This happens to me quite often when I open a word documents received or downloaded from other sources. I'm not quite sure if it was software compatibility issues or other reasons, every now and then I received word documents with double spacing right after the period. I was still using the old microsoft word 2005 and some of the words I received are in newer version, that might be the problems. Of course this is not the only reasons, if you are using custom or other software to exports data to MS Word, it could cause the same problems. It might be even worse, resulting in double space in every words or randomly. Are you deleting the extra spaces manually? Don't do that! There's a much easier way!
There's a function in word that let you replace anything with a single click of button.
1.) Go to Edit > Replace
2.) In Find What- insert: ^w
3.) In Replace with- insert: ^s
4.) Click replace all
5.) Done!
Easy right? You'd be punching in your face if you have been wasting time doing it manually. Next time search the net for solution especially when it involves in computer. Word smarter not harder :)
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Best Web Traffic tracking tools
If you owns a website, you'd be interested in how many visitors you're getting daily. But how do you track your web visitor's? Easy, by using free web counter or whatever it's called. There's a lot of such web counter available for free, and the best or most popular ones are Google Analytic, Site Meter & Extreme Tracking. So which do I think is the best? Ranking is in order, Google Analytic is my top choice in my opinion, hey it's made by Google! Not only it's made by Google, Analytic provides some of the most details information about your site visitors you'd ever seen including total unique, total pageviews, country, browser, operating system, entry page, referral...etc. Almost every details you would want to know. Compared to other web counter provider, there's only one feature that's in Site Meter that cannot be found in Google Analytic, and that's real time access report. It lets you see who is accessing your page at the moment. The only downside about Google Analytic I can think of is the Ajax intensive interface. It's not a bad thing and it looks really good, but if you have slow or unstable connection, then you'd have problem accessing it. Really, it's not a big problem, I'm only experiences a few time while using 3g connection. On the other hand, Site Meter and Extreme Tracking are using plain html page which loads a lot more faster. If you are on fast connection, then you wouldn't notice any differences.
So why there are still so many people's using site meter and extreme tracking? Well I'm not too familiar with other 2 tracker so I can't tell you much. Maybe it's easier to access because you don't have to login to see the statistic every time, but that also means you'll be sharing the information with the public. I've installed Site Meter on this blog, you can check it out at the very bottom of the page. Site Meter doesn't looks too bad, it track all important information about the visitors and its easy to access, so are you. The bad thing about site meter is that you can't track different website with the same account like google analytic, you need to sign up a new account for each site which could be troublesome. In google analytic, you can just toggle between site with a drop down list which is convenient when you have more than 2 sites. I haven't really test the accuracy of either web counter, but all three web counter are accurate in tracking visitors or so I heard.
How do you install web counter to your website? First choose your preferred tracker, then you need to sign up an account with the service provider. After you done that, just login to your account and follow the instruction to get the tracking code. Once you obtain the code, you need to put it in your site. If you are using blogger or wordpress, login to your account and find the option to modify your site code. For blogger, go to layout > Edit HTML, scroll to the very bottom and insert the code just before /body. It's the same for most open sources site. You can actually put the code anywhere you want, but it's highly recommended to put it at the very end as if something happen to the tracking code such as downtime, it won't affect your site loads. You can do the same in wordpress, just modify the footer.php in templates and save it.
So why there are still so many people's using site meter and extreme tracking? Well I'm not too familiar with other 2 tracker so I can't tell you much. Maybe it's easier to access because you don't have to login to see the statistic every time, but that also means you'll be sharing the information with the public. I've installed Site Meter on this blog, you can check it out at the very bottom of the page. Site Meter doesn't looks too bad, it track all important information about the visitors and its easy to access, so are you. The bad thing about site meter is that you can't track different website with the same account like google analytic, you need to sign up a new account for each site which could be troublesome. In google analytic, you can just toggle between site with a drop down list which is convenient when you have more than 2 sites. I haven't really test the accuracy of either web counter, but all three web counter are accurate in tracking visitors or so I heard.
