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Aug

16

2010

WordPress import plugin for blogger fix….

Posted on 10:21, August 16th, 2010 by Many Ayromlou

Version 0.2 of the blogger plugin for wordpress 3.x has a small little bug in it that produces the following error:

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HTTP/1.0 403 Invalid AuthSub token.
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 167
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:16:35 GMT
Expires: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:16:35 GMT
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

Server: GSE

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Invalid AuthSub token.</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR=”#FFFFFF” TEXT=”#000000″>
<H1>Invalid AuthSub token.</H1>

<H2>Error 403</H2>
</BODY>
</HTML>

I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out what’s wrong with their code and I think I’ve found a fix (atleast until version 0.3 of the plugin comes out at which time this fix will not apply anymore…..hopefully).

The problem is with the regex code in the auth() function of the blogger-importer.php plugin. So edit this file and make the following changes:

1) Line 99:OLD: $token = preg_replace( '/[^-_0-9a-zA-Z]/', '', $_GET['token'] ); NEW: $token = preg_replace( '/[^%-_0-9a-zA-Z]/', '', $_GET['token'] );Note: % sign added in the regex portion.

2) Line 108:OLD: preg_match( '/token=([-_0-9a-z]+)/i', $response, $matches ); NEW: preg_match( '/token=([%-_0-9a-z]+)/i', $response, $matches );Note: % sign added in the regex portion.

Hopefully this will help you get going…..

Posted in Blogger, Google, php, wordpress |

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Aug

14

2008

Quick Tip for Bloggers/Youtubers/Flickerites/etc……

Posted on 11:49, August 14th, 2008 by Many Ayromlou

If you’ve ever come across the email gateways of most social sites, you know that — in order to protect you and your account — they produce some very forgettable email addresses. I’m talking about those special email addresses you can setup where for example you can Email a picture to, which will automatically be posted to your flickr stream.

Well here is a easy way to use Google mail’s filter function to create easy to remember gmail addresses that would inturn forward your precious postings to the appropriate social site.

First get a gmail account if you don’t already have one. I’ll call mine middleman@gmail.com
Setup your Flickr (or any other) account to accept posts via email. My special flickr email address is manthisemailishardtoremember@photos.flickr.com
Back in your gmail account create a filter. In the To: field put middleman+flickr@gmail.com and select “Forward it to” and fill the field with manthisemailishardtoremember@photos.flickr.com
DONE.

Now any picture attachment sent to middleman+flickr@gmail.com will automagically get rerouted to your flickr publishing Email. You can do this for all your services and that way standardize/centralize your publishing Email addresses.

Posted in Blogger, Flickr, Gmail, Google, tumblr, Youtube |

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Jul

01

2008

Bloggers and screen shooters: Disable shadow in window screen captures

Posted on 17:07, July 1st, 2008 by Many Ayromlou

One of the things I don’t really like about OSX Leopard is the fact that everytime you take a screen shot of a window (Command-Shift-4 followed by Spacebar), it put’s a — for us bloggers — not so good looking shadow around the capture. Well not anymore, use the following command to disable the effect:defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool trueOnce you issue the command, either logout and back in or kill the SystemUIServer using this command:killall SystemUIServerIf later on you decide to add it back in, delete the preference by issuing the following command:defaults delete com.apple.screencapture disable-shadowFollowed by Logout/Login or the killall command from above. Below you can see the before and after.Have fun and happy capturing :-).

Posted in Blogger, CLI, OSX, osx Server |

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Jul

18

2007

EasyDNS….Now, easy as Butter

Posted on 21:55, July 18th, 2007 by Many Ayromlou

Okay a little while back I wrote a piece about setting up custom DNS names on easyDNS.com and getting the plumbing to work with blogger. Well, there is some excellent news. You see, Mark Jeftovic (Pres. and CEO of easyDNS) contacted me today to let me know about modifications they have made to their DNS parking servers. These changes make it super easy to setup a blogger custom DNS name with them. No need for Mommy and Daddy….just use easyDNS :-)

Here are the updated details:

Obviously first register your domain name. I went over to easydns.ca (.com is the same company) and registered nerdlogger.com (I use the DNS-Only service & Registry Fees).
Now login to your account on easyDNS. You should see the Members page and somewhere in there there should be a listing of the domains you own under domain settings. Click the DNS command next to the domain you want to use and you should see a page with a bunch of stuff relating to your brand new domain.
Scroll down to the hosts section and check that it has a entry for your domain with PENDING under has IP field. This is the default, so I would be very suprised if it is not there. Just double check.
Now on that same page under aliases setup a CNAME (alias) for www with the corresponding A Record (host) for ghs.google.com and press next to submit it. Make sure it says www only and ghs.google.com and nothing else.
Now you have to wait a couple of hours (I waited 4-6 hours) for the new information to propagate.
Log back into your easydns account and check the domain information page it should have a CNAME (alias) for www.yoursite.com. (Note the terminating DOT) and a Point to A Record (host) of ghs.google.com. (Note the terminating DOT).
Now log into your blogger account and switch to the settings page. Look under publishing tab and select Switch to: Custom Domain. Fill the Your Domain field with www.yoursite.com and press Save Settings.
Wait another 10 minutes and try going to http://www.yoursite.com and/or http://yoursite.com. Both should work at this point.

Posted in Blogger, Custom Domain Name, DNS |

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May

31

2007

How to use a custom DNS name with blogger

Posted on 10:55, May 31st, 2007 by Many Ayromlou

So I finally broke down and registered nerdlogger.com with easydns.com. I’ve used their service for my own ayromlou.ca canadian domain, so I figured, why not. Under ayromlou.ca I was doing all kinds of redirects to get www.ayromlou.ca to point to nerdlogger.blogspot.com (which is the standard addressing scheme for blogs on blogger). Now, here is how I got my custom domain name (nerdlogger.com) to work:

Obviously first register your domain name. I went over to easydns.ca (.com is the same company) and registered nerdlogger.com (I use the DNS-Only service & Registry Fees)
Give them about 2-4 hours to propagate the DNS information. Do not change anything during this time.
Now after about 4 hours go back and login. You should see the Members page and somewhere in there there should be a listing of the domains you own under domain settings. Click the DNS command next to the domain you want to use and you should see a page with a bunch of stuff relating to your brand new domain.
Scroll down to hosts section and delete all the predefined hosts (click the check box next to them and delete).
Now on that same page (you might have to navigate back to it from the members page) under aliases setup a CNAME (alias) for www with the corresponding A Record (host) for ghs.google.com and press next to submit it. Make sure it says www only and ghs.google.com and nothing else.
Now you have to wait another couple of hours for the new information to propagate.
Log back into your easydns account and check the domain information page it should have a CNAME (alias) for www.yoursite.com. (Note the terminating DOT) and a Point to A Record (host) of ghs.google.com. (Note the terminating DOT).
Now log into your blogger account and switch to the settings page. Look under publishing tab and select Switch to: Custom Domain. Fill the Your Domain field with www.yoursite.com and press Save Settings.
Wait another 10 minutes and try going to http://www.yoursite.com and/or http://yoursite.com. Both should work at this point.

Posted in Blogger, Custom Domain Name, DNS |

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May

25

2007

Flock Rules…..

Posted on 23:38, May 25th, 2007 by Many Ayromlou

This is my first post using a new Browser named Flock. Flock is a OSX native browser based on firefox code, but with lots of neat ideas integrated inside. One thing I really like is the blogging feature right in the browser, Browse, Find, Highlight, Blog…..It’s real easy. Try it for yourself http://www.flock.com

Posted in Blogger, Flock, OSX |

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May

25

2007