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EMFF – Easily the Best Audio Player via Flash

May/20 in Web Development Tutorials

The Easy Musicplayer For Flash, or otherwise known as EMFF, is in my opinion easily the best free audio player, built in flash.  I have been using it to provide a player on up to six of my latest shows on webhostingshow.com.

What makes it so cool?  Well, for one, it does not take a college degree to get started with.  The creator of the player gives a simple four steps to get it up and running:

  1. Download and extract the latest ZIP file from here
  2. Use the Code Generator to create your own HTML code
  3. Copy the appropriate skin file (e.g. “emff_standard.swf”) from the “skins” directory to your website directory
  4. Have fun!

It does not lack in the features department either.  It provides volume control, keyboard shortcuts, play, stop, pause, previous, next, Show information about a track and much more.

So if you have looked at my past list of the 5 best flash podcast players, and they didn’t do it for you, give EMFF a chance at playing your MP3s.

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Get Twhirl Setup to Update Ping.fm

Mar/02 in Online Apps

You know I am having a good day when I can get two of my favorite services talking to one another.  Another reason why I picked Twhirl as my Twitter client of choice is because of it’s easy integration into another awesome service I love to use, Ping.fm.

So how do you get the two to talking to each other? First, you need to open up Twhirl and wrench icon, which will open up the configuration menu.

Twhirl to Ping.fm - Step One

Now, you will need to go down to where it says, “Post status updates to other services”.  Click on the checkmark box next to Ping.fm.

Twhirl to Ping.fm - Step Two

Click the key icon next to the empty text box to go get your API key from Ping.fm.  Copy it from the Ping.fm web site, paste it into the empty text box and then hit the “Save” button.

Each time you update via Twhirl, your updates should also to to Ping.fm which can in turn update Plurk, LinkedIn, Tumblr, FriendFeed and more.  Now when your all done, you can come follow me @mitchkeeler.

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Mitch’s Guide on Sharing Great Web Content

Jan/21 in Online Apps

I love to share.

I have three tools I like to use to help promote my stories and posts after I have gotten them written up.  If you follow me on Twitter or have befriended me on Facebook, you might have seen a do a lot of self-pluggage.  Want to know how I get my socializing done? 

Ping.fm – This has quickly become one of my favorite tools to use when it comes to all the various networking sites, micro blogs, and everything else I have joined.  From Ping.fm I can micromanage updates to over 30 different online sites.  That means instead of going to MySpace to update there, and Facebook to update there, then Twitter to update over there, I can save time and plug myself one place – and it gets sent into all the ones I am a member of. 

AddThis – For the left-overs that are a little harder to promote via Ping.fm (like leaving bulletins on MySpace) I use AddThis.  This is more of the public’s way of sharing my posts, but I love to use it to.  AddThis simply makes it easy for your visitors to bookmark and share your content with others.

ConveyThis – Also worth giving a shout-out to is ConveyThis.  Working much in the same way as AddThis does with bookmarking, Convey this lets you pick from a number of different translation services to translate the web page you are looking for.  This way, my wonderful foreign readers have a quick and easy way to get anything I have posted roughly translated into something they can read.  Now I am aware that no online translator is perfect – however with the multiple choices, ConveyThis will at least let you try a few to see which one you like best. 

Have a favorite socializing or sharing tool I might have missed?

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Best of the Blogging Scripts

Dec/15 in Web Development Tutorials

Over the past few weeks I have reviewed a ton of blogging script software selections.  Some are good, some are just ok – and some, well I might not have a reason to use them, but you might.

Have any other blogging script suggestions you would like for me to check out?

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Small, Yet Powerful Blogging with Pritlog

Dec/06 in Web Development Tutorials

Pritlog sounds like a knock off cheese log you might be expecting to see from your great aunt Marie this holiday season, however I can confirm, right off the bat, that you are wrong.  Pritlog is an extremely simple (yet powerful) blogging script.

pmwiki-32 Some of the features included are:

  • Archive
  • Comments with users
  • Mail on Comments
  • Reddit
  • Pagination
  • Bbcode by editing html (work around)
  • RSS Feeds
  • List all comments

So it has a lot of the standard bases covered.  It also probably has one of the shortest install documentations I have ever seen.  Another interesting factoid is it does not use or need a MYSQL database and fully works based on flat files.

