Todos conhecem os serviços que tornam os URL mais curtos. Especialmente os utilizadores do Twitter. Escolha no entanto o serviço com ponderação. O goo.gl (da Google) é o melhor nos dois critérios apresentados. Mas não está disponível como um serviço autónomo. Em contrapartida, pode ser acedido através de:
- uma extensão para o Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/iblijlcdoidgdpfknkckljiocdbnlagk
- Através do Google Toolbar:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/share-any-web-page-from-your-toolbar.html - Através do Feedburner: http://adsenseforfeeds.blogspot.com/2009/12/socializing-your-feed-with-twitter.html
Mais detalhes sobre o goo.gl num post do blog oficial da Google: Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner
Gráficos e texto mais detalhado: URL Shorteners Slow Down The Web – Especially Facebook’s FB.me
O Conan O'Brien, agora em férias forçadas, decidiu criar finalmente a sua conta no Twitter e decidiu também mudar a vida de uma follower. Inicialmente, o Conan não seguia absolutamente ninguém, mas na semana passada decidiu seguir apenas uma única pessoa e isso mudaria a sua vida. E foi o que aconteceu a Sarah Killen, que já conta com 19.900 followers. continue a ler
To create the mapping tool, Google developed an algorithm that uses several inputs — including designated bike lanes or trails, topography and traffic signals — to determine the best route for riding. The map sends you around, not over, hills. But if you really want to tackle that Category 1 climb, you can click and drag the suggested route anywhere you like, just like you can with pedestrian or driving routes. Users can suggest changes or make corrections to routes using the ever-present “report a problem” feature on Google Maps.
Read More http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/google-maps-for-bikes/#ixzz0hnFEmFrg
Temas do Wordpress – Copyright a troco de segurança
«(…) alguns destes websites incluem “surpresas” nos temas. E por surpresas, digo código ofuscado de maneira a não ser perceptível pelo administrador do blog. Muitos websites alegam que se trata de código para manter os devidos créditos aos autores dos temas, e o ofuscam para mante-los. Mas será apenas esse o conteúdo que está por trás desse bloco de código? A verdade é que muitas vezes também é incluído código que permite rastrear utilizadores, incluir links para blackhat SEO, entre outras coisas» continuar a ler
Por isso se encontrou um fantástico tema Wordpress e acha que seria a cara do seu blog, assegure-se primeiro que faz uma pesquisa no Google com o nome do tema e com o termo "blackhat SEO". Depois perca algum tempo a ver o que se diz sobre esse tema. Poderá nada encontrar mas se não procurar também não saberá se há algo a ter em conta ;-)
Leitura adicional: A Diverse Portfolio of Scareware/Blackhat SEO Redirectors Courtesy of the Koobface Gang (ver também a lista Infowar Blogosphere na barra lateral).
Tools: Cloaking Detector
This post presents three summaries on how to choose between three content managers systems. These summaries provide you a quick overview but for deeper insight follow the links to the original articles.
The links for these CMS are
Enjoy and give your feedback.
1. From compassdesigns.net:
2. From goodwebpractices.com:
Wordpress Pros
- Simple to use - No need for modifications
- Excellent for blogging or sharing thoughts in a sequential manner
- Even the most elderly of users can get the hang of it quickly
Wordpress Cons
- Not developer friendly
- The community seems to like to complain
- Upgrades bring more bugs than fixes sometimes
Drupal Pros
- Extremely developer friendly. If I loved code more I would almost always pick this system.
- Strong community to help discern the dozens (hundreds) of functions and tags available.
- Can be used to create some really awesome websites that can outperform a majority of other sites out there.
Drupal Cons
- Not very designer and user-friendly. It's hard for someone with little code knowledge to make the leaps required to do the very cool things that Drupal is becoming known for.
- Theming of Drupal has been a huge case of fail (until recently). Probably because it has been developers, not designers, that are making the themes.
- Getting a Drupal website published could cost you more time, and thus more money, than Wordpress or Joomla.
Joomla Pros
- Friendly for all types of users - Designers, Developers and Administrators
- Huge community is awesome for assisting with creation of websites
- Has been rapidly growing and improving itself for the past three years
Joomla Cons
- Still not user-friendly enough for everyone to understand
- Not quite as powerful as Drupal, and can be a bit confusing for some to jump into
- Recently rebuilt the entire system from ground-up, and so there are still many out there sticking to the old versions (1.0.x)
From drupal.org
(yeah, it's one of three opinion's but they are realistic)
Drupal
* Rock solid & high quality platform
* Real multi-site-feature (only one installation for several sites)
* Any Kind of user groups & user permissions, OpenId compliant in Version 6
* Can run membership and community sites, not only CMS etc
* Powerful templating system. Any XHTML or CSS template can be easily converted to Drupal.
