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Amazon’s CloudFront Content Delivery Network is primetime! Amazon’s CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) supplements Amazon’s S3 service by seamlessly caching your content much closer to your website visitors, thus substantially improving speed and latency, while at the same time giving you the additional option of streaming your content (videos, etc) using the RTMP (Flash Media Server) protocol. Sound complicated? It’s really not, read on. Read the Full Article
How to stream video to Mobile / Smartphones – iPhone, Android, and Blackberry Learn how to stream high quality video to a Mobile / Smartphone such as the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. Read the Full Article
How to make Joomla Faster – Tip #1 Apache Mod_expires Now that Google is using website speed as a “signal” in it’s ranking algorithms (see related article) it is more important than ever to make your website as fast as you can without sacrificing your quality of content. There is one simply and easy change you can make to Apache (even if your website is hosted) to make your Joomla website substantially (80%+) faster for returning visitors. Read the Full Article
How to use Amazon S3 with your Website Using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to host your website’s large files (such as MP4 video files and MP3’s, etc) is an excellent way to provide great content to your website visitors in a fast (high bandwidth), convenient, and inexpensive way. And the fact that you’re using Amazon S3 will be completely oblivious to your website visitors. Read the Full Article
Forget downloading from YouTube, use Amazon S3 instead There are typically 2 ways to use the JW player to play HD video on your web pages, 1) By using “legally debatable” ways around YouTube’s security and downloading the MP4 files directly from YouTube, and 2) Downloading the video(s) from your own web server(s) and having to accept the less than desirable download speed, where your website visitors experience multiple “buffering” interruptions. Now’s there’s a THIRD option, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and in my opinion, a TOTAL NO BRAINER. Read the Full Article
Playing HD/HQ YouTube Videos using the JW FLV Player in Joomla You can now play High Definition/High Quality YouTube videos with the JW FLV Player in Joomla, however it is nowhere near as easy as it sounds! Read the Full Article

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How to embed your own videos on Facebook using the Facebook “Like” and “Share” buttons

Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:00

Did you know you can embed your own Videos on Facebook so that they appear on People’s Facebook Walls, Timelines, and News Feeds? This article will show you how to do it using the Facebook Like and Share buttons, and be able to support HTTPS, and even be able to support non-flash devices such as iPhones and iPads.

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How to create your own Facebook Custom Page with your own page icon (Updated 11/04/11)

Sunday, 31 July 2011 16:33

Thanks to Woobox and their iframehost service, ANYONE can easily create their own Facebook Custom Page and even use their own icon if he/she wishes. This article provides a step by step guide.

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Amazon’s CloudFront Content Delivery Network is primetime!

Saturday, 30 April 2011 00:00

Amazon’s CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) supplements Amazon’s S3 service by seamlessly caching your content much closer to your website visitors, thus substantially improving speed and latency, while at the same time giving you the additional option of streaming your content (videos, etc) using the RTMP (Flash Media Server) protocol. Sound complicated? It’s really not, read on.

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Share on Facebook - Customizing the Text and Images that are posted when your web pages are “Shared” on Facebook

Saturday, 03 April 2010 21:09

Did you know you can customize the text and image that Facebook uses when a visitor to your website uses "Share on Facebook"?

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How to CORRECTLY add the Facebook Social plugins to your website

Sunday, 03 October 2010 17:37

There's a lot of misinformation out there about how to add the Facebook Social plugins to your website. In this article I'll go over how to CORRECTLY add the Facebook Social Plugins to your website and be able to use ALL the plugin functionality. 

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Overview of the New Facebook Social Plugins – Part 3 of 3

Friday, 11 June 2010 22:36

Facebook recently launched 8 new social plugins that utilize Facebook’s new Open Graph Protocol and Graph API. In part 3 of this 3 part article (see part 1 and part 2) I’ll go over the NEW Live Stream, Login with Faces, and Facepile social plugins and how I think each can be used.

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