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I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to check out the AppleTV boxes but they’re kind of cool. You can watch everything that’s on iTunes through AppleTV on your own television set.
Now there’s news that YouTube will soon becoming to AppleTV. If you have an Apple TV box you will be able to watch all your favorite YouTube videos via AppleTV. This news came out on May 31st and sent a buzz through the tech world.
Want to create another blog on the same domain? Here’s how:
It’s actually very easy to create a new blog as a directory, or as a sub-domain.
My advice to you would be to actually create your new blog as a sub domain if you think there’s any chance that you might use it for pa1d blogging services, or that you might want to monetize it in some other way.
So it’s up to you, but if I was doing it all over again I’d create sub-domains. I have a number of blogs on my Feverishthoughts.com domain. I’ve actually purchased new domains that I plan to move the current /blog blogs over to once the new domains have aged and gained some page rank.
So I’ll tell you how to make a blog as a directory, as in mydomain.com/blog first:
Let’s assume that your webhost has c-panel and that you’ll be using C-panel to work with your domain and installations.
So … assuming you have C-panel
1. Log into your web host and get to your C-panel
2. In C-panel you’ll see an icon for Fantatico
3. Click on Fantastico and on the right hand side you’ll see a list of different types of programs that you can automatically install onto your domain.
4. Look for blogs and select WordPress
5. If you have a current installation that you installed through Fantastico that will be listed on the right hand side, just above that you’ll see a link that says new Installation and it will look something like this:
New Installation (2.1.3)
Disk space required: 3.73 MB
Disk space available: 248167.5 MB
6. Click on the new installation link and you’ll be taken to the first of three WP installation pages
7. If you have more than one domain on your account you might see a drop down list – if you have this select which domain you’d like to install a new WordPress blog on. (** if you’ve made a sub-domain for your new blog it will be in this list **)
8. Install in directory
– Leave empty to install in the root directory of the domain (access example: http://domain/).
– Enter only the directory name to install in a directory (for http://domain/name/ enter name only). This directory SHOULD NOT exist, it will be automatically created!
9. Once you’ve selected the domain or sub-domain that you want to install your new blog on you’ll see an empty box beside the words Install Directory – if you want your blog to be in the root of the domain (like your current blog- but you can’t do that with this new one because you have a blog there already!) you’d leave it blank.
Start thinking about the search engines and how the spiders will see your site NOW. Don’t name your new blog’s directory – blog or blog2. Please think of a name for the directory that describes what your site is about. For example for my directory blogs I’ve named the directories Garden for my gardening blog, Celebrity for my celeb blog and so on. Now the search engines know immediately what the posts on the blog will be able because the main keyword for the site will be in every single url.
10. Follow the rest of the directions adding an email address, admin name and password to complete the installation. within minutes you’ll be finished.
Earlier I was suggesting that it might be better to put your new blog on a sub-domain instead of a /directory.
For this you would go into C-panel – assuming that you have C-panel and click on the icon that says Subdomain.
Once you get into the subdomain area you’ll see
_________________ your domain or drop down list of domains ADD
Fill in the blank box with the name of you want to use for your subdomain.
Then select your domain. If you only have one domain you’ll only see mydomain.com in the next box
After that all you have to do is click on the word ADD and you’ll create a subdomain that might be called:
myblog.mydomain.com
Once you’ve created your subdomain go back to the main C-panel page, click on Fantastico and follow the directions that I gave you above but in step 8 you would select your subdomain from the drop-down list and leave the directory name box blank if you want to install into the root directory of your new subdomain so that your blog will work simply as myblog.mydomain.com
Once you get started with this I’m sure you’ll find that it’s all very easy. Especially now that you have some instructions to use.
I’m looking forward to Google Gears. It’s a new product that will be coming out shortly that’s been developed by Google that will allow internet users to take there normally web only applications offline.
This will be wonderful for those who are still using dial up connections to connect to the internet and perhaps their blogging platform.
Personally, I’ve been quite frustrated at times when I’ve been trying to work on one of my blogs and my server has gone down or my internet connection (cable) is out or acting up. It’s very hard to write posts or write draft articles on WordPress when you can’t connect to your WP dashboard!
Hopefully Google Gears will work with WP and other blogging platforms too.
Bill Gates demonstrates Microsoft’s Touch Screen
I know I’m a few days late with this news but I absolutely love the idea of Microsoft’s new touch screen product. You’ve seen the technology to some extent in restaurants where waiters and waitresses can simply touch a screen to select a menu item and place the customers order.