* Drupal needs a little time investment to realize all the huge possibilities of Drupal
* Clear, high quality code and API (easy to integrate with other solutions etc)
* Flexibility and no known limitations
* Many high profile sites use Drupal (e.g.: MTV UK, BBC, the Onion, Nasa, Greenpeace UK, New york observer. )
Joomla
* If you are not techy its good to start
* Easy install & setup with your mouse
* Easy learning curve
* Cannot integrate other scripts etc. to your site
* Generally you cannot create high-end sites, without investing huge amount
* No SEO out of the box, URLs are not search engine friendly.
* Server resources utilization is more compared to drupal
* Only one site per installation
* No Single Log-in to several sites
* No User groups & permissions
* More intuitive administration user interface
* Some polished modules for things like calendars, polls, etc.
* Modules cost you money
System Requirements:
* Drupal can work with MySQL and Postgres while Joomla is known to support only MySQL
* Drupal can work with Apache or IIS while Joomla is known to support only Apache
* Joomla support SSL logins and SSL pages. Drupal not known to support it.
Site Management
* Drupal has free add on for Workflow management. Joomla not known to have one.
* Drupal has inbuilt Translation manager. Joomla has a Free ad on for the same
* Drupal has more granular priviledge managment
Interoperability:
* Drupal has iCal support [Add on] , Joomla not known to have one.
* Drupal is XHTML Complaint. Joomla not known to be one.
* Drupal has excellent versioning and Audit trail which Joomla lacks
Here's some stats about the browsers share (among web dev people). Specifically, this data is collected from the visitors of the site W3Schools. So have this in consideration:
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers. These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users
Browser Statistics Month by Month:
| Month | IE7 | IE6 | IE5 | IE ALL | Firefox | Chrome | Safari | Opera |
| January, 2008 | 21.20% | 32.00% | 1.50% | 54.70% | 36.40% | 1.90% | 1.40% | |
| February, 2008 | 22.70% | 30.70% | 1.30% | 54.70% | 36.50% | 2.00% | 1.40% | |
| March, 2008 | 23.30% | 29.50% | 1.10% | 53.90% | 37.00% | 2.10% | 1.40% | |
| April, 2008 | 24.90% | 28.90% | 1.00% | 54.80% | 39.10% | 2.20% | 1.40% | |
| May, 2008 | 26.50% | 27.30% | 0.70% | 54.50% | 39.80% | 2.40% | 1.50% | |
| June, 2008 | 27.00% | 26.50% | 0.50% | 54.00% | 41.00% | 2.60% | 1.70% | |
| July, 2008 | 26.40% | 25.30% | 51.70% | 42.60% | 2.50% | 1.90% | ||
| August, 2008 | 26.00% | 24.50% | 50.50% | 43.70% | 2.60% | 2.10% | ||
| September, 2008 | 26.30% | 22.30% | 48.60% | 42.60% | 3.10% | 2.70% | 2.00% | |
| October, 2008 | 26.90% | 20.20% | 47.10% | 44.00% | 3.00% | 2.80% | 2.20% | |
| November, 2008 | 26.60% | 20.00% | 46.60% | 44.20% | 3.10% | 2.70% | 2.30% | |
| December, 2008 | 26.10% | 19.60% | 45.70% | 44.40% | 3.60% | 2.70% | 2.40% | |
| January, 2009 | 0.60% | 25.70% | 18.50% | 44.80% | 45.50% | 3.90% | 3.00% | 2.30% |
| February, 2009 | 0.80% | 25.40% | 17.40% | 43.60% | 46.40% | 4.00% | 3.00% | 2.20% |
| March, 2009 | 1.40% | 24.90% | 17.00% | 43.30% | 46.50% | 4.20% | 3.10% | 2.30% |
| April, 2009 | 3.50% | 23.20% | 15.40% | 42.10% | 47.10% | 4.90% | 3.00% | 2.20% |
| May, 2009 | 5.20% | 21.30% | 14.50% | 41.00% | 47.70% | 5.50% | 3.00% | 2.20% |
| June, 2009 | 7.10% | 18.70% | 14.90% | 40.70% | 47.30% | 6.00% | 3.10% | 2.10% |
| July, 2009 | 9.10% | 15.90% | 14.40% | 39.40% | 47.90% | 6.50% | 3.30% | 2.10% |
| August, 2009 | 10.60% | 15.10% | 13.60% | 39.30% | 47.40% | 7.00% | 3.30% | 2.10% |
| September, 2009 | 12.20% | 15.30% | 12.10% | 39.60% | 46.60% | 7.10% | 3.60% | 2.20% |
| October, 2009 | 12.80% | 14.10% | 10.60% | 37.50% | 47.50% | 8.00% | 3.80% | 2.30% |
| November, 2009 | 13.30% | 13.30% | 11.10% | 37.70% | 47.00% | 8.50% | 3.80% | 2.30% |
| December, 2009 | 13.50% | 12.80% | 10.90% | 37.20% | 46.40% | 9.80% | 3.60% | 2.30% |
| January, 2010 | 14.30% | 11.70% | 10.20% | 36.20% | 46.30% | 10.80% | 3.70% | 2.20% |
| February, 2010 | 14.70% | 11.00% | 9.60% | 35.30% | 46.50% | 11.60% | 3.80% | 2.10% |
(click to zoom)
Data source: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Basically, FF has stop growing since April 2009, IE is continuously declining an Chrome is gaining ground. But please note the remark at the begin of the text: this is among the visitors of the site W3Schools.
