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Some Quotes on Programmers and Others
2011-03-25 06:40:00
UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity. -Dennis Ritchie Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable. -Ralph Johnson Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. -Fred Brooks It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; ...
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ASUS Announces Plans for a new Quad-Core, 3D Tablet PC
2011-03-18 07:00:00
It seems that despite the announcements made by various companies of their very own tablets such as the Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab and iPad 2, Asus was not taken back as it is likewise in the process of preparing the launch of its very own android tablet to compete with these products. For the past ...
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Verizon officially releasing its Apple iPhone 4
2011-02-02 19:45:00
Verizon will be officially releasing its apple iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2.6 on February 10th. If you are already a Verizon customer then you can pre-order the Verizon CDMA iPhone 4. You can pre-order starting from February 3rd. The latest version of iOS labeled is 4.2.6 which launched yesterday February 1st. This update has been ...
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LG Electronics Plans to Launch its First Tablet PC in March, 2011
2011-02-02 19:41:00
LG Electronics announced today that it?s first tablet PC will be released in the month of March , 2011 in US Market. This product has been made from the G-Slate which runs a HoneyComb Operating System which is designed in the latest Google?s Android platform. The features of G-Slate is 8.9 inch screen, powered by ...
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Optimistic Job Prospects for the Healthcare Information Technology Field
2011-02-02 04:51:00
Are you knowledgeable about computer software and technology? If so, then consider a career in health information technology, or Health IT. According to Information Week, Health IT is the fastest growing sector of the trillion dollar global healthcare marketplace. Positions in the field involve using computer and digital technology to manage and organize patients’ health records. ...
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The Three C?s of Conversion Rate Optimization
2011-01-11 05:44:00
CREDIBILITY, COMMUNICATION and CARE. We all know them, have tried to understand them too, but when it comes to implementation, most of us just ignore some elements in our web design and development which appear ?very obvious?. Many websites despite pumping in huge dollars fail to attract website visitors enough that they take a purchase ...
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Top 10 iPhone Applications (Apps) for kids
2010-10-06 10:09:00
The iPhone has dazzled people across age groups. Kids today are much more comfortable at picking up new technologies than the kids before them. Most of the current generation does not know what old phones, old tape and CD players and old desktop computers look like. They are born in the age of the ...
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10 places to find stuff to share on Facebook
2010-09-16 07:42:00
People today spend more time with their friends on Facebook and other social networking websites. It has its merits as well as demerits. The winner is viral content manufacturers whose creations get spread around much faster now than before. Compared to now, earlier very few people used to download and share interesting movies, songs, pictures ...
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Top 10 Open Source Ecommerce Software
2010-09-13 20:15:00
A lot of people are doing business online thanks to the free availability of “shopping carts” and other ecommerce tools that help businesses to setup “online shops” where their customers can easily shop. More people are adopting ecommerce approach in recent years as the stumbling block of a huge initial investment for software is now ...
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Guest Post - Internet Marketing: Jumping the Shark or Just Catching the Big
2010-06-24 16:26:00
Because of its significant growth over the last few years, the occupation of internet marketing has garnered both accolades and criticism.  It has also spawned a host of myths concerning its viability as a profession.  If you’re someone who is currently engaged in the field of ecommerce, you may have fallen prey to some of ...
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Niche Blogging: Focusing Your Blog Will Bring Traffic
2010-02-18 19:51:00
I am always amazed at how sometimes what should appear to be obvious to most is actually a complete unknown and foreign concept to many.  Let’s take niche blogging for example. Niche Blog ging Defined Dictionary.com defines a niche as “a distinct segment of a market.”  And over at Wikipedia niche blogging is described as “the act of ...
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Content for Humans and Robots
2010-02-16 17:00:00
‘SEO’ has become something of a buzzword for savvy bloggers. Unfortunately, bad SEO has also become the bane of the blogosphere. Keyword stuffed content that makes little sense, nonsensical titles and blogrolls filled with irrelevant links are the waste material of poorly performed SEO. So how can you write content for your blog that appeals ...
