I’m buying ads! Who wants to sell?

I need to find the best websites to display downloadwin.com banners so I came up with this 2 types of needs.

Downloadwin.com’s needs

DownloadWin.com needs (in terms of editor’s profile) early adopters, bloggers are preferred (thinking about blogs like a good tool to back-link to their own generated content), good online readers (needed for research), enough free time to write about software and take a good attention to details.

Also, downloadwin.com needs internet users that must understand that this things may happen:
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AdSense maintenance and software niche revenues

Our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance this coming Saturday, January 10th. You won’t be able to log in to your AdSense or Google Ad Manager accounts between 10am and 2pm PST, but we’ll continue recording your impressions, clicks, and earnings. In addition, your ad serving won’t be affected by this maintenance period.

For our international readers, here’s the maintenance start time converted for a few cities:

London - 6pm Saturday
Algiers - 7pm Saturday
Kolkata - 11:30pm Saturday
Jakarta - 1am Sunday
Auckland - 7am Sunday

Source AdSense blog

Without any relation with the AdSense maintenance, did you noticed the new AdSense favicon? :-)

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Copy/paste php code in Wordpress articles

When I wrote about the fastest way to create a rss feed using php and a mysql database in 30 minutes, I have told you that I’ll find a plugin to paste the code directly into wordpress and I did find one. Actually there are 2 plugins. Just read and you will see why.

The first one, Syntax Highlighting WordPress Plugin it’s good choice if you will not paste html code. As you may see in this post, SH WP Plugin worked for me just fine, although it had a little error when I used the title tag. This being told, please remove the space in the title tag :-p.

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How to extract Youtube thumbnails in seconds, increasing the usability of your website video section!

Searching with Google about how to extract Youtube.com thumbnails and use them with your website video sections may push you to start learning about Youtube APIs and Tools, this being a good thing anyway!

In fact this is only the result of recently(?) closed youtube.videos.get_details function (API Function Reference) for new sign-ups.

I know. For most people, some of the above terms should be used in wars to fast-kill any innocent college student but this introduction was only to demonstrate in the end that extracting youtube thumbnails solution I have found and used (there is an example also! :-P) is simple as counting to 10.

Using youtube thumbails with downloadwin.com

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Creating a rss feed using php and a mysql database in 30 minutes

I will start this article quoting Wikipedia in order to share some terms definitions with all of my readers.

RSS
RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

Downloadwin.com RSS Feed

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