Monthly Archives: July 2009

Firefox Search Plugin Localization

By rudi | Published: July 1, 2009
Are you also living in a forreign country and want your firefox search results to return in english? Alter the Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/searchplugins/google.xml simply so that all the URLs within the XML file point to www.google.co.uk!! This has been driving me crazy and is so easy to fix!
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Apache Virtual Hosts iTunes and cant connect to port 0.0.0.0:80

By rudi | Published: July 1, 2009
I recently attempted to install Apache webserver for local development and had a tough time getting it to start as it couldnt connect to port 80 on localhost. I found out that the problem was iTunes and all the stupid services it installs. somehow iTunes had taken over my port 80 on 127.0.0.1. so before [...]
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SEO and Flash

By rudi | Published: July 1, 2009
I have been doing a bit of research on the subject of SEO accessibility and full flash websites and have put together a few responses on common queries or concerns regarding the subject: Flash can not be indexed by google using flash is bad for SEO. Users cannot click the back button in a flash site Users cannot [...]
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