Google search results page

The below image is the said error message that sums up the 49 millions search results.

Firefox not respondingFirefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

How to terminate firefox.exe?

Its no so trivial If you are running Firefox on Windows XP. Open the Run task window WIN+R and type in the below code to force kill firefox.exe and its running child process.

taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe /T

I also made a batch script for the above, the download link can be found below ↓. You’ll need to save the batch file (kill-firefox.bat) inside your system directory (windows/system32/) and execute it via run window; Win+R then type kill-firefox. Download Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

For windows Vista, you’ll need to open the Task Manager (press Ctrl+Alt+Esc) then in the Task Manager list of running processes, find firefox.exe and right click select terminate.

While for those on linux, unix or mac platform shuting down lock process might be a bit hard. Check out this external page for mac and linux.

What could be wrong

Mozillazine KB articles (Profile in use) describe this issue to be related to Firefox delay shutdown but it doesn’t elaborate much about the process. There is also few tickets laying around in bugzilla that related to this issue:

• #399108 - Firefox takes a while to close.
• #379736 - Delayed shutdown makes it impossible to start Firefox immediately.
• View all tickets related to Firefox not responding.

There is numerous factor that can cause Firefox to hangs and most commonly are linked to problematic extension and conflict with third party programs (securities software). To make this matter worse on may last year there is a report regarding a trojan that target firefox.exe (poison ivy) and causing it to always running in the background transparently.

There is no one way solution to solve this issue as there is many way to reproduces it. Check out this article from Mozilla official knowledge base on how to troubleshoot Firefox not responding issue.

Might be interest

• Mozillazine forum - Firefox.exe always open
• Diagnostic Firefox Guide

Three steps only.

1. Save or bookmark this megaupload reset counter code (drag it to your bookmark toolbar).
2. Go to your Megaupload download page and proceed with entering the captcha.
3. Wait for megaupload’s nag counter to start then click the bookmark link.

cheers.

Requirements

• Firefox 2.0.0.x or above
• Greasemonkey (version 0.8x) Add-ons

Install Script

Install like normal firefox addons; just click and go. Make sure your greasemonkey add-ons is enabled. Follow the link to Install Script.

We won’t pretend to know the future of the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity, but we’re eager to learn what we can, and to watch and study while CADIE learns what she can.

Michael Krantz, Team CADIE

CADIE is Google latest April Fools hoaxes (plot devices). She had a blog and YouTube channel. By now most of Google products are powered by CADIE . Some of these hoaxes is quite entertaining; Brain search, Gmail Autopilot, just to name a few.

Update: 04/03/2009- I send CADIE an email just to test her AUTOPILOT mode.

cadiesingularity-at-gmail.com

Google Gmail Autopilot

Autopilot

Some niffty features for Gmail’s Autopilot mode

• Respond to business proposals. i.e nigerian scam

  source: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html

• Manage relationships. CADIE can manage your friends and making decision she will dump your friends base on her breakthrough human analysis without second thought.
• Match your personal style. Type and Chat like you.

Google Earth

Ride a nuclear submarine with CADIE and explore the deep seahttp://earth.google.com/cadie.html

I has nuclear submarine

Google Code

By reviewing all the code available on the Internet CADIE has learned how to code in Java, Javascript, PHP, C/C++/C# and Python INTERCAL. She is hungrily consuming all the code she can and seems to understand it all. We believe that, over time, CADIE will make the tedious coding work done by traditional developers unnecessary

Google Developer Team

Base on few programing language selection CADIE will write code for you.

LOLCODE and INTERCAL

Related links

• Google Code CADIE
• Google code blog : CAIDE says hello world

Google Chrome 3D

Google Chrome with 3D

Google Mobile - Brain Search

Google Brain Search (BETA) uses CADIE technology to index your brain to make your thoughts and memories searchable.

