LogMeIn is an excellent online service which offers a free method of remotely controlling a PC via web browser.
Recently I encountered a minor glitch, however, and whether LogMeIn or Windows 7 or nVidia are the culprit, I'm not sure.
I had remoted in to my Dell Latitude E6410 laptop using the latest free version of LogMeIn. It is equipped with Windows 7 64-bit and NVIDIA NVS 3100M display adapter, each with the latest updates and drivers available.
All seemed fine via remote, but when I returned to the office I found that although my secondary monitor activated normally, my laptop display remained seemingly asleep and unresponsive. I tried using the key combination of the Windows key and P then clicked Extend to try to have Windows reinitialize the displays and wake everything up, but no joy.
I then tried just changing one of my Display settings, the Resolution, to a different value in order to have Windows enable the Apply button, and then clicked it.
After doing this, my laptop screen was no longer blank.
I've blogged with Blogger for a few years now, and overall it's worked pretty smoothly, but the blog post title can be a bit awkward to work with.
You'll notice that if your post title is particularly long, the resulting URL will get truncated once the post is published to a maximum length of roughly 39 characters. Spaces will be replaced with dashes, stop words like "to", "and", "of" will be filtered, and punctuation will be omitted.
Principles of SEO demand that blog posts are crafted such that search engines will return links to them as relevant hits for a given search. In addition, it is helpful to make it so that the blog post title is similar to the actual URL of the post.
In a Blogger blog, you can optimize your blog post titles by first deciding on a title which is both meaningful and concise. The title should reflect the content of the post, to make it easier for search engines (particularly Google) to categorize what you're blogging about, and decide how high up in the search results to place it.
For example, if the title of your post is "How To Make Lots Of Money By Blogging On Random Topics" (which is 54 characters without quotes), try to distill the essence of your post into a title which meets or is under the 39 character limit, perhaps "Make Money Blogging Random Topics" (33 characters) or "HowTo Make Money Blogging Randomly" (34 characters).
Ideally, you want the post title to meet that character limit for Blogger post titles, but sometimes it's difficult, particularly with stop words and spaces eating of valuable post title real estate.
To mitigate this, you can try the following steps:
- Create a blog post with as brief a title as possible.
- Publish the post with the brief title.
- Immediately after publishing, Edit your post and modify the title to your original, more verbose version.
After doing this, you'll discover that Blogger keeps the concise title's wording in the URL, but in the post itself it will have your verbose title.
Again, it's probably best that the title be the same in both the URL and the actual post title, but if you just can't do your post justice by pruning it below 39 characters, you can at least ensure that the post URL meets that requirement and yet retains value from an SEO standpoint.
For some reason, several categories of Google Analytics tracking my Blogger blog stats have flatlined within the last month or so.
I just realized why, I'd made some template changes, including choosing a different template from among Blogger's selections, and this clobbered the analytics script!
Strangely, even though the tracking code was nonexistent, the Tracking Status indicator in Analytics still says that it's "Receiving Data" even though statistics like New Visits, Avg. Time on Site, and Bounce Rate have been flat.
Anyway, you can visit this Google Analytics help page to find out how to enter the necessary tracking code (the preferred one to use is asynchronous).
Recently, Reddit added a new link beneath users' overview section of their page:
treat yourself to reddit gold
Also if you happen to be checking out another user's profile, you'll see:
buy (another user) a month of reddit gold
I enjoy Reddit a great deal, and I don't block their sponsored ad banners even though I otherwise have AdBlock Plus enabled, but I found this linkage a bit annoying.
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To remove it from your own Reddit user page, you can copy and paste the following Element rule to your AdBlock Plus filter list:
reddit.com##A[href="/gold"]
To prevent the link from appearing on other users' pages, add another rule with the following slightly different syntax:
reddit.com##A[href*="/gold?goldtype=gift"]
Here's a screenshot showing how the rules appear:
