIR has a great amount of potential and i believe many Web Apps (if we may call them that way) will port at least some of their main functionality into an AIR application. Now you can benefit from the great, free service of Google, Analytics directly from your desktop without using a browser.

Google Analytics AIR currently it is at it’s beta stage but i must say it shows off pretty much everything you might need, at least for the moment. Practically with this AIR app you can access your Google Analytics account directly from your desktop without needing to open a browser.

It has a neat animated interface, great user-friendly approach, almost the same functionality as the original browser…

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I have tested this script on phpbb2 and phpbb3 and it works like a charm. If you have one, make sure you exclude your private section (for example t.forum_id != 4, where 4 is your private forum’s number). You can include this in your blog’s sidebar, a portal or a website. You can apply different filters by playing with the WHERE condition. Basically this script generates a table which is populated from the phpbb’s database according to the conditions which are imposed.

Of course you can customize it’s output by modifying the $query variable. If you are a newbie and need a quick php Where clause reference as you want to get a hang of the operators, check this one…

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What is an excerpt ?
First of all, for the ones who don’t know what an excerpt is, i will try to explain this term in a couple of words. An excerpt can be referred to as an extras (in our case maybe even a summary). Of course this is not the official definition. However i am sure you will understand what the word “excerpt” means by reading the rest of this article.
Advantages
There are a couple of solid reasons of why you might want to use excerpts. The ones i could think of as i am writing are the fact that your index page will have a smaller load time (especially if your posts include videos, pictures or other embedded…

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First of all i’d like you to know that a neat phpbb3 style isn’t defined by it’s shiny header or other brand-related eye candy that will probably be removed once you decide to use that certain style. Keep in mind that a great style should be simple, easy to use, fast, stress free and of course nice looking.

In conclusion: don’t mind the header because you’ll probably remove it with a themed one anyway, don’t let the imageset change your mind because it’s very easy to replace it, don’t mind the impressive background because chances are very high that you’ll need to change that too. Its more than likely that right about now you’ll be asking yourself the question: “Ok,…

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The well known DC++ client, ApexDC++ has come to version 1.0.1 which is said to mark two years of development and hard work.

The latest version has numerous stability improvements, fixes, changes and a couple of new features in addition with the merge between ApexDC and StrongDC++ 2.12 . You can view the official changelog for more details.

You can customise ApexDC’s interface by using translations, toolbars, themes and emoticon packs. Remember to check if the version you are using is compatible with the package you want to apply.

If you are already using ApexDC++ and want to upgrade to the latest version without loosing any data make sure you follow the Upgrade Guide.

I’ve been using ApexDC++ for more than one year…

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With FeedBurner’s BuzzBoost posted in the sidebar of my other blog which had PR 3, in less than 2 weeks I noticed the blog’s PR dropped to 0. However I have no actual proof that the reason why the PR dropped is BuzzBoost but I can’t seem to find another plausible explanation.
Is BuzzBoost actually hearting SEO ? I know that Google doesn’t like duplicate content and so I’ve heard that it will skip indexing any pages that publish duplicate content. I did a little bit of researching and found this interview regarding the duplicate content issue.
…And, I think the search engines explicitly understand what a feed is. It’s very simple for them to recognize a feed during their crawl…

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Google Hacks is a small tool that can definitely help you with your search on Google. Many of you out there use Google search engine more than 5 times a day. So why not trying to get the most of Google and display relevant and accurate search results.
You can use Google Hacks to search the web for the following files:

Mp3
Wma
Ogg
Pdf
Txt
Lit
Rar
Doc
Rtf
Chm
Pps
Zip
Odt
Mpg
Avi
Wmv
Divx
Flv
Exe
Ddl

What exactly this tool does, is to add a couple of smart filters to your search input. For example if you want to search for an exe file named “winamp” your search input will look like this:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(.exe) “winamp”
As you will see on the results page most of the links will begin…

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About
GMail Drive offers you the chance of using your 6GB e-mail quota as a remote storage device. Practically you get to use ALL your available e-mail space for storing pictures, music, videos or anything else that fits ! The good part is that this way you don’t need to worry anymore about the progress bar indicating something like “< 10% of your e-mail storage space is being used”, which is really great. I think Gmail is a reliable e-mail service that carries out its tasks in an exceptional manner. Don’t forget about the fact that your 6 gigs are entirely FREE ! Enough with Gmail and Google advertising already :)
This great,…

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Wholinked is a great service that generates a javascript code which practically shows websites that link to you IN REAL TIME !  This can be your way of saying “thank you!”.

WhoLinked can be easily implemented in Wordpress, TypePad, Blogger, MovableType and other blogging platforms even on an ordinary website.

After you register, select your preferred platform and go ahead on customizing your list of links. You can choose the default language, the orientation and the number of links to display. The most important thing is that you can select which websites not to show.

If you want to see an example just check out my footer.

Everyone knows that CPC (cost-per-click) campaigns are more profitable than CPA (cost-per-action) campaigns. Why is that ? Simple. Because it’s less likely that a person who clicks on a certain product related ad to purchase it. However if someone actually does purchase the product you can gain for example approximatly a 10 clicks equivalent revenue. I’m not saying that CPC campaigns are much better than CPA campaigns because that’s not entirely true.

Now lets head to ShoppingAds and their “how it works” page. I must say that they really did a great job explaining the differences between the two types of publishers. Unfortunately they left something behind. Maybe it was deliberately or maybe they considered it too obviously to be…

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