Google Brain Search (BETA)

Related Links

• Google brain search at YouTube

Google Docs

Lets CADIE write your essay, solve and manage spreadsheet & create slide for your presentation. http://www.google.com/google-d-s/cadie.html

CADIE-powered Doc

Search for hidden CADIE page at Google

Google search for the following term

site:google.com inurl:cadie

Download

Latest version 1.0 RC3, download is available at http://art-istalker.googlecode.com.

Installation

• Login to Artician and go to your profile page.
• On Artician top navigation menu, click the customize link.
• Next, click on the import/export link on top right most of the customize option.
• Load the skin xml file and click import skin.
• Click the Exit customization link and refresh your browser.

Related resources

• The stamp psd - http://chaos-kaizer.deviantart.com/art/xl-stamp-postage-70737558
• Other images : http://art-istalker.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/img/

Screenshot

Profile page
Blog entries page
Portfolio page

Recent change and update

03-19-2009

1.0 RC3 r29 - Fixes profile recent-porfolio flash gallery.

There is a bug in the regex expressions in the preview_theme() function. The hyphen is not escaped, so themes that have hyphens in the directory name cause the function to return rather than continue. Thus, when previewing a theme with a hyphen in the directory, all that is rendered is a white page. ~chrisbliss18

If you are developing theme for WordPress 2.7.1, avoid using hyphen for theme name (replace it with underscore if you must). For those who are using 2.7.1 and need a quick fixes you can grab the patch → #10677. Installation: Download and overwrite theme.php inside wp-includes directory.

Might be Interest

1. Hyphen in Theme Directory Breaks Theme Preview (#9244)
2. Theme preview fails when theme in sub-directory (#8548)

I read this on wp-hackers mailing list and still cant figure out why it got on wordpress’s plugin archives. This plugin will clearly offend lots of people.

Penispress by Hauke Leweling is very simple plugin.

Wordpress Penispress replaces every word in your blogpost with the word penis! Enjoy this cool stuff!

It does what the description says.

Might be interest

• What fun would that be.
• Any word you want!

Most search engines strive for a certain level of variety; they want to show you ten different results on a search results page, not ten different URLs that all have the same content.

Susan Moskwa, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst

The up-coming WordPress 2.7 introduce new advanced comment features; comment threading, nesting, paging (pagination) etc. You probably won’t have any issue with WordPress 2.7 as most of the new advanced/enhanced features is disabled by default. Thats a good news.

Unfortunately for those enthusiastic user (like me) who wish to use the Comment paging, there is one caveat; multiple similar content. The below screenshot is taken from Google webmaster diagnostic tools for duplicate content.

Comment paging duplicate content

If you have Google Webmaster account, check out the diagnostic Content analysis tools. There is high potential that your blog will generate duplicate content (if the comment paging feature is enabled).

How to prevent duplicate content

Reducing duplicate content in your website is a good SEO practice. I made a small filter script for WordPress 2.7. The script ↓ will append robots noindex meta tag rules on comment page section. This methods will prevent search engine indexer and services from indexing your blog’s comment page.

noIndex meta view code

/**
 * void wpi_comment_paging_noindex_meta()
 * Add meta noindex rules on Singular comment page section
 *
 * @author	Avice D <ck+filter@kaizeku.com>
 * @license	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License
 * @link 	http://blog.kaizeku.com/wordpress/prevent-wordpress-27-duplicate-content/
 *
 * @todo	Check for duplicate meta-robots tag generated by
 *		meta-tag type plugins (SEO plugins)
 *
 * @uses	$wp_query	Wp_query object
 * @return 	string 		Output HTML meta noindex
 */
function wpi_comment_paging_noindex_meta()
{	global $wp_query;

	if (version_compare( (float) get_bloginfo('version'), 2.7, '>=') ){

		if ($wp_query->is_singular && get_option('page_comments')){ // comments paging enabled
			if (isset($wp_query->query['cpage'])
				&& absint($wp_query->query['cpage']) >= 1 ){

				echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />'.PHP_EOL;
			}
		}
	}
}

add_action('wp_head','wpi_comment_paging_noindex_meta');

Why duplicate content is bad for your blog?

