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1. All in One SEO Pack

Definitely a plugin that every WordPress design firm or freelancer should be using on their projects. Everybody knows that WordPress right out of the box has awesome SEO capabilities built into it but the amount of extra detail you can go into with this plugin will only expand your SEO reach and help optimize your blog/site which in turn will result in higher rankings. What good is the coolest blog on the internet without the visitors to match?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

2. Google XML Sitemaps

Don’t let the name fool you, this plugin does much more than build your Google sitemap, it will also help you create site maps for other popular search engines like Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. This plugin will help crawlers see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently and it also notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

3. WP Page Numbers

Tired of the boring Next and Previous links that are common on blog sites? Create better user friendly links using this plugin, it not only will help your visitors navigate your site better but it will also help with SEO because of the tighter inner link structure it creates. There are default styles you can choose from or the option to create your own custom style, creating your own style is very easy but you should be proficient in CSS and uploading content to your server.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-page-numbers/

4. Shockingly Big IE6 Warning

If you hate IE6 as much as we do then you will love this plugin. In the middle of 2009 we decided to drop support for IE6 because of security issues and lack of support for web standards. This plugin has made our lives easier by allowing a simple, fast and effect solution for giving IE6 users a warning when visiting a site we created. There are 3 different types of warnings you can select from when using the plugin, most of the time I use the 2nd type which is ‘FULL, a fullscreen warning’. Drop support for IE6 and never look back by using this plugin, you will be glad you did and the internet will be a better place once IE6 is finally completely dead.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shockingly-big-ie6-warning/

5. Sociable

A must have on any blog/site is a way for visitors to share your content and spread it around the web, there are many options out there but usually our first choice is Sociable. Many factors can influence which type of sharing method we use; usually the biggest influence of course is what the customer wants. With this plugin you can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites, the easy to use settings page lets you turn on and off the ones you want as well as drag them around to position them in the order you want.

One draw back is that this plugin does not validate properly right out of the box; there is however an easy solution for this. Go to the settings page and look for the option that says ‘Use CSS:’ uncheck the box so that you are no longer using the default Sociable stylesheet. Once you uncheck this you will then need to add your own style in order to restyle the plugin, as long as you re-write valid CSS code this plugin will now validate.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/

6. Twitter for WordPress

A way of showing recent Tweets on a customer’s blog/site is probably one of the most common requests we run into on a per project basis, this plugin is probably one of the fastest and easiest solutions around. Although there are many options out there we always seem to come back to this one for its easy customization, which is always a necessity for any plugin we use. It does have one minor flaw in which the feed seems to stop working from time to time resulting in the following message ‘No public Twitter messages.’

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-for-wordpress/

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Adding a WordPress plugin is easy and can yield great benefits. Plugins are unique in that they can be a great solution to a problem you’ve been actively trying to solve, or a “Why didn’t I think of that” tool to improve your website or blog without any programming knowledge necessary. Consider how you or your business could employ one of the 10 great WordPress plugins below:

1. WP Super Cache: A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress that generates html files which are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. After an html file is generated your web server will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress site significantly.

2. My Review Plugin: With My Review you’ll be able to add a ratings element to your site which allows visitors to rank anything from new products to poetry. You can even upload thumbnail images of what’s being rated; use a star, a letter grade or a pass/fail ranking system. Best of all, users can easily customize the formatting by modifying the template found in the plugin’s directory.

3. Mobile Press: Mobile Press fully optimizes your site for access by mobile devices, which are easily outpacing desktops and even laptop computers as access points. Right now there are over 5.3 billion mobile users worldwide. Astoundingly, about 25% of Americans only access the web on their mobile devices. Mobile Press is also SEO enabled so you’ll build traffic no matter the access point.

4. WP Auctions: If it’s auctions you’re looking for, this plugin can help. WP Auctions allows you to set up an auction directly onto your website or blog. Privatize your auctions to allow only trusted bidders, set a reserve price, or create a “buy it now” feature. PHP Bay Pro also integrates existing EBay auction ads into WordPress.

