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A new Firefox SEO Extension I’ve ran across should come handy making some of the optimization process easier.

Current SEOpen features are all accessed through right-clicking an open area on a web page; they include:

• Yahoo Backlinks
• Google Backlinks
• Google Cache
• Link Analyzer
• Keyword Density
• Page Size Checker
• HTML Validator
• HTTP Header Viewer
• PageRank Check

SEOpen Close-UpPlanned Features:

• Wayback Machine
• Yahoo Cache
• Check robots.txt
• Number of pages in Google index
• Number of pages in Yahoo
• Options Menu to select which features to make available via right-click

FontList
It’s usually very hard to get a nice overview of all your installed fonts. With FontList, you can easily create a HTML file showing all your fonts in your web browser. FontList lets you change the sample text, exclude seldom used fonts from the list and change the path for the HTML file. FontList then opens up your web browser to show you all your fonts.

Sending Email from your PHP Applications

The following article from developer.com gives a great walkthrough / how-to do so in a very simple way.

Are there some tricks to speed up Firefox?

There are indeed a number of different adjustments you can make to Firefox that can improve its performance, the first and most important of which is to always make sure that you have the very latest version on your system. Pop over to get Firefox and download it right now.

Done?

Good. Now, enter the URL about:config and then type in “network.http” to the browser’s “filter” function to identify the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

If your Firefox is set up like mine, the first two will be set to “false”. Change them to “true” and then enter a value like 20 for maxrequests.

These will make the browser use your network connection more efficiently (or, depending on your perspective, more aggressively) which should visibly speed up rendering pages in the browser.

There’s a lot more you can learn if you pop over to Mozillazine’s Firefox Tuning discussion, if you really want to fine-tune your Web browsing experience.

Trying to earn back some of it’s lost market share the AOL owned ICQ has a vew version (ICQ 5 5.02).

Some of the main changes to the program:

• Push to Talk - This feature(VoIP based) allows the user to transmit a voice message at the push of a button to one user or to a whole group, upon the persons’ approval. It is somewhat similar to some of the features that so far were offered by the cellular companies alone.
• The Extra platform - Feature advanced customization, improved emoticons and games, as seen on AOL.
• SMS - The SMS feature was improved. It now allows one to send the same message to several recipients. It also allows one to forward all received IM messages to any supported cellular phone as a SMS message.
• Firewall improvements - For those who know ICQ you probably know that it was lacking the support for the different firewalls and in a lot of times will block certain options. The new version fixed this problem.

Note: The only problem I found was that the problem attemps to add it’s own toolbar to the different browsers. To block this from happening for those who already use a different toolbar, it has to be done during the installation.

All in all, it seems pretty good, I am excited, try it out: ICQ 5 | Download

My Sprint DSL Service
I’ve been trying to setup Emule on my computer for the longest time. I could never get rid of the LowID problem which, for those of you who don’t know, causes really slow downloads. I’ve read every single tutorial on the net with no success.
I finally decided to contact Sprint Customer Service, and learned something new: My modem has a built in firewall and proxy. This is just another protection that Sprint provides its’ customers with along with one of the best spam control I’ve ever seen. So as a side note, if you are looking for a good DSL provider, I would highly recommend their services.

Setting up EMule / EDonkey to work with Sprint DSL Modem
As I mentioned, Sprint DSL ‘645 Series’ has a built in proxy and firewall, and having that turned on, Emule could not work properly. So this is the solution I found:

Sprint DSL Router / Modem 645 Series

This router has a web baised interface, but it does not actually say “Port Forwarding” in the listing.

I have this router connected to a wireless router so this post might get lengthly.

First to solve the Sprint router:
1) login to the web baised interface
In IE: http://192.168.1.1 - this is default for this router
Use admin as username and 1234 as password
NOTE: 1234 is default when you origionally setup the router with sprint dsl your email address password was placed in here, so use that to log in.

2) Click on Advanced Setup on the left
Click on NAT
In Network Address Translation (NAT) select the box: SUA Only and edit details

3) In this screen you will have a menu with start port end port and IP address

Check with EMule / EDonkey to find your ports, but the ip address will be 192.168.1.2
Save changes

If you only have one computer and router you are done.

Good Luck…