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Here is detailed example on how to use html2image linux on Ubuntu 64 bit (Ubuntu 7.10 - the Gutsy Gibbon)

This serves as a good example on how to use html2image. Other 64 bit Linux distribution can be done similarly. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are a more complete examples of using htmlsnapshot to convert html to image with php on Windows.

Note the following things:

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Cold fusion is a CGI language like asp, php. Sometimes, you may need to call an external exe in coldfusion.

It is absolutely doable in coldfusion. For exmaple, if you want to call cscript.exe, here is what you can do: Read the rest of this entry »

You may need to run a command line utility to convert html or url to image. Here is a handy script that converts url/html to image with our award winning htmlsnapshot product.

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Silverlight is the new web authoring technology proposed by Microsoft. It is implemented as an ActiveX like the Flash.

It can be used to build interactive, vector based web pages.

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Firefox debug version has a lot of assertion warnings.

I felt confused that they are not got fixed even in latest version 3

A way to disable the warning is here:

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1. Affiliate Review Website. Create a website that reviews affiliate products like make money online programs, web hosting services etc. Run it on Wordpress and update it everyday with affiliate feeds or articles. How much you’ll make depends on how thick (amount of content) the website is.
2. Product Fan Blog. Create a Wordpress blog around a popular product and update everyday with news about the product. The iPhone is a good example of a hot product to choose. Traffic will be quite decent over time if the product/s have longevity.
3. Auction websites. Create a website that is similar to eBay to allow users to sell and buy products from each other. You will generate income by monetizing through ads and drawing a commission through each sale. You might get some steady revenue if you sell high ticket products or go niche enough to get a loyal user base.
4. Dating Websites. Dating websites are communities which allow users to register, chat with and meet other interested users. They can be easily setup with turnkey scripts although you’ll really need a customized template and some coding work done to make it competitive or attractive enough to get some users. Markus Frind is currently the biggest individual Adsense publisher and makes well over $10K a day from his free dating site, Plenty of Fish.
5. Made for Adsense Websites. These are websites with a keyword domain and they come with a bunch of pre written articles around a specific topic. Examples of common topics include acne, cancer, health and finance. These are generally boring, low maintenance sites that are plastered with contextual ads. Incredibly easy to create using the Wordpress platform.
6. Affiliate Product Website. This is a salespage which sells an electronic product like an eBook. Create the product, buy an existing one or just get someone to do it. The main way to make money is to drive or buy traffic to your salespage and make money when they buy your eBook or opt into your email list. This is an easy way to generate some real income, especially if you are have a great niche product or am skilled in promoting your personal brand and salespage.
7. Online Games/Arcade Sites. Get someone to develop an online game that is for members only and earn money by selling points, which allow users to unlock extra options within the game. Arcade sites are simply sites with a collection of flash or online games. They are monetized through display ads. Games can spread quickly if they are very well designed and appealing.
8. Forums or Social Network. Pick a topic that is able to attract a decent amount of users and create a forum or social network. Income will not come quickly and a lot of work is needed to build the community. Create a blog on the same domain and use for promotional purposes. There is a potential to earn a good amount of money when the forum gets big or popular.
9. Specialized Search Engines. Build a search tool that allows visitors find media of specific types. Include your adsense ads within the search pages. This sort of tools usually don’t do very well unless you provide additional value on top of search. Examples of things to add include ajax search, folksonomy and recommendation engines.
10. Paid Membership Site. These are membership sites which provide ongoing educational lessons on a specific topic or offer a large archive of resources, along with a forum. An example of this is the Teaching Sells website. Members will pay a fixed fee every month to maintain their membership.
11. Design/Coding Service Site. Create a website that offers customized logo or website design, alongside coding for PSD to XHTML, Wordpress and Joomla. Hire freelance coders and designers and manage them. Pay them a portion of each sale and promote your website through blogs and webmaster forums.
12. File Hosting Website. Set up a file host which allows users to upload and share their files online with other users. There’s a tremendous amount of competition in this niche so its very difficult to make some real money unless you innovate on features or market it well.
13. Web Directories. A web directory provides listings for websites and makes money from both display advertising and sale of premium listings. Most of the work needs to be focused on marketing and branding the site. Niche directories with a good reputation might find it easier to make money.
14. Online Web tool. This includes URL shorteners, spell checkers, picture editors, file converters and various webmaster tools (keyword volume, link popularity). Visitors will often return to your site to use these tools if they are comprehensive enough or if your site is well designed and genuinely useful.
15. Proxies. Proxies are websites which allow a websurfer to not only surf anonymously but bypass certain filters which prevent one from viewing a site. They are popular with the Myspace crowd and will often require a dedicated server. There are many proxies on the market but they may be worth exploring. Income is largely passive.
16. Commercial Template Sites. Basically this involves the creation of readymade website templates for sale. They can be bundled up into sales packages and traffic can be obtained through PPC advertising. If you’re not interested in producing original templates, you can run the site using affiliate feeds from the other more established template websites like Template Monster.