How do you install web counter to your website? First choose your preferred tracker, then you need to sign up an account with the service provider. After you done that, just login to your account and follow the instruction to get the tracking code. Once you obtain the code, you need to put it in your site. If you are using blogger or wordpress, login to your account and find the option to modify your site code. For blogger, go to layout > Edit HTML, scroll to the very bottom and insert the code just before /body. It's the same for most open sources site. You can actually put the code anywhere you want, but it's highly recommended to put it at the very end as if something happen to the tracking code such as downtime, it won't affect your site loads. You can do the same in wordpress, just modify the footer.php in templates and save it.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Dragon Age Short Review
Alright, I've just finished Dragon Age, successor of old-school classic role playing game Baldur's Gate, and I just want to share my opinion on the game. Before Dragon Age released, I was extremely excited as I love long rpgs that can keep me playing for months. To tell the truth, I wasn't really impress with the game when I first started it, maybe I was expecting too much? In a nutshell, it's the same old school rpg with better graphics and more angle of views. But when I go deeper into game, I got sucked into the world of magic and fantasy. It's such a well crafted world, kudos to bioware making such amazing game. I haven't really get addicted to a game for so long that I can't even remember. Believe me, play the game for at least 10 hours before you judge, if you still don't like, maybe something more fast paced such as FPS would appeal you more.
If you ask me what's the good thing in Dragon Age, I can't really pin point the pros. I guess it's the world, the atmosphere and how people's interact with each other. And you can tell spend a lot of time on dialogue and conversation. One of the reason I love the conversion so much, and I have to admit its because of the arrogant bitch Morrigan. Listen to her conversation with other characters were so fun and funny at time, and it also gave me a reason to go camping to talk with other characters. Though I just want to flirt with Morrigan and bed with her, lol. Alright I'm a pervert. If you played as a female character, you can also flirt with other male character, and some of the conversation between them are quite funny or so I heard.
I've already play through the game once, and reload some later save game to chose a different path and see the ending result. I don't think I would play it again, come to think of it I never replay any game in my life time. I'd really like to talk about the gameplay, but there's nothing really special or unique to talk about beside better graphics and possible spell combination. Bottom line if you like western rpgs, Dragon Age does not dissapoint.
Not much of a review I guess, but I just want to say its a great rpgs or best in my recent memories. Witcher and drakensang is good too and I'm waiting for the Witcher 2 coming out this year probably. You know, recent gaming industry is all about FPS, modern warfare or MMORPG...etc. Can't blame the developer though, it's much profitable and most people's likes that kind of game. All I can do is hope there's more game such as dragon age coming out in the future, guess the next rpgs/fps for me is Mass Effect 2.
If you ask me what's the good thing in Dragon Age, I can't really pin point the pros. I guess it's the world, the atmosphere and how people's interact with each other. And you can tell spend a lot of time on dialogue and conversation. One of the reason I love the conversion so much, and I have to admit its because of the arrogant bitch Morrigan. Listen to her conversation with other characters were so fun and funny at time, and it also gave me a reason to go camping to talk with other characters. Though I just want to flirt with Morrigan and bed with her, lol. Alright I'm a pervert. If you played as a female character, you can also flirt with other male character, and some of the conversation between them are quite funny or so I heard.
I've already play through the game once, and reload some later save game to chose a different path and see the ending result. I don't think I would play it again, come to think of it I never replay any game in my life time. I'd really like to talk about the gameplay, but there's nothing really special or unique to talk about beside better graphics and possible spell combination. Bottom line if you like western rpgs, Dragon Age does not dissapoint.
Not much of a review I guess, but I just want to say its a great rpgs or best in my recent memories. Witcher and drakensang is good too and I'm waiting for the Witcher 2 coming out this year probably. You know, recent gaming industry is all about FPS, modern warfare or MMORPG...etc. Can't blame the developer though, it's much profitable and most people's likes that kind of game. All I can do is hope there's more game such as dragon age coming out in the future, guess the next rpgs/fps for me is Mass Effect 2.
Wordpress Themes Adsense
If you'd like to build an adsense site with wordpress, chances are you'd have headaches implement the code. So why not use some themes that are built specially for adsense, of course it may not be the best looking wordpress themes out there, but it helps you to maximize your adsense earning. And that's the purpose of you building an adsense wordpress site, right? It's not impossible to implement to other wordpress themes, it's just more troublesome and require some knowledge in html and CSS code. Unless if you have the time and willing to learn, you might as well as use a pre-made one. Side note: Beside using an already monetized proven adsense themes, you can chose to use adsense plugins instead for your existing or new site.
Here's two I loved best and its both made by doshdosh.com, a very nice site talking about SEO and internet marketing. Anyway, one of the theme is call doshdosh? And another is call Prosense, both can be found at the site and free to download. I think they provide more than just 2 adsense wordpress themes, search their themes section and see which fits your site best.