For the global market, these are the numbers:
From: http://it-chuiko.com/internet/2659-top-5-browsers-data-for-february.html
O blog BaseDadosRamiro é isso mesmo: uma base de dados sobre Educação onde guardo toda a legislação, estudos, relatórios e estatísticas.
(…)
A cara nova do blog tem a assinatura do editor do BrasilHighTech e foi construída com base em dois critérios: simplicidade do website e estética. Ninguém gosta de visitar um blog confuso, desarrumado e de cara feia.
Vale a pena manter um design limpo. Por melhores que sejam os conteúdos, a apresentação também conta.
O software MWSnap serve para capturar ecrãs, mediar pedaços de ecrã e para capturar cores em uso. Uso-o regularmente, em conjunto com o Windows Live Writer, para colocar online imagens que ilustram os textos dos meus blogs. Usar um destes comandos para escolher a área a capturar:
O comando Área pré-definida é particularmente útil se se precisar de imagens com tamanho específico (ver mais a baixo as opções para configuração). Desta forma não é necessário usar um editor de imagem para recortar/redimensionar a imagem.
Adicionalmente, usando um visualizador de fotografias e tendo-se previamente feito o zoom adequado à fotografia, é uma forma rápida de obter um recorte da foto (com o comando Área pré-definida), pronto a usar no blog.
Com a opção auto-copiar após a captura da imagem (ver mais a baixo) logo depois da captura, a imagem fica no clipboard, pronta a colar no Windows Live Writer.
Instalação
1. Descarregar o executável e o pacote linguístico:
Links:
2. Instalar o executável e descomprimir o pacote linguístico para a sub-directoria Lang da directoria de instalação (tipicamente "C:\Program Files\MWSnap\Lang" ou "C:\Programas\MWSnap\Lang")
3. Ir ao menu e mudar a língua: 
4. Opções
Note-se a possibilidade de auto-copiar após a captura da imagem.
Note-se na possibilidade de guardar a captura automaticamente.
Note-se a possibilidade de adicionar áreas com dimensões predefinidas, para se ter as capturas no tamanho pronto a usar.
Ver também:
Bem, haverá várias. Mas há uma funcionalidade que não encontro em nenhum outro browser
e que me deixa colado ao Firefox, não arredando pé até haver igual noutros. Falo da possibilidade de pesquisar na página mal comece a escrever (se precisar de fazer CTRL+F, CTRL+L ou equivalentes).
É uma opção que não está activada por omissão mas para mim é uma delícia. Activa-se em (ver imagem supra): Tools | Options | Advanced | General | Search for text when I start typing.
A beleza desta funcionalidade é, por exemplo, fazer uma pesquisa no Google, abrir uma das páginas da pesquisa, escrever aquilo que se procura e, plim!, está-se lá. É rápido. Depois, basta fazer CTRL+G para ir para a ocorrência seguinte.
Feedly organizes your favorite sources in a magazine-like start page.
A magazine-like start page. A fast and stylish way to read and share the content of your favorite sites and services. Provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube and Amazon.
Having it all in one page is nice. Also, specific categories can be added: check the tool bar
And clicking at the arrow of the toolbar, other tools become available:
The karma is nice and shows information about the number of clicks on some subject:
I suspect that this isn't very accurate but can be used to get an idea of the popularity of your posts.
Another thing I enjoy is the summary capability, showing the sites I follow in a list approach, making it easy to decide if it is worth reading:
So, that's it. Enjoy.