Working with Camtasia can be really easy with some practice. For starters I will show you the first steps in recording your videos, and explain some of the main features.

When you open your Camtasia studio (mine is version 5) you will see a pop-up window that will ask you with what do you want to start:

- New Screen Recording
- New Voice Recording
- New PowerPoint Recording
- Import Media

Besides that, you also have options for video tutorials on the right, and an option to choose if you want to open some of your recent projects. I suppose you are probably a beginner so click at the New Screen Recording button.

After that a new window will appear, the same as below:

As you can see on the picture, a microphone is selected which means that it will record sounds too (good for video tutorials). If you put a mark below the “Camera” option on the picture, it will record a video from your web cam too, and include it in a screen recording. Your next step is to click on the “Select area to record” button. After that you only have to choose what part of the screen do you want to record, what size (width/height) do you want it to be and just press the “Record” button.

When you’re done recording your screen press the Stop button and preview your video. If you like it, save it, and if you don’t, delete it.

Congratulations! Your first video screen recording is done.

First create SSH connection as you usually do or load existing one.

Then scroll down in Category section and choose Tunnels. In Source Port text field enter local port number which will be open for tunnel connection (we choose port 8600). In Destination field enter 127.0.0.1 and remote port number as shown in the following screenshot:

127.0.0.1 is loopback address of remote machine. We choose 3306 for the remote port. It’s standard MySQL port. Basically we created tunnel for MySQL which can be very useful. You can keep high level of protection since you’ve disabled network connections on your remote MySQL server but using SSH tunnel you can still easily access your remote server from any local application.

Back to the procedure. Once you’ve entered Source port and Destination parameters click Add button then return on your connection and click Save button to save changes on your connection.

Now you’re ready to test your SSH tunnel. First connect to remote server using Putty as you usually do. Then use localhost and port 8600 (or any other you used during configuration) as MySQL host and port
for desired application which requires direct MySQL access.

log-slow-queries = slow.log
long_query_time = 20

First line defines name of the log file as well as tell MySQL server to log slow queries. Second line defines time in seconds. MySQL server will consider query as slow if its execution exceeds time defined. Don’t forget to restart your server to make these changes effective.

Once you’re set up you should periodically inspect slow.log. If it’s empty you should consider decreasing long_query_time. Happy hunting!

It was introduced back in 1993. and is considered to be first PDA (Personal digital assistant) ever. With its handwriting recognition screen, auto rotating display for usage in horizontal and vertical mode, and some AI features Apple Newton was device way ahead its time. Many of the iPhone’s icons are reminiscent of the Newton soft icons at the bottom of the screen. When introduced, in 2007. iPhone, was described by wired.com as “surprisingly close to what a current-generation Newton might look like if Jobs hadn’t killed the line in 1997″.

Although it had many advanced features Newton did not become mainstream gadget. Some of the reasons for this were high price tag of $1000 and large size (it failed the ‘pocket test’). Another factor which limited the Newton’s appeal was that desktop connectivity was not included in the basic retail package, a problem that was later solved for iPods and iPhones with the iTunes software.

First Yugo cars were delivered to US in 1985. and until 1990. company sold 141,511 Yugo cars to Americans.  Car very quickly developed a very poor reputation for reliability, there were occurrences with even new car’s headlights drop away if you push the brake too quickly.

That, and many other manifestations of poor quality pulled a numerous jokes with the Yugo as main actor. One of my favorites is “- Why do Yugos have heated rear windows? - To keep your hands warm while you are pushing them in the winter!”. Yugo was driven by Bruce Willis in Die Hard, and due to its charisma and low price it inspired works of many conceptual artists and car enthusiasts,

To not be all that negative for Yugo, there were and still are car enthusiasts who appreciates Yugo’s responsiveness and breezy starts, when the semaphore turns green. There are yugo fan clubs, and virtual clubs on flickr, facebook and other social communities. Yugo is now officially gone, but it still lives in hearts of many!

If you have access to target smtpd you can easily whitelist internet provider IP classes so they wont be checked by RBL. My smrp server is standard Qmail installation (qmailrocks). All you need to do is to edit /etc/tcp.smtp and to add this instruction to your smtpd:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:allow,RBLSMTPD=”"

Of course, you will have to replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your actual IP address, or you might whitelist whole IP classes by simply omiting adequate octets, for example:

xxx.xxx.xxx.:allow,RBLSMTPD=”"

for C class. At the same time you could backlist IP address by adding response to RBL. Put some comment in between quotation marks, for example:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:allow,RBLSMTPD=”This is spam IP!”

I won’t dive into detailed explanations about inner RBL functioning which is out of scope of this text. It’s important to know that if you put anything between quotation marks in above RBL configuration instructions smtp will consider related IP address as spam.

Finally, you will have to stop Qmail and recompile tcp.smtp instructions file by issuing following commands:

qmailctl stop
qmailctl cdb
qmailctl start

Good luck!

No page profile - the only thing that pops out is announcement: “What you are looking for, isn’t here.”

…. WTH is then, if it isn’t here???!!! WTF is my profile? WTF is my page??? WTF, OMG, … and so on and so on… these and many more thought might storm through your mind….

Just because of one reason (and I think you know): SCRIPT USE!

If you were using scripts, my dear Digg Friend, you shouldn’t be as surprised as one might think. Ban spree on Digg.com is not a fresh news and supposedly Digg.com has no mercy. Or as Kevin Rose put it in one of the videos: “I don’t care whether is top user or the millionth user. If you are using scripts, you will be banned.”

And they were…

I am just wondering: were they banned because they used to use scripts or these users continued to use scripts even after the big fuss on Digg (when top users like DiggBoss, Zaibatsu etc.. were banned). If they did - very brave indeed, my friends!

However, if they used to digg with scripts, but stopped violating Digg TOS, personally I see no reason for banning them.

Then again, I hope they will keep the dignity and not come out with the lamest excuse such as… Oh, I didn’t know using scripts is agains Digg TOS.

Here is the list of 50 and more lucky winners that were banned:

1. abhim12
2. akpwnzz
3. alexander13
4. alllo
5. americanpyscho
6. CassyEli
7. charbarred
8. cosmikdebris
9. Crackerpat
10. craig081785
11. D14BL0
12. DCapps
13. dreams800
14. FamilyGuyFan
15. guerresoanthony
16. HapSnappy
17. hilariobarbosa
18. Inthenameofmine
19. iraq
20. jaybuster
21. jefflombardo
22. jfreshbloomer
23. jordankasteler
24. LewP
25. lordhuggington1
26. MarkusGarvey
27. Mathieugothax
28. mejaredme
29. miriad
30. MissPoker
31. mpind176
32. NeoConSlayer
33. noupe
34. obeezy
35. Odenized
36. optimusprime01
37. PauloAlbini
38. peetys
39. petsheep
40. PMG2007
41. queenmoweeny
42. rtknox00
43. SocialBanner
44. socialuser
45. starfocus03
46. supernova17
47. sweetnothing
48. tamar
49. ToeCracker
50. umarboy
51. WWMD

If you have some more information about who was banned and why, please comment.

Best human friends are usually dogs, but other animals can also make movie superstars: pigs, fishes, dolphins, deers, and even spiders. Put darling animals and kids in a same film and you’ll get a winning combo. Here are few movies with animals which everybody like:

Free  Willy - Dangerous killer whales are also very smart and can become family movie superstars.

Turner and Hooch - Not only pretty dogs can became our heroes, here is a proof.

Finding Nemo - which has an animal family as a central film figures.

Babe - Nowadays, pigs are not only lunch ingredients, they are also great actors.

Lassie - Synonym for a faithful dog.

Charlotte’s Web - Believe it or not, spider can become best kid’s friend.

Bambi - Wolt Disney’s classic, it became synonym for touching family movie.

Therefore we could expect the upcoming rampage of religion online advertisements. Obviously, advertising a religion doesn’t breach Google’s Polices, OR the scientologists pay them so good so it’s worth to change or breach own rules? Personally, I don’t have anything against religion of any kind, even Scientology. Basically, this story is Google related, and has nothing to do with any religion.

Now, I see ‘smiley-download’ and adult dating sites advertise on AdWords as well, which means Google shareholders want MORE, and they can get more only through AdWords and AdSense, since 50% of other Google projects are still non-profitable ‘betas’. The plausible solution to get more is to allow rough websites to advertise their malicious apps on Google Adsense.

Unfortunately, Google AdSense Publishers have much stricter rules then AdWords advertisers. For example if you own a website with content related to penis enlargement, you won’t be able to place AdSense on your website. However, some publishers report that Google contacted them in order to run advertising campaigns for prescription erectile dysfunction drugs on their sites. Such brands as Cialis®, Levitra®, Viagra® and other similar drugs you can see frequently in your inbox or mostly in your SPAMBOX, so from now on they will flood the entire web as well. Isn’t it a paradox to allow advertiser to promote their adult services and forbid publishers to generate relevant content?

What should be their next step? Maybe, allowing advertising of armory and selling weapons through AdWords? I don’t think so, because Google doesn’t do EVIL. Maybe, gambling ads? Who cares, the most important is to skyrocket the Google shares which are apparently going down from day to day. Hopefully the G1 with Android OS will exceed their expectation and satisfy the most of Google shareholders.