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5 extremely powerful PHP tools
2010-02-05 07:31:00
PHP is the most powerful scripting language that is being used today. The performing websites like Facebook, wordpress, Digg and a lot more use PHP. There can be no greater reason why PHP has now become the ultimate choice of programmers worldwide. Here are 5 most important tools that can help you improve the quality ...
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10 social causes on twitter that I find interesting!
2009-12-15 05:50:00
Twitter is a great way to stay connected and informed. But these days, I find Twitter is used to promote so many social causes. And some of these causes are really making an impact. People are listening and talking about them. I was amazed to find so much good work being done in so many ...
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Introductory Guide to Cafe World Game on Facebook
2009-10-12 23:29:00
The rise of social media gaming is not quite anymore. After the stupendous popularity of Farmville on FaceBook, its café World ’s turn now, and Zynga has don’t it yet again. Thanks to Facebook advertising and cross marketing on other popular games on Facebook including Farmville, Café World has moved from 0 to 10 million users ...
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TweetDeck v0.30 connects Twitter, Facebook and MySpace
2009-09-10 21:41:00
The new version of TweetDeck (v0.30) has added MySpace and Facebook into its pack of Twitter powered features. Many users swear by TweetDeck?s groups which allow them to organize their Twitter stream into bite size chunks. The same concept has been applied to Facebook too. TweetDeck users can now organize their friends on Facebook ...
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Extensive Collection of How-to Guides for FarmVille (Facebook)
2009-09-09 09:12:00
Gaming on social media websites is growing at a break neck sped and FarmVille is the best witness for the practice of addictive social media gaming. Games like FarmVille give another reason to spent more time on social media websites. And why not, the incredibly detailed game of farming is the closest you could get to virtual farming. You can plough the land, sow seeds, rear livestock, gift trees and animals to your friends and even customize the way you look as a virtual farmer. Barely weeks after its launch on June 17th, FarmVille has a monthly stats has grown to more than 30 million registered players across the globe, hundreds of them adding each day. FarmVille has received phenomenal success and is all set to become more popular than the massively popular multi player game World of Warcraft. Many people want to be a part of this super popular game and want to move up soon in the game to catch up with their friends who have been farming for quite some time. More and more guides ...
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Email Antivirus Scanners Can Fail. Have a backup option!
2009-09-03 06:40:00
I generally count on Gmail’s virus scanner to scan the emails and report any potential problems and have taken it for granted. That is why I was surprised the other day to get this message: Gmail virus scanner just failed to scan it. I always have my desktop antivirus running so it was not an issue for me but if you do not have it you should. Check out the free alternatives here. Technorati tags: Gmail Themes, Antivirus , Virus Scanner Bookmark to:
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Blatant Copyright Violations by TopSEOs.com
2009-08-11 10:16:00
I have had to deal with lot of copyright violations for the content our writing team generates but most of them have been by small sites who think they will pass through the crack. But I was surprised to see a reputed firm (I am not sure if I can all them reputed) like www.topseos.com following un-enthical practices by violating copyright openly. Our writers publish lot of articles on ezinearticles.com to promote our sites and our client sites. The content published on ezinearticles.com is protected by copyright and they have clearly specified rules on how you can republish them. But TopSEOs.com decided to copy those articles on their site and replaced the links in the author signature with their own links, pointing to their site topseos.com (clear violation of copyright). We published an article on Top 10 must have SEO Tools on ezinearticles.com here: http://ezinearticles.com/?Top-10-Must-Hav e-SEO-Tools&id=2716896 TopSEOs copied the article on their site with our author name an...
