On the Web Today 01/23/2010 

• Almost Any Key, Screwed By Dell, and More Support Stories - The Daily WTF

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  • "I don't want this stupid thing! I hate this stupid thing."
  • "No, no. I don't want it to get my email! I just wanted a phone."
  • press ANY key
  • the [SHIFT] button

• Welcome to the Year of the Tiger | Personal Development | Recruiter

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  • ready for another year of drama, excitement, tragedy, comedy, wonder, discovery, contribution, heartache, loss, profit, pain and pleasure.
  • In the Chinese zodiac, 2010 is The Year Of The Tiger. The Tiger is said to be lucky.

• Google URL Shortener

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  • Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters

• How to Tweet Using PHP without any Twitter App!

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  • if ($status) {<br />
$tweetUrl = 'http://www.twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';<br />

    <br />
$curl = curl_init();<br />
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "$tweetUrl");

• How to Find Files With Linux (Ubuntu) - ls, grep, awk, find commands | Webmaster Tips

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  • To recursively find all files in a directory that contain a colon in the filename, use this command:

    find . -name \*\:\*

    To find files with a question mark in them use:

    find . -name \*\\?\*

    To save the output as a file, do this:

    find . -name \*\\?\* > output.txt

• Global Redirect | drupal.org

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  • Once enabled, an alias provides a nice clean URL for a path on a site. However Drupal does not remove the old path (eg node/1234). The problem is that you now have two URLs representing the same content. This is dangerous territory for duplicate pages which can get you sandboxed by the search engines!

• Live HTTP Headers :: Add-ons for Firefox

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  • Live HTTP Headers 0.15
    

    by Daniel Savard, Nikolas Coukouma

  • View HTTP headers of a page

• Drupal SEO: "404 Ok" and .htaccess | Webmaster Tips

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  • RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.com$ [NC]
    RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

• Moving WebWord > Removing the Ws from URLs

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  • Best: The site works with or without the Ws, but automatically removes the Ws if they are in the URL.

• Dropped out of google because of an IP change? (google, ip, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engines)

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  • it might be relevant that the hosting changed country
  • I didn't indicate the language through the meta-tags

• Will Google Penalize you if you change ip addresses

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  • One problem might be if the ip is shared with other sites considered by google to be a "bad neighborhood".

• How To Get That Interview - ShoeMoney®

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  • DO NOT miss spell the persons name

    LOL this is misspelled – I would misspell everything without spell check

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