Here's two I loved best and its both made by doshdosh.com, a very nice site talking about SEO and internet marketing. Anyway, one of the theme is call doshdosh? And another is call Prosense, both can be found at the site and free to download. I think they provide more than just 2 adsense wordpress themes, search their themes section and see which fits your site best.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
SEO Plugins for Wordpress
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is an important process to get your website ranking high in search engine or shall I say Google. Seriously, when people talking about seo it's all about google as it normally brings more traffic for most webmaster than yahoo or bing (msn). There's onpage, offpage and others seo factors, and I'm talking about onpage seo right now. Title and keywords are the most important factor when considering onpage seo, optimizing for each pages can be very time consuming if you updates your site very frequently. If you are using wordpress for your site or blog, there some very good plugins out there to minimize your work and optimize your site to the fullest. Although many might not seem important at all, but there's never too many, every bit count! Even if it's just for yahoo or bing. Ranking first and second is whole lot of different.
So here's the list of plugins that I'll surely install along with every new wordpress site set up.
1.) All in one SEO - Even if you search for the most popular plugins on wordpress site, All in one SEO comes to the top. Basically, it allows you to modify how you want your title to be shown and customize your own description and keywords in Meta.
2.) Homepage Excerpts - Ever wonder how to set the total words for each post displayed on homepage. Homepage Excerpts do just that, setting the words displayed and total of full articles displayed on homepage.
3.) Wordpress page numbers - By default wordpress used next and previous for content pages. There's nothing bad about it until you have too many post and your old articles to pushes back to 5th or even 20th page. That would takes 20 clicks to reach the last page! And Google would deemed those page as unimportant so as the articles within it. With Wordpress page numbers plugin, it display in number instead, so you can jump through each pages easily and so are for Google crawlers. Maybe it's not the most important features, it's definitely better than next link for either your reader or Google.
4.) Cloud tags - Well only if you use tags for your site. I think there's already such funtion in wordpress but it's not set active by default. If you use tags, go to sidebar setting and drag all the widgets you want it to display on homepage to the right hand side. If there isn't a tags widget in wordpress or you need something more configurable, try searching for keyword tags on wordpress official site.
That's all I recommend above for wordpress SEO plugins. Of course, there might be a lot more cooler plugins that I'm not aware of. If you do have some to recommend, post a comment and let other readers know about it. You know, sharing is the way to success.
So here's the list of plugins that I'll surely install along with every new wordpress site set up.
1.) All in one SEO - Even if you search for the most popular plugins on wordpress site, All in one SEO comes to the top. Basically, it allows you to modify how you want your title to be shown and customize your own description and keywords in Meta.
2.) Homepage Excerpts - Ever wonder how to set the total words for each post displayed on homepage. Homepage Excerpts do just that, setting the words displayed and total of full articles displayed on homepage.
3.) Wordpress page numbers - By default wordpress used next and previous for content pages. There's nothing bad about it until you have too many post and your old articles to pushes back to 5th or even 20th page. That would takes 20 clicks to reach the last page! And Google would deemed those page as unimportant so as the articles within it. With Wordpress page numbers plugin, it display in number instead, so you can jump through each pages easily and so are for Google crawlers. Maybe it's not the most important features, it's definitely better than next link for either your reader or Google.
4.) Cloud tags - Well only if you use tags for your site. I think there's already such funtion in wordpress but it's not set active by default. If you use tags, go to sidebar setting and drag all the widgets you want it to display on homepage to the right hand side. If there isn't a tags widget in wordpress or you need something more configurable, try searching for keyword tags on wordpress official site.
That's all I recommend above for wordpress SEO plugins. Of course, there might be a lot more cooler plugins that I'm not aware of. If you do have some to recommend, post a comment and let other readers know about it. You know, sharing is the way to success.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Dragon Age data error occurred fix
If you found this post, I'm sure you are desperate to find a fix to Dragon Age data error occurred when installing. There's a lot of people's are having the same issues and discussing over both EA (electronic arts) & bioware forum, but none of the official forum provide a fix to the problem. Can you believe that? Both company are just pushing the blame to each other and left us scratching our head. I swear I'll never buy a products that have anything to do with EA in future. What a blood sucking company that do not care about their customers, they just screw everything up.
Alright here's the good news, thanks to those gamer's who are kind enough to share their knowledge in fixing the data error occurred problems, I'm sharing it here too that's what work for me and it should probably be working for you too. It seems like many people's are experiencing the data error on different parts of installation, I've tested it both on my netbook & desktop, netbook installation stop at the very end before the data error message pop up and my desktop installation stop much earlier at around the textures extraction. But with the same copy of dragon age, it's working on my brother Dell laptop running on Windows 7 ultimate 32 bit. So yeah it's weird, it could be hardware compatible issues. Staff at EA told us that they can't reproduce the problem on their machine too, thus unlucky for a small group of people like us or large? We have to fix it ourself. Of course EA support do provide some possible fix such as moving all files to hard drive and some method are just too complicated to follow. I have one that are easier or so I think.
