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Change your permalink structure and keep the old one too

After researching a bit i made up my mind to change the permalinks structure on my Electronics Blog. I ran the blog for about 8 months with the default permalinks structure which is /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ . The reason i wanted to change the permalinks structure is pure SEO. I noticed that many other blogs are using only the /%postname%/ as permalinks structure, so i figured they must know why, and as a plus it also looks nicer, i don’t really like long URLs, they are better shorter.

But as i was thinking at making the change a problem appeared in my mind: Google has all my pages indexed with the old permalinks structure which means when someone will try to access a result page from Google they will get a “not found” page on my blog, not to mention the loss of all my back-links on the articles, this will be like killing my blog, if I’d do this my traffic will go down with about 80 %. Not a good idea indeed.

So i did a little research on Google about permalinks migration, and i found a great plugin, The Permalinks Migration Plugin. The plugin makes use of a directive named the “301 Redirect”. This redirect is acknowledged by all the search engines including Google, and what it does, is to redirect search engines and any user trying to access the old structure link to the new structure. And you wont loose a visitor, not even one.

You can download The Permalinks Migration Plugin from here. After unzipping you upload the files to your WordPress plugins directory and then you activate the plugin trough the admin panel. After you activated the plugin you need to go to Options > PermalinksMigration : and set your old permalinks structure or it should be already set. Next you have to go to Options > Permalinks and make the change to your new desired permalinks structure, i recommend the /%postname%/ as structure or /%category%/%postname%/ , apply the new settings and its done, your post will now show with the new permalinks, but every old link will be redirected to the new one. Isn’t this great ?

After seeing how easy it was to change the permalinks structure i also did it here, on this blog.

Google Ads on Youtube

Is it just me ? i mean i went on youtube today looking for some video’s and it banged my eyes when i saw google ads just on top of movie description the section on the right of the movie. I don’t remember seeing Google Ads on youtube , do you ?

Firefox 3 beta 4 launched

Mozilla, launched the beta4 version of Firefox 3, they say its the most stable browser until now. Some of the new features include less memory usage, increased stability and a new look. Although until now Mozilla has discouraged typical internet users to download and use beta versions of their software the situation changed (its developers said on Thursday that the situation has changed and that they will be revising their Web site.) As of Thursday afternoon, the Web site still stated: “We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 beta 4 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only.”

Firefox 3 beta 4 launched: [Source: Reuters]

Man Sells Life on Ebay

Man Sells Life on Ebay , although this might sound as a suicide thought its not. It’s just a man’s way of letting go of its past. Ian Usher after 5 years of marriage and a wonderful life thinks he needs a change in his life, and how to make this change better than to leave its past behind. He’s gonna sell his car, clothes, house and even his friends. Obviously most of us think he’s nuts, he’s ex-wife said that too. But sometime we need to understand that different people express themselves different. If the man want to sell it’s life at ebay, he should really do it if this makes him happy. The auction will start on the 22nd of June and last for 7 day’s.

Man Sells Life on Ebay: via Reuters & Man Sells Life on Ebay: via youtube

How to get the mac address in Windows

From time to time you need to get your nic’s mac address, maybe you need to setup a router or maybe you need to clone that mac to another nic. Whenever that happens there are tons of crappy programs out there that are meant to annoy you, i don’t know about you but they sure annoy me. So here is what you need to do to get the mac address under windows, this method works for Windows Xp and Windows 2003 Server, i don’t know about other versions because i didn’t have the chance to test them:

You need to go to Start > Run and type “cmd” without the quotes, now hit enter (this will open up a command prompt, you can also do this by pressing WindowsLogo + R and typing “cmd“)

Now in the command prompt window you need to type “ipconfig/all” (i noticed it also works with a space after ipconfig like this “ipconfig /all“)

and there you have it some basic information about your installed NIC’s (ethernet cards). Under the Physical Address sections of each ethernet card you can find it’s MAC address.

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