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Windows Live free Winamp skin
2007-08-04 04:15:00 If Winamp is your media player on Windows , and if you’re a fan of Windows Live - here’s something for you. As you know, Winamp supports skins - you can always download one from the Skin s Repository on the Winamp site and give it a cool new look. Today, I found a stunning, yet free Winamp Skin ... More About: Free
Ultimate Guide to time saving for Bloggers - Tips and Resources
2007-08-02 17:28:00 Blogging has become your hobby, or is your profession. You’re loving it, yet you’re getting too little time to focus on content. Time management is a good thing to do, and here go some time saving tips for you: Desktop Blog Clients Desktop blogging clients like Windows Live Writer and BlogDesk can save you quite a ... More About: Resources , Tips , Bloggers , Guide
Firefox Cakes
2007-08-01 17:00:00 Just found these photographs of two hilarious cakes that you’ll love for sure: Licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Copyrighted image Images are properties of their respective owners More About: Firefox , Cakes
The best of July, and some site news
2007-08-01 16:12:00 The past month, I managed to increase my organic search traffic a bit, and I’m happy that many people took time to comment on this blog. I’ve also managed to bring up the feed count up by over 90 or so I guess, and I’m still working on getting more readers via RSS and email. I’m also ... More About: News , Site News , Site , July , The Best Of
Link Bombs!
2007-07-30 16:37:00 Hi there! It’s been a long time since I gave out links. Just wanted to reciprocate to all those guys who’ve linked to me in the past few weeks! So here we go! I’m also anxiously waiting for the PageRank bar to turn green here, my wishes to all of you too! General Blogging Tips, ... More About: Link , Bombs
3 Windows Vista themes for Windows XP
2007-07-29 12:18:00 The best thing about Vista than anything else is probably the eye candy that it offers. Not all people can afford Vista though, so most of you are content with Windows XP. Still, you can quench your thirst a bit with some Vista style themes for Windows XP. Just by downloading Visual styles and installing them, ... More About: Windows Vista , Themes , Windows Xp
3 Column WordPress themes: My Picks
2007-07-28 15:41:00 Over the past few months, I’ve experimented with quite a number of WordPress themes, most of them with a 3-column layout. I wanted to share some of my favourite 3 column themes with you. So here are some of my 3 favourite 3 column themes for WordPress. Daily Blog Tips Theme Demo | Download Fluid Solution Demo | ... More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Themes , Themes , Column
4 WordPress plugins to spice up your blog?s comment section
2007-07-27 15:20:00 Readers’ comments matter to every blog on earth. Why not you enhance the comments layout on your blog with these plugins? MyAvatars MyAvatars WordPress plugin displays a reader’s MyBlog Log avatar near his/her comment. See your reader’s faces, or their funny avatars. WP Grins WP Grins displays clickable smileys near the comments text box. Let your readers add some dash ... More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Plugins , Plugins , Comment
BananaScreen: Your face is your password
2007-07-24 14:33:00 Folks at BananaSecurity have created a program by the name BananaScreen that makes your face your password. All that you need is the BananaScreen software, a webcam and some space in your hard disk. Your facial details are analysed and are stored in binary format - no other application will be able to access that data. Spyware ... More About: Password , Face , Sword , Nana , Cree
Make XP start menu look like Windows Vista?s
2007-07-21 12:59:00 Felt that the Windows XP start menu is too boring? Here's how you can bring a Windows Vista style start menu to Windows XP More About: Start Menu , Start
Windows Tip: Set priorities to application tasks
2007-07-20 17:35:00 Ever felt helpless when an anti-spyware program slows down your computer killing the program you’re currently using? There have been times when an unneeded application pops up when you’re doing something very important on another one. You get annoyed, turn the program off.. but the work you did on the other app is gone, or ... More About: Windows , Application , Tasks , Task
Web 2.0 Logo Design: Video tutorials
2007-07-16 17:18:00 Here comes a cool list of some awesome Web 2.0 Logo Creation Video Tutorials . If you can’t watch them on your RSS reader, please spare a minute to visit the site Photoshop Tutorials How to create a complete Web 2.0 Styled Logo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pOkaC4eHs E Simple, yet lovely Web 2.0 Logo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA8NKzPvNB M Web 2.0 Logo with simple reflections http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MymMvsCurF c GIMP Tutorial Web 2.0 Logo, reflections and badges ... More About: Design , Rial
Tools to print blog posts
2007-07-14 08:37:00 If you’ve built up a huge amount of quality articles on your blog that are worth preserving, and reading offline - you may want to give your readers a choice to print out content. It isn’t that tough to do that, so here goes a list of three tools that let you integrate a print ... More About: Tools , Blog , Print , Posts
DailyBlogTips Project Three: My Picks
2007-07-14 06:32:00 Recently, I participated in Daily Blog Tips.com’s Project Three (you can read my entry here). The contest got 115 entries in total, and here goes a list of my favourites: Joel: 3+3+3 places to get free icons - Some free, and excellent icon resources here. Neatly presented. Bes: 3 reasons why Daily Blog Tips sucks: Catchy ...
Google Global Search Firefox Extension
2007-07-13 18:28:00 Google Global is a handy Firefox Extension that lets you easily navigate to a local Google search result page (like google.co.in, google.co.uk, etc.) to view the search results for a particular term. Google Global can be used in two ways. From the context menu or from the toolbar. The easiest way to use Google Global is ... More About: Google , Search
8 random facts about me
2007-07-13 16:26:00 Ignore the emoticons… I’m a vegetarian You must have seen this on this blog’s about page earlier I haven’t learnt any computer related stuff except HTML formally. Hehe I don’t know any programming language. I’m a news freak. If I’m on TV, I must be watching a news channel 90% of the time. I hate ... More About: Facts , Random
Showing some link love
2007-07-12 15:02:00 Before I get to link to those rocking posts by fellow bloggers, let me tell you about Kuanhoong’s blog that lets you make money at home. He brings some rocking posts like how you can drive traffic to your blog from Twitter, the importance of Keyword Selection, has a useful guide on using Google Webmaster ... More About: Love , Link , Some
3 WordPress plugins to increase RSS readers
2007-07-08 11:39:00 Increasing the number of RSS feed readers of your blog is an important part of building a larger reader base. More RSS readers means more chances of your content being noticed, read, more links, more comments, returning visitors and many more. If you’re on WordPress, the following plugins may help in building RSS subscribers: 1. What would ... More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Plugins , Readers , Plugins , Ease
Make your WordPress blog more Search Engine friendly
2007-07-07 11:03:00 Search Engine Optimization is an important part of making your blog more visible to search engines, and if you’ve got a blog that’s optimized for search engines, with unique content you’re gonna get hell lot of traffic for sure. So, here’s a short and simple post on 3 little things you can do to make ... More About: Wordpress , Search , Search Engine , Blog
Try out the new StumbleUpon Profile interface now!
2007-07-05 16:31:00 Hey guys! I’ve become a StumbleUpon fan now! And guess what? StumbleUpon is sporting a cool new interface. Activate the new interface from here. What’s new: “What’s New” - Find out what your friends are doing & saying Try the simplified navigation where all the things you want to do are right at your fingertips Use the Integrated ... More About: Profile , Interface , Stumbleupon , Bleu , Profil
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2007-07-04 13:42:00 The title is weird, isn’t it? Made with the Flip Text Generator which flips vertically the text you enter.
June Round-up
2007-07-03 14:34:00 June has ended and it’s already July 3. Let me put together the popular posts in the last thirty days. Didn’t check them? Here’s a second chance for you 11 things to do before you hit the Publish button - Blogging Tip Here’s a checklist of 11 things that you shouldn’t forget to do when ... More About: June , Round Up , Round
A look at Pownce
2007-07-01 15:01:00 Just got invited to Pownce by Kuanhoong and I’m trying it out. What’s Pownce? If you didn’t know, it’s Kevin Rose’s (the Digg guy) latest start up. In short, Twitter with added features. That’s Pownce. The sign up form requires you to post the usual details: name, location, email and an avatar. The persons you invite ... More About: Look
Links this Sunday
2007-07-01 07:17:00 The time has come again to send out links Here are some great posts that I read this week: Nirmal reviewed the iBall 2 GB Flash Drive: The USB drive is extremely compact, light weight and can be carried even in the wallet, but you need to be careful with the body as it can damage ... More About: Links , Sunday
Cool free stuff for your blog
2007-06-30 17:00:00 You’ve started blogging, and you’re writing good posts. Your blog could get even more better with a lot of free, cool stuff available online. Let me list some cool, general resources that will surely help in spicing up your blog. Images Quite a lot of resources are available online for free stock images but it takes time ... More About: Free Stuff , Cool , Free , Blog , Stuff
ReviewBack: Exchange free blog reviews
2007-06-29 17:06:00 You’ve seen ReviewMe, SponsoredReviews and other services that pay bloggers for reviews you write on products. Here comes another one with a really cool concept: ReviewBack Here’s how it works: All blogs that have signed up with ReviewBack network are listed in this page. Sign up, add your blog and contact the other blogs in the network for mutual ... More About: Free , Blog , Exchange , Chang
Things to look for in a WordPress theme
2007-06-27 16:45:00 The following post reflects my personal thoughts and opinions, and is well suited for blogs of a similar niche like mine. The design of a blog is as much important as it’s content. I believe that a site’s design need not be highly exquisite, but usable. So assuming that you have a WordPress blog or is ... More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Theme , Theme , Things , Thing
Blogging: 11 things to do before you hit the Publish button
2007-06-25 15:08:00 As a blogger, you write a lot of posts - many a time, you edit them again after publishing. Atleast, I do Sometimes, you forget the most important - and then go back and edit. So, here’s a checklist to help you out: Read twice. If you think you can write something better, do it. ... More About: Blogging , Button , Publish , Things , Thing
Pidgin: Notifications when a buddy comes online
2007-06-24 16:15:00 Pidgin is now becoming the popular choice for a multi-protocol messenger where in you can connect to different networks that include Google Talk, Yahoo, etc. Pidgin, by default, does not notify you when a buddy comes online. But you can activate that feature. It’s known as Buddy Pounce on Pidgin. Here’s how: First, login to your configured ... More About: Online , Line , Pidgin
Windows XP: How to add Safe Mode to Boot list?
More articles from this author:2007-06-24 15:09:00 Once in a while, you might want to switch to the Safe Mode in Windows during boot to solve some problems on your computer. If you find it hard to boot into safe mode by pressing the F8 key - you can add the safe mode to the Windows XP boot list. Windows will ... More About: List , Windows Xp 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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