Blog Revived

I have been granted the admin rights to the blog and will take on the blog to whole new level. I have redseigned the blog and will do postings from now on.

Tip of the week - Dropped your Mobile Phone in Water.. Here is a solution..!!!

Ever experienced something like this before? Luckily I haven’t but after reading this, I’m sure I’ll not worry too much as I know the solution of it. However, the doubt is still there. I guess, I need to do some experiment to prove that this is true! Should give it a try with my iPod Nano then. Kidding!

What is the next step that you would take if your expensive mobile phone or iPod gets wet in the rain or your drop it in a wash basin?

 

Such accidents are not very uncommon. Adam Curry once dropped his iPhone in the toilet. Venadium went for a swim while the iPod was still in his pocket. Leo Laporte did something similar to his cell phone. Virgo soaked his iPod when a bottle of Diet Coke fell over his trousers.

Since the warranty for most electronics does not cover water damage, what can you do to revive that wet gadget ? The answer is in your kitchen.

Power off the device (if it’s not off already) and try to completely cover the iPod or iPhone in a bowl of rice. Rice being a natural desiccant will help absorb the excess moisture. Let it try for at least 24 hours and DO NOT try to charge the device.

If your gadget has a removable battery, dry it separately to speed up the whole drying process.

This home-remedy is cheap and worth giving a try before you rush to the Apple store for a replacement.

Ernesto Londoño successfully managed to fix his wet BlackBerry phone after he left the device soaked overnight in a bowl of uncooked rice.

Marvelous Answer

A mechanic was removing the cylinder heads from the motor of a car when he spotted the famous heart surgeon in his shop, who was standing off to the side, waiting for the service manager to come to take a look at his car.
The mechanic shouted across the garage,” Hello Doctor!! Please come over here for a minute."
The famous surgeon, a bit surprised, walked over to the mechanic.
The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and asked argumentatively, "So doctor, look at this. I also open hearts, take valves out, grind 'em, put in new parts, and when I finish this will work as a new one. So how come you get the big money, when you and me is doing basically the same work? "
The doctor leaned over and whispered to the mechanic.....

Try to do it when the engine is running

Shopping Store Launched

Thanks to Chitika, I have launched my own online shopping store at my blog. Its safe, reliable and secure. It get the best deals out of most of the online stores(viz amazon, ebay, Microsoft and many more) and you have to pay via those sites only.

You can start shopping here, or if you have domain then you can start your own shopping store online by registering with chitika.

Once you register and you have your own domain, you can goto chitika for domains

After registering you can get your own store for free an can earn online.

Please look around and let me know if you want me to add some more things to the store.

Love Hurts- Marriage Kills

del.icio.us Tags: joke,pictures,fun,photo,marriage

Some of the nicest wives one can have

Tibet Plans for Olympics

I got this one in JEmail. Thought of sharing it here on my block. The jokes are really cool and witty...You can subscribe it

here.

Some of the Plans that they might be having are:

1. Combating Stupidity
2. You, too, can do housework
3. PMS -- Learn when to keep your mouth shut
4. Wonderful laundry techniques (formerly titled "Don't wash my silks")
5. Get a life -- learn to cook
6. Understanding your financial incompetence
7. We do not want sleazy underthings for Christmas -- Give us money
8. Reasons to give flowers
9. How to stay awake after sex
10. How to put the toilet lid down (formerly "No, it's not a bidet")
11. "The weekend" and "sports" are not synonyms
12. The remote control -- Overcoming your dependency
13. Romanticism - Ideas other than sex
14. Helpful postural hints for couch potatoes
15. Mother-in-laws -- They are people, too
16. Male bonding -- Leaving your friends at home
17. Seeing the true you (formerly "No, you don't look like Mel Gibson,
especially when naked!")
18. Changing your underwear -- It really works
19. Techniques for calling home
20. You -- The Weaker S3x

Top 3 money makers for your site Leaving Adsense

I was just doing some R&D on moneymakers on internet which can be bit useful for bloggers like me. While I was doing this, I got a feeling that "Google Is Evil"(this has nothing to do with they banning my adsense account last year for no reason).At First, I thought of making a general list of 5 or 10, then I got a feeling of deviating from a normal course of action and I came up with a list of top three. As tracking of too many ads can be a bit tedious. Hope you will be able to earn some money from them. Here they are:

Adbrite

Adbrite is among the one of the emerging leaders in Advertising. A publisher can display a wide no. of ads in variety of styles.
They basically offer:

• Text Ads
• Banner Ads
• Full Page Ads(now this is interesting as your site will be covered by another site, but visitor will have an option to skip the ad)

Chitika eMiniMalls
Chitika Minimalls is kinda site which is kinda very technical. they provide hell lot sort of ads in some really admirable ways. The Payout is also nice.





