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Watch President-elect Barack Obama’s Inauguration Live Online Posted: 18 Jan 2009 01:41 AM CST This is going to be the most watched US President inauguration in the history, for a reason none other than Barack Obama is the first black president. I have to admit, I was hoping for a first non-white president to be a Red Indian, after all, they are the real natives in their own ancestor’s land. Putting politics aside, thousands of people are going flood Washington D.C. with the intention of participating in this historical event. As for us, foreigners and those with work, watching it live is out of the question. I’ve compiled a small list of free video live streaming website for the 44th US President inauguration. They are: Hulu CBS News CNN Live MSNBC

Remove and Insert Metadata Keywords into Jpeg Images for Search Engine Posted: 18 Jan 2009 01:26 AM CST Will the metadata keywords in gif, jpeg and jpg, png images influence how search engine index our images? Apparently, the question of the relevance of the metadata embedded within the image for search engine relevance and ranking is a hotly debated topic within the SEO experts. Last week, I’ve decided to carry out my own research, I embedded a ’secret’ keyword into all the metadata section of an image and uploaded it to my blog and his the publish button. Please note that prior to the test, I carried out a search for that ’secret’ keyword and the results returned by Google is zero. Weeks went by and the result for that particular keyword is still zero, I google for the post and discovered that Google crawled the post last week. Conclusion? Metadata does not influence or determine the ranking of your image. Insert Metadata Keywords Into Image Most image editing software can perform the basic task of inserting exif metadata keywords into jpeg, png, gif and more. Photoshop is one of them. To insert metadata into images in photoshop, go to ‘file’ then ‘file info’. A dialog box will appear and key in the relevant metadata keywords. Remove Metadata Keywords Since metadata keywords do not influence your image ranking in search engine, the next logical step is to remove them. This enables you to reduce around 10 - 30kb off from your image, depending on a number of factors. Multiple these with the thousands of images in your server, you could possibly save lots of bandwidth and money by removing them, not to mention the smaller file size allows your blog to load faster. Try Stripper, its a batch metadata remover for jpg and png. Just drag and drop the file or folder into the dialog box and everything is automatic. Download Stripper, freeware. Image Metadata Management Software If you’re looking for a metadata management software for all of your images, Kalimages is the answer, it is an innovative IPTC and XMP retrieval and editing software for image files allowing to catalog metadata into an integrated database to rapidly review, index, identify and view photos.

How to Recover, Restore and Retrieve Your Blog Articles Automatically Posted: 17 Jan 2009 12:11 PM CST Your MySQL database crashed? File corrupted while upgrading your Wordpress? Blogger.com accidentally deleted your blog together with the backup copy? Fear not, there are a few way to recover your deleted blog’s article automatically or manually, depending on your preference and time. Google Cache (Manually Copy and Paste) Google is the best search engine; it has a complete index of your blog's entire article in their cache. Type your URL address into the search box and click on the cache link for your articles. If you’re using Wordpress, visit this post for a step by step tutorial on How to Recover Your Deleted Blog. Warrick (Automatic Blog Recover Tool) Warrick is an automatic blog recovery web application, instead of manually copy and paste your lost articles from Google cache, Warrick does the job for us automatically. The drawback is the speed, it could take a day or more to crawl and recompile your blog, if you happened to have a popular blog that Google Bot visits frequently, chances are, your article stored in Google Cache will be replaced within a day.

下载谷歌拼音输入法 Download Google Pinyin Chinese Mandarin Pinyin Input Posted: 17 Jan 2009 10:06 AM CST Forget about NJStar Chinese Input software, Google Pinyin changed the way how Chinese character input software ought to be. Unlike NJStar, Google uses its search engine technology to find the best possible combination for your pinyin input, to it that way, Google Pinyin is an intelligent Mandarin input software ever created by a company. Basically it revolutionizes the way we type. Instead of typing word by word, Google Pinyin allows you to key in paragraph of ‘han yu pinyin’, making typing mandarin / Chinese character so much fun and easy. Download Google Pinyin, visit this post if you’re looking for a free online Chinese character to English document translation service.

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