5. Google XML: Just because your site has excellent video doesn’t mean it’s getting you more traffic. Google XML makes sure your video content is recognized and indexed by both Google and other search engines.

6. Styles with Shortcodes: This site features over 100 shortcodes that allow you to add fonts, highlighted elements, Facebook likes, Twitter buttons, and much more to your site without any coding knowledge! Styles with Shortcodes will make your site more functional and professional looking with a simple click.

7. Simple: Press: Do you want more feedback and greater discussion generated on your site or blog? Add a forum to your site quickly and easily using Simple:Press. You can choose the forum’s color and style, grant rankings for users, and even link your forum topics to blog posts.

8. Twitter Widget Pro: A better way to manage your site’s Twitter feed. If your site or blog has multiple contributors, each with their own Twitter account, Twitter Widget Pro can help keep things straight!

9. WPGeoTagger: This practical plugin allows you to embed maps, so your events and posts can literally point people in the direction they need to go! Best of all, WP GeoTagger is integrated with GoogleMaps.

10. Gravity Forms: Another super-practical plugin, Gravity Forms creates contact forms, order forms, contest forms, etc., all with your choice of template-based forms that are available for immediate use or completely customizable forms and fields. You can set a limit on the number of contest entries or the length of time certain forms should appear on your site.

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WordPress Email Newsletter: Create informative newsletters for your business with WordPress Email Newsletter. Don’t let your email lists go to waste while you’re pursuing social media. This plugin makes it not only cheap, but easy to communicate with your email contacts as often as you like.

These WordPress Plugins are a great start to exploring the over 15,000 plugins that have been created for WordPress. Enjoy!

“We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” read a statement by Apple’s board of directors. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.”

In this Jan. 15, 2008, file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new MacBook Air after giving the keynote address at the Apple MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. Apple on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 said Jobs has died. He was 56.
The homepage of Apple’s website this evening switched to a full-page image of Jobs with the text, “Steve Jobs 1955-2011.”

Clicking on the image revealed the additional text: “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.”

Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 and, with his childhood friend Steve Wozniak, marketed what was considered the world’s first personal computer, the Apple II.
Shortly after learning of Jobs’ death, Wozniak told ABC News, “I’m shocked and disturbed.”
Industry watchers called him a master innovator — perhaps on a par with Thomas Edison — changing the worlds of computing, recorded music and communications.

In 2004, he beat back an unusual form of pancreatic cancer, and in 2009 he was forced to get a liver transplant. After several years of failing health, Jobs announced on Aug. 24, 2011 that he was stepping down as Apple’s chief executive.

“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know,” Jobs wrote in his letter of resignation. “Unfortunately, that day has come.”
One of the world’s most famous CEOs, Jobs remained stubbornly private about his personal life, refusing interviews and shielding his wife and their children from public view.

“He’s never been a media person,” said industry analyst Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, after Jobs resigned. “He’s granted interviews in the context of product launches, when it benefits Apple, but you never see him talk about himself.”

The highlights of Jobs’s career trajectory are well-known: a prodigy who dropped out of Reed College in Oregon and, at 21, started Apple with Wozniak in his parents’ garage. He was a multimillionaire by 25, appeared on the cover of Time magazine at 26, and was ousted at Apple at age 30, in 1984.

In the years that followed, he went into other businesses, founding NeXT computers and, in 1986, buying the computer graphics arm of Lucasfilm, Ltd., which became Pixar Animation Studios.

He was described as an exacting and sometimes fearsome leader, ordering up and rejecting multiple versions of new products until the final version was just right. He said the design and aesthetics of a device were as important as the hardware and software inside.

In 1996, Apple, which had struggled without Jobs, brought him back by buying NeXT. He became CEO in 1997 and put the company on a remarkable upward path.

