While most of the top 5 social networks are remaining steady, there is also a climb from google plus and other smaller networks such as Pinterest and Instagram.

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Social Media Statistics Australia – April 2012

1. Facebook - 10,988,140 Australian users/accounts (up 98,180) – 13 million UAVs according to Google Adplanner. The difference between the user numbers and UAVs may be users logging in from multiple locations – home, work, school etc.
2. YouTube – 11,000,000 UAVs (up 1,000,000)
3. Blogspot – 4,000,000 (steady)
4. LinkedIn – 2,100,000 (steady)
5. Twitter – 1,800,000 (up 200,000)
6. WordPress.com – 1,800,000 (up 200,000)
7. Tumblr – 1,200,000 (up 100,000)
8. Google Plus – 1,100,000 approx active users  (Estimated calculation below)
9. Flickr – 920,000 (up 80,000)
10. Pinterest - 470,000 (up 120,000)
11. MySpace – 460,000 (down 10,000)
12. Instagram – 252,000 (up 42,000)
13. StumbleUpon – 150,000 (up 40,000)
14. Reddit – 140,000 (up 10,000)
15. Digg – 77,000 (down 8,000)
16. Foursquare – 63,000 (up 10,000)
17. Delicious – 43,000 (up 7,000)

Google Plus Estimation

Google has said 170 million people have now upgraded to Google+ and we estimate there are around 2.2 million Australian accounts. But the key figure we want to know with this number is how many are active users? Twitter recently got to 500 million accounts but only 140 million are active (28% of accounts are active). With Google+ in Australia we have estimated half of the 2.2 million account are active. There are absolutely no other Australian stats for Google+ so this is what we will estimate for now. I welcome any thoughts or comments on this point.

Other Noticeable Changes for April 2012

• Pinterest sees significant rise in visitors overtaking MySpace
• Instagram also has a noticeable rise in website visitors
• Social Bookmarking is getting a comeback? Reddit, StumbleUpon and Delicious rise
• Location services still growing with Foursquare increasing
• Top 5 social networks remain relatively steady
• Blogging is still big in Australia with million of us reading or writing on blogs

Social Media Australia Infographic April 2012

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The one which I use the most is the one below.

It gives a personal touch because it shows you are willing to put your face to your product which I feel shows integrity toward the business you represent.

Pretty simple to set up though, so I will just put in the code below.

The first thing to do is to grab a image of yourself, or if you want a logo etc, would do the same, and then set it up to align left, and then put a list on the right hand side.

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I saw that you can edit the templates that are available, and also the styles you can use.

Also the icons in the toolbar are customizable also.

I will quckly run through what you need to do to add a template to the ckeditor instance. It really is quite simple.

First thing to do is work out what you would like as a template.
Probably best to find this in a previous project or something, and customise it to suit a template.
Then take a screenshot and upload it to the directory. /ckeditor/plugins/templates/templates/images/

Then find the file that the templates are stored in, which would normally be located at /ckeditor/plugins/templates/templates/default.js

Then copy the code from the original item, and paste it in as follows, removing all line breaks in the html, so that it all sits on one line, and make sure
you dont use ‘ instead use ” where needed
add an entry in this style
{title:’Image and Title’,image:’screenshot.gif’,description:’Description Here.’,html:’<h3>html here</h3>’}
replacing the ‘Image and Title’ with the name of the template
replacing the ‘screenshot.gif’ with the name of the screenshot that you put into the images subdirectory.
replacing the ‘<h3>html here</h3>’ with the html of the template.

Open the image below to see where to put it.

To add the styles to the editor from a css file add it like this, change the line config.contentsCss = ‘/css/fckstyles.css’; to resemble the path used. Also remember to use this in the front end of your site also.

CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function( config )
{
config.toolbar = ‘MyToolbar’;
config.baseHref = ‘http://www.mysite.com/’;
config.entities = false;
config.contentsCss = ‘/css/fckstyles.css’;
config.htmlEncodeOutput = false;
config.font_names =
‘Arial/Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;’ +
‘Times New Roman/Times New Roman, Times, serif;’ +
‘Verdana;’ +
‘Test;’

;
config.toolbar_MyToolbar =
[
['Source','-','Preview','Templates','Undo','Redo'],
['Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','-', 'SpellChecker', 'Scayt'],['Maximize', 'ShowBlocks'],
['-','Find','Replace','-','SelectAll','RemoveFormat'],['Link','Unlink','Anchor'],
['Image','Flash','Table','HorizontalRule','Smiley','SpecialChar','PageBreak'],

['Bold','Italic','Underline','Strike','-','Subscript','Superscript'],
['NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Outdent','Indent','Blockquote'],
['JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyBlock'],

‘/’,
['Styles','Format','Font','FontSize'],
['TextColor','BGColor']
];

};

then, open the browser and click the templates button to check that it is there.

Too easy hey?

You can use this for anything you like, email templates, full pages, snippets. Enjoy, and I hope I helped someone.

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Just set up a snippet write the code that you want output, set the variables such as field name, and then the tab activator.

This speeds up the development of common tasks a lot.

I came across a post recently which outlined how easy it is to output weather with php and Google Weather API

So I thought I would share how to create an easy to use view helper for outputting basic google weather.
Simply set this up in your plugins directory, making sure that you have the prefix setup in your bootstrap.

<?php
class Ace_View_Helper_GoogleWeather extends Zend_View_Helper_Abstract
{
    public $view;
  
    public function __construct()
    {   }
   
    public function setView(Zend_View_Interface $view)
    {
        $this->view = $view;
    }
  
    public function googleWeather($location)
    {
    
$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=' . $location);
$information = $xml->xpath("/xml_api_reply/weather/forecast_information");
$current = $xml->xpath("/xml_api_reply/weather/current_conditions");
$forecast_list = $xml->xpath("/xml_api_reply/weather/forecast_conditions");

Then from your view script you can call it with this
<?= $this->GoogleWeather('Adelaide'); ?>


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The solution

Add this code to the php code of the page that you don’t want cached. In my case I put it in the init() area of my controller as I use Zend Framework.

header("Cache-Control: no-cache");
header("Expires: -1");

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The site is tableless, and is compliant to w3c standards.

Take a look at Just 4 Fish

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