Have a sold you yet?  Pritlog is totally free and can be downloaded here:

http://hardkap.net/pritlog/pmwiki.php?n=Pritlog.Downloads

Check out the demo, and let me know what you think.  It might be too simple for some – but if you like easy and small, Pritlog is the way to go.

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Create a Web Page in Seconds with Clutter Me

Nov/04 in Online Apps, Web Development Tutorials

clutterme_316x87Want to quickly make a free web site?  I am all for the simple tools, and Clutter Me is pretty down right simple.

Let us remember, the key word here is simple.  All you have to do is sign up.  After that, you just click anywhere on your page, type and then click somewhere else to save.  Everything you put on the page can be dragged around, and the general troubleshooting tip they give for errors is “refresh the page”.  Simple, right? (Try the DEMO!)

When your ready to publish, you will be given an URL that looks something like clutterme.com/yourname, which is totally understandable for a free service.  If needed though, you can pay them to register a domain name for you.

To check out a little more on the development side of things, be sure to thumb through their blog and check these links for some example creations:

If you are looking for a simple and easy way to put your first page out there on the Web, I would highly recommend giving Clutter Me a shot.

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Feeds in Your Inbox

Aug/21 in Online Apps

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FeedMyInbox is a new service that recently caught my eye, due to the fact they make things very simple.  They are offering you blogs, feeds and news delivered magically to your e-mail inbox.  All you have to do is visit the web site and enter a web site RSS feed and your e-mail address. 

Here is how FeedMyInbox explain the process:

Once you find a feed you would like to subscribe to, simply type in the web address (URL) for the site on FeedMyInbox.com. We will find the feed(s) available on the page, and you can select what you want to subscribe to. Once you subscribe to a feed, we will send an email to the address you specified. Simply click the link that is enclosed to confirm that your email address is correct, and you are all set!

It is an interesting service, to say the least. 

Of course, if you want to get my feed in your inbox, that is easy enough to do without this service.  Just click this link to subscribe to e-mail updates, so you never miss a post.

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Social News Site in a Box

Jul/28 in Web Development Tutorials

Always said you would like to have a social news site like digg, but didn’t have the time to develop or work on it?  Thanks to slinkset.com, you don’t have to.  They promise to deliver you your own social news site that you can customize, user your own domain on and auto-post links via RSS for free.  Here are a few examples:

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One more cool feature is it looks like you can create a private site too, that would only be accessible to the people you invite.  Give slinkset.com a shot, and if you create one yourself feel free to share it here with us.

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Getting WordPress Installed for Free?

Apr/24 in Web Development Tutorials

So you want to get up and going with your own WordPress powered web site, but you are afraid of installing it on your own?  Thankfully there are a few ways you can get it installed without having to left a finger FTP client.

One solution would be to look and see if your web host has Fantastico installed.  Via this cPanel addon you could have WordPress auto-install for you.  Just login to your cPanel, and then go down to Fantastico and then find WordPress in the left navigation bar.  Follow the on screen instructions and your set.

The second option would be to let the people at Install4Free do it for you.  This is a team of volunteers who offer expert installs of WordPress for anybody who wants one.  Now passing over your login details to your hosting account might seem like a bad idea but I have heard nothing but positive reviews of them thus far.

For me the WordPress install process has not ever been to difficult.  I could see though where some people may be intimidated by it though.  If there was third option I would suggest trying to install it yourself first. 

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CushyCMS = Only the Fun Parts of Content Management

Apr/10 in Online Apps, Web Hosting

The main problem with content management systems (or sometimes referred to as CMS) is that many people find them complicated, too technical and way over their head.  If your searching for an “every man” way of managing your content take a look at CushyCMS. A hosted CMS solution.

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Hosted by them and edited on their servers, you can quickly create your content, with no worry about installing software or learning any programming languages. They say that your final product will be a standards compliant (and search engine friendly) masterpiece that can not be beat.

CushyCMS promises to be the easiest way to get a web site up in no time at all. I do have to say it is an interesting idea (and I wish them all the best). Curious to see how many people will turn to these types of solutions over your normal web hosting account and Joomla install for example?

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