Archive for August, 2008
Posted on August 20, 2008 with 4 Comments
Twitter is one of the Social Networking site that reflect the changes in online culture faster than all other Social Networking platform. The main reason is the 24/7 presence of its users on the site.. The twitter users might have seen a change in the avatars of your followers or friends.. At least One of your contact has the “FaceYourManga” Avatar now !
And I have found some more online avatar generators and compiling them for my readers.. Here it goes
FaceYourManga
Its the buzz over the web now, and the reason for this blog post.. It has a cool handy flash interface with many facial feature variation that will help you to get best result.
SouthPark Avatars
SouthPark Avatars was another kind widespread all over the web. Now its has been extincted from the web. Anyways they still have the quality and uniqueness inside.
Simpsons Avatars
Simpson is one of the all time favorites of most of the Social Networking addicts. Here is the official Simpson’s Avatar generator.
Meez Avatars
Meez is quite different from above stuffs, if all other things create vector Avatars for you.. Meez can give you 3D avatars !
Noble Avatar Maker
Noble avatar can generate cool vector avatars from over a over 15trillion combinations
Yahoo! Avatars
Yahoo Avatar may be the most popular among this list. Been using by many yahoo users from years.
Mr. PicassoHead
Mr. Picassohead is a caricature alike avatar generator.. But it has only some combinations available now 
DroppelMe
DoppelMe is another caricature creator. It has also some combinations available now.
If you know anything more than from this list, kindly add it to the comment section.. help me build this list long 
Posted on August 15, 2008 with 3 Comments
Hi guys.. Are you excited about the event ?.. Yeah Am on the top of excitement.. Only one day ahead..
The first Bloggers Event Sponsored by Kerala Tourism Department Is going to be held at Alleppy on 16.08.2008 May be the first thing like this in the world.. Not at an auditorium.. Its hosted on a floating castle !! Called “Kettuvallam“.
Blog Camp Kerala
Posted on August 15, 2008 with 1 Comment
Happy Indiependence Day to all my friends. Hope you guys loved my Gift. 
”Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we will redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance…. We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again.“
Download Yours
Posted on August 9, 2008 with 3 Comments
I don’t use affiliate link directly behind some text, but i used to keep them hidden behind a page in my website, I use a single php file to handle all my affiliate link and let users to navigate into them with a different url structure that looks similar to a page of my blog.
There are many ways to hide affiliate urls, Some peoples apply them directly, Some others use URL shrinkers such as TinyUrl etc.. And someothers use it intelligently in some other ways. I will show you some of them.
One file per link
Some people uses this technique to redirect users to their affiliate link, They use JavaScript, php header / meta refresh etc.. to make this. One of the problem with this trick is, it will make separate files for each link that you want to cloak, this will generate tons of files after some time.
One file for many links
After all miscellaneous stuffs, now we are on the actual area of what this article is about. Redirect to bunch of affiliate links with just one php page ! I am sure this can be done on any servers that running php and Apache.
Anyway the first thing we need to create is a php file to bind all our affiliate links. Take a look at the example template given below.
<?php
// Filename: link.php
// Coded by: Ben Jacob
// E-mail: ben@featherpot.com
// More: http://featherpot.com
/*
http://yourdomain.com/redirect.php?site=company
This example has the same meaning for the other entries in $links variable.
*/
$links = array(
# Product links
"wordpresstheme" => "https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ib&aff=321654&ev",
"blogmastermind" => "http://www.blogmastermind.com/affiliates.php?af=1234567",
# Affiliate Links
"oiopublisher" => "http://www.oiopublisher.com/ref.php?u=000",
"textlinkads" => "http://www.text-link-ads.com/?ref=123456",
# Simple sites
"google" => "http://www.google.com",
"twitter" => "http://www.twitter.com",
"myflickr" => "http://www.flickr.com/benjacob/",
);
# redirection
header("Location:".$links[$_GET['site']]);
exit;
?>
None of the above Affiliate url are real
Don’t understand anything from the above codes ? Don’t worry its simple.. I will explain. All things thats begins with # or // are just comments, ignore them Its beging used for the future. If you comment the codes its easy to modify them in the future without any confusion about the specific snippet.
