Tweetdeck Now Allows You to Synchronize Your Columns Across Multiple Computers

Yes, it's good news. Beginning with Tweetdeck's latest version as of this writing (version 0.26.2), you may now synchronize your columns across all your computers where you have installed tweetdeck on. No more hacking to be done in order to save or export your settings from one tweetdeck client and import the same in another with another computer.

To avail of this feature, you need to update your installation in various computers, create an account with Tweetdeck (you can do this within the client alone) and login with Tweetdeck in each and every computer where you want to synchronize.

Wait, there's more! With this latest version, you can also manage (within Tweetdeck) you various Twitter accounts if you have any. No need to sign in and out from one account to another in order to post or read updates from your followings.

So if you haven't updated yet, make the upgrade now.

What is Tweetdeck

TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more.

TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up to date.

What I would Like to See as a New Feature in Disqus

Disqus interviews some famous bloggers and successful Disqus users about their experience beginning from scratch and the use of the Disqus commenting system. They post these interviews in the official Disqus blog.

One of the questions asked was, "If you could add one feature to Disqus, what would it be?".

I may not be worthy to be interviewed by the Disqus team, but I would like to voice out my idea of what I would like to see as a new feature in Disqus.

I wish there could be the ability for users to add multiple profiles to their Disqus accounts. I have various websites with various domain names, and if I put Disqus in each and every one of them using the code from my single Disqus account, commenting to these different websites (using that same Disqus account) will display the same avatar and links to the same domain name (whatever I indicated in my Disqus dashboard).

If I have various profiles (with different email addresses-- for gravatar purposes), maybe there could just be a dropdown menu in the comment area to select the profile I want to use while commenting on a particular website. That way, I don't have to create another Disqus account (plus the hassle of signing out and in) in order to accomodate the various profiles I want to project to the world wide web.

The New Import Tool in Posterous

From the Posterous blog:

Do you have an old blog collecting dust? Something you started years ago, but never kept up with because it's just too hard?

In just a few clicks, import all your old posts *and media* into Posterous, and be done with that old crufty site for good.

This is indeed a welcome development in Posterous. I just wonder how it'll handle blog posts and media from a self-hosted WordPress blog. If it can successfully, it's a good way to backup my data in my WordPress blog.

How I just wish we're already offered the opportunity to customize the look of our Posterous blog. And yes, the proper handling of custom domains.

Allowed Memory Size Fatal Error in WordPress

If you are on WordPress, you might have experienced the same error while upgrading plugins and other actions from the backend:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate...)

This particularly happened to me while automatically upgrading Google Sitemap Plugin.

To solve this, this trick worked for me.

Edit your wp-config.php to include the following line:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

I just hope this will work for you too.

Google Adsense for your Google Sites

Google Sites has quietly rolled this feature that I highly anticipated. Well not really quitely as they have blogged about it.

Nevertheless, this is great as I can continue with adding useful pages to my Google Sites account. Check it out at http://sites.google.com/site/deutsnetwork. It offers useful information and resources especially as regards tech-related stuff.

Now that I can monetize it, I'd be willing to share more stuff through my webpages in there. However, I couldn't see my ads yet as of now. Maybe later.

So create your own now and have your own personal webpage (that is, if you don't have your personal blog yet).

SRG Clean Archives is not for WordPress Later than 2.6

Yep, that's how it is. I loved that WordPress plugin for a simple reason that it is able to parse all your posts in your WordPress blog into one page, while including comment counts for each post.

However, despite my affection for the plugin, the author seems to forget to update it anymore to make it compatible with the latest versions of WordPress.

While activated in WordPress 2.7 and later, a lot of errors occur in the WordPress backend especially when posting new entries and approving or marking as spam new comments.

I hate to say bye bye to such great plugin, but that's how life is. There is also another plugin that works exactly the same as SRG Clean Archives (I think it goes by the name "Clean Archives" as well), but it was even long abandoned by the plugin author than this one.

My Hard Disk is Failing in Fedora 11

What the...?

The other Linux distros installed in my system, Debian and Ubuntu, does not report the same, and yet you, Fedora 11, from the moment I inserted the Live CD until I installed it in one partition, still reports in a popup that my Hard Disk is Failing?

What is it that you have that the other distros don't have?

You don't even offer solutions on how to fix this problem. Well, at least I couldn't find in the forums.

Okay, before you get mad at me, can somebody offer a solution first? Or maybe I guess, I just have to remove this Fedora 11.

