Introducing the "Free high-quality picture search" tool

This article introduces the Free High Quality Picture Search tool which has been added to this website.

Today I've added a new feature to Blogger-Hints-and-Tips.

The Free High Quality Image Search tool is available from the menu bar. It is a tool to help you locate free, high-quality pictures to use in your blog posts or other website projects.

It is based on a Google-custom-search engine, and a carefully selected set of websites that offer images you can use for free on your blog, even if it is "commercial" (ie you have advertising or any other way of making money from it).

The difference between this and the images that you can get from a general-purpose search using the Creative Commons image and multi-media search tool is the resolution of the images that are found and/or their photographic quality.

How to use the Free-image-search tool

• Choose it from the menu bar on this blog, or navigate directly to it at  http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.ie/p/free-image-search.html

• Type a description of the image you want to see into the search-bar.

• Press Enter

• When the results display, click the Image tab, to see what photos are available.
  (Hopefully this step is only temporary, and I can soon manage to have the search-results default to images and still use the tool in Blogger.)

• Use the numbers in the lower-left side to move to different pages in the image-search results.

• Choose an image that you would like to use.

Once you have chosen an image, you can either link directly to if (if the site allows), or download a copy, put it on your own image-service (eg Picasa-web-albums), and use it in your blog.   The latter approach is required if you want the image to be used as the thumbnail for your post.

Copyright

By definition, all images returned by the search-tool should be free-use and so not subject to any copyright rules.

However some do have attribution requirements, and you may need to use image-captions or similar to make sure that these are followed in your blog.

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Finding free photos for your blog, using Creative Commons

Introducing Google-custom-search engines

Summarise your blog-post with post.snippet and post.thumbnail

Copyright, Blogs and Blogging, an introduction

Dowry Value

Your value is = 

If you visited this page to calculate the appropriate dowry amount for you, then we suggest you to not repeat it in your real life. Its good to know your worth, but not in terms of dowry.

Let me tell you some facts about dowry and dowry related deaths in India.

• According to Wikipedia, India is the country with largest number of dowry related deaths in 2012. The data is collected from Indian National Crime Record Bureau.
• 18233 dowry related deaths were reported in 2012.
• Out of every one lakh women in India, 1.4 die due to dowry. Pakistan tops in this case where this number is 2.45 in every one lakh.
• Most of the dowry deaths occur by having poison, hanging themselves or setting themselves on fire.  
• In every 90 minutes one bride is burned to death only due to dowry.
• These facts are only those which are reported. According to a survey a number of cases remain unreported.
• In most of the cases bride is not killed by tortured for dowry demand.
• Dowry is the major reason for Female foeticide in India. Poor people don't want baby girls to get relief from tension of dowry.

Even after reading all those facts if you want to calculate your Dowry Value, then be ready to land yourself in police custody someday.
But if you are good enough to understand the above facts then try to remove this evil from India. Make your own life and marriage an example for others and motivate your relatives to do the same.

Format Factory

Format Factory is very powerful file converter and conversion software in the converter world.  It is very popular and totally freeware software. Everyone known it is a multimedia converter.  If you want to converter any kind of video file into audio and other video format Such as Mp4, 3Gp, MPG, AVI etc then you can use this application which is support in Mobile device, I pad, Tablet pc easily. This application is developed by Chan Jun Hau. Anyone can convert picture file by it's easily and a comfortable way. Format Factory is comprehensive application, because it is that's kind of software that's convert many kind of file in the shortest possible time.

If you convert your media file for your mobile phone or tablet PC then Format Factory is the perfect solution. Format Factory can convert a large number of file such as (Audio-MP3, WMA, FLV, OGG, AAC, WAV), (Video- MP4, MPG, AVI, 3GP, WMV, SWP), (Picture- JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, ICO) and others. It is capable to DVD and CD ripping to other file format. It has a Stylish and Standard feature what is very attractive for User. Format Factory gain popularity for its own capacity. For this reason, people known it's as the king of converter. This application released October 23, 2012 all over the world with 62 different languages. This application is suitable for both Windows and Mac version. It's Convert quality and convert speed is very satisfied. It is totally professional converter. This application supported a large number of file format for its ripping and encoding system. Its download process is very easy because it is a freeware application. After download we can install this software easily. It has many skin themes for user, so user can choose his skin according to his choice from here. It has some uncommon system, such as if you want to shut down your PC after file converting then you can it by a single lick. Format Factory enables to satisfy a user completely.  It has some advance facilities with its regular advantage, such as its can create picture watermark by few single click. When a user use this software to convert media, then his no need to find another software for converting, because it is a multi power base converter. So, User called it is an "All in one" converter. Above all, I can say as a user it is perfect and complete converter software. So, we can use it without doubt.

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May the source be with you

I'm a big advocate of the phrase, "Release Early, Release Often." I think it is by far the best way to keep or gain community interest in a project.

Of course, that simple phrase doesn't quite sum up what you actually must do - simply uploading a release and announcing it on your mailing list is unlikely to attract interest. For example, who knew about Lincity-NG 2.9beta in lieu of the intended Lincity-NG 3.0?

