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Links
2007-06-24 07:58:00 This week’s link batch.. I really liked the articles Nirmal posted this week Unlimited email addresses with one Gmail Account - Nirmal Important things to do while changing WordPress themes - Nirmal, again Online YouTube Video Editor - YouTube Remixer - Dj Increase Productivity with the MeeTimer Firefox Extension - Gili Free PDF Compressor tool ... More About: Links
101 Spock invites to give away
2007-06-21 15:27:00 Spock is the online leader in personal search, helping users find and discover people. With over one hundred million people already indexed and millions added every day, Spock is building the broadest and deepest people specific search engine. TechCrunch has an extensive report on Spock, the People search engine Spock just gave people 101 invites and I’m ... More About: Spock , Give , Invite , Away
Blogger can make things better
2007-06-20 15:55:00 [This post is a part of Techie Buzz’s Make things better train] Though I’ve moved to WordPress, I still have a little place for Google’s free blog hosting service, Blogger - in my heart. It’s a good platform, very useful for blogging newbies. But it needs quite a lot of improvements. Here’s what I would like ... More About: Things , Bett , Thing
Have fun
2007-06-19 15:20:00 School just re-opened. I’ll be back with some good stuff soon. Till then, Enjoy. More on Blaugh
WordPress: Top Commentators Plugin Options
2007-06-17 08:52:00 Mostly everyone who has a WordPress blog has started using the Top Comm entators Plugin . Unfortunately, this plugin doesn’t have a preferences page so you’ve to modify its options only using the Plugin Editor available at Plugins >> Plugin Editor. Don’t worry, modifying the options for the Top Commentators plugin isn’t that tough using the editor. It’s ... More About: Wordpress , Options , Opti
Quick Links
2007-06-17 06:14:00 Spreading some link love… Tips to increase comments on your blog - Nirmal Blogging Strategy: Promote your blog with a T-Shirt - Dj Flush Humour: The evolution of a programmer - Joel Adsense Mistakes that you shouldn’t commit - Ashish Slow motion animations in Windows Vista - Madhur How to back up Google Calendar? - Gili Wallpapers for your mobile phone - ... More About: Links , Quick
Plans to introduce another low-cost PC in India
2007-06-16 11:12:00 Recently, it was reported that India ’s HRD ministry is planning to introduce $10 laptops to children. Now, Techtree is reporting that Intel may bring it’s low cost classmate PCs to India as part of its World Ahead Program. Pilot tests were conducted in some Delhi schools. Designed for school going children, the classmate PC sports a 900MHz ... More About: Cost , Plans , Plan , Intro
HTML Validator: Firefox Extension
2007-06-16 09:41:00 HTML Vali dator is a Firefox Extension which could be useful for web developers out there. It validates a web page and displays the number of errors and warnings generated during HTML validation in the status bar. Using the HTML Validator Firefox extension, you could also easily access the source code of a web page from the status ... More About: Html
ReminderFox Extension: Reminders and Todos inside Firefox
2007-06-15 14:26:00 If you wanna boost your productivity, try Remi nder Fox, an extension to Firefox which you can use to set reminders and todos from inside Firefox. Organize your day with ReminderFox. You’ve eliminated the use of a third party application. On installing the extension, you’ll find a ribbon-like icon on the bottom right of your browser. Double click ... More About: Inside , Extension
2 free alternatives to the default Windows Uninstaller
2007-06-15 10:34:00 You’re waiting and waiting and waiting. But it doesn’t seem to respond. This is the case with the Add/Remove Programs applet in your Window s XP Control Panel. It’s sluggish and highly annoying, taking a lot of time to start up. It’s high time you start using some alternatives to the built-in Windows XP Uninstaller. Why ... More About: Free , Alternatives , Fault
How to find how many pages of your site are in Google?s supplemental index?
2007-06-13 06:19:00 As Wikipedia puts it: Supplement al Result is a supplementary Google search Index of less important web pages according to the Google Page Rank It is said that the supplemental results are really Google?s way of filtering out duplicate content. Therefore pages that are modified to contain enough unique content will eventually make there way out of the ... More About: Site , Find , How Many
5 things I learnt about StumbleUpon
2007-06-12 15:14:00 I’m unsure as to whether this post is worth it but I decided to publish it. Hope you’ll like it. StumbleUpon is a kind of a social bookmarking network that lets users visit a website randomly based on their interests. Bloggers can use StumbleUpon to get hits to their articles in minutes. Over the ... More About: Things , Learn , Thing , Stumbleupon , Bleu
How to rearrange minimized window buttons in the Taskbar?
