Claire's Random Thoughts

Demonoid registration is currently open for new users here! Hurry up and sign up before it’s close again!

For those of you who don’t know what Demonoid is, it is a site with a large index of torrents. Torrents are a P2P protocol used to share data, usually large files. For more information on Demonoid, check out the Wikipedia page, and for more information on torrents, click here. They are supposed to have the best selection of files of all torrent indexes, and their registration is extremely limited, maybe so it will seem like they are more exclusive. It is very rare for their registration to be open publicly as it is now, so if you are interested in an account, sign up before it’s too late!

So, you’ve been dying to download a particular file (of any kind) but just can’t find it anywhere on the internet. This happens to me quite frequently now that I’m living in a college dorm, because the school’s connection blocks torrent connections (as many college campuses do) which rules out major option for my downloads. How do I get a file that I’m dying to download but can’t use a torrent for now? I search megaupload’s index. You can do this with other file hosting sites too. Megaupload is just a personal preference.

All you have to do is use google’s within site search code. site:domain.com keywords searches google’s index just in the domain specified. So, I can type in site:megaupload.com file i want, and google will search megaupload’s index for it. For example, I missed Heroes tonight (or technically last night) and wish to watch it, because I’ve followed every episode so far and don’t want to be lost later.

Simple, isn’t this? Unfortunately, this method will only work if someone has actually uploaded the file you want to megaupload (or whatever file sharing site you’re using), duh. It’s not a 100% complete index with files you want, and it’s probably more limited with larger files due to upload size limits on the megaupload server. But still, it beats nothing when torrents are disabled here. I guess you could also try site:rapidshare.com keywords as another good alternative if you can’t find a particular file you’re searching for on megaupload.

When you try to display adsense using the original javascript code, it doesn’t show up, because wordpress posts do not have javascript enabled.

A common question has always been, how do you display adsense in wordpress posts?

The reason we would want to do this is because it is a proven fact that ads that blend in with content get clicked on more often. Viewers tend to filter out ads that look like ads, but if ads become part of the content, they will either click because they confuse the ads with a link or because they see the ad and are actually interested.

Instead of adsense, you may use this method to display any javascript code. I am just going to use adsense as an example for simplicity purposes.
It is easy to display ads in a wordpress post! See? I’m doing it right here!

A simple plugin can help you do what I just did above. Visit the Adsense-Deluxe plugin site if you wish to download it or download it directly here.

Unzip the archive and upload the adsense-deluxe.php file to your plugins directory. I am going to skip how to install the optional stuff for WYSIWYG editing, but you can visit the plugin’s site if you wish to learn how to install the extras.

After uploading the file, go to the plugins panel and activate the plugin.

To input your code, click on options, adsensedeluxe, and create an adsense block by pasting your adsense code where it says to. I recommend a half banner or something smaller so your ads can fit and blend in better with your posts. You may create multiple blocks if you wish, but I only use one. To display your default block, simply insert your code’s ID (will be generaged by the plugin) in the html editor, and your ads will show up in our post.

Pageflakes is an ajax based personal start page maker. The purpose of this is to have all your favorite sites together on one page, so you can conveniently click on any one you want from your start page. That way, people who have difficulty deciding what to set as a home page can have everything together! You can create “widgets” (there are over 70 available) that display what you want to see when you open your browser. You also have the option of making your page public, so it can serve as a personal home page. Visitors that you send to your page can then learn about your interests.

You can customize everything from to do task lists to news to photos to your box.net storage. You can also have multiple start pages if you have too much you would like to include and can’t fit everything on one page neatly.

Conclusively, pageflakes may be something worth trying. Overall, it is pretty useful.