Free Stock Image Worth over $5000

There is a problem for blogger or web writer that is picture. If you are posting your own pictures then should be no problem at all. But for most of us, we don't write stuffs about our-self only, we write topic for the benefit of others and pictures would be a big problem. I always go to look for pictures in google, you can use the advanced search to filter out those that need to be pay, and left with free for commercial use. However, usually there are very few quality pictures we can use. There are other free picture website but you still have to filter out those with copy right. It took some times to do it every time you write a post, and that is very troublesome.

I found a collection of 1000+ royalty-free photos. According to the website if each photo worth $5, it would be over $5000 worth of photos, free for everyone!

You can download the sample of the collection in low resolution to see if they are worth it to download all of them in full resolution. I am in progress of downloading the full resolution by the way.

The preview links:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/lwjqrdsynip/n/Carbon_full_preview_exe
http://depositfiles.com/files/twg41wwox

For the full resolution, go to this link for all of them:
http://www.datum-forensics.com/2012/06/free-stock-images/

 
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How to embed PDF in blogger?

This should works for PDF and any document that uploaded or created in Google docs.
I posted this so that I can find this blogging tips easily next time when I want to embed another PDF or Google docs in my blog.

1. Make sure you are using "Edit HTML" mode when adding the code below (Otherwise, it will try to load the document in "Compose" mode as soon as you paste the code).
<iframe frameborder="0" height="75%" width="50%"
src="http://docs.google.com/gview?
a=v&amp;pid=explorer&amp;chrome=false&amp;api=true&amp;embedded=true&amp;srcid=
0B6E4pzOCFjPAMjA1MTFiNzQtOTZiYi00NTM4LWEzZDItMzcxOGI1NTRlNTIz"
width="100%"></iframe>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

2. Open the PDF or google documents at docs.google.com, copy the documents ID from the URL and replace with the ID in the code above (bold and purple font). It should be a bunch of numbers and letters starting at srcid= and ending with =en. Or between srcid= and double quote.

3. Adjust the height and width of the PDF or document you want to display in your blog. It can be in percentage or pixel. The example showed here is in percentage.
height="75%" width="50%"

4. Hit "PREVIEW" button to preview it to make sure it is in the size that you want. If not, go back to step 3 to edit the height and width.

I used this method to embed a PDF which is a ebook of this blog in previous post:
Publish your blog into PDF and Kindle and ePub


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source of this tips: http://www.google.ca/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=2e81a3ec8fc33480&hl=en

Outdated Penang Uncle PageRank

PageRank of this blog is not consistent. I did reach PR1 last year, but then it drop to zero after Google panda update. Don't ask me what is panda update, google it if you want. :P

Recently I found out this blog is getting PR2. Wow! Jump from zero to PR2!

This is the snapshot of PR check on http://www.checkpagerank.net/



This is the snapshot of PR check on http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

Some blogging/website experts told that backlink is very important to PageRank, most important is quality backlink. I am not hiring anyone to create backlink to this blog. All I did is just comment on other blog and website of my opinion on their articles.

How about you? How you promote your blog/website?


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How do I speed up my blog loading time

If you have noticed, this blog has been loading very slow since few weeks ago. And some of the people come to this blog just leave because it is taking forever to load! (Actually it took more than 20 seconds for some text to appear, that is very very slow for time like this). However I have found the problematic code that causing the slowness. Now it should be loading fine. :)

Here is what happen:
1. Start notice loading of this blog become very slow on beginning of Jul 2011.
2. Suspect streamyx issue, check out on other networks, but still slow.
3. Tried IE (super slow as usual), Maxthon, Chrome, Firefox, RockMelt and Safari, this blog still loading slow on all  these browsers. So this is not browser problem.
4. Moved "Stop Child Abuse" and "STOP LYNAS!" to a page called Community service, still slow, but keeping these in one page is good, makes this blog looks cleaner.
5. Moved cbox, shoutbox, weibo to another page, but still slow.
6. Have a thought of might be the pages listed below the header, so moved them to end of posting, not helping, so move it back to under the header.
7. I google around and found Yahoo! YSlow add on for FireFox and Chrome, installed the add-on on Chrome, check out the this blog, found some possible problems, but couldn't do much because some of the widget on my blog is default from blogger.
8. Then I found Pingdom Tool, this website can show me the loading time of each java script, page, and image. And from this tool that I found where is the problem. It is actually some link website by yahoo previously and with the website down, all browser that trying to load my blog will wait for it until time out for about 20 to 30 seconds. After remove that code, my blog loading time go back to normal.

This is the pingdom result before I remove the problematic code:

 This is after, the loading time is reduced to less than 10 seconds.

This is the history of each test, there was a 3.66 seconds that before problematic code being remove, I think that is incorrect, probably the test did not finish. Anyway, you can see on 19 Jul, the loading time reduced to less than 10 seconds.

That is the best website tool I ever encounter, you can also use it to debug your blog/website. :)

Okay, so now you no longer have to wait for a long time for this blog to load. Enjoy!


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How to counter attack "LIKE" button?

Facebook "LIKE" button is too powerful that Google has to be afraid, so what Google did? They created the "+1" button, and it has been default for all blogspot since blogger owned by Google. Here is the snapshot of my +1 button on this blog. Nice?

You don't need to do anything to enable it, that's why I have Google is desperate already, hehehe. As long as you enabled "Show Share Buttons", +1 button would appear with other sharing button like email, facebook, twitter, etc. :D

Now Google, let me join adsense. :P

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Blogger Stats

Couple of months ago, I still using some counter websites to track who/where/how my audience that come to this Outdated Penang Uncle blog. So I have to sign up for the service (yes, a lot of them are free), add the widget and after a while login to find out the statistic. For past few months, blogger added the page view tracking for all the blogspot, so even though I still have the counter at my blog, usually I just look at the "Stats" to find out my audience.

You might also like widget

You might have noticed that recently I have added a new widget on this blog. It is called "You might also like" widget.

How to post blog post in later date and time in Blogger

1. Sign into your blogger account, usually it will take you to dashboard.
2. Click "New post" and start writing your blog post as usual.
3. Remember to click "Save Now" from time to time to avoid your post lose in nowhere because internet connection or pc/laptop/mac/phone problem.
4. Before press "Publish Post" button, click on "Post Options" on the bottom left of the box where you compose the post.
5. Change the date and time on the boxes below "Post date and time" to the date/time that you want this post to be publish. (You can also choose to allow reader comments or not).
6. After you finish set the date and time, click "Publish Post".
7. Then it will go to the list of blog post, the post that you write just now will have "scheduled" word next to it indicating it haven't being publish yet.

Enjoy!


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