Lincity-NG is in a bit of a mini-crisis. A victim of the shutdown of the Berlios developer services, all the web material is in a bit of a mess. Its home page is now on fedorahosted.org but still links back to the defunct Berlios page. There are entries on Google Code and Github that are up to date with the source, as well as an imported Sourceforge project* which is the only place you can currently find the beta, however all are unofficial / back up for now.

(* Not to be confused with this redundant redundant project)

Another game project which suffered was Battles of Antargis. It has re-emerged on Github and development seems to have resumed with C++ replacing the Ruby bits which previously encumbered the game. For a web presence, you have to use the Internet archive for its old Berlios page or external sites e.g. the LGBD entry or on Libregamewiki.

Battles of Antargis

It's not just Berlios that throws a spanner in people's works. Sourceforge has setback the oft-setback Extreme Tux Racer by closing down their hosted apps. The main communication medium was phpBB but now it is completely gone. They did manage to get an updated 0.6.0 release online before this, at least.

Since there doesn't appear to be any project communication channel for ETR, I have contacted them suggesting a FreeGameDev forum.

Speaking of FGD forums, there's plenty of activity amongst the projects there. Stunt Rally continues to gain more strings to its bow. Sci-fi hovercrafts! That ought to be interesting. Despite being one of the prettiest open source games and incredibly put together almost by one person, CryHam - well, not quite; it took VDrift's physics and Ogre3D's jazz - the project doesn't seem to get the attention it deserves.

Sci-fi overcrafts now in Stunty Rally

You can browse the tracks online. Check out this fun looking track with pyramids and chasms galore.

Another project gaining momentum is OpenDungeons. It's had its ups and downs, but seems to have gotten its footing now with regular test releases and several active contributors. The new website is coming along, but more importantly so is the game as especially Yohann Ferreira aka Bertram (of Valyria Tear fame) has come in and steadied the ship. I look forward to seeing creatures like this golem trudging dark, damp and dangerous dungeon corridors.

Of course the reality of open source game development is that it is not an overnight job. It takes years of perseverance to realise the goals of many projects. Over the course of that time, occasionally the rug may get pulled from under you. You just have to be prepared to dust yourself off, get up, and keep going.

Or you could just call it quits.

H for Header: part 1 of the HASCH OnPage SEO framework

Each website begins with the header. There are no minimal or required values inside of it: the header content fully depends from our goals and laziness:) Another cause for poor designed headers is a meaning, that Google doesn't understand meta tags or doesn't take meta tags as a ranking factor. Well, Google says, it understands just a little amount of available meta tags. Here is Google's statement about understanding of meta tags. But i say:

• use not only meta tags, which Google definitely understands,
• use meta tags extensively,
• be redundant in meta tags using.

Why? Just because the web contains much more as only Google and you. There are very much bots and spiders in the internet, their goal is to parse web contents and to create different indexes. The parsing criteria could be a bunch of existing meta tags and the parsing results on their part could be parsed from Googlebot. So Google gets into its index the content from your meta tags, which Google means not to understand.

Good, now we are agreed about benefits of meta tags using. The main SEO point is utilizing header rules to give the searchbot so much information about our site as possible. Now i list meta tags one by one and give the correct syntax, some possible values, and my point of view of the practical SEO effects.
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HASCH: introducing the OnPage SEO framework

Some C++ programmers dream of or even try to create an own operating system. The creation is scheduled to be the best of the existing OSs and demonstrate the state of the art. Some PHP programmers dream of or even try to create an own content management system, targeting the same. Why want they do it? I guess, such creations would include all the best practice examples into it, then they would get rid of all existing bugs and misbehaviors, then they would systematize and list all current knowledge in the creation.

OnPage SEO is a sophisticated knowledge area, with very much of unsystematized and unvalidated knowledge from many various knowledge segments, like web design, web development, server administration, linguistic, marketing, psychology. With the HASCH OnPage SEO framework i target to systematize the OnPage SEO knowledge and to get rid of unvalidated parts of it.

Then lets get down to the nitty-gritty:

HASCH: the OnPage SEO framework

H... is for Header
A... is for Architecture
S... is for Semantic
C... is for Content
H... is for .htaccess

PS:
I'm sure, this framework will be a good help, cheat sheet and rulebook for all, who performs SEO audits or creates SEO-minded sites. The nature of SEO is, that this SEO framework will be never ended up, so it will be always in the public beta and ongoing updated. I'm highly happy about any additional advice you would share with me!

OpenRA also has a new release

OpenRA is a Free Software recreation of the famed Command & Conquer engine, and it aims to support and enhance all Westwood games originally built upon it, namely Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, and Dune 2000. However, unlike most engine remakes, OpenRA isn't a simple 1:1 recreation with a little streamlining here and there, as the project also aims to optimize and rebalance the gameplay for purposes of online multiplayer. The project has recently released the latest stable version, fixing a lot of bugs and adding plenty of new features, as seen on the following release trailer: