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This article was written on August 15, 2008 by CyberNet.

Google has finally begun migrating RSS feeds that are being hosted on Feedburner over to Google’s own servers. It’s been over a year since Google acquired Feedburner, and since then the service’s 1.92 million feeds have generally been untouched. Why now? Google has begun rolling out Adsense for feeds after closing the doors on Feedburner’s CPM-based advertising solution. Before you can place ads in your feeds, however, you’ll need to migrate them over to Google’s servers.

How do you do that? Google has posted instructions, and surprisingly the migration is manually done by the Adsense team:

To migrate all of your feeds, and your account from feeds.feedburner.com to Google, please contact us at adsense-support-aff@google.com and provide the following information:

• Your FeedBurner account username
• The Google Account email address you use to sign in to AdSense

We did this yesterday at 3:39PM, and as of 6:44AM our account was transitioned over. The only problem we had was that our feed subscribers dropped by over 2,500, but the Adsense team promptly responded to my inquiry about that:

Your subscriber numbers should come back within 24 hours. It has to do with timing of the various pollers versus the time we did the migration. As all traffic migrates over, your traffic numbers should be reported correctly.

No traffic was lost, it is just that a portion of yesterday is tracked on the old system.

Other than that everything was pretty smooth. Since we do use Feedburner MyBrand I went and changed the CNAME entry in my DNS record to:

feeds CNAME ghs.google.com.

Google didn’t say that I had to do it, but I thought I would just to be on the safe side.

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When the 2011 Lincoln MKZ goes on sale this fall, the base price will be $35,180, regardless of whether you opt for the gasoline engine or the hybrid version of the midsize Lincoln sedan. With price parity, the take rate for MKZ hybrids should go up, and with quantity, some of the costs of the hybrid components should come down. It may force other automakers to rethink the $2,000-$3,000 premiums that hybrids typically command. But that probably won’t extend to entry-level hybrids in the $20,000 range.

With the iControlPad seemingly slipping further and further from reality, iPhone gamers with an affinity for buttons have fewer reasons to get out of bed in the morning and face the world. If that’s you then it’s time to wake up, Sunshine, because the iPhone Game Pad is here to bring a little light to your life. It’s a somewhat chubby slip-on case that, as of now, works only with the original model iPhone. (There’s a 3G/3GS model to come.) On the face it offers four primary control buttons plus a D-pad, what appears to be Select and Start buttons, plus a pair of shoulder buttons atop. This combination should make it perfect for emulation hounds or any ‘ol heathen who values tactility over design purity. As of now it’s just a prototype, but if you have the resources to bring this thing to production the folks at CP Design who crafted it would surely love to hear from you.

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The Sony VAIO P: it’s a lovely little, pocket-friendly machine that suffers from one glaring flaw: high price. Leave it to the boffins at Sony Style to come up with a solution for that. No, not Sony’s Sony Style retailer, but rather KIRF manufacturer Sony Style, which has crafted this 1.6GHz Atom-powered mini laptop with a 1024 x 600, 8.9-inch screen and a “16GB hard disk” that is either actually an SSD or was manufactured sometime in the late ’90s. It offers 1GB of memory (double that for $35 more), WiFi and, according to the specs, “you can carry it to go outside.” The price for that kind of convenience? Just $299 — or $275 if you buy 16 of ’em. Who wants to set up the group buy?

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David Hobby, the man responsible for re-lighting the enthusiasm for off-camera flash (and driving up second-hand prices of the same) has turned his lens on slavery. Not the unpaid servant kind, but the flash-triggering kind. A new article over at the Strobist blog (which you really should be subscribed to) details the different kinds of slaves, and how they work.

A slave unit is a simple trigger which closes a switch when it sees another flash. Thus, you can control many flashes from afar without wires. And while the operation is all-manual, slaving an old flashgun is way cheaper than buying the auto-everything strobes from Canon and Nikon.

There are two kinds: passive and powered. Read David’s excellent (and entertaining) post for the full run down, but the short form is that you should avoid passive units, which rely on gathering enough photons through their eyes to fire a trigger, and go for the powered units, which are a lot more sensitive. The best option is to only buy speed-lights with built-in slaves, as you don’t then have to drop extra cash on expensive adapter dongles.

A flash like the LP160 (which we reviewed a couple weeks back) is ideal. It’s cheap ($160) and the slave unit popped the flash every time in testing.

Failing this, you should buy the most expensive slave unit you can afford, otherwise you’ll suffer the rage-inducing frustrations of missed exposures. David tells us where to buy, and what buzzwords to look out for. Go read the article, and wait for part two, which will tell you how to get the most out of your brand new toy.

Understanding and Using Optical Slaves, Pt. 1 [Strobist]

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