2007-06-12 13:37:00 Another feature that I believe Window s lacks by default - it does not allow us to move those buttons of minimized windows on the taskbar. But you can get this functionality by using a third party software. Download Task bar shuffle from here, install it and then move and arrange buttons on your taskbar - just by ... More About: Rear , Butt , Range
Blogroll Page: WordPress Plugin
2007-06-12 09:09:00 For the benefit of SEO, you might have moved your blogroll to a separate page on your blog (instead of having them in the homepage), like I have done here. Remember: less outgoing links, better SEO. But on the down side of it, you have to type in manually all links, instead of using WordPress’s Blogroll ... More About: Wordpress , Page , Plugin , Plug
Safari is now available for Windows
2007-06-12 06:53:00 Apple has now released the Safari Browser for Window s . A very good news for web designers they say. There’s all you need - inbuilt pop-up blocking, bookmarking, tabbed browsing, autofill, built-in RSS reader, and resizable text fields. There’s also a feature called Private Browsing which lets you browse safe online: no cookies, no history, no cache ... More About: Available
Smorty: Another way to earn money via your blog
2007-06-10 17:03:00 Smorty is another way to earn money from your blog. Smorty connects bloggers and advertisers, letting bloggers review advertisers’ services and products. Advertisers can advertise on blogs with quality content to get opinions on their products and services. Blog gers get paid for the reviews approved by advertisers via Paypal. The pay out is weekly, and this ... More About: Money , Earn Money , Earn , Mort
Links
2007-06-10 08:10:00 Link love is good… Free Softwares to connect Sony Ericsson mobile to PC - Nirmal 5 hi-tech USB gadgets - Dj Flush Windows XP Black Zune Theme - Joel How to increase traffic to your blog with Answers.com - Gili Wireless Electricity may become a reality - Ashish How to save streaming video? - Pallab Youtube’s new type of embedded video ... More About: Links
Vote for the Taj, please
2007-06-09 14:54:00 There’s a campaign going on to list the new 7 wonders of the world, you might have known - at new7wonders.com 21 finalists have now been short listed and the new seven wonders will be announced on 07/07/07 - that’s July 07 this year, less than a month from now. These new wonders are selected based on ... More About: Vote , Lease , Ease
Avoid post excerpts from affecting your blog?s RSS feed
2007-06-09 14:30:00 Either for the benefit of increasing page views or for avoiding the problem of duplicate content, you might have decided to display only post excerpts on your home page. You do this by adding the <!–more–> tag to your posts. The reader will be able to glance through entire post only if he clicks on the ... More About: Post , Blog , Feed , Avoid
Tiger Admin WordPress plugin: Polish your WP Control Panel
2007-06-09 08:01:00 Bored by WordPress Dashboard’s default bluish look? You might want to give it a polish. Here’s a plugin to do that: WP Tiger Admin Plugin . It basically uses CSS 2 to redesign your dashboard, and does not mess up with XHTML stuff - so you need not worry about any serious problems. With light colours, and tiny descriptive ... More About: Wordpress , Panel , Control
Your feedback needed
2007-06-09 06:18:00 It’s been over a month over three months since I started writing on this blog and I’ve been writing on a wide variety of content. Just thought I can get your views regarding what you type of articles you would like see on this blog. Please take some time to vote on this poll: (If you can’t ... More About: Feedback
Have you installed the Random Posts plugin?
2007-06-08 15:12:00 Random Redirect is a Wordpress plugin that lets your users to easily visit a randomly picked post from your blog - in StumbleUpon style. May be useful for those lazy readers who feel bored to go through pages and pages of archives and category posts. It’s fun. Just download the plugin from here, install it, activate it, ... More About: Random , Plugin , Plug , Posts
How to upload photos to a Flickr account from Picasa?
2007-06-08 07:36:00 Picasa is a very nifty photo organizer from Google that lets you edit pictures and upload them directly to the Picasa Web Album. The fact is that most people who share photos online use Yahoo’s Flickr . And it’s not possible to upload pictures to your Flickr account from Picasa. But now, Google Operating system points to an ... More About: Photos , Picasa , Load , Count
HappyTxt - What?s your mood?
2007-06-07 13:45:00 Twitter asks you what you’re doing whereas HappyTxt asks you what your mood is. Happy, sad… whatever…. Just type in, add an icon and you’re done. If you like Twitter, you may like HappyTxt. It’s not possible to access HappyTxt I guess, and such a feature will be good. Related PostsNo related posts More About: Mood
Clean up the Windows Explorer Context menu
2007-06-07 10:24:00 If you’re the kind of a person who frequently tries out softwares, chances are your Windows Explorer Context Menu is loaded with unnecessary items. Even worse - these items in the menu don’t go off when you uninstall particular softwares. Geeks can modify the registry to edit the shell context menu, while others like you and ... More About: Clean , Indo
Opera theme for Firefox
2007-06-07 07:58:00 If you like Opera ’s look, but prefer to use Firefox , you can get the Opera theme made for Firefox. Cool, huh? Here’s how Firefox looks after installing this theme: (Resized Image) Not that perfect actually, I should say. You can install the Opera theme for Firefox directly using this link. Warning: This is a third party theme, and is ... More About: Theme
7 Password Don?ts
2007-06-05 13:51:00 Okay it’s a cliche but let me tell you again . Here are my tips: Don’t use phone numbers, birthdays, names of your friends, relatives as a password. Don’t use dictionary words for a password - this is very important. Don’t just use alphabets. Always mix up numbers and symbols, uppercase and lowercase letters. Don’t use the ... More About: Password , Sword
May round-up
2007-06-05 09:25:00 Just thought I can list together last month’s popular posts. So here goes the list: Greasemonkey scripts for Google Reader 3 Twitter Alternatives Windows Hidden Trick: Get the ‘No to all’ function How to turn off / disable annoying Windows Beep sounds Fission Firefox Extension: Progress Bar + Address Bar WordPress Blogging Tip: Optimizing post-slugs for better SEO Renaming the Recycle Bin ... More About: Round Up , Round
Edit YouTube?s .FLV videos with Mojiti
2007-06-04 16:58:00 You’ve watched those stunning videos on YouTube. And that’s not enough for you. You need to edit ‘em. A typical process involves these steps: you have to download the video file in .flv format, convert it to a typical video format (.avi, etc), and then use a software like Windows Movie Maker to edit it and ... More About: Videos , Youtube , Edit
Monitor your computer?s fan speed with SpeedFan
More articles from this author:2007-06-04 13:20:00 Some noise from inside your PC’s cabinet. Probably your computer’s fan is not performing well. Speed Fan is a very useful tool that might come in handy when you need to know your computer’s fan speed and temperatures of your motherboard or hard disk. In addition to this, this software will also be able to analyze your ... More About: Computer , Monitor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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