Tiny URL has been there forever but it’s being ran elsewhere and if their server crashes or simply decide to call it off, there is nothing you could do since you don’t have control over it. Shorty is a software that you run on your own server so it depends solely on your administration.

Here’s how to install Shorty on your blog or website:

1. Download the Shorty application files and extract the zipped contents in your local folder.
2. Open the configuration.php file and change the login details according to your server configuration.
3. Upload the Shorty application files on your server via FTP.
4. Call the _install.php file by keying in the URL in your browser.
5. Create your login name and password and that’s it.

To create a Shorty URL:

1. Key-in your lengthy URL in the text field.
2. You could opt to assign a certain keyword (this is useful if your cloaking multiple URLs from a single domain) or have Shorty randomize it for you (in this case proceed to step 3)
3. Click the Get URL button.

Now why do you want to use Shorty?

1. This is useful in cloaking your affiliate links so to avoid loosing your affiliates.
2. To make all things bright and beautiful.
3. To make some pathetic commenter angry for whatever reason they may have for being angry.
4. Put your reason here.

So is Shorty for free?

Shorty is a freeware developed by Khoi Vinh and Reed Morse just so everyone could be happy. Now if they made you happy and you want them to be as happy as you, you could do so by offering your shorty donations.

If you will look at it as is, these Paid to Click programs seem to give you too little income per day but it you will look at a bigger picture, the potential is rather great if you will consider growing your network.

Let’s say you have managed to click all of your assigned ads, you are about to earn $3.00 in a month (30 days x 10 ads x $0.01 per ad). Meanwhile, you’re also earning half of what your affiliate clickers are earning. Say, you have at least 10 registered affiliate clickers, your will earn another $15.00 in a month (10 referrals x 30 days x 10 ads x $0.005 per ad). Your monthly earning plus half of your affiliate earnings will earn you $18.00 in a month.

Imagine how much would you earn if you are to have more than a hundred affiliates getting paid to click for you and for each of them?

Aside from this, Paid to Click networks also provide other opportunities for you to increase your earnings. Some of them offers Golden Membership which would at least double your normal income. Others allow you to earn from your third, fourth or fifth level affiliates.

Here’s a rough list of PTC Networks:

What if you will join more than one Paid to Click network and have all your affiliates to join all of them as well. Wouldn’t that be additional earning multiplier?

When these Paid to Click networks came into existence, PayPal has declined to work with them so members had to opt for another payment system such as Alert Pay and the likes but recently PayPal has approved to work with verified clients.

So invite all your friends, your whole family, your country’s president and the whole country. But remember to sign-up either with PayPal or AlertPay to ensure your payments.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust. Other than that, this word’s purpose is to serve as the longest word. I have recited this perhaps for a thousand times since I learned it from high school. I can recite the word without pausing to catch my breath or even while half asleep or lucid dreaming.

I have a strong feeling that this word has been invented to top the previous longest English word antidisestablishmentarianism which was defined as the principles of those who oppose the withdrawal of the recognition or support of the state from an established church, usually used in referring to the Anglican Church in the 19th century in England.

Antidisestablishmentarianism used to be longest word in the English dictionary but thanks to our medical experts, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis currently owns this title.

How about supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? It’s not even an English word but Microsoft Outlook spelling checker recognizes the spelling.

Can you spell all of them without pausing?

Sources: Google, Wikipedia

I’ve been on a blogger’s block. Not the blogger’s block that they used to say when a blogger suddenly runs out of ideas to write so they got to write nothing leaving their blogs without any updates. I actually had a blogger’s block that someone in some particular geographical points where a state or a country filters contents from the cyberspace and the unsuspecting victims got to be blocked by some great force or another. Well from where I am, we call it The Great Firewall of China. I’ve actually written every detail in this post. Ooops! No links here for now. The new domain should actually be left a secret until the big day. For now, I’ll be prepping it up for the big announcements.But let me just say that I got past the GFW now.

So now, once again, I’m back to blogging.

