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Effective and useful shortcuts of Google Chrome

April 26th, 2010

With the Google Chrome was becoming maturing, Chrome have added a lot of expansion functions can be achieved and it became another challenger of the Internet Explorer as FireFox. Now I will introduce you how to make the best use of Chrome browser, if you want to leave FireFox.

If it cost you a lot of time to master the shortcuts of FireFox, don’t worry about it, Chrome keeps most of the shortcuts of FireFox and other own shortcuts, which will make the browser easier for the users.

  1. Ctrl+N: Open a new window
  2. Ctrl+T: Open a new tab
  3. Ctrl+Shift+N: Open a new window with stealth mode
  4. Ctrl+O: Open a file in your PC
  5. Press the Ctrl when click links to open them in new windows
  6. Press the Ctrl+Shift when click links to open them in new tabs
  7. Ctrl+Shift+T: Resume the closed tabs(Up to 10)
  8. Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+8: Switch to the tab specified
  9. Ctrl+B: Show or hide the bookmarks bar
  10. Ctrl+Shift+B: Open Bookmarks Manager
  11. Ctrl+H: Open the history page
  12. Ctrl+Shift+J: Open Developer Tools
  13. F1: Open help center in a new tab
  14. Ctrl+Enter: Automatically add the www prefix and suffix .com then open
  15. Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5: Force a refresh
  16. Ctrl+U: View source of the page

In fact almost all of these shortcuts used in other browsers, try them and you will find them very useful.

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Six Google Maps Plugins for WordPress

March 6th, 2010

When I was building the Beijing Hotels Reservation site with WordPress, I want to add the map informations for all the hotels. The easiest method is copy the map code of my destination and paste it in the pages, however, there are almost 20 Google Maps plugins for WordPress, it is really very convenient that we can use Google Maps in our blogs, I pick up the best six plugins from them and introduce them to all.

Google Map Generator

This is a google map generator plugin. Need to embed code {gmap|address|width|height}. Eaxmple: {gmap|Athens, Greece|400|200}.

DownLoad: http://www.intelisoftbd.com/open-source-projects/google-map-generator.html

Google Maps

This plugin will let you easily embed Google maps in your posts. It will produce clean XHTML code without any iframe.
Features: add an embed Google map in your post by using this syntax [map:http://permalink_to_your_Google_map 640 480] “width” (640 in the example) and “height” are optional parameters. You can use px or %, it could be a recorded map or any other map you’re consulting.

DownLoad: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-maps

Simple Google Map

With this plugin you can insert a google map into your posts, pages, or wigitized sidebar without an API key. Google recently released version 3 of their Maps API. They made it smaller and faster, but with less features. The biggest advantage is that it doesn’t require an API key. So all you have to do is install this plugin and set a few options!

DownLoad: http://clarknikdelpowell.com/wordpress/simple-google-map

Google Map V3 for IDN

This plugin will embed a google map using shortcode or as a widget. This plugin is a different version of Simple Google Map. It enables to insert maps in your posts and pages from an address while Simple Google Map requires a latitude and a longitude. With this plugin you can insert a google map into your posts, pages, or wigitized sidebar. For this plugin, you will need an API key for geocoding, click here to apply for your Google Maps API key.

DownLoad: http://www.france-development.com/2009/11/18/google-maps-v3-for-idn

Google Maps Embed

If getting an API key is beyond the skill set or desires of your users, but they still want to be able to have a Google map, this plugin is the answer. It adds a button to the visual editor that allows them to use the link from Google Maps to embed a plugin. Blog administrators can set defaults for width, height, marginwidth, marginheight, frameborder, and scrolling properties for the embed code.

DownLoad: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-maps-embed

MapPress Easy Google Maps

MapPress adds an interactive map to the wordpress editing screens. When editing a post or page just enter any addresses you’d like to map. The plugin will automatically insert a great-looking interactive map into your blog. Your readers can get directions right in your blog and you can even create custom HTML for the map markers (including pictures, links, etc.)!

DownLoad: http://www.wphostreviews.com/mappress

If you don’t like these Google Maps plugins for WordPress, login your dashboard and search ‘Google Map’ at Plugins -> Add new.

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WordPress SyntaxHighlighter

March 1st, 2010

We can use code SyntaxHighlighter for syntax highlighting in our WordPress blog, unlike other plugins, SyntaxHighlighter is simple and easy to use, it support the common languages such as JavaScript, HTML, PHP and C++. You can download this plugin here: SyntaxHighlighter plugin for WordPress, or view the wiki.

SyntaxHighlighter is very easy to use, you had better visit the official site to know how to use it. You can view the JavaScript demo below.

var txt=""
function message()
{
try
   {
   adddlert("Welcome guest!")
   }
catch(err)
   {
   txt="Error.\n\n"
   txt+="Error Description:" + err.description + "\n\n"
   txt+="Clcik to continue\n\n"
   alert(txt)
   }
}

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