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IPL Live Scorecard Widget for Bloggers and Site Owners
2008-04-27 08:57:00
If you are looking for a way to show live scores on your blog and/or website then try this Cricket Live Score Widget at widgetbox. The widget shows all IPL Live Scores and is very easy to use.
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Configuring Windows Live Writer to post to Drupal
2008-02-18 02:27:00
Windows Live Writer is my prefered blog post authoring and publishing tool, same for lot of people out there. It is quiet easy to compose and post using Windows Live Writer and I have been doing that for sometime for my WordPress blogs. But for one new site I am using Drupal for the first time and I wanted to configure Windows Live Writer to post “stories”, “pages”, “forum topics” and “blog posts” but there are several small little details which made it a trial and error exercise to configure Drupal to allow me to post all the above mentioned items. In this post I will document step by step process to go about configuring Windows Live Writer (WLW) to post to Drupal. (more…)
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Collection of best internet marketing posts of 2007
2008-01-26 20:36:00
2007 saw huge boom in internet marketing with social networks getting record breaking traffic. Tamar Weinberg at techipedia has published an article which lists about 250+ best internet marketing posts of 2007 nicely laid out in different categories: Social Media Sites: General Facebook Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn Twitter Mixx del.icio.us Sphinn Social Media and Social Media Marketing General Internet Marketing Viral Strategies Link Resources Blogging: General Blogging: Inspiration Blogging: Promotion Content Generation Reputation ...
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First Online Marketing Careers Conference in India and in World
2008-01-17 13:00:00
OMCAR 2008 happened in New Delhi on January 12, 2008. Hosted by OMCareers, a non-profit organization, it was first online marketing careers conference in the world. The conference was a huge success and attracted lot of Internet Marketing / Search engine Optimization companies. The sponsors for the event were: Pinstorm: search marketing company Naukri: job portal OMLogic: online marketing ...
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Effective tips to optimize the performance of your web site
2007-12-07 15:35:00
Loads of widgets, integration with third party tools using JavaScript APIs, high performance AJAX. All this is causing sites to slow down. Factors which nobody cared about, now need to be looked into to ensure that the site loads faster. Optimization Techniques I will present some optimization techniques  in several easy to use and understand categories. This ...
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Project Manager
2007-11-17 03:57:00
I received this in an email, thought it would be nice to share: A man wanted to buy his son a parrot as a birthday present. The next day he went to the pet shop and saw three identical parrots in a cage. He asked the clerk, “how much for the parrot on the right? The owner said ...
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Some nice Halloween logos
2007-10-31 18:59:00
XBox Halloween Logo   Ask.com Halloween Logo Yahoo Halloween Logo YouTube Halloween Logo Technorati Tags: Halloween Logos
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Google Halloween Logo Over The Years
2007-10-31 18:48:00
I thought it would be interesting to have a peak at Google ’s Halloween logo over the years: 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007   My personal favorite is the logo from 2006. Which one do you like the most? Technorati Tags: Google Halloween Logo , Halloween
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Yahoo Pipes Vs Feedburner Network
2007-10-13 07:24:00
There are several ways to combine multiple feeds into one and publish the aggregated feed. In this post I am going to discuss two ways to do that and list out advantages and disadvantages associated with each. The two very popular tools which allow you to aggregate feeds are: Yahoo Pipes  Feedburner Network Here ...
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Microsoft Excel 2007 math bug and how to fix it
2007-10-11 10:06:00
On September 25th, 2007, David Gainer of the Microsoft Excel group did a post acknowledging a Microsoft Excel 2007 math bug involving calculations of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. An example bug is: 77.1 * 850 for which Excel returned 100,000 instead of 65,535. According to David, the issue was due to change in the Excel ...
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Ask Bill Gates
2007-09-25 10:20:00
Bill Gates in not unreachable anymore. Newsweek readers can ask Bill Gates questions. He will answer selected questions. The last date to submit your questions is Sept. 28th, 2007. The answers will be published on Oct. 10, 2007. Click here to send your question to Gates | Read this article on Newsweek Technorati tags: Ask Bill Gates, Newsweek
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Adding a new Sitemap page in Wordpress gave 404 error
2007-09-24 09:26:00
I installed Wordpress 2.2 version on a new blog of mine on Indian Real Estate sometime back and was trying to add a Sitemap page to it today. I added the Sitemap page and it gave a 404 error (page not found). My permalink structure was set to “Date and name based”. I switched to “Default” permalink structure and ...
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Interesting Insight Into Microsoft Codenames
2007-09-23 11:59:00
Mary Jo Foley, in her blog All About Microsoft on ZDnet has an interesting video on Microsoft code names. What is a codename? Microsoft products start life as a project codename (e.g. Longhorn which later was launched as Vista). Some Revelations Let us take the Operation System Line up from Microsoft: Code Name Product Whistler Windows XP Longhorn Windows Vista Blackcomb Windows Seven (next version of Windows ...
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Gatineau: Microsoft?s Reply to Google Analytics?
2007-09-23 11:19:00
Based on a technology acquired by DeepMetrix in 2006, Microsoft is testing a new free website analytics tool, codenamed Gatineau . It is most likely a direct competitor to Google Analytics . (Picture taken from Microsoft ‘Gatineau’ sneak peek) Here is a video presentation from Ian Thomas (at OX2 Web Analytics Day Brussels, Sept 14, 2007) giving ...
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Google India: Product Prodigy Competition
2007-09-22 08:36:00
Google India has launched a competition called the Product Prodigy Competition .  The competition is open to Computer Science students of select Engineering Colleges. The theme of the product should be: To organize the world?s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. The objective is to provide an impetus for entrepreneurship in product engineering that will ...