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Now it is Super Easy to Create Twitter Like Logos
2009-08-06 06:04:00
Now it is super easy to create twitter like logos using LogoTwitter . This online software allows you to customize the size, border color, text color and background color. Technorati tags: twitter, logo, logo creator Bookmark to:
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Free Norton Antivirus and Internet Security 2010 - Beta Versions
2009-07-26 06:42:00
Norton is letting users download and test drive the beta versions of norton antivirus 2010 and norton internet security 2010. Beta is a pre-release version available for public testing before the final product is released. This version of product works with Windows 7. If you want to keep yourself updated on latest norton beta products you can follow them on twitter: [Norton Beta on Twitter] Bookmark to:
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The latest big news about BINGTWEETS
2009-07-18 08:01:00
For sometime now, Bing as a potential competition to Google was a hot topic of discussion and now there’s more news coming from Bing. And this time its bigger than before. “A collaboration of Bing and Twitter” and a sneak peak into the product of this collaboration “Bing tweets” is already available for trial. Big as it may sound, not many seem to be pleased with the idea after taking a look at it. Here’s how it looks A neat design, but is loaded with more features than you can count. For example, if you search Bing Tweets for “Harry Potter” and on one part of the page, the Bing search results will load, and next to them, recent tweets containing the same term. BingTweets also has a built-in option for tweeting the search result, as well as a “Trending Topics” box that extends beyond Twitter’s top ten to include currently popular topics, places, people, and products. To me, it was all mashed up with way too many results and i feel it actually takes time to ...
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How I Protected My Content Copyright from Online Plagiarism - Stepwise Illu
2009-06-12 13:34:00
There had been plenty of cases of content being stolen by blogs but most of them gave a link back to the source. In this particular case, somebody was stealing my content from article sites onto his blog the very day they got published on the article sites. The worse part was, his pages were getting indexed with the content on search engines (must be pinging the search engines after posting the blog). But on looking deeper I found that the person had copied not only mine but several other author’s articles as well without any credit. I had a strong case. (Source) The blog had no way to contact the author (on purpose I guess) but I left a comment on the copied article and using whois information [What is whois] about the domain, sent an email to the domain contact email as well. Wait for 2-3 days did not result in any mail from the owner. That really pissed me off. This guy dared to copy and then ignored my emails asking him to rectify it. I guess most of the people are not aw...
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8 important ingredients of a high ranking website
2009-05-23 16:05:00
When it comes to making your website search engine optimized, there are quite a few things that can be done to ensure higher rank for your site thus driving more relevant traffic. Here are some of the most important tips that will surely help improve your site rankings on major search engines: Exclusive page titles: Unique and non similar page titles (html title tag) are quite significant when it comes to ensuring that your website gets featured prominently in the search engines. The HTML tags of your pages indicate the essence of your website and make it possible for the search engine robots to crawl it more effectively. Keyword based Links: Search engines are able to look up web pages by linking and interconnecting them with other web pages. If the pages have specific keywords, then it becomes easier to give the page a better rank in terms of the keyword search. Use of Keywords in the pages: It is quite imperative to include well researched keywords on your web pages so that ...
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Username Availability or Vanity URL Check Tool
2009-04-22 14:51:00
Several social networks and bookmarking sites allow you to select vanity url (you can use a keyword part of the url) and am sure all internet marketing professionals understand the value of such keyword rich urls for SEO and Branding purposes. But how do you find if your brand name or the keyword you are after is available as url on major sites? Recently I came across a very useful tool which makes finding vanity urls easy. Visit http://namechk.com/, enter your keyword of choice and see what is the availability across major social networking and bookmarking sites. Easy! Technorati tags: vanity urls, namechk Bookmark to:
More About: Tool , Check , Username , Availability , Vanity

How to get yahoo.com email ID and not a yahoo.in or yahoo.co.uk or other co
2009-01-21 06:05:00
When you go to register with yahoo mail for a new email account, yahoo detects your location based on the IP address and gives you the option of email id only for that country e.g. Europe (UK) Your choice is limited to yahoo.co.uk India: I get the following URL to register with the options of email id as shown: as you can see clearly the choices of my email id  is restricted to yahoo.in, ymail.com and rocketmail.com (I do not get yahoo.com as an option) So what do you do if you for any reason want a generic yahoo.com email id? Here is what you can do, which will allow you to get a yahoo.com email id very easily: Look at the url of the registration page (UK it should be: http://edit.europe.yahoo.com/config/eval_ register?.intl=uk and India: https://edit.india.yahoo.com/registration ?_ea=c6WhqMEzkVUzBxR2F3A4vJk-&_intl=i n) Change the intl=uk or intl=in in the url to intl=us and hit enter. You should have a screen like this to register with a yahoo.com email id: ...