WidgetBucks


WidgetBucks are another way of monetizing your site/blog. They have jazzy advertisements that will look like a WEB 2.0 widget sort of thing. The tag line that they have is really amusing




Some other money makers you would like to have:

1. Adbux: Earn some easy money(PPC campaign)
   
2. Exoclick: Another PPC campaign
3. SubvertAndProfit : Earn $1 per digg and per stumble you do. But beware, its dangerous as digg or stumbleupon may ban your account.

Hope that you will have some fun and money reading this post.

Why Youtube should increase the size of files?

Change your name to Japanese

Carmen is Mikashirinkuto...what's yours??

A - ka

B -  tu

C - mi

D - te

E - ku

F - lu

G - ji

H - ri

I - ki

J - zu

K - me

L - ta

M - rin

N - to

O -mo

P - no

Q - ke

R - shi

S - ari

T -chi

U - do

V - ru

W -mei

X - na

Y - fu

Z - zi

Digg is getting buried in search

Search Fetaure on Digg is really pathetic. You really have to screw yourself real hard in irder to get something you want.

A known crap is here....

Submit a New Story - Are You Sure It's Not a Duplicate?

this feature really is of no use. It will give the list of possible duplicates which are nowhere related to the content that you are trying to submit. I am sure that they are not even checking the links of the story.

I am not sure what this page is for?

Please wait while we digg through your submission

I feel that it doesn't d anything except keeping user wait for sometime. Still if you think that I'm wrong then let me give you an example.

Check these two links:

http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Hidden_Influencers_of_Digg_3

http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Hidden_Influencers_of_Digg_2

Both the stories have same heading, same description and mind you..... same link too. How is it possible? Why digg is allowing me to submit the same link twice? Is it a limitation?

Digg is really doing a great job by introducing new features(pictures, Video...and may be torrents too ;), but they should concentrate more on the basic things like searching, I hope all of you will agree to to my view that digg search sucks and most of the times you would be using google to search digg, so why don't digg integrates google serch in the site to improve the user experience.

This is just a suggestion to the digg guys to improve the functionality of the site. No offence :)

A Dummy's Response to Technorati Fav Exchange

Everyone is talking about technorati favorite exchange, So I thought I should also contribute a bit. Well everyone is using this "Add it to my Technorati Favorites" feature to encourage his/her blog readers.

Darren started questioning this exchange program and was first criticized by Maki.

Well so far I have read following views on technorati favorite exchange.

• Maki's View
• Darren's View
• My Real Favorite Blogs
• Technorati Favorites Exchange Experiment: Whores, Prom, and Pig’s Blood
• Responding to Technorati Faves Criticism

• Ruffled Feathers on the Top 100
• What I accidentally learnt about Programming
• Favourites Exchange, my Thoughts!
• Problogger Agrees - Technorati Gaming is Bad
• The Technorati 100 Not So Hot?
• The Technorati top 100 superficial list
• Technorati Favorites and The Cheaters Who are Cheating the System
• The Sad State of Technorati’s Top Favorited Blogs

The blogging geeks at top are having their reputation at stake whereas dummies like me are enjoying this experiment.

You can promote it in anyway. Its democracy on the blogosphere and its perfectly legal. But the question here is " Is it Ethical?". People who are really "deserving" to be in the list will not be in the list if the exchange program is a success. But what is that defines "deserving" to be in the top 100 list? More and more people should like the content of your blog.

Well someone adds you to his/her favorite only if they like the content of youtr blog. Well those who are liking the content of Maki's blog are adding it to their favorites. Well he may come up in top 100 list with his technorati fav experiment but Its for sure that dummies like me are not going to get into that list in near future.

Well certainly it will be an ego-booster for me as I see now that 20 persons have favorited my one month old blog, but if I ask a question to myself that whether I deserve that, I may find it difficult to find an answer.

But we can take this in a different way that our blog gets more exposure to others and we get know about other blogs

Its now a cool controversy which has become the talk of the blogosphere. Some are critcizing it and some are appreciating it.