Manage WordPress Comments

• Subscribe To Comments - Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
• WP AJAX Edit Comments - Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post inline using AJAX.
• Get Recent Comments - displays excerpts of the most recent comments and/or trackbacks that have been posted to the articles in your blog.
• Close Old Posts - Closes comments on old posts without any DB queries.
• WP Grins - allows you to put clickable smilies on your post and comments forms.
• WordPress Paged Comments - allows comment paging. Useful for those very popular blog entries receiving many comments.
• Live Comment Preview - the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.
• Show Top Commentators - Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
• WordPress Gravatar Plugin - outputs the gravatar based on the commenters email address.
• MyAvatars - shows MyBlogLog’s avatars in your comments
• Comment Relish - Sends a thank you e-mail to your first time commentators.
• Favatars - displays the favicon associated with the commenter’s website.
• Brian’s Threaded Comments - adds a ‘Reply to this comment’ link to every comment. Makes it easy for people to reply to comments and discuss better.
• Dofollow - lets you remove the nofollow attribute from your comments.
• OpenID Comments for Wordpress - allows users to leave comments using their OpenID.
• Extended Comment Options - allows you to switch comments and/or pings on or off for batches of existing posts.

Stop WordPress Spam

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 Htmlsnapshot now supports converting html into multiple page tiff files. here is the sample code. You just need to specify the page width in pixel. The component will save the image into a multipage tif.

‘demo html to multipage tiff generation function

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It is possibe to use html CSS sheet with SnapHtmlString when converting a html string to image.  The trick is to store the css in a local file and refer to it in the html string like below:

<link href=”file://c:/Styles.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” />

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I tried to install 64 bit fedora 8 today.

The installation went smoothly. When I came to the login interface, the mouse pointer was invisible. It was so frustrated.

I did some search on internet and  found that this problem appears on 64 bit linux with Nvida display card. So it may be a driver issue.

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Disabling Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration

Preface:

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I meet the issue on both Vista and XP. When I open several windows (maybe 10),  the system begins to show problem. The context menu cannot open or any new GUI program cannot run etc.

I did a search today and found many people met this issue.  A recommended fix is below: Read the rest of this entry »

Recently I played with php xml rpc library. My main goal is to post articles from php to wordpress blog.

There are a lot of implementation on the web.

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How do I register the component?

Answer: Once you buy the component, a registration code will be sent to you by email. After creating an object instance of Active Audio Record in your favorite programming languages, calling the SetCode method with the code you got by email before recording. In this way, every limitation in trial mode will be removed.

‘Here is a quick example in VB Script:
Dim rec
‘Create the Audio Record Object

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Today I tried to install php, mysql and phpMyadmin on Vista IIS7. After several hours, I finally got it through.

Here are some tips:

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From http://delphi.about.com/od/windowsshellapi/l/aa040803a.htm
 

Registering DLL and ActiveX controls from code 
 
How to register (and unregister) OLE controls such as dynamic-link library (DLL) or ActiveX Controls (OCX) files from a Delphi application. 
 
 
 
 
One of the features that make Delphi so popular is that when it comes to project deployment, you as a developer (in most cases) only need to send the executable file (exe) of your application.

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It is good to keep some programming tips we used.

To get the filename of the application, most of the time you can call:

sFileName := Application.ExeName; // or sFileName := ParamStr(0);

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Htmlsnapshot can capture image of an existing webbrowser control and save it into jpg, bmp, gif, png etc.

You need to pass the object instance of the webbrowser control (IDispatch in C++).

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We just released a new version of html to image

It fixes an issue when capturing javascript enabled page such as the google map.

To record the “Stereo Mix” or “Wave Mix” on Vista with Audio Record Expert, you will need to enable the device first.

1. Select sound from the control panel.
2. Select the recording tab.
3. Right click on the background of the tab and choose “show disabled devices.”
4. Right click on Wave Out Mix and click enable.
5. Now it should work the same way as Wave Out Mix in Windows XP, allowing you to record any sound your computer makes.

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Our htmlsnapshot component is designed to convert html or text content into image.

If a URL is not text/htm content,  the snapUrl method may fail.

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I tried it as well. But found it doesn’t work.

Virtual PC’s video card simulation is not supported by the default installation. I has to choose the “safe graphics” option to let it go. But when it comes to let me click the “install” icon on the desktop, I found the mouse doesn’t work…

So don’t waste time to try that. Use the free VMware server instead which I think it is much better than the free Virtual PC 2007

Today I tried to install Ubuntu Linux 7.04 onto VMware server which is free.

The installation process is easy and smooth. After that I met  a problem on how to share the data with my windows machine which is using Vista.

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Our ActiveTTS component is a COM component. Using it in .Net needs some attention on how to release it.

.Net uses GC to release unused object. But for COM object, it is better to release it as soon as possible when it is not used.

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Do you ever want to take a screen shot of a web page in your desktop or web application? HTML Snapshot ActiveX is a software component that can make html to image easier than ever before. It can download and parse web sites and save a screenshot of the page in GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, WMF and EMF. You can choose to capture the entire page, or a thumbnail image of a specified size, and save it to a local folder.

The key benifits of using Html Snapshot are:

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We released a new version of Audio record component.

The major update is that we update some underline audio encoders. Feel free to upgrade or try

Some times a URL is protected by autentication scheme such as http authentication or NTLM if you are in a windows domain network. It ususally asks user to input username and password so as to access the protected URLs by poping up a dialog.

Our  Htmlsnapshot now supports authentication URLs with a method called SetAuthUserAndPasswd
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hehe, it is 4.1, so called April Fools day. Let’s enjoy!

html to image is an end user product for normal users.  It has a UI to batch convert a lot of URLs to image.

htmlsnapshot is a component that aims to be used by developers.  It allows  maxinum flexiblity by providing a set of methods