Technology Tips

Here is the browser market share for October 2007, based on traffic to my top site:

IE: 63.75%
Firefox: 32.65%
Opera: 2.01%
Safari: 0.76%
Mozilla: 0.57%

Firefox had a strong October, gaining 0.99% during the month. Much of the increase came at the expense of IE, which saw a drop of 0.84% in October. The smaller browsers did not see much change.� It’s worth noting that Firefox saw a new record high in October, after having just set a record high in September.

When you see a good video on Youtube, often you will want to keep it by downloading it to your machine. Youtube, however, doesn’t provide such a functionality. Fortunately, there are many third-party applications that allow you to do this. Here I present step-by-step instructions on how to download video from Youtube.

1. Navigate to the video page of the video you like to download.

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If you are using more than just one or two advertising partners, you know managing advertising is not an easy task.� It takes time to put up new ads, take down non-performing ads,� check results, etc.� Back in SES San Jose 2007,� I heard a couple of� respected people in the search engine industry� recommending OpenAds as the ad server of choice.� � So I went ahead and gave it a try.

I am very pleased with what OpenAds has delivered for me.� Below are some of the features I find most useful with OpenAds:�

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On Sunday, German software powerhouse SAP announced that it is buying Business Intelligence software provider Business Objects for $6.8 billion in cash. The news release can be found on SAP’s website.

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Here is the browser market share for September 2007, based on traffic to my top site:

IE: 64.74%
Firefox: 31.81%
Opera: 1.89%
Safari: 0.76%
Mozilla: 0.57%

Firefox had a strong September, gaining 0.88% during the month. Much of the increase came at the expense of IE, which saw a drop of 0.92% in September. The smaller browsers did not see much change. In fact, the Firefox share number is the highest since I started reporting browser market share a year ago. Given that September is the back-to-school month, this could signify that Firefox is gaining usage among students.

One project I’ve had to work on recently requires me to pull data from Microsoft SQL Server from a Linux machine.� It took me a lot of time� to search the internet to find the proper software to install, configure, and get everything running.� To save time for everyone else who may need to accomplish this task in the future, I list out the steps below:

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If you have a mobile website, you have just gotten a new way to monetize your site today, as Google has made� Adsense for Mobile to its publishers.

To use Adsense For Mobile, your site needs to be in wml, xhtml, or ctml.� You can put one� mobile ad unit on each page, and each unti can contain one (single) or two (double) ads.� You can also customize your color scheme and select� a channel to track, just like� Adsense for Content.� Adsnese For Mobile requires server-side scripting, and at this moment the following languages are supported:

PHP v4.3.0 or greater
Perl v5.8 or greater
JSP v1.2 or greater
ASP v3.0 or greater

Some blogs cover multiple categories, and your readers may only be interested in only a few of the categories, not all of them.� You can offer your readers feeds that only cover specific categories.� Wordpress does offer this capability out of the box, but it’s not the default.� Furthermore, you will want to burn all your category RSS feeds with Feedburner.� Below I list the� steps for adding category RSS to a Wordpress blog using Feedburner:

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