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How to change a Facebook album cover photo

Saturday, 2012.03.17 J.D. H. 144 comments

UPDATE: 2012.12.02 Some users are reporting an issue where Facebook still displays the ‘Make Cover Album’ as shown in these instructions, but it is not selectable. This appears to be a bug in Facebook, or that perhaps they are disabling the feature but haven’t remove the option 🙁 It is rather absurd how many times Facebook has messed with this rather simple option and how much grief they have caused their users! OLDER UPDATE: 2012.09.29 Facebook just changed things up

PHP image scraping links and image search APIs

Saturday, 2012.03.17 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Some links that were useful for a recent project: https://developers.google.com/image-search/v1/index https://developers.google.com/image-search/ http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/ http://www.quirksmode.org/js/strings.html How to Optimize Your Images for Google Image Searchhttp://www.pearsonified.com/2007/01/get_53_percent_more_searches_with_one_tweak.phpThe truth here is that you can start ranking today for competitive keywords in a slightly different environment—Google image search. Scrape Google Images Search Results With PHP — 5ubliminal’s 5pacehttp://blog.5ubliminal.com/posts/scrape-google-images-search-results-with-php/You could use the Ajax Search but I think it will return very few results unlike regular image search which returns 21 images per request. The previous PHP

USB long range Wifi options

Thursday, 2012.03.15 J.D. H. Leave a comment

When your laptop’s internal Wifi just can’t quite get the reception you want, an external USB Wifi adapter (and antenna) can be just the ticket 🙂 Here are a couple intriguing options available from Amazon: Amazon.com: C. Crane US3 Super USB Wifi Antenna 3: Electronicshttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UR72IM?ie=UTF8&tag=pixensity-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004UR72IMProduct Dimensions: 5.2 x 2.5 x 11.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries… Amazon.com: Alfa AWUS036H Upgraded to 1000mW 1W 802.11b/g

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DynamicDiscs.net coupon code!

Sunday, 2012.03.11 J.D. H. Leave a comment

For a 5% discount off your entire order at DynamicDiscs.net, use coupon code: JDBASKET They have LOTS of great disc golf products and superb customer service. Mini-review rating: 5/5 stars [starreview tpl=16] 🙂 Enjoy! –JD Top Search Terms:dynamic discs coupon (69)dynamic discs coupon code (63)dynamic disc coupon code (34)dynamic disc coupon (11)dynamic discs coupon codes (11)lynda.com promo code monthly 2012 (10)dynamic discs discount code (6)dynamicdiscs.net coupon code (6)dynamic discs coupons (5)dynamic discs promo code (5)

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Quotes about simple living

Wednesday, 2012.02.29 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Here are some quotes on simple living: Less is more A place for everything and everything in its place Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without *note some of these are also related to organized/clean living… [to be updated as I find more that I like…] Top Search Terms:+simple quotes 2012 (1)simple without make up qoutes (1)simple quotes (1)simple qoutes of 2012 (1)simple living mac (1)saitek a-250 (1)quotes on simple living (1)quotes for a simple

X-Arcade now available cheaper at Fry’s

Wednesday, 2012.02.29 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Some cool news from X-Arcade: […] our newest X-Arcade Two Player home arcade system will now be available for just $99 at Fry’s Electronics, one of America’s largest and most iconic electronics retailers. The Silicon Valley-based retail chain known for its elaborately-themed technology superstores around the country will begin selling X-Arcade Dual Joysticks nationwide March 7th. Source They make rock solid controllers, I own one and have been very impressed with it. The Fry’s price is $30 cheaper since that

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Razer Blade 17″ gaming laptop review

Thursday, 2012.02.23 J.D. H. Leave a comment

The Razer Blade laptop is one of the most intriguing ‘gaming’ laptops to come along in quite a while. There have been a lot of “hands on” previews posted since the laptop was announced but only recently have real reviews stared to come online. As I find real reviews I will be posting them here along with some comments: Razer Blade review — Engadgethttp://www.engadget.com/2012/02/22/razer-blade-review/Type Gaming Screen size 17.3 inches Screen resolution 1920 x 1080 Processor speed 2.8 GHz System RAM 8

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Good ‘about’ pages on tech sites

Monday, 2012.02.13 J.D. H. Leave a comment

While working on adding rich snippet author info to jdhodges.com I needed to wanted to write an improved about page. So I checked out a variety of ‘about’ pages on tech sites to get some ideas on formatting/style etc. Here are a few that I thought were either particularly well done, or that had something unique about them: About Netbooklive.com – NetbookLive.comhttp://www.netbooklive.com/about/This is a website dedicated to mini laptops and portable computers you can easily carry around on your voyages.