My favorite downloader tool for downloading files from file hosters such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, etc, JDownloader, has just been updated with a much needed GUI revamp. This is how it looks like after installing the newest update.
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Archives for May 2009
Download New Adwords Editor 7.5.1
Just opened up adwords editor and saw that there’s a new update available. There are a few new features but personally I find that the functionality to download conversion statistics, sort keyword data by multiple columns and the improvement on keyword opportunities (search-based keywords tab especially) to be the most useful updates. You can download adwords editor and read the release notes here.
What Are Canonical URLs?
So I was setting up a new wordpress blog and configuring the All In One SEO wordpress plugin when I came across this canonical url thingy which I haven’t been paying too much attention about. So what is that exactly? The short summary is that it’s a html tag you can enter in the
section that helps the search engines to determine which url they should be indexing if they can reach your site through different but similar url. Google Webmaster Central has a longer explanation which you can read here.How To Schedule Rapidshare File Downloads With JDownloader
I just found out that there’s an addon for JDownloader that helps you to schedule files to be downloaded at a specific time. Scheduling downloads has allowed me to download my favorite shows and sports programs from different file hosting providers such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire etc any time I wanted.
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Hotmail and Live Dot Com POP Access
When you setup an Windows Live Hotmail in an email program using POP access, the following settings are to be used:
POP server: pop3.live.com
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example [email protected]
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes
And So Adwords Trademark Bidding War Starts Again
Adowrds has just updated their policy so you can now bid and show trademarked keywords in your ad copy again provided that your landing pages meets their policy guidelines.
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Microsoft Office 2010 Minimum System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for the next version of the Microsoft Office, Office 2010, has been announced.
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How To Download Youtube Videos Using Firefox Extensions
Downloading videos from youtube or any other video sharing sites such as Metacafe, Veoh, Revver, Myspace etc is very easy with these firefox extensions. If Firefox is already your default browser, then having one of these extensions installed will help you save your favorite videos for later viewing.
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Installing SQL Server 2005 Service Pack Silently
Switch
Description
/?
Displays unattended installation command prompt help.
/allinstances
Applies SQL Server 2005 SP3 to all instances of SQL Server 2005 and to all SQL Server 2005 shared, instance-unaware components.
/instancename=InstanceName
Applies SQL Server 2005 SP3 to an instance of SQL Server 2005 named InstanceName, and to all SQL Server 2005 shared, instance-unaware components.
/password=Password
User account password for connecting to a remote failover cluster node.
/quiet
Runs SQL Server 2005 SP3 Setup in unattended mode.
/reportonly
Only the discovery and enumeration section of Setup is run, and a report enumerating the local instances and components of SQL Server 2005 is displayed.
Note:
When using this switch, SQL Server 2005 SP3 is not applied.
/rsupgradedatabaseaccount=rsAccountName
Specifies an account that has permissions to modify the schema on a report server database when you use SQL Server Authentication. This parameter is used when you upgrade an instance of Reporting Services that includes a report server database that requires a SQL Server login.
/rsupgradepassword=rsPassword
Specifies the password for an account that has permissions to modify the schema on a remote report server database. This parameter is used when you upgrade an instance of Reporting Services that includes a remote report server database.
/rsupgradedatabase
Use the switch /rsupgradedatabase=0 to prevent the Reporting Services database from being upgraded
/sapwd=SaLoginPassword
Passes the SQL Server Authentication password for the sa login to run scripts.
Note:
Do not escape characters for /sapwd. Escaping characters will cause Setup to fail.
/user=Domain\UserName
User account for connecting to a remote failover cluster node.
Google Adwords Auction System & Quality Score Video
A must see video for all google adwords ppc marketer on how quality score, ad rank, ad position and cost per click (cpc) are determined. This is by far the clearest and best video explanation I’ve seen about how all things in the adwords auctioning system comes together, presented by Google’s Chief Economist.
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