Well I'm just a dummy and I don't know whether I'm right or wrong but I feel that technorati can overcome the experiment anytime by following some simple techniques. They can change the algorithm of their ranking startegies. They can rank a
blog by

actual number of faviorites =
no. of persons who have fav the blog - no. of blogs that have been fav. by the blog's owner

well offcourse its not foolproof but if a dummy like me can come up with something like this then they are "Technorati". They don't have to worry much about this. And may be they are enjoying this controversy. They may be planning to relaunch it as a social-networking site:p.

Analytic tools For Better Optimization Of your Blog

Everyone wants to keep track of the kind of visitors they are getting on their blog or site. So that they can improve their contents or may be able to provide targeted content.That's why adsense is getting succeded.

Know your Audience

is the funda behind the success on web blogosphere.

Various analytics tools are available on the web. Some are free and some are paid. One among the most used is google analytics . But some people are really scared of it because of its privacy intervention. If you are on a slower internet connection, you will be able to notice that each thin that you do with gooogle will be stored as all link requests pass through ssl.google-analytics.com . Google is scrutinizing each and everything on web and that's why people are getting more and more frustrated. It would be a blog or may be a whole website if I will start scruitnizing Google's privacy policy, So its better to leave the topic for some other day.

One more good tool available out there is Feedburner . This also really cool. But is limited to few stats in its free version

Recently i have found a new service by ewebcounter, The site is really cool and provide cool information about visitors. The cool thing about it is its real time stats which may not be much of use to a blogger but it can be fun to play with. You can see who's online on your website.

Isn't it cool?

It also provides IP lookup on Google MAPs. Now that's what i found interesting. Its also a toy like facility.
So If you are joining them you will get the following facilities(since I'm not a flattering kind of person so I have copied these features from their homepage, but i guess you will get much more than that):

• A 100% free web counter that be can installed on virtually any website

• A wide assortment of invisible and graphical web counter styles to choose from

• A password protected account to view your detailed web statistics

• We provide a hosted solution, so there's no software for you to install and to maintain

• Over 20+ web statistical reports with detailed logs and charts

• Monitor who's on your website with real-time streaming data

• Track page views, unique visitors, visitor paths, referrals, search engine keywords, etc.

• Get statistical reports emailed to you

One more cool thing that it provide is pie charts for all the infos (viz country, ISP, browser, Platform, activity, referral, search engine, keywords, length of the session, pages visited) about visitors to you site. It has tonnes of information about your visitors, is very easy to use and install, but is limited to only 200 reports at a time in its free version. But you can upgrade it whenever you want. If you won't believe me then check it out yourself. I bet you won't be regretting about your decision to follow my advice. Check it Out for yourself

Few Sites For Blogging Dummies Like Me

I have found Some new sites(ok buddy! they are not new, But they are new to me) which can be useful for dummies like me banned from adsense.
Which may help you in getting some money and better Ranking.

• Text Link Ads is a site which claims to give you $100 in FREE Links. But The problem is that your site has to qualify there standards. Even If your site is not much popular, you can earn upto $40-50 bucks in a month.

• If you are banned from adsense and would advice you to Join the CrispAds Blog Advertising Network!, as they claim to give you targeted advertisements like Adsense. Here too they will review your site before accepting you.

• One more site that I would like to recommend is Trafficg. The site is really cool if you have low visits per day and would like to get a cool site like this with higher ranking.

• Exoclick is also a new PPC site which pays you in the same way as adsense does. But the problem here is that the CPM is low and the ADs are not targetted.
  

• And Ofcourse I would recommend my site, so that you can get to grow and earn with a dummy like me.
  

How To Manage Directory Submissions

'More than 80% of the traffic comes from the top ten search engines'.

You have probably read this statement many times and it's true at least for the majority of websites.

So how about web directories? Is submitting your site to them a waste of time?

Even if directories usually don't deliver a lot of traffic they contribute inbound links to your site increasing its link popularity a very important factor used by search engines to rank websites.

When someone queries a search engine using a keyword relevant to your site, higher is your site link popularity higher are its chances to come up near the top of the results.

Submitting your site to web directories will help you increase its visibility and attract more traffic from search engines.

However you need an overall strategy to successfully manage your directory submissions or you will only lose your time and energies.

Is your site ready?

You should never forget that directories don't exist to give away free links. Their purpose is to provide their visitors with good quality sites.

If you want some chances to get listed you need a well designed web site containing useful and original content or offering useful services.

Your site must also be complete without broken links or links to 'under construction' pages.

