Modern Street

If you’re like the millions of audio buffs out there, you’ll find that quite often, certain mp3 songs end too quickly. That means, they have little or no period of silence after the ending of the song. It could be due to sloppy editing of the song copy by the person who edited and saved the mp3.

How do we fix this? I’ve been searching for a way to add a few extra seconds of silent time to some of the mp3 songs, I have because I find their abrupt ending a little too jarring. A few extra seconds of silent time added to the mp3 right after the anding should make it sound better, and more natural.

Rather surprisingly, searching and asking this question in forums did not turn up a suitable answer. But enter Audacity. This is a free and open source digital audio editor software program that helped to do just what I wanted.

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For WordPress users there is plugin which you might be familiar with, called Popularity Contest. This plugin helps you to view what are your popular posts and hopefully, you will get a better picture of what most of your readers want to read. This should help you in creating other posts with a similar theme to your popular posts. Obviously, it comes real handy for all WordPress bloggers.

But there’s a problem I found out the other day, when I tried to activate this plugin. It triggered fatal errors in my admin panel and could not be activated. This plugin apparently ceased to work with the latest version of WordPress, namely WP 2.5.1. Neither was it updated in a while. Read the rest of this entry »

How many of you connect online using mobile phones? If you did, you would find that many websites (and I mean many), would render in less than a satisfactory manner over a mobile phone. This has been always a problem with mobile phones and the Web. Well, Google recently announced that every mobile phone manufacturer will do away with browsers that only work with mobile phones - within a year.

What was that all about? In an interview in London, Google’s mobile engineering director, Ann Mei Chang said, “Within a year, you’ll see all manufacturers having full browsing capability, at least for the high end phones. This will be a turning point for the industry.” So that means you and me will be able to surf the Internet and view it just like we do on a PC? That’s good news, if it happens as predicted. Read the rest of this entry »

DLL files are one of the most important components of your system files if you are using Windows as your Operating System. There are many DLL files within a typical Windows system, but most of the time, you don’t really bother about them. That is, until something goes wrong with them.

DLL stands for Dynamic Link Libraries, and it’s a major component in running application programs. Many applications use these DLL files, and in fact Windows needs DLL files to run many functions. DLL files are meant to provide a series of dynamically loaded libraries to enable a multitude of runtime processes to run smoothly.

When some of these DLL files get corrupted or deleted accidentally, then you get problems occurring in your system. Windows will only tell you that you’re missing a DLL file, when it looks for the particular file and cannot find it. Usually this happens when you’re in the midst of installing your favorite game Some causes of DLL file errors include incorrect deleting of software, corruption of registry files, or even viruses/spyware. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the common problems faced by some webmasters is slow or non indexing by Google. As we know, Google is currently the top search engine in the world, and so if you have a website on whatever, the first thing you can do for it is to try to get it indexed and listed by Google. The Google bot is one of the most active search engine spiders in the Web world, always crawling the Web looking for good content on sites, and so, it is quite rare these days to have a problem with getting indexed.

One of the situations when indexing fails to occur is when the domain has been blacklisted by Google. This may be due to the current or previous owner, failing to adhere to Google’s webmaster guidelines. Read the rest of this entry »

The past week has seen another Google Pagerank (PR) update, which has just about concluded. And I’m pretty glad to see my Pagerank updated to a PR 4! Here is a Pagerank checking site. Although webmasters will tell you that Pagerank is not important, they all secretly value it. Bragging rights maybe. I bet you will still hear all the moans and groans from those who lost PR at each update. So let’s be honest, we want a nice Pagerank, but we don’t need it.

Not too long ago, my blog was having a PR 3, and then it became “not available” in the last update. This recent update, Google seems to have gone generous again, and more websites once again report rises in PR, rather than drops. Probably a sign that Google is satisfied with all the cleanups it has done so far in punishing PR selling

Oh, but what am I talking about Pagerank at all? Does it really matter in the “success” of a website? It does, in a way. What is more important, is traffic. That’s why Alexa’s recent changes have been received positively by most webmasters. Read the rest of this entry »