Here is an interesting article from PHP-Princess.net:
Shared by Chris Dean This is fantastic Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. This video just made me flip with excitement! It’s just amazing the things you can do for little cost! The video features a researcher named Johnny Lee who shows us his amazing Wii Remote hacks. Just wow. I’d love to see these hacks implemented in classrooms! Source: TED: Talks Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote
More here: Wii Remote Hacks
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Most avid wordpress users will probably be aware of the following three plugins, but did you know they can all work together?
The plugins I’m looking at are:
Google XML sitemaps is a great plugin for creating XML sitemaps of your blog content for Google, Yahoo, MSN Ask and anyone else that access these files.
The translator plugin will use one of 4 services to auto translate your blog into many different languages and provide these links to the sitemap generator.
These two are great for expanding your content and audience while letting the search engines know about your additional internationalised content on their own, but the popularity contest plugin also helps a great deal.
Google XML sitemaps ask that a priority is set for the indexing of each page, so it knows how important this page is on your site. The site map generator plugin deals with this by using either a predefined set of priorities set by you or metrics based on comment counts, etc.
This isn’t great because default priority settings will not reflect your blog that accurately and comment based priority settings may not either as your content may not necessarily be suitable for comments, which is where popularity comes in.
The popularity contest plugin records the popularity of each post based on hits, and the sitemap generator can use these metrics to autocalculate sitemap priority for you, meaning that the priorities reflect much more what’s being looked at on your blog as opposed to what’s being commented on - good for you good for the search engines.
So there you have it - you can boost the quanity and reach of content on your blog just by translating it and you can improve the quality of sitemaps using popularity contest - nice.
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PHP Bay is a great set of PHP scripts for managing Ebay Affiliate campaigns and quite conveniently it also comes as a wordpress plugin.
You can manage everything from a small RSS list to a whole site based on Ebay content easily and depending on your particular niche it can pay for itself very quickly.
It also gives the ability to manage ads from other affiliate networks such as TradeDoubler, Mediaplex and Affilinet, and if you are a programmer yourself you can extend the functionality of it in custom ways.
There is an active and useful support forum and community behind the product which always a bonus!
If you visit the website it will explain all the main features of the product in a clear and concise way so I’ll not go into depth any further here aside from re-iterate the general features list and say that of the plugins of this type I have found to date phpBay is one of the most complete and easy to use out there!
Features:
- Add real earning potential to your site with Ebay listings.
- Keyword rich content to please search engines and drive traffic.
- Easily integrates into Wordpress 2.x as a plugin.
- Requires PHP 4+ with CURL Support.
- List items by keyword(s) and category number.
- Works with EPN, TradeDoubler, Mediaplex and Affilinet.
- Support for 16 different countries.
- Display listings in columns or rows.
- Now features paging.
- Geo IP Targeting.
- Specify a min/max number of bids.
- Specify a min/max price.
- Exclude items by keyword(s).
- List items by zip code.
- Find items by a specific seller.
- Video tutorials to walk you through installation and options.
- Comprehensive manual with complete documentation.
- Mask affiliate links and images with SEO URLs option.
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