Other things that can cause a rejection of your submission are: too many ads (especially pop-ups and pop-unders), automatic redirections to another domain, having the same exact content of other sites (example: the 'self replicated' sites some companies provide to their affiliates).

Preparing your listing details

Open your favorite text editor and write down the following informations:

1) your web site URL.

2) your website Title. Some directories accept only the official site name as title, others allow some descriptive keywords, but in general stuffing a lot of keywords in your title is not acceptable.

Write 2-3 different titles in compliance with these different rules.

3) your website description. Write what your site is about in a couple of sentences. Avoid superlatives, exclamation marks, excessive hype and generally everything that makes your description sound like an ad.

Description should be written in third person. Avoid expressions like 'we offer', 'we are ...'.

4) a set of search keywords related to your site. Separate the keywords with commas, then write down the same set of keywords this time separated by spaces. Some directories require the first format, others the second one.

5) your full name and email address.

Once you have done save the document. By copying and pasting these informations into the submissions forms you will save time and avoid errors.

Finding web directories

The next step is finding directories where you can submit your site.

You can use browse the 'Directories' category of top directories like Yahoo and DMOZ to find minor and specialized directories.

Spend some time to determine how each directory is organized and find the most appropriate category for your site.

Submitting to the wrong category usually causes a rejection of your submission.

Compile a list of all directories where you have submitted your site indicating the date of your submission.

Verifying the results

Not all directories send you an email when your site is listed.

You should periodically visit your list of directories and make a search for your site title or url. Flag all directories where you find your site.

If your site has not been listed after about 2 months from the date of your first submission you can try to submit it again. My advice is to not resubmit more frequently.

You can also contact the directory owner and ask about the status of your submission, but if you don't receive a reply, don't insist. There may be many reasons why a directory doesn't list your site, simply accept the fact that not all submissions are successful.

Submitting your site to web directories is an essential part of your website promotion strategy. It's a time consuming task, but with the right planning you will be able to manage it successfully.

Burning PS2 games on PC

1. Take the ps2 game put it in the dvd rom or dvd burner, your choice.

2. open the dvd decryptor program then go to to tool bar and hit MODE>ISO>READ. Then choose the correct dvd drive that the game is in as the "source". Also choose where you want the files to be stored on the pc hdd. THEN CLICK DECRYPT , or the huge graphical picture at the bottom of the program which makes it run. The game is now copying to your HDD. Take the game out when finished (it might take a while).

3. Go to the same tab in dvd decryptor and choose MODE>ISO>WRITE. This will then let you look for the files you just created in step 2. Select the file that you just created. (There is only 2 files creadted so pick the smaller one, I forget what its called. If it dosen't work pick the other file instead.) Then click WRITE, make sure there is blank DVD or CD in the drive depending on if its a cd or dvd game.


The game is now burning.... when done Take the game out

Five Powerful Strategies for Getting Maximum Website Traffic

Every webmaster dreams of getting so much traffic from the search engines that it overloads the circuits of their web hosting provider's network. Getting your site listed on page one for several relevant keyword phrases on the major search engines is the key to approaching this level of traffic. Getting there requires creative writing skills, diligent effort and a little knowledge about search engine optimization. Read on for some search optimization instructions including five indispensable elements to help your search engine rankings and resulting traffic.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the
complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not
true.

Content is King: - If you have done any research on search engine optimization, you are aware of the need to optimize the content of your web pages. Your content must be optimized for the search engines and have optimal usage of your most important relevant keywords and keyword phrases. As you write user friendly content keep in mind you should be optimizing your pages with phrases that best match your overall theme. This is preferred by the search engine algorithms. You can then focus on link popularity and link quality to help drive traffic. More on those two strategies in a moment.

Keyword Optimization - By optimizing your pages with the phrases that best match the overall theme of your site, it will improve the likelihood that users will find your site when searching for content like yours. You should seek out short multi-word phrases unless your keywords are unique. First, find your optimum keywords and determine their popularity. Also, use your top keyword phrases within your meta tags including your title, description, keyword and h1 through h6 meta tags.

Link Popularity - To increase your traffic, you must increase your link popularity. Link popularity is the number of links on the internet that reference to your website. If you are on a budget, link popularity can generally be increased primarily in two ways. The first method is by exchanging links with other web sites with similar content. The second method is publishing articles online that relate to your site, including a link to your site in the article and then publishing the article on as many article directory sites as possible. Employing both methods is the most effective; however, the latter is extremely effective because it creates multiple one-way links back to your site.