By 2001 the commercial music industry was on its knees because digital recordings, copied and shared online for free, made it unnecessary for millions of people to buy compact discs.

Jobs took advantage with the iPod — essentially a pocket-sized computer hard drive with elegantly simple controls and a set of white earbuds so that one could listen to the hours of music one saved on it. He set up the iTunes online music store, and persuaded major recording labels to sell songs for 99 cents each. No longer did people have to go out and buy a CD if they liked one song from it. They bought a digital file and stored it in their iPod.

In 2007, he transformed the cell phone. Apple’s iPhone, with its iconic touch screen, was a handheld computer, music player, messaging device, digital wallet and — almost incidentally — cell phone. Major competitors, such as BlackBerry, Nokia and Motorola, struggled after it appeared.

By 2010, Apple’s new iPad began to cannibalize its original business, the personal computer. The iPad was a sleek tablet computer with a touch screen and almost no physical buttons. It could be used for almost anything software designers could conceive, from watching movies to taking pictures to leafing through a virtual book.

Personal life

Jobs kept a close cadre of friends, Bajarin said, including John Lasseter of Pixar and Larry Ellison of Oracle, but beyond that, shared very little of his personal life with anyone.

But that personal life — he was given up at birth for adoption, had an illegitimate child, was romantically linked with movie stars — was full of intrigue for his fan base and Apple consumers.

Jobs and his wife, Laurene Powell, were married in a small ceremony in Yosemite National Park in 1991, lived in Woodside, Calif., and had three children: Reed Paul, Erin Sienna and Eve.

He admitted that when he was 23, he had a child out of wedlock with his high school girlfriend, Chris Ann Brennan. Their daughter, Lisa Brennan Jobs, was born in 1978.

He had a biological sister, Mona Simpson, the author of such well-known books as “Anywhere But Here.” But he did not meet Simpson until they were adults and he was seeking out his birth parents. Simpson later wrote a book based on their relationship. She called it “A Regular Guy.”

Fortune magazine reported that Jobs denied paternity of Lisa for years, at one point swearing in a court document that he was infertile and could not have children. According to the report, Chris Ann Brennan collected welfare for a time to support the child until Jobs later acknowledged Lisa as his daughter.
There were other personal details that emerged over the years, as well.

At Reed, Jobs became romantically involved with the singer Joan Baez, according to Elizabeth Holmes, a friend and classmate. In “The Second Coming of Steve Jobs,” Holmes tells biographer Alan Deutschman that Jobs broke up with his serious girlfriend to “begin an affair with the charismatic singer-activist.” Holmes confirmed the details to ABC News.

Jobs’ health and Apple’s health

Enigmatic and charismatic, Jobs said little about himself. But then his body began to fail him.
In 2004, he was forced to say publicly he had a rare form of pancreatic cancer. In 2009, it was revealed that he had quietly gone to a Memphis hospital for a liver transplant.

He took three medical leaves from Apple. He did not share details.

In 2009, sources said, members of Apple’s board of directors had to persuade him to disclose more about his health as “a fiduciary issue,” interwoven with the health of the company.

He was listed in March as 109th on the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires, with a net worth of about $8.3 billion. After selling Pixar animation studios to The Walt Disney Company in 2006, he became a Disney board member and the company’s largest shareholder. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

Analysts said Apple performed well during Jobs’ absence, partly because he was available for big decisions and partly because his chief lieutenant, Tim Cook, was the hands-on manager even when Jobs was there.

The company has a history of bouncing back. In January 2009, after he announced his second medical leave, Apple stock dropped to $78.20 per share. But it quickly recovered and became one of the most successful stocks on Wall Street. On one day in the summer of 2011, with the stock hitting the $400 level, Apple briefly passed ExxonMobil as the world’s most valuable company.

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Xen and OpenVZ — What’s The Difference?

While both Xen and OpenVZ are open source server virtualisation technology, there exists some big differences between the two. I think potential VPS customers might need to check the applications that need to be hosted to determine which one is the preferable virtualisation technology.

