You can configure Nginx to stop referrer spam by checking for bad keywords like tramadol, phentermine etc. This reduces the load on your server as well as prevents filling your referrer logs with invalid entries. Here is my nginx configuration to stop referrer spam (feel free to copy it): Full article (139 words) »

Firefox 3 crosses 5 million downloads in 24 hours, despite teething network problems due to massive site load. Firefox 3 comes with over 15, 000 improvements. The key improvements of Firefox 3 are:

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Gadging is a free service which allows you to display and share site analytics data, get RSS feeds, geographic distribution and more. Currently we support Google Analytics but we will add support for other analytics software soon.

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Translator Plugin Pro provides automatic machine translation of WordPress blogs in 13+1 languages - German,Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and optionally Norwegian.

The new features in version 5.1 are:

1. In the option page (under Advanced -> Miscellaneous section) it now provides SQL queries which you can execute in your database to significantly speed-up Translator Pro on heavily trafficked sites. It adds indexes to the tables for faster querying.

2. Improved user interface

3. Translator Plugin Pro adds a new feature to verify completeness of translated pages by checking for keywords or tags in your page. This elegantly handles the failures in third party translation engine. This adds to the extensive checks we perform to ensure quality and completeness of translated pages.

4. New translation engine errors have been added for automatic fail-over support and load-balancing.

5. Overall performance improvement and optimizations have been added to this release.

6. New extensive documentation have been added in this release, old documentation revised and updated. You can read the full documentation here. Don't forget to check our developer API for writing your custom look and extensions.

You can read about all the features here.

We now provide online help desk on our new support site. Please register there for customer support.

Please post your feedback in Translator Plugin Pro forum.

Translator Plugin Pro 5.1 is fully compatible with WordPress 2.5 as well as earlier version of WordPress.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a subset of search engine marketing, and deals with improving the number and/or quality of visitors to a web site from "natural" (aka "organic" or "algorithmic" search engine) listings. In effect, SEO is marketing by appealing to machine algorithms to increase search engine relevance and ultimately web traffic. This is analogous to foot traffic in retail advertising. The term SEO can also refer to "search engine optimizers", an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients.

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This is a review of the book Managing and Customizing OpenCms 6 by Matt Butcher and published by PACKT Publishing.

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YotoPhoto is an image search engine with a difference. It allows you to search for free-to-use stock photographs and images. These images are either in the Public Domain or released under generous Creative Commons, GNU FDL or similar licenses.

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Google has designed and tested a system which listens to the show you are watching to deliver personalized information or advertisement. The "mass personalization" system can identify a programme from as little as five seconds of sound.

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Lets talk about when to use AdSense - Competitive Ad Filter. It is very rarely used to block competitors. However you can use it to provide a better viewing experience to your site's visitors.

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I remember the early days of Java Open Source Software. We all used to keep track of any new OSS release and literally salivate at being able to use something for free. When Tomcat came out I was one of the early adopters, same with Ant, JUnit, HttpUnit, Gcj, even tcl-tk based Java IDE's and tons of others. I have to say I use many of them even today like Tomcat, JUnit, HttpUnit, Ant, Apache etc.

Times have changed. I have been burned once too many times by OSS. Examples include Magnolia, Mambo(PHP based), Maven, Jelly, Struts and tons of others. Some were pushed down my throat too.
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