I’m working with Japanese website these days and having a hard time viewing Japanese characters.

For some reason, I can view Japanese character sets on my firefox and not on my IE.
Probably I might have installed asian language pack on my Firefox or not sure…
Anyway I was having a difficulty viewing characters in my MS Word as I can’t see a thing.
I was doing site updates only by copying blank page selection and paste it on my html page then view it on my Firefox which is not at all efficient.

Then Zatlite came in and did something as 1,2,3 to my setup and there it is, I now can view all characters in MS word as well as in dreamweaver.
Hmm how come I didn’t know about it?
Sayar khaw par tal A Ba yal.

Here are the steps to enable asian language pack on your system.

# Select Control Panel > Regional and Language Options
# Choose “Language” tab > Check “Install files for East Asian languages”
# Restart your computer and done.

Ping and Trackbacks are quite well known terms in blogger world. I’m not gonna talk about trackback(Blog-Blog/ post-post, notifying this blog uses content/resources related/referenced to that blog) here but like to share some of my notes about blog pinging and my collection of rss ping services.

Ping is the name of a computer network tool used on TCP/IP networks (such as the Internet). It provides a basic test of whether a particular host is operating properly and is reachable on the network from the testing host.
Ref: Wikipedia

If you are a blogger, you might have been using some of the most famous ping services to notify the blogosphere about your site update.
Some of you may not know that everytime you post to your blog, you are sending a ping to one or more services depending on your blogging platform. For example, those of blogspot users are pinging to Weblogs.com ping service everytime you make a new post. Ofcos that is if you specified it under “Setting” > “Publishing” > “Notify to Weblogs.com” to “Yes”.
For wordpress blogs by default includes Ping-O-Matic service. As usual, the good thing about wordpress is that you can add any number of ping urls in the text box specifies there.

There are lots of sites offer XML-RPC ping services on the web to track your site/blog updates. What those do is that, you added new post to your blog, you notify(ping) one of those xml-rpc services and they’ll come and crawl your site which in term updated in their database and make available to their visitors and propably those visitors will visit your site. Ah…something like that.
The main thing is that pinging and xml-rpc services publish your post/site to a wider medium, which is good.

XML-RPC is a remote procedure call protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. It is a very simple protocol, defining only a handful of data types and commands, and the entire description can be printed on two pages of paper. This is in stark contrast to most RPC systems, where the standards documents often run into the thousands of pages and require considerable software support in order to be used.

It was first created by Dave Winer of UserLand Software in 1995 with Microsoft. However, Microsoft considered it too simple and started adding functionality. After several rounds of this, the standard was no longer so simple and became what is now SOAP.
Ref: Wikipedia

The followings are my collection of XML-RPC services. I guess only non blogspot blogs can use that. I suggest blogspot users to use the following links to submit the ping manually:
# Ping.o.matic
# Pingoat
# Blo.gs

You don’t need to add all those in your admin ping list. Only the main links as followed would be enough cos’ they ping to others as well.

Main list I use

• Blo.gs: http://ping.blo.gs/
• BlogRolling: http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
• PingGoat: http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
• Ping-O-Matic: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
• PubSub: http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
• Syndic8 : http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
• Technorati: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
• TopicExchange: http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
• Weblogs.com: http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
• WebLogAlot: http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

The List

1. 1470Net: http://1470.net/api/ping
2. a2b: http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
3. Amagle: http://ping.amagle.com/
4. Blo.gs: http://ping.blo.gs/
5. BlogRolling: http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
6. BlogDigger: http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
7. BlogShares: http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
8. BlogsNow: http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
9. BlogStreet: http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
10. Bitacoles: http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

    http://bitacoras.net/ping

11. BlogDB: http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
12. Blogg.de: http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
13. BlogMatcher: http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
14. Blogoole: http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
15. Blogoon : http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
16. BlogPeople: http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
17. BlogRoots: http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
18. Bloggoone: http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
19. BulkFeeds: http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
20. Bitacoras: http://ping.bitacoras.com
21. BloggerJP: http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
22. BlogMura: http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
23. BlogBuzzMachine: http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
24. Bakeinu: http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
25. CoreBlog: http://coreblog.org/ping/
26. Cocolog-nifty: http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
27. DataShed: http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
28. Exblog: http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
29. FeedBurner: http://ping.feedburner.com
30. FeedSter: http://api.feedster.com/ping
31. IceRocket: http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
32. Lasermemory: http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
33. My.Yahoo: http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
34. My.YahooRSS: http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
35. MyBlog: http://ping.myblog.jp
36. MoreOver: http://api.moreover.com/ping

    http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

37. NewsIsFree: http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
38. PingGoat: http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
39. Ping-O-Matic: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
40. PubSub: http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

    http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

    http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

41. PopDex: http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
42. RootBlog: http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
43. Syndic8: http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
44. SnipSnao: http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
45. Technorati: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
46. TopicExchange: http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
47. Weblogs.com: http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

    http://rpc.weblogs.com/

    http://ping.weblogs.se/

48. WebLogAlot: http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
49. Weblogues: http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

Only the links download txt file here. I hope this post helps you.
So next time you browse the net and come across new ping services, save the url and share with me too so that I could update my list.

