Important features used as criteria:

– free windows blogging software;

– must support all major blog engines (firstly Wodpress, Blogger and LiveJournal);

– firefox like misspelling highlighting;

– optionally can simultaneously post to multiple blogs.

So, i found this wordpress codex page with list of wordpress blogging software, browsed and choose some of them to download and test:

– BlogDesk;

– QTM;

– Qumana;

– Zaundry;

– Zaundry Raven;

– Windows Live Writer;

I checked them very quickly and possible dismissed something. I was unable to connect to my blog with QTM and Zaundry Raven threw some error message so  I deleted them from list. So, next list is windows blogging software that was connected and properly worked from 1st attempt.

– BlogDesk;

– Qumana;

– Zaundry;

– Windows Live Writer;

BlogDesk the only free windows blogging software that can simultaneously  publish to multiple blogs. Sometimes it can be useful. But list of supported blog engines is very short. Blogger and LiveJournal are not supported. So, can be used only if mass posting to WordPress blogs needed.

Qumana places some annoying “powered by” message in new post. Deleted.

Zaundry  is very good: big list of supported engines, nice interface, but spelling must be run by user and not comfortable at all for me.

Windows Live Writer the best. Finally some Microsoft software that i like more than opensource analogs. Over all above has amazing preview feature making possible to see how post will be looks like after posting to web.

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So, I post……………………………

………. OK. Posted successfuly to 2 different blogs.

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Moral: if you decided to be bad, be really bad — don’t use official API to write bots.

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There are many traffic analyzing tools free available online. I will write review somewhen.

This post is about relationship between site Alexa rank and site traffic. This relationship is not obvious. Impossible to say exact site traffic number only standing on Alexa rank. But possible to determine more less precisely range: high and low limits between site traffic likely must to be.

Alexa Rank                    :       Monthly traffic, visits

1    -   10                        :       25B    -     1B
10   -  100                      :       1B      -     100M
100    -  1,000                :       100M  -     10M
1,000   -   10,000           :       10M     -    1M
10,000   -  100,000        :       1M       -    10K
100,000  -  1,000,000    :       10K     –    1K
1,000,000 –  3,000,000  :       1K       –    100
3,000,000 – 10,000,000 :       100      –     10

The simplest way to get Alexa rank displayed in browser when site visited is to install Alexa Sparky plugin.

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Twitter significantly changed its automation policy and all follow-unfollow automation is now strictly prohibited.

You very likely can write some bot without using Twitter API but using follow feature of Twitter API make your account automatically suspended.

This post is attempt to write more shortly and understandable what is already written on related twitter pages.

So, known Twitter API limitations:

1. Accounts per IP — unlimited, means that every number of accounts can be created from one machine.

Above is actual for all Twitter users, below only for developers of Twitter clients.

2.  follow per account per day — 1000, twitter  states that this number is technical limit, but there is some other, let say ethical, that twitter also really count. this number is not released.  let take it equals 200.

so,  follow per account per day — 200.

3. unfollow per account per day — 100. thinking is pretty likes to above.

4. direct messages per account per day — 250.

5. status updates per account per day–  1000 . The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals (20 per semi-hour). Retweets are counted as updates.

6. other API requests per account per hour (!hour) — 150. this number contains all possible GET requests: the number of followers (or friends) of specified user, checking if UserA is follower of UserB etc. This number is pretty big — 3600 per account per day, so doesn’t even matter if it includes all above numbers or not. As all above requests seems to be POST requests so this number doesn’t include them.
Above numbers are per account below is per IP.

7. search api requests per IP per hour– 200. search api requests per IP !!!: not released, but more than 150 per hour. let say 200 per hour.

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WordPress ultimately win. Knowledge of WordPress nowadays much more important than knowledge of html and css.

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And part of this that cursor must be changed when moving over button and checkbox controls.

Next code snippet satisfied needs:

        public MainFrame{
               initComponents();
               setCursorToAllButtons(this);
        }

        private void setCursorToAllButtons(Container container) {
        Component[] components = container.getComponents();

        for (int i = 0; i < components.length; i++) {
            if (components[i] instanceof Container){
                setCursorToAllButtons((Container)components[i]);
            }
            if (components[i] instanceof JButton || components[i] instanceof JCheckBox) {
                components[i].setCursor(new Cursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));
            }
        }
    }

No related posts.

Try this code:

Button clickmeLink = new Button("<html><u>Click Me!</u><html>");

clickmeLink.setBorder(null);

clickmeLink.setColor(Color.blue);

clickmeLink.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){

if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) {
if (desktop == null) {
desktop = Desktop.getDesktop();
}
try {
desktop.browse(new java.net.URI("http://google.com"));
} catch (Exception ex) {
//TODO: code something
}
} else {
//tell your user that she needs Java6 or higher
}

}

});

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JLabel clickItLabel = new JLabel("<html><u>Click It</u></html>")

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Netbeans have also Java Desktop Application option: File -> New Project -> Java -> Java Desktop Application – don’t use it. It seems to be helpful but creates more problems than solves.

Use regular Java Application instead and create your main class as JFrame Form.

Good Luck!

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