On one hand you have Xen, a para-virtualisation platform that gives you much of the dedicated server behaviour. You run your own instance of Linux kernel, you can load your own kernel modules, you have properly virtualised memory, IO and scheduler, and it’s stable and predictable. On the other hand you have OpenVZ, an operating-system level virtualisation system that is just a thin layer on top of the underlying OS. It is simple to understand, has lower overhead, which usually translates to better performance.

VPSLink is offering both OpenVZ and Xen VPS of similar specs at the same price. For example, I have a Link-3 OpenVZ VPS running CentOS 4.5, and it has 256MB memory, 10GB storage space and 300GB data transfer per month. VPSLink has also provided me a Link-3 Xen VPS for my review running the latest Ubuntu 7.10 ,and it too has 256MB memory, 10GB storage and 300GB data transfer per month. Same price for both — $24.95/month if you pay monthly. Now, which one should I buy?

OpenVZ Memory Model

First of all, when VPSLink’s OpenVZ Link-3 says “256MB guaranteed”, it actually means around 232MB of “privvmpages”, 14MB of “kmemsize” and other miscellaneous resources. When an application calls malloc(), the allocated amount will be added to “privvmpages”. However when “privvmpages” hits the limit, malloc() will fail with a NULL. When the host server ran out of memory, then processes in VE (virtual environment, OpenVZ’s term for a VPS) that exceeded “oomguarpages” will be terminated, although I do not think it will ever apply to VPSLink.

There are a few problems and a few advantages with OpenVZ’s approach to memory management. One of the biggest problem is the amount of memory an application uses and the amount of memory an application allocates is actually different, and the difference can vary a lot depending on the application. Take Java for example, it usually allocates a huge chunk of memory — usually everything it can see the host node has — but it might only use/commit a small fraction of allocated memory. It can usually render a Java program unusable as you will pretty much hit the privvmpages limit straight away. A bit of tweaking on bootstrapping parameters might fix it, but it is definitely not as clean as Xen or a dedicated server. In fact, almost all applications that use internal memory allocator suffer from this issue under OpenVZ.

Then there are issues associated with /proc/meminfo itself. While OpenVZ has already provided a way to virtualise it, “free” command on my OpenVZ VPS at VPSLink still shows the memory size of the host node. It makes some tasks, like running Java orheavy compilation with gcc almost impossible on a small VPS.

The advantage of OpenVZ’s memory model is that it is simple to understand — you are pretty much limited by only privvmpages on a VPSLink OpenVZ VPS. Unlike a dedicated server or Xen, your disk cache and your buffered pages are not counted against your overall memory usage. Therefore on an under-sold OpenVZ system with lots of cache and buffer memory on the host server, it might actually perform better than a similar spec’ed Xen VPS.

Xen Memory Model

Memory model for Xen VPS is much easier to explain. A 256MB Xen VPS is just like a 256MB dedicated server — that segment of memory is reserved for this VPS only, and no other VPS nodes can touch it. Like a real dedicated server, it counts only resident pages, i.e. only the memory blocks are allocated and used.

Moreover, what happens when you run out of memory? You VPS starts to swap. Each VPSLink Xen VPS comes with a swap partition that is twice the size of memory. When your application requires more memory, least-often used pages will be swapped out to make more rooms. Therefore a 256MB Xen VPS actually has 768MB of total memory (256MB RAM + 512MB swap), and believe me, swap space is very useful to handle that sudden spike of demand.

So Xen is always much better than OpenVZ? Not quite. While your 256MB VPS can theoretical use up to 768MB of memory, in reality

1. Kernel, cache, buffer — they all take up memory.
2. Swapping kills performance.

Yes, you can tune the swappiness so you can keep on reducing cached and buffers without touching swap, however performance will suck. On the other hand you can bump up memory usage on an OpenVZ VPS all the way to the privvmpages limit without much degrading of performance, provided the host node still has room to spare. It is a good thing but can also a bad thing, which I will explain later.