My Sound Card is not Working in Fedora 11

Last time I checked, I guess the same was true with Fedora 10 as well. The same goes to other Distro's like gentoo and others in the past.

This is one thing I really hate about other Linux Distros. My sound card is not simply supported.

Good God, my sound card's working out of the box with Debian and Ubuntu.

I don't want to deal with my sound card specs anymore here. The fact remains that my sound card is not working out-of-the-box with Fedora 11.

If anyone's willing to help, instead, please drop me a line below. My search with Google does not yield favorable results.

Installing Adobe Flash Player in Fedora

This was tested in Fedora 11. You will need to install Adobe Flash Player in order to view videos in flash format just like from Youtube and other video sharing sites from inside Firefox or any other web browser.

Adobe's Flash plugin cannot be included in Fedora repositories because it is not free/libre and open source software.

Now, in order to install flash player manully, go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and select "YUM for Linux". It's only 4.3KB, so once finished downloading the rpm file, just double click and it will prompt you for root password and all. What this actually does is add a repository to your list of repositories.

Now then go to Add/Remove Software and just look for Adobe Flash Player, install it, and you're ready to go!

Where to Find Blogger Templates

You wonder, where do you find those great Blogger/Blogspot templates?

The Blogger Buzz, the official blog for the Blogger service by Google, shared some of the homes of great looking Blogger templates:

• BTemplates. A free directory of user-submitted templates, classified by type and/or features.
• The Cutest Blog on the Block. Run by Becky and Ashley of 2 Moms Talk, this site offers free, premade layouts, as well as customizable backgrounds.
• Blogger Styles. Gallery of submitted templates, ranked by visitors and includes detailed configuration instructions.
• FalconHive. Conversions of WordPress templates upon request, along with archive of past conversions.
• All Blogspot Templates. Templates in 1-, 2- and 3-column options. Also includes AdSense-ready templates.
• Zona Cerebral. Spanish site with dozens of templates to choose from, including several converted WordPress themes.
• Quite Random. A number of free templates, and several Blogger-specific tutorials regarding setup and layout editing.
• ChicaBlogger. In Spanish, templates designed primarily for women.
• Deluxe Templates. Hundreds of templates, including many converted WordPress themes. Also has a nice "tips & tricks" section for customizing Blogger.
• Pyzam. Thousands of templates, browsable by category and sortable by recency or popularity.
• Our Blog Templates. 160+ free templates, all well-labeled for easy browsing to find the one you want.
• eBlogTemplates. Combination of free and premium templates, and a wealth of tips for tweaking your Blogger blog.

So just enjoy these templates!

Domain Mapping: Another Tumblr vs. Posterous Blog

A continuation of my previous comparison between the two services, Tumblr and Posterous.

Both services offer domain mapping, meaning you may create an A record for your top level domain or a subdomain to point to their service, so you can access your blog at your custom domain.

As I've mentioned earlier, Tumblr handles domain mapping better, so that, let's discuss about my own specific example:

I have a domain name "hamili.net", a Tumblr blog at "deuts.tumblog.com", and a posterous blog at "deuts.posterous.com".

When I create an A record for host "@" to point to Tumblr's server (I don't want to discuss how to do that here, check out their FAQ or help page instead) while my "www" record points to "@" from my domain registrar's control panel, if you point your web browser to "www.hamili.net" or "deuts.tumblr.com" - the address properly redirects to simple "hamili.net" only (http://hamili.net).

Now, when I create an A record instead for "@" to point to Posterous' server with other settings same as above, if you point your browser to "www.hamili.net" or "deuts.posterous.com" - it stays there i.e., without redirection.

With the latter, this means that I have three websites that update accordingly whenever I post new items. One at "www.hamili.net", one at "deuts.posterous.com", and one at "hamili.net". As far as I am concerned, I have traffic for the same content going to three different sites. There's no consolidated home page.

Now as far as Google is concerned (and other search engines as well), this means the same - these are three different home pages. And I may get penalized by Google for maintaining triplicate (not just duplicate) contents and my authority with regards to my content suffers.

How to Enable Permanent Redirection

When changing domain names, just like when you change the custom domain name for your tumblr blog, you may want to setup a Permanent (301) Redirection to your new domain, so you won't lose as much traffic from search engines and everywhere you posted a link to your old tumblr/blog url.

You have to enable it from the cpanel of your registrar (or your webhost, if you registered in the same). And while you're at it, be sure to setup a "wildcard" redirection as well, so that any subfolders (or virtual subfolders) and id's are redirected to the current "full" url (address).