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Poshd: Showcase Real Estate Website
2007-09-16 09:16:00
Poshd is a site dedicated to showcasing best of the real estate sites. The sites which break the mold and make the for an exciting real estate experience for everyone are the ones which qualify. The main page features snippets of pages from the sites which are short listed and every month there is one ...
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Yahoo Open Hack Day Coming to Bangalore
2007-09-16 07:07:00
Yahoo’s open Hack Day is coming to Bangalore on the 5th and 6th of October 2007. Here is what Yahoo has to say about the event: We?ll be inviting 200 developers to attend the event, which will begin with hack-related presentations from some of the Web?s most respected developers. We?ll then dive into 24 hours of ...
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Demographics Prediction Using MSN Tool
2007-08-19 17:48:00
Want to know the demographics data for any web site? Just visit: http://adlab.msn.com/DPUI/DPUI.aspx  and enter the URL of the web site. Here are the demographics data (only Gender distribution) for some popular blogs: http://www.techcrunch.com : Male (0.62), Female (0.38) http://www.mashable.com: Male (0.60), Female(0.40) http://www.smashingmagazine.com: Male(0.61), Female(0.39) http://www.lifehacker.com/: Male(0.73), Female(0.27) http://www.engadget.com: Male(0.66), Female(0.34) http://www.boingboing.net: Male(0.56), Female(0.44) http://gizmodo.com: Male(0.75), Female(0.25) http://www.huffingtonpost.com: Male(0.51), Female(0.49) http://perezhilton.com: Male(0.27), Female(0.73) http://www.problogger.net: Male(0.61), Female(0.39) From ...
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Ten Tips on Link Building
2007-08-19 17:28:00
Links are the basis for ranking in search engines. But over the years Google and other search engines have tweaked their algorithms so devalue paid links and are continuously working on counting only links which are legitimate. John Scott has a nice article on Link Building . You can read it here but the 10 tips to ...
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Yahoo Shopping Integration into Facebook
2007-08-19 05:51:00
No need to visit Yahoo Shopping site for your social shopping needs. Now you can do it right from Facebook . Yes, Yahoo Shopping has been integrated into Facebook in the form of an application titled “Favorite Things“. The app allows you to send virtual gifts to your friends, add to your favorites, monitor your friends favorite things, search for ...
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How to Detect Internet Explorer Memory Leaks
2007-08-08 09:37:00
With web applications pushing the technology to the limits, memory leak issues have gained prominence and need to be dealt with. What is IE Memory Leak? To begin with let me clarify that memory leaks are not restricted to Internet Explorer but it can happen in any browser. We are talking primarily about IE as over the course ...
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Smart Page Rank
2007-08-07 18:54:00
 Google Page Rank is used by various sites as a parameter to evaluate your blog/site. Several advertisers look for pages with good PageRank value to advertise or to get a link back from. For details on PageRank, please refer to this article. http://www.smartpagerank.com/ is a web site which allows you to enter the URL of any domain and ...
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Compress your Images to Decrease Load Time
2007-08-07 14:23:00
With increasing use of Ajax, lot of data is rendered using JavaScript and even though you have a friendly “Load ing …” message for the user, it is a must to render the content fast. This is applicable even to sites which do not use Ajax but have images on them. Recently I was working on developing a ...
More About: Tips , Time , Images , Ease

Some Interesting T-shirts Designs
2007-08-07 06:55:00
A UNIX way of removing Bin Laden.     Will you also work for Bandwidth? clueless? (SQL T-shirt) Click on the images above to go to http://andrewhitchcock.org where he maintains server more such T-shirts. Technorati tags: SQL T-Shirt, work for bandwidth, rm -rf
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Technacular Down for 48 hours
2007-08-07 06:48:00
I apologize for my mistake which resulted in the loss of entire Technacular web files. The blog was down for around 48 hours. The culprit was force remove command which I thought I was running under a sub directory but instead it was in the main root directory. The result, all my domains’ web content just disappeared. Unfortunately, UNIX does not ...
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Bangalore Bloggers Join Blogalorean
2007-08-04 17:43:00
Bloggers of Bangalore are actively building a blogging community aptly named Blogalorean. I have created a Feedburner network called Blogalorean and an writing this post as an open invitation to all Bloggers (blogging on any topic) who are in Bangalore to join this network.  If you are interested in knowing more about Feedburner Network then ...
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Test Drive Visual Studio 2008
2007-08-02 19:50:00
Beta 2 version of Visual Studio 2008 is out and can be downloaded for free from Microsoft’s Visual Studio Developer Center. Since this is a prerelease software, you are not advised to install it on your primary development machine as it might break things. Microsoft is even providing links to VPC images for the Visual ...
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Make Your RSS Feed Available as a Button on Google Toolbar
2007-08-01 10:22:00
For any browser on any machine which I own, the first thing I install is the Google Toolbar. It is a very useful tool and I like to search directly from there as well as monitor various sites, my Gmail, my Google bookmarks and of course PageRank for web sites. Google toolbar is being used by millions ...
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Why Linux is Better
2007-07-31 06:07:00
If you ever wondered why people would want to use Linux when there is windows around, then please head over to http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ and Manu Cornet will give you more than a handful of reasons to use Linux. Assuming you would be very eager to switch to Linux after reading it, or you would be wiling to give ...
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Test Your PC Site For Mobile Readiness
2007-07-30 21:13:00
With increasing acceptance of smart mobile phones, web browsing over mobile phones has gained prominence. Researchers at IDC say that 1.3 billion people will connect to the Internet via mobile phones by 2008. Which means your site needs to be mobile ready. You can obviously spend time and energy coming up with mobile version of your ...
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