Article Publishing - Most webmasters frequently seek out good site content - remember content is king. They either lack the writing skills or lack the innovation or initiative to develop the content themselves. Webmasters with a budget often hire ghost writers. Those without money look to article directories to obtain some of their content. This demand for content by other webmasters creates an opportunity for you to socialize your site. Writing articles that relate to your content and publishing those articles within article directories ultimately disseminates your link onto other webmaster's sites. Think of the potential here. You are getting a one-way link from every site that posts your article. Top search engine optimization gurus exploit this little known strategy to drive their client web sites to top rankings

Link Quality - Remember, link popularity is important, but link quality may be even more crucial. There are two facets to link quality. First, sites that are pointing to your website ideally must have related content. Search engines will give links from sites with related content more credibility. The second component to link quality is the actual words the other webmaster uses in your link. The goal is to ensure the links pointing back to your website include your most relevant keywords in the link title.

Search engine optimization requires a combination of these five elements. Highly optimizing your website content and obtaining high link popularity from quality links will absolutely strengthen your search engine rankings over time. Of course, as with many things, your level of effort at implementing these elements is directly proportional with the results you can expect to get out.

3 Column K2 Templates for blogspot

This is an K2 clone with 3 columns template for blogspot.
- 3 columns
- fixed width : 880 pixels
- navigation bar
- clickable post title
- clean look
-fast loading

Download

Update

Hey! I have just found this cool info. You can post your blog on Mylot too to improve your traffic and earn some money too.


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4 ways to improve your link popularity

Link popularity one of the most important factors for search engines when calculating their rankings for any particular query. Of course the term entered into the search box should be represented on the returned pages, but link popularity will be a big part of that calculation. Gaining link popularity isn’t hard, but it can be time consuming. Look at the options, and decide what you need to do to climb the search engines.

Trying to gain link popularity - without focus on relevance - is heavily debated, but many SEO theorists claim it to be of very high importance. Deciding for a linking strategy, and following it, is excellent for following up your strategy, and to improve it if necessary. As mentioned, there are plenty of ways of gaining link popularity, all more or less effective. Some options available will give you an excellent opportunity to actually gain relevant links while focusing on link popularity.

Submitting to various web directories

Submitting your site to web directories is a good way of getting more inbound links for free. There are many directories accepting free submissions, and even more directories available if you reciprocate their link. The amount of directories, and it’s time consuming nature, will make this option a full time job for a few week, but the results won’t wait. A very viable option, and something every webmaster should include in her strategy, is to submit your site to as many high PR directories possible. The high PR, and the obvious relevance, will give you a few very good links at little or no cost. This is a good long-term strategy. Submitting to a few directories on a daily basis will give you a steady flow of new, relevant backlinks.

Exchanging links

Exchanging links with other webmasters is a fairly easy way of getting your inbound links, but the downside is you won’t get many one-way links at all. The variety of options in the link exchange business makes it highly likely to find an alternative fitting both your wallet and demands. Many services offer completely automated link exchanges, thus leaving you with more time to improve your website, conversion ratio or to increase your one-way links from directories or article submissions.

Writing and submitting articles

Writing articles is perhaps the best way to gain both link popularity and highly relevant links. Because it is you who are writing the whole page, you can cram in just about any keyword you want. The number of article directories accepting submissions will make every article count, no matter how few people actually seeing it. This is a very good way of gaining backlinks, but it can be hard to come up with enough material to make it to the top. It can also prove difficult for non-native English speakers, but with a good text editor and a lot of patience, it should not be impossible.

Using link-bait

Many webmasters create pages only to attract inbound links. This can be done in a number of ways, often with a useful and extensive list of something (i.e. web directories, article directories etc.) or free software of some kind. For people with no programming skills, there are plenty of ways of finding free software with the right to sell – or give it away. Creating a good link-bait page can give you a huge amount of new links, and if you are lucky the number of links to that page will only grow over time. Once you have made the page, you often need to get the ball rolling by posting the link on your favorite forum etc. Once people see it, they will post it on their forums, mail it to friends or even add it to their page.

Using any of these methods will surely move your link popularity in the right direction, but it is advised you try to utilize as many ways you can, as it will be both faster and more effective.

I recieved my payment from ADbux

I have just recieved $5 from Adbux. This isn't much, but it certainly boosts your confidence when you get something for doing so less. Well it is fast. I joined it 7 days back and I didn't expect that I will earn this much fast. This will add upto my website fund.