In Firefox, you can automate file upload by simple using the “selenium.type” method over the file selector.

Selenium.type("/input[@name=image_file]");

However, the type method doesn’t work in Internet explorer because of security restrictions. Internet Explorer doesn’t allow you to change the value of file inputs through JavaScript. So, I did a little research on how I can automate the process in Internet Explorer. There seems to be a few solutions to this problem but none of them really solved mine because all of the solutions are for those who are not using selenium RC or are not using RC server in a remote machine. In my case, selenium RC is located in a remote machine and all my java classes in a separate controller machine. This makes it difficult to invoke autoit scripts as it is mentioned in most of the available solutions. Some of the methods I tried are:

1. Using selenium.attachFIle: Selenium has an api for automating file uploads and is provided as the attachFile method. However, this method is supported in Firefox only and doesn’t work with Internet Explorer.
2. Using native keys to type in the characters: Selenium RC has apis for generating native keyboard events. This method can be used to automate keyboard events in the OS level and outside the web browser. I also tried this in Internet Explorer, but once I click the browse button and the file selector popups, selenium gets blocked and the keys could not be typed without manual intervention
3. Using AutoIT with Selenium: One most popular method of automating the file upload is to use an autoit script in conjuction with selenium. However this also had it’s own problem. I couldn’t invoke the autoit script from my test script as I was running selenium RC in a remote machine. I found another interesting post about this method here – http://automationtricks.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-upload-file-in-selenium.html

THE FIX

After a series of trials, I could finally automate the file upload scenario in Internet explorer. The fix was to upgrade my selenium from 1.x to 2.x (or webdriver). Unlike selenium 1.x, webdriver is not javascript driven and is not as restricted as javascript driven selenium 1.x. However, upgrading from 1.x to webdriver was a mess because all my test cases were then not working as expected in firefox. So, i did a little hack here to make sure web driver is used only in case of Internet explorer. Given below are the changes I made.

Before:

DefaultSelenium selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost",4444,"*iexplore","http://www.example.com");
selenium.start();

After:

WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"),DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer());
DefaultSelenium selenium = new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver,"http://www.example.com"));

With this code change, we are now using web driver backed selenium, and because of this, the selenium.type method can be used without any security restrictions. As a result, my file upload automation was run successfully. Well, thanks to those guys working on web driver.

In fact, many of the limitations of selenium 1.x have been addressed by web driver and there’s a properly documented section on migrating selenium 1.x to webdriver. If you are facing any issues with selenium 1.x, you might try upgrading to web driver. More details on the upgrade process are available here – migrating from selenium 1.x to web driver. Well, if you find anything interesting, feel free to share it here.

But then, what about the bucks I get from kontera? I went to their site and just checked my last quarter earnings and it was pathetic. Who’s gonna sacrifice the speed of their blog for a few bucks a quarter. Maybe i’ll try something like infolinks but not kontera. Not anymore. Well, if you have kontera and your blog is taking too much time, removing the kontera ad code is the first thing I’ll suggest you to do. And after that, you can start looking for “i like taking time to load” plugins in firebug.

I just created a squidoo lens on proxy sites just to promote my sites. But I found out that squidoo has lots and lots of stuffs from which you can earn constantly. If you go to the proxy sites lens on squidoo, you will find out a section which consists of amazon products for sale. When some reader clicks on this sale and buy it, Squidoo earns the commission from amazon and shares its earnings with you. Similarly, there are other modules like Ebay, donations, etc. which can let you earn commissions when users buy through your lens.

So, how do you earn from squidoo? All you have to do is to have a Paypal account. Create a Squidoo lens on some topic and add the modules amazon, ebay and donations. Now, you can start promoting your squidoo lens by sharing it with your fiends on digg, stumbleupon, twitter, etc. The more visitors you have, the more earnings you will have. So, try it out and start earning online. Well, its all for free, so you don’t have to worry at all.

And lastly, I’ve given a very easy way to install these plugins one at a time. No need to download each and every plugin. Just read the instructions given at the bottom of this post and you will be able to install these plugins within 5 minutes.
Now, let’s have a look at the top 25 essential wordpress plugins:

1. Adsense Manager: An Ad Manager which saves the codes of all your ad networks like Adsense, Adbrite, Commission Junction, CrispAds, ShoppingAds, Yahoo! PN, WidgetBucks, Bidvertiser, or any HTML code. It is easy to use and adds an ad selector in your blog’s text editor. The ad codes can be easily called within posts or in template files.
2. Akismet: WordPress’s spam protection plugin. Checks comments to your blog for spams.
3. All in One SEO Pack: Adds options for customizing the title, meta description, meta keywords, etc. of your blog or posts or categories or tags pages for SEO.
4. Feedburner FeedSmith: Redirects all your RSS subscribers and Links to your feed at feedburner thereby increasing your feedburner rss subscribers’ count.
5. Get Recent Comments: Lists recent comments with fully customizable template.
6. Google XML Sitemaps: Creates a dynamically created google compliant Sitemap of your blog. Any new post or page created will be automatically added into the sitemap. Good for SEO.
7. MyAdManager: Ad manager for selling 125×125 adspaces in your blog with paypal payment form.
8. My Page Order: Adds a drag and drop feature for arranging the order of pages in your blog.
9. NextGEN Gallery: A highly advanced Gallery. User can add a number of galleries with images which can be easily viewed through its own slideshow widget and picture viewers.
10. Plugin Central: A very useful plugin which can directly install any plugin provided its name or link to zip file is known.
11. Revision Control: Limit or manage the revisions of your posts.
12. runPHP: Allows the user to add a PHP code within the post and run it dynamically.
13. Simple Tags: A complete solution for tag management with features like mass tag edit, auto tags, tag suggestion from yahoo, etc.
14. Subscribe To Comments: Adds a check option for subscribing to comments in a every post.
15. Top Commentators Widget: Displays the top commentators in your blog.
16. Viper’s Video Quicktags: A very useful plugin for integrating youtube, googlevideo and many other video features to your blog.
17. WordPress.com Stats: Displays your blog statistics from wordpress.com in real time.
18. WordPress Automatic Upgrade: Allows automatic upgrade of your wordpress version.
19. WordPress Database Backup: Back up your database and download the backup or configure it to send regular backups of your blog to your email.
20. WordPress Thread Comment: Adds a feature of replying to comments made by other people.
21. WP-PageNavi: Adds a page navigation to your wordpress blog.
22. WP-Polls: Enables you to add polls to your post with WP-Polls.
23. WP-PostRatings: Adds a star rating feature into your blog.
24. WP Super Cache: Caches the posts and pages into static pages for faster loading.
25. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin: Displays a number of posts related to a particular post/page.

Now, you have the list of the top 25 essential wordpress plugins but would you waste 5 minutes for installing each of these 25 plugins manually? No, you can install these plugins all at once with one easy step. To install the plugins at once, read How to install many plugins at once. After you have installed Plugin Central, copy and paste the following list of plugin names and urls in the specified field in plugin central’s options page and your installation of the above plugins will be completed within a few minutes.

AdSense Manager
Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
cforms
Get Recent Comments
Google XML Sitemaps
MyAdManager
My Page Order
Revision Control
runPHP
Simple Tags
Subscribe To Comments
Top Commentators Widget
Viper’s Video Quicktags
WordPress.com Stats
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
WordPress Database Backup
Wordpress Thread Comment
WP Super Cache
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nextgen-gallery.zip

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-pagenavi.2.40.zip

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-polls.2.40.zip

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-postratings.1.40.zip

Steps to Install many wordpress plugins at once using plugin central:

1. Log into your wordpress admin control panel.
2. Goto Plugins->Plugin Central.
   
3. In the Plugin Central Options page, enter all the names or urls of the wordpress plugins you want to install int the field provided and click install.
4. Now, goto plugins page and activate all the plugins by using the bulk update feature.
5. If some plugins can’t be installed enter their download urls and the plugin will be installed.

And that’s it! Any number of plugins can be installed at once by following the above steps. Well, hope that helps. And if there’s any problem you got there, feel free to leave a comment here. Cheers.

There are many proxy keywords which are searched in hundreds everyday but the problem you will face is that in many of these keywords, high PR websites have topped the list and therefore, it will be hard for you to get a good Search Engine Ranking. So, finally the problem comes down to finding a good keyword(s) for your proxy site. If you choose the proxy keyword wisely, it would be much easier to top in the search engine results page thereby maximizing your revenues.

The search for good keywords is the tough part. Many people are even selling good keywords for high price. This is because searching keywords takes time, skill and many more. But today, I’m going to share some keywords that I searched for my own proxies. Just so you know, I have been searching a lot about proxies and I’m going to use these keywords for optimizing my sites. But the thing is that there are still places and positions in the results that you can occupy – maybe better or worse than mine. Now, let’s see the keywords listed below.

• Proxy sites
• Proxys
• School proxy
• URL Proxy
• Proxy bypass
• Proxy site
• New Proxy
• Free proxy server
• Free proxy list
• Anonymous proxies
• Free web proxy
• Free anonymous proxy
• orkut proxy
• proxy host

* The above list is arranged in DESCENDING ORDER of SEARCH VOLUMES as per details given by Google adwords keyword tool.

** Clicking them will show the Google search page for that keyword.

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