Performance vs. Predictability

At the end it comes down to performance and predictability, and my preference has always been with Xen.

While Xen has more overhead thus possibly slower VPS, its out-of-memory behaviour is much more predictable than OpenVZ, and this predictability won me over. As I have already said, that OpenVZ will continue to perform well when its memory usage approaches the limit. However, if privvmpages has been exhausted, the next malloc() will return a NULL pointer, and depending on how the applications handle NULL pointer, they either die gracefully or die with a segmentation fault (usually the later). It is like driving at 100km/hour and then suddenly hits a brick wall. You do not even know that there is a memory shortage issue because everything just sails so smoothly.

On the other hand, when a Xen VPS used up free memory, it will start taking memory from buffers and cached pages. Then it will start swapping. And then it will finally die when the last bit of swap partition gets exhausted. Performance will start to degrade when it started swapping. The load will go up, and the server will get less and less responsive. Your Xen VPS will spend more of its time swapping pages in and out than actually handling tasks. Even if it dies at the end, it will be a very noticeable long struggle than a head-on smash…

… just like a dedicated server!

My preference? Predictable performance. I’ll rather have my sites slowing down to its knees, than having it crash and burn when the memory is exhausted.

What About Burstable Memory in OpenVZ?

“Burstable memory” in OpenVZ is overrated IMHO, as it makes the behaviour of your VPS even less predictable. It is often advised to set privvmpages (burstable amount) at twice the amount as vmguarpages (guaranteed amount) as allocated amount vs. used amount is usually 2:1. However it is not always the case. At work where we had lots of Java development it’s a bit like 5:1, but on my VPSLink OpenVZ VPS where it is mostly Lighttpd, MySQL and PHP, the ratio is about as low as 1.45:1.

Therefore out-of-memory could still happen when you have burstable (privvmpages) set to twice the guaranteed (vmguarpages). On the other hand, VPSLink’s “no burst, no swap” policy, i.e. making burstable amount the same as guaranteed amount, actually gives each VPS less memory to play with, at least it guarantees that when OOM occurs, no VE will be held responsible as all of them will be under their guaranteed limit.

Conclusion

By looking at OpenVZ and Xen’s memory model and their handling of out of memory situation, I am leaning towards Xen, if I am going out to buy a VPS now. Especially when they are sold at the same price per month at VPSLink, I personally cannot see why someone would prefer OpenVZ over Xen.

Except if there is a discount on OpenVZ VPS

I have seen a few promotions coupons from VPSLink (last one being 31% discount from Halloween) but none of them can be used on VPSLink’s Xen VPS. I for one will switch from OpenVZ to their Xen VPS in a heart beat, except I am still on the initial 50% discount for my OpenVZ VPS that is just too hard to let go

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the following 15 jobs account for more than 25 percent of total U.S. employment. For comparison purposes, the largest job — retail sales — employs 4,209,500 people, or 3.2 percent of the total American work force. By contrast, there are a mere the 660 people employed as prosthodontists, 1,170 who work as geographers and 870 radiooperators nationally.

So what are these mega-professions that employ so many people?

According to the BLS, the following jobs are America’s most popular:

1. Retail salespeople

Perhaps a testament to consumerism, retail salespeople rank No. 1 in job popularity. Besides greatcommunication and customer service skills, retails salespeople also have to know how to close a deal — many of these jobs are commission-based.

Total employment: 4,209,500

Salary: $24,630*

Requirements: A high school diploma is preferred for entry-level positions. For those who hope to move on to retail management, a bachelor’s degree is helpful.

2. Cashiers

Cashiers are responsible for working registers, monitoring cash drawers and taking payments at establishments that range from supermarkets and gas stations to retail stores and theme parks. Like retail salespeople, cashiers must have good customer-service and people skills, since they spend their day dealing with the public.