Anyway, just not to be kept out of the happenings, there has been a Google Page Rank update recently. Don’t know exactly when did it happened but when I woke up this morning, I just got an urge for a PR check and what do we get? A PR3.

A Wordpress 2.5 Compliant theme must have an image.php template file. Having just a single.php template is not enough for you to be able to optimize the looks and functionality of your Wordpress 2.5 Image Gallery. Without this new file, your image gallery would only look as dull as this as compared to the screen shot below. And how to make an image.php template file is what we’re going to expound in this entry. But fret not, for creating this image.php template file is easy, even a faint-hearted soul would not have much trouble if the necessary procedures are followed.

First, you’ll have to make a duplicate copy of your single.php template file and name it as image.php.

Sample Wordpress 2.5 Image Gallery post

Sample Inside page of a Wordpress 2.5 Image Gallery

Now in order to make your image.php template file to display and work like the one on the sample gallery screenshot, you’ll have to make a few necessary replacements with the elements. Wordpress 2.5 Gallery have six major elements and if properly positioned in the image.php template file, the result is undeniably breath-taking. Now, the six major elements of a Wordpress 2.5 Gallery are the following:

1. Full sized image;
2. Image title;
3. Image caption;
4. Image description;
5. Previous image thumbnail navigator; and
6. Next image thumbnail navigator.

On you newly created image.php template file, look for the line similar to this:

<?php the_content(’<p class=”serif”>Read the rest of this entry »</p>’); ?>

You what it is right? It’s the post content element which displays the content of your blog entry. Now replace it with the following lines:

<p class=”attachment”><?php echo wp_get_attachment_image( $post->ID, ‘large’ ); ?>
<p><?php if ( !empty($post->post_content) ) the_content(); ?></p>

The first one pulls out the corresponding full sized image and displays it in the inside pages of your Wordpress 2.5 Image Gallery. The second line captures and prints the corresponding image description. This will be ignored when you didn’t create a corresponding description for the image during your upload.

Now for the previous and next image navigation, check your newly created image.php template file for the previous and next post navigation code which is similar to these:

<div class=”alignleft”><?php previous_post_link(’« %link’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php next_post_link(’%link »’) ?></div>

and replace them with these:

<div class=”alignleft”><?php previous_image_link() ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php next_image_link() ?></div>

Done?

Now do the necessary template styling as you please, save the file and upload it in your blog’s template folder.

So it’s over huh?

The Blog Almighty has been busy with a few projects and multiple engagements so there wasn’t any updates in here. I have reviewed the entry posts as well as the feed subscriptions and came up with the following:

aboutcontes - 01 ~ 03

adamarlin - 04 ~ 06

thatblog4me - 07 ~ 09

bluepanjeet - 10

homebiz - 11 ~ 13

bunnybox9 - 14, 33 ~34*

cahkontes - 15 ~ 17

giveawaycity - 18 ~ 20

thousand-permonth - 21 ~ 23

ironnie - 24 ~ 26

pinoyambisyoso - 27 ~ 29

contestu - 30

contestime - 31

internationalfreebies - 32

blogcontests - 35 ~ 37*

There you have it.

In case you’re wondering why your entries wasn’t counted there’s only one reason why. You links are broken as well as the whole blog. Now to be a little fair, I’m suspending the drawing of winners until midnight of Wednesday. June 4, 2008 at 11:59PM (GMT +8). Until then you could appeal on your entries.

* updated links and draw tickets

• Finally, The Eraserheads Band will reunite for one-night concert

• Revolution Pro Media (Single Use Package) from the Godfather of all Magazine Style Wordpress Themes, Brian Gardner (1 winner)

• Peel Away Scripts from the creators of the non-intrusive advertising scripts, Lords Harris and Richard. (3 winners)

In case you don’t know what these things are, let us introduce them fairly for you. Blog Almighty will not let you get left behind with your abominable ignorance. So lo and behold!