To fix Dragon Age data error problem, you need an extraction software 7-zip which can be downloaded free at www.7-zip.org. Winrar does not work as it does not allowed extration of corrupted files, on the other hand 7zip force extract even part of the files are broken. I'm going to post the solution in steps format to make it easier for you to follow:
1.) Copy all files from your DVD to your hard drive.
2.) Open the "installmanifest_en.ini" in data/
3.) Delete everything and left only (also change the NumberOfFiles to 0)
[Response]
NumberOfFiles=0
NumberOfInis=0
AdditionalFileSize=500000
Build=9353
SKU=ENESRetail
This will prevent the installation from extracting files from data folder and install only important registry key and some other infos.
4.) Run setup.exe and install the game into any folder in your HDDs. It should take only a few seconds as there's no files being extract to the game folder, but it's an important process to make the game work.
5.) Go to /data folder. See all those .rar files? You have to use 7-zip and extract all of them to your game folder.
6.) For example in /dragon Age folder. After extracting all files, you should see /bin_ship, /data, /modules, /docs, /packages & DAOriginsLauncher.exe in the main folder.
7.) Go to /bin_ship/ and double click daorigins.exe to start the game. You can create a shortcut on the desktop for easy access in future.
This method works for me and playing it right now. But maybe because of the CRC broken files in some .rar file, some movies & sounds do not work. For example most of the time I can't hear anything when Morrigan is speaking which isn't a big deal for me as you can still turn on the subtitle and read. Most other voice acting and movies are working perfectly fine though. If you really want to fix this problem, you can swap the broken files with your friends or other nice users on the internet.
This fix to data error problem is very easy, just a little bit more troublesome. Some other method suggested by other gamers including changing DVD rom, copying to files HDD and updating your software. But if none of above method works for you, try this method as it work for many others.
Post a comment here if you have any question. Hope after reading this, you'll be able to play dragon age in no time! Happy adventuring!
Alright here's the good news, thanks to those gamer's who are kind enough to share their knowledge in fixing the data error occurred problems, I'm sharing it here too that's what work for me and it should probably be working for you too. It seems like many people's are experiencing the data error on different parts of installation, I've tested it both on my netbook & desktop, netbook installation stop at the very end before the data error message pop up and my desktop installation stop much earlier at around the textures extraction. But with the same copy of dragon age, it's working on my brother Dell laptop running on Windows 7 ultimate 32 bit. So yeah it's weird, it could be hardware compatible issues. Staff at EA told us that they can't reproduce the problem on their machine too, thus unlucky for a small group of people like us or large? We have to fix it ourself. Of course EA support do provide some possible fix such as moving all files to hard drive and some method are just too complicated to follow. I have one that are easier or so I think.
To fix Dragon Age data error problem, you need an extraction software 7-zip which can be downloaded free at www.7-zip.org. Winrar does not work as it does not allowed extration of corrupted files, on the other hand 7zip force extract even part of the files are broken. I'm going to post the solution in steps format to make it easier for you to follow:
1.) Copy all files from your DVD to your hard drive.
2.) Open the "installmanifest_en.ini" in data/
3.) Delete everything and left only (also change the NumberOfFiles to 0)
[Response]
NumberOfFiles=0
NumberOfInis=0
AdditionalFileSize=500000
Build=9353
SKU=ENESRetail
This will prevent the installation from extracting files from data folder and install only important registry key and some other infos.
4.) Run setup.exe and install the game into any folder in your HDDs. It should take only a few seconds as there's no files being extract to the game folder, but it's an important process to make the game work.
5.) Go to /data folder. See all those .rar files? You have to use 7-zip and extract all of them to your game folder.
6.) For example in /dragon Age folder. After extracting all files, you should see /bin_ship, /data, /modules, /docs, /packages & DAOriginsLauncher.exe in the main folder.
7.) Go to /bin_ship/ and double click daorigins.exe to start the game. You can create a shortcut on the desktop for easy access in future.
This method works for me and playing it right now. But maybe because of the CRC broken files in some .rar file, some movies & sounds do not work. For example most of the time I can't hear anything when Morrigan is speaking which isn't a big deal for me as you can still turn on the subtitle and read. Most other voice acting and movies are working perfectly fine though. If you really want to fix this problem, you can swap the broken files with your friends or other nice users on the internet.
This fix to data error problem is very easy, just a little bit more troublesome. Some other method suggested by other gamers including changing DVD rom, copying to files HDD and updating your software. But if none of above method works for you, try this method as it work for many others.
Post a comment here if you have any question. Hope after reading this, you'll be able to play dragon age in no time! Happy adventuring!
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