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London Paralympic to provide 780 hours of live stream and VOD
According to the official news, London Paralympic to provide 780 hours of live stream and video-on-demand coverage via its website. No more frustrated audience all over the world that Paralympic Games was left behind Olympic Games in terms of media presence. -
The best and simple way to establish SSH Tunnel on Mac OS X with Coda 2
I’ve had an opportunity to work on a very tight security Internet server that was blocking the external SFTP access but only allowed us to access via the SSH Tunnel of the different server. In addition, the authentification required RSA key authorization for the project. Whereas Windows has WinSCP, the free and easy FTP client. You can directly access the SFTP server via SSH Tunnel as a built-in function using RCA secret key authorization method. However, none of famous Mac OS X FTP clients offer SSH Tunnel function as WinSCP does. Recently my main coding application has been Coda 2. It’s fantastic software, but it doesn’t really allow you to […] -
How to sync Facebook profile pic to your iPhone (iOS) contacts
Facebook App on iPhone has a very useful function to sync your Facebook friend pics to your iPhone contacts. When you receive a call from your Facebook friend, you will immediately find out who’s calling by seeing the exact same pictures of their Facebook profile pics as you see them everyday on the news feed. You must send your personal information to the Facebook in order to match your contacts and Facebook. You should be careful with your privacy stuff. The following screen shots are captured as on March 30, 2012 1. Launch the Facebook iPhone app & tap the menu button on the top left corner 2. Tap “Friends” […] -
YouTube: How to start playing in the middle of the video via link, WordPress, or embedding code
Sometime you want your friend to skip at the beginning of the YouTube video. This post shows you how to create a link or a embed code so that people can start watching a YouTube video from the specific point. Link Format #t=XXmXXs Description Add #t parameter after URL and declare the minutes and seconds of the video you would like to start playing back. Sample It starts playing back a YokosoNews video at 1 minute 8 seconds (= 01m08s) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb5JdgNDw0Q#t=01m08s WordPress Description If you’re using WordPress, you don’t have to use the following embed code. You can simply use the plain text of a URL above. (You should not […] -
concrete5: how to hide tracking code for editable users (post 5.5.x)
In order to receive the acurate Google Analytics visitor’s data, you want to avoid tracking the access when the site admin visits a concrete5 site. This is how to hide the Google Analytics tracking code when the users who has the editing permission or admin visited your concrete5 site. This method only works with concrete5.5.x and later. 1. Create a blank text file /elements/footer_required.php 2. And paste the following text file 3. Copy /concrete/elements/header_required.php onto /elements/header_required.php 4. Replace where the following code (towards the end) onto this Now Google Analytics code will no longer be printed on your concrete5 site when the admin/webmaster visits -
Using CloudFlare for concrete5
I’ve been using CloudFlare for many of my major high traffic volume concrete5 sites, and I’m getting the significant result now. Our concrete5 Japan site was reviewed by a major Internet software website, and it caused the high volume traffic yesterday. But it withstood the high traffic volume. Here is the implementation of concrete5 & CloudFlare for both developer and visitors. CloudFlare DNS & Hosting provider setting When developing or make the changes of your concrete5 site, you may want to bypass the CloudFlare network . CloudFlare gives you “direct.EXAMPLE.com” subdomain as your direct access to the root domain. E.g. ———- EXAMPLE.COM ———- CloudFlare suggests you to allocate ———- direct.EXAMPLE.COM […] -
New design!
I just installed the new theme for my blog. I hope you like it. Although concrete5 is much superior in theme design whereas WordPress is very hard to design a theme, WordPress is still the key player of CMS, especially as a blog platform. It’s very good as maintaining a number of simple title-and-text contents. -
WANTED: volunteers and guests of 311 Disasters in Japan
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE: YokosoNews, the English social media to introduce Japanese culture in English, is currently looking for volunteer reporters and guests who can share their experience during our live cast for the next generation. YokosoNews usually provide the useful travel tips, lifestyle and entertainment information of Japan to welcome the people from all over the world. However, Japan has lived with natural disasters. In order to welcome the people from all over the world, YokosoNews had been prepared to provide necessary disaster prevention awareness especially to the non-Japanese residents in Japan since the beginning of YokosoNews operation. The journey since 311 Great East Japan Earthquake Since the 2:52pm on March […]