Premium Revolution Magazine Style Wordpress Themes

Anyone running Wordpress on their blogs should have known about the premium Revolution Magazine Style Wordpress Themes from Brian Gardner. These themes are highly-customizable themes perfectly suitable for bloggers who wanted their blogs to go to a higher blogging experience. The same applies to web-developers who wanted to use Wordpress systems on their clients sites, the Magazine Style themes are best choices for jump starting your web-designs. The multitude of Revolution themes from Brian’s portfolio is as follows:

Revolution, the Godfather of all Wordpress Magazine themes

Revolution News, for the all your online newspaper publications

Revolution Magazine, for building your online magazine with all the posh photos and streaming videos

Revolution Real State, for Real State people

Revolution Pro Media, as extreme as an online media publishing can go

Revolution Pro Business, for taking you business online in a higher level

Revolution Sports, for the sports minded online publishers

Revolution Tech, for unleashing that Techcrunch out of you

Thing is, these themes are now available at $79.95 for single-use package and if you’re a panic blogger, you could avail of the multi-use package for only $199.95. Having the Multi-use package gives you the license to install the theme for all your blogs or use it as basic theme for you clients’ websites. And here’s more, if you purchase the Revolution All-Inclusive Developer Package, you’re grabbing a multi-user license for all 8 Revolution themes. Now you can install all these Revolution themes like there’s no tomorrow.

So go on, dress up your Wordpress blogs like gods.

Peel Away Ads from Harris & Richard

Forget Adsense. Forget Yahoo Ads. Forget all those disturbing ads. You don’t want them, so do your readers. But here’s a better way of placing your ads. Top-Right or Lower-Left, Top-Left or Lower Right. Or put them all as much as you want, curious readers will click on them right.

Because humans are naturally curious, Peel Away Ads could turn this innate humane curiosity into higher sources of income. How?

• Enjoy Higher Click Through Rates - Because of human curiosity this new type of ad generates a very high click through rate! Use it for your Web site, special product offers, statistics and much more.
• Install On Multiple Domains - Use our Peel Away Ads as much as you can, it doesn’t matter if you have 1 or 100 domains; go ahead and profit from them all!
• “Piece of Cake” Setup - Add you domain information to the script in less than 5 minutes, put in the target URL, place your own graphic -> DONE! Your Peel Away Ad is ready to make money for you!
• Rotate Multiple Ads - Want to sell advertisement space on your site? The Peel Away Ads script allows you to rotate multiple ads on your site.
• Supports 98% of online Users - Supports 98% of online Users - Our Page Peel Ads script is supported by all web browsers since it uses the Adobe Flash Player. Yes, you reach 98% of all Internet Viewers!!
• One Time Payment - That’s right! There are no recurring costs whatsoever. Once you purchase Peel Away Ads, the script is yours to use for as long as you want wherever you want.

The Peel Away Ads script normally costs $167.00 but for this limited engagement offer from the script developers Harris & Richard is giving, you could now avail of this script for as low as $37.00. Your purchase now will give you access to the following:

• The Peel Away Ads Script that for you to use in as many sites you wish.
• The Peel Away Rotating Ad Script to Show multiple rotating ads on your site.
• The Step by Step Installation Video.
• Image Templates for your corner peel and background ad.
• Flash source file, for eye catching animation on your Peel Away Ad.

So hurry up! Grab your copies now. Your sites will be earning in the speed of light.

Now back to the contest part, how do we get our names tossed in? We’ll follow the original rules here to get an entry. And to increase your chances of winning, create a link back to our allies. The two links will give you additional 2 entry points (now you have just tripled your chances of winning). And to further ease your way of winning, you could actually copy and paste the block below to your blog entry.

“The Blog Almighty is giving away tons of prices where you can only win the following prizes: (1) Single Use Magazine Style Revolution Pro Media Wordpress Theme from Brian Gardner, $30 via PayPal, Peel Away Ad Script from Harris & Richard, 500 Entrecard credits, and 1 month advertising slot (125×125) on Blog Almighty; (2) $20 via PayPal, Peel Away Ad Script from Harris & Richard, 300 Entrecard credits, and 1 month advertising slot (125×125) on Blog Almighty; or (3) Peel Away Ad Script from Harris & Richard, 500 Entrecard credits, and 1 month advertising slot (125×125) on Blog Almighty.

