Recently I had to download a couple entire websites for offline browsing (because they were shutting down) and was searching for a decent program that can download all website html and other type of files making original file structure. I searched in Google for a bit and found “SurfOffline Professional 2″ which could download entire site in a simple wizard style process. However there is a price tag from $39.95 to $120. And it’s no use spending money on software that you will use once.

Finding something on the internet takes more and more time because there is exponentially increasing number of information and products online. Google does a wonderful job helping people find what they need. But in order to find something you have to make the right query.

Here is another approach I used and found best Website Downloader and Offline browser. In my Firefox there’s an addon called Quirk Search Status. It displays useful information (Page Rank, Alexa rank, Compete rank, etc.) for the current page you’re browsing.

And here comes the interesting part. This addon also displays related pages for the current domain you’re viewing. For example, when you’re on yahoo.com it will show related domains msn, craigslist and others. So I went to the SurfOffline Professional 2 website and looked for related sites. And sure enough found other suggested related websites:

firefox addon

First from the left was SpadixDb site with completely free website downloader called BackstreetBrowser. It has done amazing job downloading those 2 sites that I wanted to browse offline.

So different approach to search saved some time and money for me just by having simple Firefox addon.

How to know if your hotmail account is hacked? Well there’s no universal technique to know that, but keep in mind that the infamous list contains primarily if not all accounts beginning with letters a and b. So it seems only a part of this list leaked into public.

Accounts ararat973@hotmail.com and blando2713@hotmail.com where the first and last usernames in a list.

Having in mind that it was not a hack in Hotmail system but more likely some gathered login  information via phishing or other web 2.0 applications which ask to enter your email address and password in order to do something (e.g. check who has blocked you in msn messenger and so on).

Another good thing would be to change the password to be on the safe side and not loose your privacy. Also don’t forget to check in Google your full email with quotes: “your@email.com” as it may show the locations where your email name is exposed and one of them might be that list with hacked Hotmail accounts.

So to bypass comment filter on Youtube just revert your comment upside down. This not only will help you to pass link checks but also plays on people curiosity because upside down text stands out from other comments and looks interesting.

Post links on Youtube

To revert text upside down like this:

This is normal text with a link www.izitips.com (this comments will not appear on Youtube)

ɯoɔ˙sdıʇızı˙ʍʍʍ ʞuıן ɐ ɥʇıʍ ʇxǝʇ ןɐɯɹou sı sıɥʇ (This comment will bypass Youtbe filter)

go here and just type your comment normally. The conversion will be done on the fly with Javascript.

In fact there is no such thing like letters upside down, most characters are taken from Latin Extended and International Phonetic Alphabet charets. Also only lower case letters can be converted because of the lack of capital letters.

For example if you search for Beatles, you will get 137,938 results. Quite impressive.

Muziic Youtube MP3 player is very stylish and good looking program. Searching and navigation are very intuitive. If your internet connection is fast, i.e. you usually watch Youtube videos without lagging, Muziic will work perfectly.

Listening music from Muziic player is almost 100% legal. Youtube handles all copyright issues and some artists are paid for every listening from Youtube, so neither Muziic nor you are responsible for copyright issues.

Muziic screenshot above shows how easy is to find songs from Youtube. There are already large community supporting this project and you can select from favorite genres like House, Jazz, etc or just search for a favorite singer.

Muziic basically only plays sound from Youtube clip, but if you prefer to watch video, a small screen is provided on the top near timeline. Saving MP3 is not allowed.

This program is not limited to only playing songs from Youtube but also you can create playlists or upload your tracks and add album covers just by dragging files on the player.

Check it out, maybe some time in the future musiic will replace glorious Winamp player

Download Muziic free here.

From the description you could see that Hotmail is described as:

“Free web-based e-mail. 2MB e-mail storage, signatures, stationery, HTML compatible.”

In fact Hotmail offers 5Gb of storage which is only a few Gb’s lower than Gmail, but still, how many people can fill up even half of that space?

Searching for popularity of Hotmail vs Gmail I was quite surprised, because according to Google Trends, Hotmail is still almost as twice as popular as Gmail.

Hotmail popularity rises even faster than Gmail, so there won’t be one dominant email provider anytime soon.

Coming back to the topic, part of the responsibility for wrong description Hotmail should take itself because in fact there’s no meta tags defined on their home page. However from where then Google took that description only Google knows best.

While searching for ways to join several mIRC servers at the same time I found the simple answer to that question. If you are using latest version of mIRC (currently 6.35) then simply execute mirc.exe second time and you can join second server and channel. There is non option to join another server from the same instance of mIRC client.

