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Punkbuster Fix for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Steam
In: Games
4 Mar 2010
If you are a fan of the Battlefield series of first person shooter (FPS) games from EA Games, there is a good chance you already own a copy of the latest installment, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, commonly called “BFBC2”. If you purchased the game on Valve’s Steam service there is an excellent chance that you are experiencing dropped connections during a game, or being kicked from a game after 20-30 seconds of play.
This is likely due to the Punkbuster service, the much-maligned anti-cheating add-on that aims to make sure players of Battlefield, and a host of many other games, do not hack or cheat while playing.
Fortunately the fix is rather easy. Read on.
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- Tags: bfbc2, Games, punkbuster
Nice… To many in the SEO industry, Google is the end-all and be-all for everything related to optimizing websites. Getting on the first page results for your particular keywords on a Google search is the holy grail that all SEO’s seek on a routine basis. For their own websites, and especially those of their clients.
Interesting, Google has done an exhaustive SEO audit of over 100 Google sites, and better yet, has made the report public so that SEO professionals, as well as regular website owners and webmasters, can learn from what they found and improve their own optimization.
Google admits its SEO could use a little work | Web Crawler – CNET News.
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- Tags: audit, Google, SEO
Google Reader Lets You Subscribe to Any Page on the Web
In: Google
25 Jan 2010Fans of Google Reader (as I am) will love this. For those websites that do not have RSS feeds, you can now create a feed in Google Reader that will track changes to that site – and Reader will notify you when it changes.
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Very cool tool here. A regular folder on your Windows 7 system, when named with a very specific text string at the end, transforms itself into a special Control Panel-like folder with 287 individual settings for Windows. Some of the settings are accessible elsewhere, but many are accessed only through editing of the Windows Registry.
Understanding Windows 7′s ‘GodMode’ | Beyond Binary – CNET News
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- Tags: GodMode, Windows 7
Windows Theme/UI Update « Chromatic Pixel
In: Firefox
22 Dec 2009
Excellent run-through of design permutations and direction for Firefox 4, currently in development. I’m loving the Firefox button concept, shown above, that would house the current text menu. This is similar to the new UI design for Windows apps and Office 2007, and Office 2010. Many other images are provided.
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- Tags: design, Firefox, UI
Google News Will Not Accept Single Author Blogs
In: Google
22 Dec 2009As an author (it almost sounds funny saying that) of several incredibly low-traffic blogs, I have been looking at different ways to both increase my readership, by integrating and sharing posts into my miscellaneous social media personas, some general social bookmarking at sites like Delicious, Reddit, and the like, as well as some other general SEO related tasks – to get news about my “little” blogs out there.
I subscribe to a number of Google Alerts, which is really a great tool. Basically, anything you can search for in Google News, which crawls not only traditional news organization sites as well as blogs, you can setup a custom Alert, and you’ll receive either a summary daily email with those results, or an email as they are crawled – it’s your choice.
I notice some of the same topics that I cover in my little blogs mentioned frequently in the Alerts I have setup, and I’m thinking, I would love to get MY little blog posts listed in Google News as well. Getting posts into Google News can tremendously help drive traffic to a site.
But then I catch this news item, stating that it’s Google’s policy to NOT include single-author blogs in their Google News crawl, whether they be “little” like mine – or even a high-traffic popular blog – is really disappointing. From a quality assurance standpoint, I understand the policy, intended to keep the quality of sites that are included at a sufficiently high level – but it’s disappointing all the same.
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- Tags: blogs, Google Alerts, Google News
You may have noticed the cool bar at the bottom of Mashable.com, that let’s you drag’n’share images on the page (as shown in the picture above), as well as chat in real-time via AOL Instant Messenger, which is accessed from the same Meebo Bar.
There are other options and configurable menus available once it’s installed, but I haven’t checked those out just yet. You can download plugins for WordPress, Blogger, and other publishing platforms.
Add Chat and Drag & Drop Sharing to Your Site With Meebo Bar
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- Tags: Blogger, Mashable, Meebo, Wordpress
Blogger Buzz: Blogger integrates with Amazon Associates
In: Amazon
20 Dec 2009
Very cool new feature at Blogger.com. In addition to the current monetization options built-in to the Blogger engine (AdSense and AdSense for Feeds), Blogger now offers a very easy to use tool for integrating Amazon Associate links to your blog posts.
From directly within the Blogger blog editing mode, search and select Amazon.com for products to display related to your post. There is no need to open a second browser tab or window to search for products. For those bloggers who are heavy participants in the Amazon Affiliate program, this could be a huge timesaver.
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- Tags: affiliate, Amazon, Blogger
Firefox Browser | Free ways to customize your Internet
In: Firefox
16 Dec 2009The latest version, 3.5.6, is just out of beta, and I highly recommend it. It boasts improved Javascript performance (and it wasn’t too shabby to begin with), as well as Firefox’s standard security, performance, and customization options. If you’re using Internet Explorer, Chrome, or any other browser, Firefox is worth a shot.
Firefox Browser | Free ways to customize your Internet
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- Tags: Firefox, Mozilla
bit.ly blog – Announcing bit.ly Pro
In: URLs
15 Dec 2009Yet more news in the URL shortener world… A new service coming soon from http://bit.ly, which claims to be the largest URL service around, which will be called bit.ly Pro, and will let users specify their own short URLs to use as a shortener. All of this built on the http://bit.ly framework, with very detailed stats available as well.
No word yet on pricing.
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- Tags: bit.ly
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- Google Reader Lets You Subscribe to Any Page on the Web
- Understanding Windows 7′s ‘GodMode’ | Beyond Binary – CNET News
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- Google News Will Not Accept Single Author Blogs
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- Blogger Buzz: Blogger integrates with Amazon Associates
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