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Mac Fans Wear iCufflinks [Videos]
HTTP Archive Tracks World’s Top 18000 Websites – Are You Listed?
How to Add HTML, Scripts in WordPress Category Descriptions

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 10:25 AM PDT

So what will make Apple Mac Fans stand out of the crowd in a party? iCufflinks! Adafruit Industries has created iCufflinks, a cool set of cufflinks resembling the Mac power button with rhythmically glowing lights.

mac icufflinks

Adafruit says its inspired by the Mac power button, beautifully manufactured in aluminium, and they have inserted soft pulsating LED lights (‘reverse engineered’ from the Apple “breathing” LED on Macs, MacBooks) within the iCufflinks.

Each iCufflink has a circuit board and a battery to power it. Though not cheap at $128, but then Apple fans like to pay a little extra for that exclusivity.

Did you know the Cufflinks are completely open source and the source code can be grabbed at Github. [via Engadget].

Original article: Mac Fans Wear iCufflinks [Videos]
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HTTP Archive Tracks World’s Top 18000 Websites – Are You Listed?

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 09:50 AM PDT

If you are among the top 18000 sites in the world, Google supported HTTP Archive can reveal your site performance statistics and give you page speed suggestions! Are you listed?

HTTP Archive

The HTTP Archive is a permanent repository of web performance information of top websites and urls across the web. Google engineers built the HTTP Archive as an open source service and are now ownership is transfered to the Internet Archive.

The HTTP Archive started gathering data since October 2010 with 1000 websites and now nearly 18,000 top websites are tested every two weeks. The aims is to keep testing 1 million websites and they are being supported by Google, Mozilla, New Relic, O'Reilly Media, Etsy, Strangeloop, and dynaTrace Software.

The top websites data is collected from respected tracking sources like Alexa 10,000 Topsites, Fortune 500, CNN Global 500 and Quantcast Top Sites. The data and site analysis is powered by the excellent powerful tool called WebPagetest which webmasters routinely use to test site performance.

Top 18000 Sites

If you believe you are among the top 18000 sites … Visit the 18000 websites and search your site by domain name letter or search and it will reveal all your site performance data. See your site load time, and get suggestions to improve page speed. Track the number of requests made by your web pages, and get your data available in different easy to understand formats like Waterfall, filmstrip and even a site loading video. Developers will find the data useful to conduct performance research.

This is what what our site QOT in HTTP Archive looks like. If you are a regular reader here, share your HTTP Archive link in comments.

Original article: HTTP Archive Tracks World’s Top 18000 Websites – Are You Listed?
Copyright 2011. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved.

How to Add HTML, Scripts in WordPress Category Descriptions

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 11:23 AM PDT

How can you add HTML code and scripts in WordPress category descriptions? WordPress category description is a text box which will by default strip any tags, scripts or html code if you attempt to save it. But adding code for images, links, javascripts can enhance the usability, functionality and search engine rankings of your category pages.

Block WordPress Filters

Normally WordPress has powerful filters which block and strip code, so if you disable the filter, you can add whatever you like in the input forms. I followed this discussion and found this useful tip.

In the theme editor, open your themes functions.php file and add this code before the closing php closing tag ?>

$filters = array('term_description','category_description','pre_term_description'); foreach ( $filters as $filter ) { remove_filter($filter, 'wptexturize'); remove_filter($filter, 'convert_chars'); remove_filter($filter, 'wpautop'); remove_filter($filter, 'wp_filter_kses'); remove_filter($filter, 'strip_tags'); }

Warning: Any wrong code entry to the functions.php file can take your blog down and block wp access. So fiddle with it only if you know what you are doing. If something goes wrong, edit the file to original via ftp, and all will be well.

Add Category Description Theme Support

Now you need to enable the category description code in your theme (which is usually absent). So in your theme editor open archive.php (which displays tags and categories archives) and add the following code after the Category / Tag headline.

<?php echo category_description(); ?>

Add HTML to Category Description

Now you can add any html code and scripts to description fields of categories and tags.

Wordpress category html description

Make useful category and tags descriptions and see the rising search engine ranking of these pages. Do you like this design + SEO tip?

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