Total employment: 3,439,380

Salary: $19,030

Requirements: On-the-job training

3. Office clerks

Workers spend their days filling a variety of roles in an office environment, from entering data to preparing mailings. An office clerk’s duties may vary daily, according to the needs of the company.

Total employment: 2,815,240

Salary: $27,700

Requirements: A high school diploma and a combination of word processing, computer and proofreadingskills.

4. Combined food preparation and service workers

This category primarily encompasses those who work in fast food establishments as counter attendantsand food prep workers. Duties often include taking orders and accepting payment, filling beverage cups, assembling food items and providing customer service.

Total employment: 2,695,740

Salary: $18,120

Requirements: On-the-job training. Employers look for workers with excellent customer-service skills, a neat appearance and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

5. Registered nurses

Nursing is the most common profession in the health care field. RNs provide treatment to patients inhospitals, outpatient facilities and doctors’ offices. Some provide home care to patients.

Total employment: 2,583,770

Salary: $66,530

Requirements: RNs are required to have a bachelor’s degree in nursing. Many hold master’s degrees or an advanced practice nursing license (APRN).

6. Waiters and waitresses

Waiters and waitresses take food orders, accept payment and provide menu information to restaurant customers.

Total employment: 2,302,070

Salary: $20,380

Requirements: There are no minimal education requirements, though many establishments prefer staff to have high school diplomas.

7. Customer service representatives

Customer service workers answer questions, provide information, fulfill customer requests and handle customer complaints. While many work in call centers, others are employed in retail stores or at banks.

Total employment: 2,195,860

Salary: $32,410

Requirements: High school diploma, on the job training.

8. Material movers

This broad job category encompasses laborers that literally move materials. Think truck loaders, loading dock workers and baggage handlers.

Total employment: 2,135,790

Salary: $25,290

Requirements: On-the-job training

9. Janitors

Janitors are responsible for maintaining cleanliness in places like office buildings, museums, schools and hospitals.

Total employment: 2,090,400

Salary: $24,120

Requirements: On-the-job training, ability to perform physical work for extended periods.

10. Stock clerks and order fillers

Stock clerks and order fillers work in storage facilities, warehouses, and shipping and receivingdepartments, ensuring that orders are properly filled, stocked, priced and accounted for.

Total employment: 1,864,410

Salary: $23,460

Requirements: High school diploma, on-the-job training, ability to perform physically strenuous work.

11. Secretaries

Secretaries (not including medical, legal and executive secretaries) provide administrative assistance to an office in the form of answering phones, greeting visitors, ordering catering services, proofreading, entering data, scanning and faxing documents, and more.

Total employment: 1,797,670

Salary: $31,060

Requirements: High school diploma, though an increasing number hold an associate or bachelor’s degree. Secretaries must also have good computer and communication skills.

12. Bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks

Employees in these positions serve as a corporation’s record-keepers. Tasks include maintainingaccounts payable and receivable, documenting and tracking budgets and preparing financial statements.

Total employment: 1,757,870

Salary: $34,750

Requirements: High school diploma, though many employers now require workers in these positions to hold an associate or bachelor’s degree.

13. General managers

General managers are the top executives of establishments and organizations like restaurants, hotels, amusement parks and sports teams. They are in charge of the businesses day-to-day operations and long-term goals.

Total employment: 1,689,680

Salary: $110,550

Requirements: Most hold a bachelor’s or advanced-level degree.

14. Tractor-trailer truck drivers

This category only includes those drivers who operate trucks with a capacity of more than 26,001 pounds. These drivers are responsible for the timely delivery of goods along routes that may cover multiple states.

Total employment: 1,550,930

Salary: $39,260

Requirements: A commercial driver’s license is necessary for all drivers. Some states also require a training program.

15. Elementary school teachers

The category includes elementary school teachers except those that teach special education. Elementary school teachers are responsible for instructing students in kindergarten through fifth grade on a variety of subjects.

Total employment: 1,544,300

Salary: $53,150

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree, teaching certification.