• Having multiple search crawler indexing the same content on your website (over and over) is an absolute bandwidth waster.
• Bad PR. This are quite debatable to the point of myth, some search engine penalize website for duplicate content but according to Google webmaster team “If the duplicate content is not done to game (deceive) the search results there is no penalty”. Just pretend all major search engine service does have penalty rules for duplicate content issues. From my past experiences there is no telling or earlier notice “they’ll just drop you, so can you spent sometimes to figure out the why later” .
• Bad SERP, rationally the main articles that you post should have more weight than the rest of the comment page or sub page, you don’t want to see your archives or comment page on Search Engine results while your main articles is no where to be found.

Plug-it

I don’t have any intention of making any WP plugin out of this simple function as this issues will probably be address and solve by WP’s developer or someone else up there. This code is release under open-source license, do whatever you want with it.

Might be interest

• Google Webmaster: Crawling and Indexing
• Demystifying the “duplicate content penalty”

Night stalker?

The following screenshot is a preview of WP-iStalker Chrome Milk 1.6.2 Release Candidate 2 night themes (Client-side time styles switcher). Compatible with WordPress 2.6 to 2.7b3.

Download

• Chrome Milk 1.6.2 RC 2 ·(523 KB) · SHA1 cheksum c4e1bb57f9b1558fdb85e29fb06c9a2b053e96b5
• Chrome Milk 1.6.2 RC 2 (tar.gz)· (471 KB) · SHA1 cheksum78c42ecf69ce4f16ba7f5691920d9ab3d202f795
• French - Français (translation) · by Vincent (k|torz) (16.3 KB) · SHA1 cheksum366d696769fb9916e4fbad18ecd638bb67adf72f

.nifty features for this release

• Dynamic SEF Blog heading. Available if your server support for PHP GD and Freetype Library. Required a working fonts inside the public webfonts directory.
• jQuery ScrollTo (Jquery plugin by Ariel Flesler) bind to all post links with ’scroll-to’ class name attributes selector.
• jQuery simple Tool Tips bind to all post links with ‘ttip’ class name selector and ‘external’ rel selector (target elements must have title attributes for this to work).
• WordPress categories widget hack. This feature will update all WP categories widgets to jQuery Treeview folding list style (jQuery plugin by Jörn Zaefferer). The ’show category children’ widget category options must be enabled for this function to work.
• Most downloads widget (WP-Download Manager by Lester Chan) will automatically append to your custom download page sidebar.
• Translator widget (Global Translator by David Pozza) will automatically append to singular page sidebar.
• Auto append PICS (W3C standards for filtering content) meta-links this options is available at “Theme options » Extra metadata” when you upload labels.rdf on your blog’s root directory.
• Frame breaker, enabling this option will break all client view inside frameset or iframe.
• Alternate language meta-links, will auto append if global translator plugin is enabled.
• Dynamic Banner. The new banner options will enable you to customize different banner for different page in WP hierarchical section (e.g., front page, author page, single page, and custom page).
• CSS 3. even-odd nth child (’select-even’, ’select-odd’) and column count class (‘column-1′, …, ‘column-5′)selector

More info for this quick release checkout wp.istalker.

Chrome Milk 1.6.2 RC1 Screenshot

WordPress 2.7x reply form (jQuery thickbox)

A9 OpenSearch 1.1 Auto-discovery (OSD)

Various Microformats embed

Safari native search feature

WordPress 2.7x Comments Pagination

Download

• Chrome Milk 1.6.2 RC 1 ·(436 KB) · SHA1 cheksum 76eb07ecc9d61fdabc33f9fb312842221e241e9d
• Chrome Milk 1.6.2 RC 1 (tar.gz) · (377 KB) · SHA1 cheksum836b6859225b036f750143019a0b50f2b2e7f85c

More on this → Chrome Milk 1.6.2 Release Candidate 1