“All you have to do is blog about the contest with the proper links, subscribe to email feeds and comment about your entry post on the official contest page. Note: A trackback is considered a comment.”

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To demigods and other deities, we’re still looking for allies to co-sponsor this magnanimous deed. Should you take interest in contributing more to our prize bags, please discuss with my messenger here.

I could not remember the time frames when I did use the following themes so I’ll just lay the list out and add a few Pros and Cons. And of course, these are my personal opinions. Though I am Blog Almighty - Ruler of the Cyber World, I am giving you my word but you have free will for you to decide.

• Travelogue by Josh Lyman
• PhotoBloggo by ChiQ Montes
• Vistered Little by Nik Iliadis
• SoSuechtig (Black Edition) by Patrick Queisler
• Mimbo by Darren Hoyt

Travelogue is one of the pre-installed theme when you auto-install your Wordpress Blog from your Netfirms account. What I liked about this theme is the customizable Polaroid photo on the header. I have used this theme for some time but I had to discontinue because the post body area is of flexible (fluid) width and at that time, I’m only starting with Wordpress and I didn’t want too much customization. This is highly re-commended for photo bloggers or if you don’t care about having your text dis-oriented when someone reads you in higher resolution monitors or if someone just love playing around with the window panes.

Photobloggo is another Wordpress theme designed for photo bloggers. You’ll just love the dark and yellow combination of colors. Now I can’t remember why I stopped using this theme.

Vistered Little is the first theme I ever really loved because of it’s neat and clean graphic features, the glass-like design and the varying background images. However, from mine and my readers’ point of view, the theme takes a lot of time to load. Most probably because of the heavy scripts and high resolution images.

SoSuechtig is one of the neatest Wordpress Themes I’ve ever used. Almost every function a Wordpress user would ever want is present. However, since the codes are written in German, customization could be tedious unless you have the patience of a Golden Retriever? Well, are golden retrievers really that patient?

Then came the first ever free Magazine Style Wordpress theme I ever laid eyes on – Mimbo by Darren Hoyt. I loved the use of the custom thumbnail, the flexibility of the side bar (being able to truncate the contents into several parts and make each part visible only to index, single and page pages). I’m still using the theme for my personal/photography blog and even if the theme per se could not support the inside WP Gallery pages, I’m not having any plans to replace it with another (or not for now).

Parting words: When you’re using a free Wordpress Theme, do not remove the links placed by the author. It is one way of showing gratitude and it is only rightful to give the theme developer proper credits for their work. If for some reason you can’t leave the links intact, then you might as well not use them at all. Hint: Some theme developers are releasing free themes though there were paid by advertisers to insert their corresponding URLs. Just take this theme for example and take note of the links on the footer.

• The Eraserheads Band to reunite for one-night concert

Well, I have already blogged about my WP2.5 upgrade here and I’ve already said that the upgrade, aside from the WP Gallery, there really isn’t any major inclusions that would make be jump for joy. And for the WP Gallery, it’s not working properly on my Mimbo theme so I made a few hacks and tweaks on the WP include files as what I’ve seen on one of the WP forum threads. Usually, the WP Gallery should work as this, but mine is working as this through the courtesy of Lightview Plus plugin.

Here’s a few pointers that you should remember about the Wordpress Gallery (or should I say not-so-FAQs but should-be-FAQs):

• You don’t create Wordpress Galleries. You just upload multiple photos and Wordpress will do it automatically for you.
• You could alter the thumbnail dimensions though your admin page. Go to Settings » Miscellaneous and change the Thumbnail size setting. The default is a square thumbnail of 150 x 150 pixels.
• To insert the created gallery in a post, you simply place [ gallery] without the extra space of course. And yeah, there’s a written documentation on using the gallery shortcodes.
• Previous and next image navigation codes are <?php previous_image_link() ?> and <?php next_image_link() ?> as opposed to <?php previous_posts_link() ?> and <?php next_posts_link() ?> for previous and next post navigation.

Wordpress 2.5 upgrade is not for the faint of heart though most issues could be avoided if you’re informed of what could happen.