Usually good things aren’t in the same place. If you’re interested in advanced SEO and PPC stuff then you should check 2 channels #cakes and #mafia

mIRC channel

The first is on IRC server  irc.freenode.net ,join #cakes

The second: irc.krono.net ,join #mafia

Update:

Looks like there is a way to connect 2 IRC clients in the same window. Go to File ->  Select Server. Then select second server name you want to connect to and press select. In the new opened window make sure you ticked the New server window option, otherwise you will be disconnected from the primary server. Now hit connect and you’re connected on 2 IRC servers at the same time in the same window.

google trends

Only Joomla managed to outperform WordPress until last summer. WordPress goes opposite economical crisis and managed to double the supremacy against its rivals.

Why is that? Well, I have to admit that WordPress is so easy to use. Even novice bloggers can install WordPress with little knowledge because everything is made to simplicity. I had one website earlier made with Joomla but switched to WordPress after a year because if you don’t use Joomla for some time you can easily forget the many functions it has and you could spend more time trying to figure out what is wrong than writing content. WordPress is the opposite, whenever you log in everything runs smoothly. Plugins are easy to install with no issues most of the time. Friendly URLs can be selected and not configured touching the .htaccess file like with Joomla.

Knowing how to handle WordPress can be beneficial because there are many jobs for developers every day.

Even organisations are switching to WordPress instead paying huge money for custom websites and CMSs. To mention a few: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), etc.

Everyone loves WordPress, Google is no exception. Posts can be indexed in few minutes and appear in search results.

Some websites demonstrate their statistics for everyone by putting visible web stat counter on the sidebar or footer while others prefer to hide such information and rather use Google analytics, php scripts or other analog tracking applications.

A good way to measure how many traffic a site has is to use well known Alexa but it doesn’t give the exact number of how many visits a site has daily. Nor does any program will count you that number.

To help in estimating approximate amount of daily website visitors is a free StatBrain tool to track visits. You don’t have to use any code or tracking software, just simply enter the name of the website and wait some time while Statbrain gathers all the information available online (such as Page Rank, Alexa rank, indexed pages, backlinks, etc) and makes prediction of how many visits it gets daily.

The number that Statbrain analysis estimates is page visits. It can also be called visitor sessions which shows the number of visits that a website has. Keep in mind that this number is not the same as unique visitors.

If you own the site and see that Statbrain gives incorrect estimation you are able to write them. Statbrain will make comparison to other sites and adjust the estimation for better predictions in the future.

I noticed that searches at StatBrain are indexed by google so you get 1 free backlink (do Follow !) just by quering your site. Use this opportunity for SEO advantage.

Use Statbrain to evaluate your niche competitors and simply get 1 free backlink. You can use Force Google To Index Any Page technique to get results faster.

Incorrect Display with IE8

While developers are busy updating their websites for Internet Explorer 8, you can click the Compatibility View button to display websites that have not been updated.

1) By clicking compatibility button near address bar

Compatibility Settings

If this tip doesn’t help either, then try this microsoft help wizard to identify why web sites do not display or work correctly. Also remember that the page itself can have mistakes in the code so no compatibility view will help there. In this case switch to another browser (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari) and see how it displays the page in question.

After “being lazy” and coming to my blog from Google typing “izitips” I noticed that the search phrase izitips became suggested keyword.

So the point is to keep accesing your blog or any website by using google search instead of address bar. This both can be faster and add a little SEO because someone accidentally may type something and your web address might show up which is a good possibility to increase traffic for your website or blog.

Amit uses Google to “find movie timings, spell checking, ego surfing, spotting grammatical errors in sentences, currency conversion, getting word meanings, for reading lost websites and for web search”. I can add that you can use Google to make your blog’s name a suggested keyword.

More about suggested words in Google’s Suggest FAQ.

Once installed you will see small icon next to address bar. It is grey when no video is found on the page and turns into blue when download is available.

Blue means you can download video

There are 4 steps to complete the download and conversion process.

1. Press the blue icon and wait for video conversion wizard to show up. From the drop down list select the format which you prefer the most. The most popular video format is .AVI and every computer should be able to play it. If you want to download youtube video and play it on the iPod or other MP4 player choose 3gp or mp4 format.
2. Step2. Select audio and video options for the Youtube video, but it’s best to keep them default. So go forward to next step.


Select video properties

3. In step 3 you just wait until Media Converter fetches and converts the video.
   

   Video Conversion

4. Finally download your converter Youtube video to your computer. Then you can burn it on DVD and play with home DVD player on big screen.

This usefull Firefox add-on works not only with Youtube video, but also other video providers like blip.tv, break.com,  dailymotion, livevideo, metacafe, myvideo.de, veoh.