Resourceful Links:
# Community Server list
# Elloitt Back Ping List
# Blog Herald Ping List
# SEO Black Hat Ping List
# Ensight Ping List

Technorati Tags: XML-RPC, RSS, Ping, Syndication, SEO, Useful, Links, Resources, References, Blogosphere, Services

Just got one more interesting extension : QuickChat

QuickChat is an extension that is designed to allow you to chat about anything on any website with the users that are actively browsing that site.

Pretty cool one, chat with whoever online for visiting site.
Updated to my “Favorite Firefox Extensions List”.
Link: QuickChat

Technorati Tags: Firefox extensions, QuickChat, Firefox, Extensions

Sharing some of my favorite firefox extensions with you. All of them compatible with Firefox 1.5.0.1.

• Web Developer 1.0.2 – Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
• Screen grab! 0.8 – Takes a screen shot using Java.
• LoremIpsum Content Generator 0.4.2 – Uses latin words to create filler content.
• JustBlogIt 0.3 – JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.
  
• Performancing 1.1.1 – Excellent Blog posting.
  
• SpellBound Development – Adds spell checker support to web forms and extensions.
• IE Tab 1.0.8 – Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mizilla/Firefox.
• Foxylicious 0.5 – Integrates your del.icio.us bookmarks into your Firefox bookmarks.
• X-Ray 0.6 – See the tags on a page without viewing the sourcecode.
• QuickChat 0.2 – is an extension that is designed to allow you to chat about anything on any website with the users that are actively browsing that site.
  
• Fangs 1.0.0 – Renders a text version of a web page similar to screen reader output.
  
• FireBug 0.3 – Web Debugging Evolved
  
• CSS Viewer 1.0.1 – A simple CSS property viewer
  

So what’s your favorite extensions? Please share with me too.

Technorati Tags: Firefox 1.5.0.1, Extensions, Web Developer, Performancing Firefox, SpellBound, IE Tab, Foxylicious, Screen Grab!, Lorem Ipsum Content Generator, JustBlogIt, Browsers

Is she Burmese? Her surname, “Myint”, sounds very Burmese. She looks like one too.
If she is then great! Good to see some Burmese faces in well recognized companies such this.

Janice Myint
Customer Support

Janice has a Masters of Engineering from Cornell University. She brings with her a great deal of experience working with customers and a commitment to uphold Technorati’s mantra: “Be of Service”. A transplant from Virginia, she lives in San Francisco, co-owns an urban art gallery and retail store in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco, and, as a second degree black belt, practices Taekwondo in her spare time.

Oh I wanna complaint about technorati.:D
I can’t see any technorati back links in my wordpress dash board. Before I can see who linked me but now I can’t, been a while now. Don’t know how to fix or it’s technorati problem that they’re not tracking my site??

Link: Technorati Staff Profiles
Check her blog

Technorati Tags: Technorati Staff, Profiles, Burmese, Myanmar, Technorati Back Link Tracking

Now that I got google page, I don’t know how to make use of it. It’s very simple to create web pages and there are ready made templates to choose from.
And also can change upto 4 different layouts.

Will check it out properly later, just posting some screen shots here. And thinking how to use it.

Technorati Tags: Google Pages, Screen Shots, Web Design, Site Reviews

I just discovered the change in Bloglines feed management functions. They all Ajax now. Very smooth. Alot easier than before. Some of the functions you can do are as followed:

• single/multiple drag-n-drop folders and files,
• delete items by selecting single/multiple items and press “Delete” button.
• Ordering (A-Z), (Z-A) or manually
• Single-click to select.
• Click again to rename.
• Double-click to edit details.
• Ctrl-click to select multiple.
• Shift-click to select range.
• To reorder, drag and drop into place.

I also notice these days Bloglines feed updates are very fast and Rojo gone too slow for some feeds especially blogspot feeds. So I guess I’ll be switching back to blogline and see how things go.

PS. Oh you guys see my little logo at the right or my feed?
No icon yet, I think icons are only for those feeds with lots of subscriptions cos’ those are stored on Blogline server so they must have add them manually and not from favicon link…well me don’t know.
But I’m glad to see my logo(or whatever that is) image showing up there.

Hmmm for some reason my feed got error [!] message. I don’t know why or may be I must have done something wrong or… well just have to check this post got picked up there. If not then definitely something wrong with my feed.

Links: Subscribe to my Feed
Check out my subscriptions

Technorati Tags: Bloglines, feedreaders, rojo, updates, ajax