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Develop Your Online Identity (Part II): Brand Yourself With Gravatar

We have talked in a previous article about how easy it is to have an online presence now days. The key is not in creating an online presence but also learning to develop and maintain this online identity clean, friendly and professional.

This is the second part of my previous post called How to Create, Develop and Maintain a Successful Online Identity.

Build and Maintain a Good Online Reputation

Regardless of what the purpose of your profile/website/ blog is, it’s important to keep a clean online reputation – even if you are not planning on doing business online.

Have you tried “googling” yourself? Try it and see what comes up. What you will see is what’s your online identity today.

Brand Yourself with Gravatar

There are some really good tools you can use if you are trying to create a successful online identity. One of them is Gravatar. To quote from the website “A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things…”

Benefits of using Gravatar

Avatars allow people to recognize you easier whenever you comment or post something on websites, blogs and web forums. Continue reading Develop Your Online Identity (Part II): Brand Yourself With Gravatar

Google Reader Keyboard Shortcuts

Google Reader has lots of useful keyboard shortcuts. Here is the list.

Navigation
j/k        : next/previous item
space        : next item or page
<Shift> + space    : previous item or page
<Shift> + n/p    : next/previous subscription
n/p        : item scan down/up (list only)
<Shift> + x    : expand folder
v: view original
<Shift> + o    : open subscription or folder

Acting on items

s        : star item
t        : tag item
e        : email item
<Shift> + s    : share item
<Shift> + d    : share item with note
v        : view original
o/enter        : expand/collapse item (list only)
c        : add comment
<Shift> + c    : view comments
m        : mark item as read/unread
<Shift> + a    : mark all as read

Jumping

g then h    : go home
g then a    : go to all items
g then s    : go to starred items
g then <Shift> + s: go to shared items
g then u    : open subscription selector
g then t    : open tag selector
g then <Shift> + t: go to trends page
g then d    : go to discovery page
g then f    : open friend selector
g then <Shift> + f: go to friends’ shared items
g then c    : go to comment view

Application

r        : refresh
u       : toggle full screen mode
1        : switch to expanded view
2       : switch to list view
/        : move cursor to search box
a       : add a subscription
=       : increase magnification
–        : decrease magnification

via: Google Reader

HowTo: Find Model and Serial Number of your Computer using DOS Commands

portable-computer-256x256 A few days ago I found a really nice tip about how to find your serial number and model of your computer without too much hassle. Some desktops and laptops of the most popular brands come with a serial number. This information comes in handywhenever you are about to get technical support, or wanting to register your product online, just to mention a few cases.

Here is how you can find the Model and Serial Number, you just need to follow this steps:

1) Go to Start -> Run -> cmd

2) Once you are in the command line, enter wmic bios get serialnumber this will return the serial number of your computer.

3) And if you enter wmic csproduct get name, this will return the Model Name of your computer.

As you can see, this works well in computers with a popular name like DELL, HP, IBM, etc. Pretty easy, huh?

via: Kabytes

HowTo: Solution to Errors when Configuring OsCommerce with PayPal or Upgrading OsCommerce to PHP5

A couple weeks ago I was in charge of configuring an OsCommerce account with PayPal Module. Unfortunately, when searching on the internet I came to find out that there wasn’t a lot of documentation on the web about this subject. So I had to spend a few more minutes trying to figure out some things that I wasn’t familiar with. Fortunately, I didn’t run into many problems, since I had configured OsCommerce a little while ago already, and I only had to take care of configuring PayPal.

However, there were a couple problems that I noticed there wasn’t a lot of help documentation available online, so here I leave you a pretty short and specific post which I think is going to be very helpful for those who are looking to fix some problems while configuring their OsCommerce with Paypal or upgrading.

Problem:

Shipping Modules not showing up in OsCommerce Admin Module

Solution:

On the live server login to the Admin page, and go to Tools > Server Info. Search for “DOCUMENT_ROOT” then copy and paste the value for that field into admin/configure.php and add the catalog directory onto the end of it, like this:

define(‘DIR_FS_CATALOG’, ‘/home2/www/public_html/catalog/’);

This fixed both the images folder issue and the modules issue. I have tested installing/removing modules and it’s all working ok.

Problem:

Error When Clicking on Customers in the OsCommerce Admin page.

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/admin/customers.php on line 733

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/admin/customers.php on line 733

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/admin/customers.php on line 735

Warning: reset() [function.reset]: Passed variable is not an array or object in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/admin/includes/classes/object_info.php on line 17

Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/admin/includes/classes/object_info.php on line 18

Solution:

This problem usually happens when you upgrade your OsCommerce site to PHP5 version. So , if you are using PHP version 5, then this might be the answer.

Find these lines:

$customer_info = array_merge($country, $info, $reviews);

$cInfo_array = array_merge($customers, $customer_info);

and change them to:

$customer_info = array_merge((array)$country, (array)$info, (array)$reviews);

$cInfo_array = array_merge((array)$customers, (array)$customer_info);

I hope you find this short tutorial useful. When I run into this problems I wished I would have found a post like this, so here it is in a nutshell just for you. Until next time!

72 of The Most Killingest Modified Computers Ever

Want to create something different for your office? When buying a new computer most people don’t care about its design. Then we have another group of people. The ones that just can’t live with the thought of being just like the average Joe. They want to be among the select few that stands out in a crowd showing off their designer/manufacturing skills no matter how much money it will take getting there.

Here is a nice collections of designs to get you inspired.

Increase Firefox Speed and Decrease Firefox Memory Usage +20 Tips

Firefox is one of my favorite browsers. If you are still using Internet Explorer (IE) I invite you to try Firefox at least for a week, you’ll notice the difference right away.

In the world of technology you will always find new tricks and tools that will help you improve your experience, this time I bring you a nice post that explains how to increase your Firefox Speed and decrease your Firefox memory usage.

Grunge-Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

PSDVault recently published a very useful tutorial where it shows the steps to make a Grungy-Style Abstract Typography using rusted metal texture in Photoshop. The inspiration of this tutorial came from a grungy metal image.

In the tutorial, you will explore some layer blending techniques, various filter effects, and an interesting method of making the text look 3D. Here you go!