Category: Useful

ASP.NET Site Move HTTP to HTTPS, Refresh Google Indexing

NG Asp.Net, Code, How to, Useful

When a site is moved from HTTP to HTTPS which is already indexed by Google, we must add a new property for the HTTPS URL in Goolge search console. When Google tries to index the site and it finds HTTP URL indexed for the same page, it will mark the HTTPS pages as canonical. We should use “301 Moved Permanently” to tell Google that HTTP URLs are moved to HTTPS and Google should prefer HTTPS over HTTP. Here is a sample code to be used in an ASP.NET web application for 301 moved status

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Install Free SSL from Let’s Encrypt to Godaddy Shared Windows Hosting – Plesk

NG GoDaddy Hosting, Hosting, How to, Useful

Many web hosting providers support and automatically enable Let’s Encrypt and redirect http to https by default. GoDaddy does not yet support it but we can manually install and configure our sites on GoDaddy shared hosting to support SSL. This is done in two steps. In the first step, we need to generate certificates from a certificate authority (CA) and then in the second step, we need to download generated certificates and upload it to the GoDaddy servers and configure it there. Support for third-party SSLs on GoDaddy While generating SSL certificates for our domain, we will also need to verify domain ownership to CA. In order to verify domain ownership using HTTP verification, we will need to create appropriate files with specific text strings under “httpdocs/.well-known/pki-validation/” directory on our web server. We also need to make sure that those appropriate files are accessible in the directory. We will first[…]

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SadTalker ERROR: No matching distribution found for torch==1.12.1+cu113

NG AI, How to, Python, Useful

If you have Python 3.11 installed on your system, you will get this error when running the webui.bat file for setting up the SadTalker since it does not yet support Python 3.11. The solution is to install previous version of Python (in my case I did Python 3.8 as specified in the dependecies section of cog.yaml which downloaded with the SadTalker code). We will use conda to create a virtual environment just for SadTalker and then use it from there. The first step is to make sure we have Anaconda installed on our system. If not then download and install it from here. Make sure to follow the steps here for downloading the SadTalker files. Launch Anaconda Powershell and run following command to create a new environment for older version of python. Now activate the environment Make sure to validate that it is using desired version of python by checking[…]

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Install SadTalker on Windows

NG AI, How to, Python, Useful

Prerequisites: Install ffmpeg on windows In order to install ffmpeg on windows go to https://ffmpeg.org/download.html Follow steps mentioned here is install ffmpeg on your system. https://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows Now go to SadTalker Github page https://github.com/OpenTalker/SadTalker Go the the dev branch and click on README.md Go to the Download Trained Models section and click on the higlighed link to go to the SadTalker v0.0.2 rc Release Note page Download first four assets and Source Code.zip file Unzip Source code.zip file to a folder. We are are going to extract it to SadTalker-0.0.2-rc folder. In this folder manually create “checkpoints” folder and copy four .tar and .safetensors files in it once those also get downloaded. Open command prompt and go to SadTalker directory. There you would find webui.bat file. Run this file in command prompt to finish the setup. This will take a while to download and setup all required packages the first time.[…]

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Business Name Generator

NG Tool, Useful

When you are going to start a new business, the first step is to think of a name for your business. Now with the help of AI, it has become quite easy to generate hundreds of names for your business and pick one which suits the best. Here is one such tool which can generate short, powerful, cachy names for your business using artificial intelligence. https://namelix.com/

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The submitted icon is not shown AND/OR does not match the branding currently shown on the homepage.

NG Android, Issue, Useful

I recently submitted a Google Play Games Services project for an Android game in order to add leaderboard/achievements capability in the game and my submission for OAuth Consent Screen was rejected for the following issue My app was using the same icon which was uploaded for the Android game in the developer console. I uploaded the same icon a few times thinking that probbaly it’s the issue with icon format and kept getting rejected wih the same message. Finally I asked what do they mean by home page and in reply I received the ico file form my authorized domain website which did not match with the icon uploaded in the OAuth screen. I uploded the same icon image in the OAuth screen which was used in my authorized domain website (also hosting privacy policy) and finally OAuth consent screen was approved by Google.

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