telescope control

or anything telescope <your synonymous of control>

you should search for

telescope ~control

The thing is that a Google search synonymous is not necessarily a word with the same meaning, but instead a word in the “proximity” in the graph of word usage; e.g. “Ferrari” and “red” are probably search synonymous because they are used together so often.

The solution was to disable the “canonical URL redirection”, by installing this plugin:

http://txfx.net/files/wordpress/disable-canonical-redirects.phps

To install the plugin, just download the file, copy it to the plugins folder and activate it via the administration panel. This solution assumes you still have access to the administration panel.

This was helpful:

http://enlightenedwebmastery.com/how-to-fix-the-redirect-loop-error-in-wordpress

and this:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-loop-problem

http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/top10s/internet.html

It is fascinating to learn that “500 million” people now use the service. I can NOT begin to understand how people are willing to give away personal information, in exchange of a Web presence that effectively sheeps them down, since “500 million” other Web presences feel very much the same.

More unbelievable is how advertisers assume that Facebook’s data is correct! It could be just people I know, but many folks I talk to about facebook.com say they supply fake data, other than their name and country, *and* have multiple accounts impersonating totally invented folks.

Some of the “500 million” subscribers should read about automated identity theft attacks.

Some of the “advertisers” should learn with Internet’s e-commerce history and question how trusty is explicit data answered in subscribing free services.

Maybe this is why I get so poorly targeted ads and why once quality services, like Zinio’s digital magazines, are now turning me off.

Who would guess that after all these years the quality of certain Internet based experiences would decrease?!

They are dumbing down users, thinking that users will be better served if not aware of all the URL’s details. This rises a security risk, obfuscates browsing, makes learning the WWW structure less trivial for newcomers, and it simply trashes the underlying technology fundamentals.

Not acceptable!

Fortunately there is a way to get your full URL back:

(1) at the address bar type

opera:config

(2) pick the “show all” check box

(3) do CTRL^F (find) for the text “show full URL“

(4) once found, check the corresponding check box

(5) pick save

It is done.

How to import GE’s “my places” into GE on Windows 7?

The “my places” document location changes, depending on operating system. Not only that, GE’s latest versions don’t have an explict import option.

At the end of the day, all it takes, using Google Earth v6, is to do File > Open > name of KMZ or KML file.

But before I found it was that simple, I searched for GE’s personalizaed files locations, and they are:

@Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Google\GoogleEarth\myplaces.kml

@Vista, @Windows Server 2008:
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Google\GoogleEarth\myplaces.kml

@Windows 7:
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\LocalLow\Google\GoogleEarth

@MAC:
“Macintosh HD” > <user name> > “Library” > “Application Support” > “Google Earth” > “myplaces.kml”

@Linux:
~/.googleearth/

Using Opera, visit this internal address:

opera:config#UserPrefs|SpeedDialState

Then set the value of “SpeedDialSate” to 3.

The possible values are:

0: Folded
1: Shown
2: Read only, and always show speed dial
3: Disable speed dial

192 kbps MP3 stream: http://kanm.tamu.edu/listen.m3u

Web page: http://kanm.tamu.edu/

This is just absurd, incredible, and very informative of the (lack) of quality you can expect from “Panda Security” software. More like Panda UNsecurity.

This site, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with “piracy / illegal software”, and if I had the knowledge, the time, and also thougth that “Panda” had a trustable reputation worth a cent, I would demand some public apologise. I sent them a message…

With “Panda” failing with a false positive, on such a transparent, no subscription required, no hidden content site, like this one, I can only imagine the reports it produces about other sites…  Worry about the false negatives!

Shame on “Panda”!

How can they have a single consumer?!, with such high quality alternatives from zonealarm.com and symantec.com?!

Viscom Software VideoCap Pro v3 ActiveX Control
http://www.viscomsoft.com/products/videocappro/
Found while I was looking for a solution on how to capture overlayed video.
Interesting site, but this is not one solution. The same goes for Hypernsap and SnagIt: neither can handle my overlayed television window.

Wikipedia article on hardware overlays
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot#Hardware_overlays
It explains why is it so hard to develop a solution to capture overlayed video.

Daily tech
http://technorati.com/
A great source for updated tech content.

Dossiers do portal do cidadão
http://www.portaldocidadao.pt/PORTAL/pt/dossiers/?sourceDOS=dossiers
Portugal is an example on e-Government. This site guides citizens towards solutions.

Contactos de todas as conservatórias e cartórios notariais em Portugal
http://www.mj.gov.pt/sections/contactos-e-horarios/conservatorias-e/
Yet another example of e-Government. This site publishes the contacts (phone, fax, e-mail) of all “conservatórias e cartórios” in Portugal. These are the places where registrations of properties are kept, so they can be checked, updated and certified for misc purposes.
I found it while looking on how to e-mail a certain “conservatória”.

One recent step back in online Portuguese Government services is the recent requirement to provide the property’s “registration number”/”número de inscrição”, while requesting its “certidão de teor” (a document that identifies the registered owners’ across time). Previously, the citizen could just provide the property’s address – it was simpler and more natural.

Playback (free) music and audio gear monthly magazine
http://magazine.playbackmag.net/playback/200710/
Somehow I received an e-mail about this great publication. Worth reading.

Best and worst stocks since 2008–03–10
http://seekingalpha.com/article/68589-best-and-worst-performing-stocks-since-the-march-10-bottom
The stock markets keep tumbling. Some say that there is value in many stocks, at the current levels.
I follow GE, HUM, SNDK, MSFT, GOOG, CNET, PFE and GSK and indeed find all them at attractive technical levels, like historically low Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratios, and/or developing new products/services that should represent improved revenue streams. Should I buy?
While trying to answer this 1B U$D question, I found seekingalpha.com and enjoyed it!

Ameritrade’s research
http://research.tdameritrade.com/public/markets/overview/overview.asp
Visual tools and a nice stream of updated news on the stock markets.

CNBC’s stock picks
http://www.cnbc.com/id/23611392/site/14081545
Yet another very interesting site for following what’s going on the stock markets.
Since I am now following Humana (HUM), I bookmarked this page.
I enjoy the videos.

Steve’s BPCA blog
http://bpcablog.blogspot.com/
Interesting personal blog, with nice unbiased links.

Digital Inspiration
http://www.labnol.org/
Lovely site. I am bookmarking this one with the “daily” category, meaning that I should visit it that regularly.

Code Gear IDE
http://www.codegear.com/products/radstudio
Not exactly affordable, but you can download a trial and check if it is worth your money.

Shon Harris’ CISSP Certification Package
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000WUQRA/
One great aid for CISSP certification, 1440 minutes long .