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Top 10 Tips for Google Adwords Quality Score Improvement
2009-01-11 09:39:00
Quality Score is central to the Google Adwords system. Here is what they have to say about the Quality Score: Quality Score for Google and the search network is a dynamic metric assigned to each of your keywords. It’s calculated using a variety of factors and measures how relevant your keyword is to your ad group and to a user’s search query. The higher a keyword’s Quality Score, the lower its cost-per-clicks (CPCs) and the better its ad position. Quality Score for any keyword on Google and the Search network is calculated based on the historical clickthrough rate (CTC) of the keyword and the matched ad, your account history, the historical CTR of the display URL in the ad group, landing page quality, keyword relevance to the ad in its ad group, relevance to the query of the ad text and the keyword, your account’s performance in the geographical region where the ad will be shown and few other factors. High Quality Score not only saves you money but also gi...
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Top Travel and Airline Ticket Booking Sites in India
2009-01-06 10:28:00
Recent years have seen a splurge in new travel booking sites in India . I have had the chance to use a lot of them for my bookings. Here is a list of sites which I feel are good. Remember, all these sites keep offering new deals or another to outbid each other, so you are money conscious, do check few before you decide to buy book your travel plan or airlines ticket. Aggregator Travel Sites (sites which bring to you prices from various other sites at one place, do not sell the tickets but only help you locate tickets and then you book on those sites from the link they provide) http://travel.bixee.com/: offers air (domestic and international), rail, bus and hotel ticket search. It also gives you the fare price graph so that you get an idea on when the prices are low and when high. http://in.farechase.yahoo.com/: Yahoo’s offering for airlines ticket search for domestic flights in India. They have integrated this with Yahoo Messenger so you can your friend can plan for a travel ...
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Misguiding Expert Comments - TATA NEN Hottest Startups Contest 2008
2008-12-28 05:42:00
TATA and NEN joined hands together to launch one of the most prolific startups contest online on http://www.hotteststartups.in, very interesting idea which has encouraged thousands of startups and brought them to limelight. I would like to congratulate the short-listed companies and wish them the very best. This post however is to raise an issue which I am sorry to say was very badly handled by the TATA-NEN team. Our company Zitz Software Solutions (http://www.hotteststartups.in/viewandvot e.do?method=fetch&businessFn=viewandv ote&startupId=792) also participated in the contest. What I want to discuss over here is the section "Expert Comments " where few experts (in our case 2 of them) comment on the company and the comments are made publicly available for anyone to read. The names of the experts are not disclosed. The point of concern is one of the reviews which we got from an expert. Here is a snippet which is the cause of concern (use can read the details on the...
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Customize your Gmail with themes
2008-11-21 05:02:00
Gmail has a new features, themes! Now anyone who wants to customize the look and feel of Google’s web-based email client can do so by choosing from 31 different theme options available in the settings section (Click settings at the top and go to the “Themes ” tab) Here is a snapshot view of the client with some themes: (Source: Gmail Blog Post) From Gmail help pages: In some cases, you can also customize by location. Some themes change during the day, and we use the location information you provide to correctly time these changes with your local sunrise, sunset, and/or weather. If you select one of these themes, you’ll see a Country/Region drop-down menu appear. Select the country you want, and then enter a city in the field provided. If you don’t enter a city, or enter an invalid one, we’ll set your location to the capital city of the country you selected. When you’re done, click Save. To read more about this announcement head over to t...
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