http://www.onlinenerd24.de iPhone, SEO, Marketing Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:22:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The XBMC Team has made the Apple TV so much better just a couple of days ago by releasing XBMC for iOS. Unfortunately I ran into some issues when I wanted to play back MKV files with AC3 surround sound. The audio channels were all mixed up. Center speaker came from back right, front right [...]]]> http://www.onlinenerd24.de/2011/01/24/audio-channels-mixed-up-on-xbmc-on-apple-tv-2/ Launchbar and 1Password are two of these nifty tools, that make working on OSX both even more easy and fun. Unfortunately starting 1Password with LaunchBar does not work, because as soon as you type in the “1″, LaunchBar goes into calculator mode. You could of course disable the calculator, but I personally need this function [...]]]> http://www.onlinenerd24.de/2010/12/16/starting-1password-with-launchbar/ If you have a US-based iTunes Store account, but access the store with the new Apple TV from outside the US, you shouldn’t be able to rent TV shows. The store only shows the “Preview” button, then actual “Rent for 0,99$” button is missing. Apple obviously does a IP location lookup due to TV licensing [...]]]> http://www.onlinenerd24.de/2010/10/19/renting-us-tv-shows-on-apple-tv-outside-the-us/ Was schon seit Monaten die Runde macht, wurde jetzt von Google bestätigt. Die Ladegeschwindigkeit einer Webseite kann ihr Ranking beeinflussen. In den Google Webmaster Tools gibt es schon seit längerem unter dem Punkt “Labs”->”Site Performance” Details zu der Pagespeed, wie Google (oder besser: der Googlebot) sie sieht. Interessant ist dabei besonders der Graph, der die [...]]]> http://www.onlinenerd24.de/2010/04/09/webseiten-beschleunigen/ Ibator (formerly knows as ‘Abator’) is an invaluable code generator to create all necessary code to access database tables with the (also pretty invaluable) Java OR framework Ibatis. Ibator creates a variety of SQL code to easily build here-clauses to acces your tables. The one thing that is missing is support for the SQl “limit” [...]]]> http://www.onlinenerd24.de/2010/02/20/adding-plugins-to-ibator/ Update: The Standard Definition version of episode 2 has now been uploaded. Still nothing in HD though. But I think this is pointing to a technical problem at Apple. Way to screw up on the premiere day of one the best shows on TV, Apple! Last night the final season of LOST started. Apple offers [...]]]> http://www.onlinenerd24.de/2010/02/03/are-abc-and-apple-screwing-over-lost-fans/ Check the indexes fo your Mysql tables, kids Because this happens when you’ve got a rather complicated join over two not even very big tables. Mysql “slow statements” keep ramping up, consuming a lot of cpu time and (more importantly clogging Mysql, so that other statements have to wait quite a while.]]> http://www.onlinenerd24.de/2010/02/02/visualization-of-an-unindexed-join-in-mysql/ Google Analytics displays Image Search as “Refering Sites”, not “Search Engine”. Since I have quite some traffic coming from Image Search I really wanted to know what keywords people were using. Internet Marketing Insight has a great solution that will do exactly that. (I never got other solutions that did the URL rewriting in Javascript [...]]]> http://www.onlinenerd24.de/2010/01/20/google-image-search-as-a-search-engine-in-google-analytics/ Apple only “allows” certain (rather ugly) colors to be set as a solid background color on OS X. I don’t even want to go into how utterly stupid I think this is… Ok, here’s how you can easily set an arbitrary color on OS X. Save this 1×1 transparent PNG to your “Pictures” directory. Open [...]]]> http://www.onlinenerd24.de/2010/01/19/how-to-set-a-arbitrary-background-color-for-os-x-desktop/ Couple of weeks ago I signed up with Admob to try out their iPhone In-App advertising system. Since then Admob has been bought by Google, btw… I implemented the Admob API into one of my most downloaded free apps, which was really easy. Just add a few libs and classes, place a view and you [...]]]> http://www.onlinenerd24.de/2009/12/13/using-admob-to-monetize-your-iphone-application/