Everyone knows that if you host a WordPress blog on your server you can take advantage of XML sitemaps. But for those who do not, and rely on Automaticc’s WordPress.com blog hosting, sitemaps have merely been a twinkle in the bloggers eye. Twinkle no more, XML sitemaps for WordPress.com are here! Now the question is how do I use them? Here is a mini how-to to track your sitemaps in Google. (Yahoo and MSN coming soon.)
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New WordPress XML Sitemaps and Google
17 06 2008Comments : 27 Comments »
Tags : google, msn, sitemap, tutorial, wordpress, xml, yahoo
Categories : how-to, technology, webcentric
Über Cool Traceroute Tool, Ajax Style
17 06 2008Ever want to run a traceroute from several geographical locations around the globe at one shot? Check out just-traceroute, a new way to visually watch your routes. In a single view you can watch your server be traced from Australia, Singapore, United States, and the Netherlands. You will find the whole interface is Ajax’d to the max, and is quite handy. While not as visually appealing, they also have a tool called just-ping which pings your host from 26 servers around the globe. Powered by watchmouse.com, they also offer several other free tools which are equally as cool, not to mention useful. Have a look at their free DNS Analysis tool, it’s pretty sick.
note: they do not pay me for this, i just stumbled across their site and thought it was awesome.
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Tags : ajax, dns, ping, traceroute, watchmouse
Categories : smb tech, technology, webcentric
Firefox 3 Downloads Dead in the Water
17 06 2008**Update 3:01PM**
I grabbed my copy, and did my part by fulfilling my pledge. What I did notice, is how Mozilla is balancing the load on for each download. I clicked download three times and I got the following servers for download:
mozilla.mirror.ac.za
mozilla.jiddernet.se
sunsite.rediris.es
Looks like they are balancing the massive load using their extensive mirror sites.
**Update 2:56PM**
It’s there folks, finally! Jump on over to mozilla.com and you will find Firefox 3.0 in all its glory waiting for you to download and become part of history. Let’s hope their servers hold up. Another huge milestone for the OSS community.
**Update 2:30PM **
Back from lunch… Still having trouble connecting to mozilla.com, however I have been able to connect after refreshing once or twice. You can directly get Firefox 3 here without a problem. Not sure if downloading from here counts towards Download Day stats.
**Update 1:33PM**
Mozilla’s FTP servers are hosed too… keep on trying folks!
HTTP/1.1 Service Unavailable
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Today is Download Day! Mozilla released Firefox 3 twenty-two minutes ago, and already their servers are completely slammed. Mozilla.com, spreadfirefox.com, and getfirefox.com are all sitting ducks. I can’t get to it, and I know a lot of my friends on other networks are having trouble connecting as well. How can mozilla break a download record if no one can download Firefox? Well, you better believe people are downloading it, because if they weren’t, you would be able to download it without a problem. Keep trying!
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Tags : download day, firefox, mozilla
Categories : opensource, technology
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