How to create word cloud for free

Word cloud also known as tag cloud is a generated tags based on the words of a web site. In other words, we can say that it is a visual picture of a web site.

Wordle is a free web application to create word cloud. It has the capability to create word cloud from a bunch of pasted text, from a blog or web site with Atom or RSS feed enabled, and from del.icio.us user tags.

Word cloud created with Wordle

According to Wordle, word cloud created with Wordle can be used for anything, even if you are making profit of it, as long as the credit goes back to http://www.wordle.net/. Images created by the Wordle.net web application are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Examples of usage include book cover, t-shirt or even as blog header like the one used by WordPress Foundation blog, which was made public today. Read WordPress Foundation first article.

What is your opinion about word cloud? Is it a good way to describe your blog? Please leave your comment.

Firefox 3.6 keyboard shortcuts

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 (codename Namoroka) was released yesterday. Mozilla claims that Firefox 3.6, which was built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, is faster and more responsive than the previous version.

Table 1 listed the Firefox keyboard shortcuts that will help you use Firefox expeditiously.

Table 1: List of Firefox keyboard shortcuts.

Keyboard shortcut	Function
ctrl + T	Open a new empty tab
ctrl + W	Close a tab
ctrl + shift + T	Reopen a closed tab
ctrl + +	Zoom in
ctrl + -	Zoom out
ctrl + 0	Zoom reset
ctrl + L	Move cursor to the location bar
ctrl + K	Move cursor to the search box
space bar	Scroll down the page
shift + space bar	Scroll up the page
ctrl + R	Refresh the page
alt + left arrow	Back
alt + right arrow	Forward
ctrl + 1	Switch to the first tab
ctrl + 2	Switch to the second tab
ctrl + 3	Switch to the third tab
ctrl + 4	Switch to the forth tab
ctrl + 5	Switch to the fifth tab
ctrl + 6	Switch to the sixth tab
ctrl + 7	Switch to the seventh tab
ctrl + 8	Switch to the eight tab
ctrl + 9	Switch to the last tab

As an addition, the mouse middle button is also useful. Click the middle mouse button on a tab will close it. Click the middle mouse button on a link will open the link in a new window.

You can also make the middle mouse button to paste copied text, as in Linux. However, you need to tweak Firefox a bit.

This are the steps to enable the middle mouse button as a paste command.

1. Move the cursor to the location bar by using your mouse or ctrl + L shortcut key.


2. Type about:config in the location bar and press Enter.


3. Click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!”.


4. Type middlemouse in the Filter bar. A list of commands will appear.


5. Double click command middlemouse.paste. Note that it’s value will now turns to True.

I have listed some useful Firefox keyboard shortcuts that help me browse the Web efficiently. If you know other keyboard shortcuts that I have missed, please leave a comment.

Windows 7 GodMode: Access all Windows settings

Windows 7 GodMode

Windows 7 GodMode enable you to access all Windows settings from one place.

To enable Windows 7 GodMode:

1. Create a new folder.
2. Rename it to the following: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

If you do it right, the icon of that new folder will change to resemble the control panel icon.

How to disable wp.me shortlink

WordPress 2.9 provides wp.me shortlink for each post for free. However, if you don't like it, you can disable it easily.

To disable it, copy and paste the following code into your theme's functions.php file.

/* Disable Auto Adding of wp.me Shortlink */
remove_action('wp_head', 'shortlink_wp_head');

Google Analytics new asynchronous tracking code

Google Analytics has now provides new asynchronous tracking code. The main feature of the asynchronous code is that it could load ga.js while the page is being rendered.

There are two ways to use this code.

1. Place the code below before the  </head> tag.
   

    <script type="text/javascript">  
    var _gaq = _gaq || [];  
    _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);  
    _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);  
    (function() {  
      var ga = document.createElement('script');  
      ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol  
        ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www')  
        + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';  
      ga.setAttribute('async', 'true');  
      document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(ga);  
    })();  
    </script>  
   



2. Split the code. Half of the code will be put before the </head> tag. Another half will be put at the end of the page, before the </body> tag.
   The first half (before </head> the tag).
   

    <script type="text/javascript">  
    var _gaq = _gaq || [];  
    _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);  
    _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);  
    </script>  
   

   The second half (before </body> the tag).
   

    <script type="text/javascript">  
    (function() {  
      var ga = document.createElement('script');  
      ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol  
        ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www')  
        + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';  
      ga.setAttribute('async', 'true');  
      document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(ga);  
    })();  
    </script>  
   

Note:

1. Remove any existing Google Analytics code before using this asynchronous code.


2. Disable any Google Analytics plugin (if you use one) for WordPress.


3. Replace UA-XXXXX-X with your web property ID.

Hard reset Nokia E71

To hard reset Nokia E71:

1. Switch off the phone.


2. Press and hold down *, 3 and talk/green keys while switching on the phone, until you see the Nokia boot up screen.

The default password is 12345.

Please note that this action would remove everything from the phone memory, and restore the factory settings.

However, it will not erase the contents of the memory card.

Note:

1. You can also hard reset E71 via *#7370# code.


2. To reset E71 to its factory settings only, use *#7780# code.

Orbit Downloader hijacks 404 error pages

Orbit Downloader is a free download manager for Windows operating system without ads. Besides, it can also be used to download video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, and Rapidshare.

However, in spite of being an ads free download manager, by default it will hijack all 404 error pages in your browser, by redirecting the pages to orbitdownloader.com search page.

Maybe it is a good feature that you might like, but it is not for me.

Fortunately, Orbit Downloader allow you to disable this feature, as depicted in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Disable Orbit Downloader 404 pages hijack

To disable this feature,

1. Open Orbit Downloader windows, from the Start Menu, or by double clicking its icon in the system tray.
2. Click on Tools > Preferences > Monitoring.
3. Untick "Let Orbit suggestions on browser navigation error".
4. Click OK.
5. Restart your browser.