Better Permalink URLs For Your WordPress Blog

If you’re hosting your WordPress blog on a mod_rewrite-enabled Apache web server, you can use this feature to make your post URLs prettier.

By default, WordPress uses an ugly format like http://yoursite/?p=795 (this URL is for post #795, just in case you’re wondering). If your server has mod_rewrite enabled, you can also use more descriptive URLs as suggested by WordPress:

WordPress permalink options

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Yahoo! Pipes Now Supports Serialized PHP Output

Yahoo! Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulation tool. It can combine, filter and sort multiple feed data and spit out a single customized feed that you can use for yourself or share with others.

Before today, JSON has been the only way for you to obtain the output data of a Pipe. Now, Yahoo! has provided a second way to do this: serialized PHP.

I’m sure those who are more proficient with PHP will find this feature very useful. Thanks Yahoo!

How To Sell Products Directly From Your WordPress Blog

Recently, a friend asked me, “Could I run a shop within WordPress?”

I’m sure that she’s not the only person who wondered about this. After looking around, I found one of the best tools to integrate an online shop with your WordPress blog: WP e-Commerce.

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Mobile Phones More Harmful Than Smoking?

DailyTech published an article where a British neurosurgeon’s study concluded that mobile phones are more dangerous than smoking and even asbestos:

The number of users is the first aspect to look at, says Dr. Khurana. Over 3 billion people worldwide use a cell phone, according to Dr. Khurana. Only about one billion people worldwide smoke, evidence to his claims. The smoking population incurs approximately five million worldwide smoking related deaths a year.

The doctor expresses no uncertainty about whether cell phones cause cancer. He states emphatically, “there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumors.”

How To Build A Niche Online Income Site

If you’re into making money online, I’m sure you’ve been pimped a lot of ebooks, e-courses and other resources that claim to make you tons of money within a short time. If you have actually bought or subscribed to some of the resources mentioned above, I’m sure that you’d discover that some advice actually worked wonders while the rest are utter junk.

As they say, the best way to teach someone is to show them real working examples. This is exactly what I’m going to show you.

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