$links = array (); We are starting a new array of links from this line in the code. each line URLs that placed in separate line will be considered as a new link.
"google" => "http://www.google.com",
Here the url: http://google.com can be redirected by a single keyword word ‘google’. To add more links to the list you can copy the above template and replace the keyword and url.
The last line is the same header redirect that has been used in the other examples, but instead of hard coding the link in there, it chooses the appropriate definition based on what keyword was passed in the URL.
Now how will you use this file to redirect links by passing keywords ? Ok, for that consider http://example.com/go/links.php as this file on your server. Just linking to that file will do nothing because you didn’t tell it which keyword to use. If you want it to work, you link to “example.com/go/link.php?title=google”. The file will get “google” as the link variable, look up the redirect link, and perform the correct redirect. The link will navigate you to http://google.com that we have defined in the php file.
Demo
http://featherpot.com/go/link.php?site=google => http://google.com
But that doesn’t look much better than the normal affiliate links you are trying to hide, does it? Well, there is a way to make them look however you want. Stay tuned ..!!
Posted on August 8, 2008 with 2 Comments
An icon is the first graphical portion that attracts users to an application, A user interact with an Application’s desktop icon before they experience the UI of the software, In web design icons play very important roles, Favicons are the best example for it.
Using Search Engines like Google or Yahoo for finding an icon that suits your need is very time consuming. So lets think of icon specific search engines, Made only to find the icon files from the huge internet.
Icon Finder
Iconfinder is one of the best Iconsearch engines available today. With Its Instant Suggest Feature it makes Finding Icons faster than ever, With elaborated information about the Icon License and Designer Iconfinder is one of the best.
ICONlook
Icon Look is another web 2.0 service which enables the designers to locate the icons faster, in a simple way, Icon Look lets you to search icons based on their resolution. It also provides maximum information about the specific icon you have choosed.
Icons Search
Icons Search Engine lets you to find icons for all platforms including Windows, Linux, OS x and Web. The search site also include a iframe of source site. But the interface is not so simple compared to the other services. 
Yeah Service matters
Search Icon
Search Icon is a Search tool that is still on its development phase, Most of its features are incomplete, But it provides most icons and information about each of them. This site lets you browse icons like in your desltop computer, Simply like you browsing them on the Folders.
Need Extra ?
Yes, I know you need something extra from me.. Ok Catch it..
Vista Icon Is a web site which gives you loads of well designed icons.
deviantArt is a community that every designer must be aware of.
IconBuffet is another community only for icons, Yeah the guys at iconbuffet showed me that designer can make icon collection a hobby ! (If you use iconbuffet, I love to be your friend there )
Google don’t forget a netizens good friend Google !
Posted on August 3, 2008 with No Comments
I still remember my first days on internet, The first website i saw was.. ya it msn.com. Since I am a windows user, I will get msn first on my desktop and I started scrolling the web page, but that time design never inspired me, even the news, but i liked their color schemes, next thing i noticed was the small icon before the title of the webpage, a bright butterfly, the MSN logo ! after several months I came to know that they are called Favicons !
After the launch of Apple iPhone, with the introduction of 1.1.3 firmware Apple Introduced a new type of graphics, called WebClip Icons. By default iPhone/iPodTouch will use the screen shot of the website as WebClip Icon, but we can customize them too !
For that:
- Create a 57×57 PNG.
- Name it “apple-touch-icon.png”
- Place it in the root folder of your website. (Not the root of your server, the root of your web documents.)
You have done it !, Ya iPhone will automatically take that icon and place it over the webclip for you.
<head>
<title>iHelloWorld</title>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/whatever.jpg"/>
</head>
In case, if you are using a Graphics with some other name in some other locations, you can link that icone just like we does for the favicons. You may place a similar code given below in the head of your design. No problem if your icon graphics is a bit larger, it will be automatically scaled.