Now this type of technology, greatly enhanced, will be coming to our homes in the near future. I’m sure the touch screen will be out of many peoples budges in the beginning but as it grows more popular I’m certain that many people will want to have and use this new tech product.
I wrote a post the other day about a new spyware program called Spy Sweeper. Now I’ve found a news story that says that when we are searching the web we should be careful of what search terms we use while searching as some terms – particularly those used for music and technology related searches can cause us to encounter more sites filled with spyware.
Have a look at this short video to see which terms you should be careful of using when using search engines:
I’ve been trying to work on my htaccess file for one of my other domains feverishthoughts.com for a few weeks. What I’d like is for the main website on feverishthoughts to have www in the url but ever new htaccess code that I’ve tried seems to fail and worse often ends up messing up how my site works.
I’m so frustrated I could start throwing folding chairs, and other things around!
I mentioned my problem in a forum and wrote a post about it on my main blog and some people have been very nice and offered up codes to try but nothing is working.
If anyone reading this post has an htaccess code for me to try that will put www in all the urls for my main blog even if they came to the site using a link without the www I’d appreciate it.
I wonder if part of the problem is that this domain thewebfiles.com is the main domain on my server?
I’ve been talking with some of my friends who also happen to be home owners and we were comparing our mortgage rates. What I found out was that california mortgage rate are a bit higher than they are here in Ontario.
I’m wondering now if the mortgage rates are a little higher because the US economy isn’t doing quite as well as Canada’s? I haven’t heard any recent rates but the last time I did I think our unemployment rate was lower and well … our dollar is certainly climbing. If our dollar gets much higher it will hurt our economy.
What do you think?
I’ve noticed that one of the newish frequent commenter’s on several of my blogs is a Las Vegas Real Estate agent. She signs her posts with her business name and I know after reading some discussions on a forum that this has thrown a few people off.
Why? Well, we all get spammers coming around trying to leave comments so they’ll get a link to their site. This isn’t the case with this lady though. Yes she is a real estate agent but she’s also a blogger and she leaves legitimate comments that relate to the post.
Hey, I’ve got blogs and websites and there’s been times when I’ve been on a site that related to one of my websites and I’ve left the address for my site when I signed up to leave the comment. I don’t mind when others do this from time to time … I mean, not everyone has a blog, yet they still might enjoy reading them.
It’s the people that leave multiple links in their comments – even in legitimate comments that bother me. If the link doesn’t really relate to the post or the comment I really don’t care for the extra links.
I’ve removed the nofollow tags from my sites and as a result I’m actually giving away a tiny bit of my sites PR for each outgoing link. I don’t like to give out extra if there’s no good reason for it.
I find that I haven’t been getting to this blog as often as I’d like to post all the interesting tech related finds that I come across almost every day.
I don’t know if any of you reading this have more than one blog or website, but I can tell you that the more you create the busier you get! No kidding right?
I’ve been so busy with other work lately that I haven’t had time to do one of the main things that used to always allow me to keep up with my blogging and have regular articles daily or at least almost daily.
What I used to do was prepare articles in advance. If I was in a writing mode I’d get busy and write a number of articles at once and store them as drafts. That allowed me to release one a day or as needed without having to think about it too much.
I think that’s one of the main things that I have to get back into doing in order to feel like I’m maintaining my websites properly again.
I absolutely hate spyware! If you’ve ever undergone a spyware attack I’ve no doubt that you don’t like it much either.
I think the worst spyware attack that I ever went through was one that caused pop ups to keep coming up continuously. I’d visit sites, ones I run, that definitely did not have pop up advertisements on them and I’d get pop up after pop up. They were sticky too. You’d close one and another would pop up and so on until it ate all the memory in my old computer and made it crash.
You can bet that when I got the computer back up and running I went hunting for a virus or spyware. I think it took me a couple of hours to discover and rid my computer of that nasty spyware.
Now there’s a new version of the award winning Spy Sweeper program that you can use to monitor and rid your computer of spyware. Spy Sweeper uses the most advanced detection in order to block and remove spyware from your computer.
One of the best features of Spy Sweeper is that it has new smart shields that block known and emerging spyware threats as you browse the internet. Also if you computer is already infected when you install Spy Sweeper you can use it’s built in advanced discovery methods to detroy malicious spyware on your PC.
If you purchase and install the Spy Sweeper program onto your computer you’ll be able to do virtually anything on the internet without worrying about encountering spyware.
Also, just like most popular anti virus programs Spy Sweeper helps you stay ahead of new spyware threats with free Defense updates.
Considering how much spyware is out there and the fact that new spyware is created pretty much daily it only makes sense to protect your computer with a great spyware detecting program like Spy Sweeper.
