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Safari is out for Windows, go get it! 2007-06-12 09:06:58 Mac OSX’s famous browser, Safari
is out for Windows
XP and Vista. Go get your copy now.
As a Firefox supporter, I won’t tell you that Safari bests Firefox but it has got some key features that you could well relish or maybe find vital.
Key features
First you should note some key features of Safari so that you don’t get lost :
No loading progress bar. To keep track of a site’s loading status, you would look at the progress bar but it turns out the Safari doesn’t come with one where you would think it would be : down at the status bar. Instead, Safari shows you the loading progress on the address bar itself.
Resisable text area. If you like space, especially when you’re typing your words, you’ll also like Safari’s feature allowing you to enlarge/resize any text area, be it a comment’s form or your Wordpress writing space. Just click, hold on the bars at the text area’s bottom right and resize to your liking.
That’s i
Download free animes in rmvb format 2007-06-15 08:57:18 Animes in rmvb format
take far less space than anime in avi format but tend to lose a little in quality. But for the anime fans who want to watch their animes but do not have a very good connection, this is a golden opportunity for them. You can get some of the popular ongoing animes in rmvb format.
Bleach
Code Geass
D.Gray-Man
Death Note
Naruto Shippuden
One Piece
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You can find lots of more free animes at the following sites:
Anime Haven
Anime Haven Forum
Anime-Sensei
Reality Lapse
However if you want to convert the downloaded anime into the avi(DivX) format so that it can be played easily by any player or even DVD players, ALLOK RM RMVB TO AVI CONVERTER is a superb program that will convert any rmvb into the avi formats in minutes.
Download
ALLOK RM RMVB TO AVI CONVERTER 1.4.6 and register using the information found here.
If you cannot find a specific anime, just leave a comment and we will look for it for you and if you have other animes like the above, please fe
Things you should know when using post excerpt 2007-06-20 01:49:41 Post excerpt allows you to display only the first part of your blog’s post, a block of content instead of displaying the full post. While many don’t know the real reason behind and just use it to make things more aesthetic, displaying excerpt has got many advantages both in the SEO, monetisation and traffic area. There are also further things you should be knowing and setting up when using
post excerpt which I shall be describing in this post.
why use post excerpt?
Better SEO. Google considers any similar block of content as duplicate. So if you display the full post on the frontpage as well as in the archives(category,month,etc archives), all of this will add to duplicate content which will affect your position in the search results.
To boost speed. When you display excerpt, only a small part of which might be a very long post gets displayed, this preventing your blog from loading the full post on the front/archives page gaining you in loading time.
Providing visitors a
Do you know the easiest way to win free stuffs on the net? 2007-06-19 02:05:37 Who doesn’t love free stuffs? Yet most people do not yet know of this simple way to take advantages of free stuffs being offered on the net.
Most blogs host contests to boost their blog image and traffic. So how can we cash on it? Simple. Just go to www.blogsearch.google.com or www.technorati.com and type in contest.
You will come up with lots of results showing blogs giving away free stuffs in contests. Some are simple like just replying to a post whereas others need you to make a post about the blog and the contest. But still, all in all, it takes about five minutes max to participate in most contests. At the end of the day, you would have spent about 10 to 15 minutes participating in contests that can even bring you a 30GB Microsoft Zune or $200!
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myJournal meets Sandbox providing you the best theme ever 2007-06-18 07:35:29 myJournal Hypereal theme is built on highly proven and reliable code of the Sandbox
from plaintxt.org to provide you one of the best Wordpress theme around : feature loaded with a clean, structured and semantics theme. Download it below or see the live version if you don’t believe me :
Download myJournal Hypereal(Source 1), (Source 2) OR View live demo
Features list
All the great features of the Sandbox theme
+
Welcome back feature. Commentator’s name is displayed above comment’s form and welcome message asking visitors to subscribe in the sidebar after consecutive visits.
Quick shooting stats displaying number of posts,comments and categories in the footer.
Enhanced 404 error page to allow visitors get back on track
Nice search results listing. When no results are found, recent posts are displayed.
Widget ready. Specific styling for calendar widget.
Built in archives, sitemap and links/blogroll page.
Images in the sidebar for easy subscription. Please link the em
Things you should know when using the div element 2007-06-21 23:21:19 Proper design makes use of CSS to layout content instead of traditional tables’ layout. Now you would be using div elements to position items on your site. In this post I’ll give you some quick tips you should be knowing when using
them.
Avoid a breaking layout
Surely, one of the most annoying issue is having a design that breaks. But many times, the solution is simply because of an unclosed div element. To avoid getting into such trouble, I encourage you using the following technique :
Instantly close your div. When opening a div element, close it on spot, even before putting things inside it.
<div></div>
Comment on the closing div. Put a comment on the closing div to tell for which div element you’re closing it. That is if you’ve opened a div for an item>Mozilla Firefox since it’s the best thrustworthy browser and only at the end, use the following IE6 hacks to move things to fit perfectly as they should:
* html div[your div class or id
The easiest way to learn the top 20 magic tricks 2007-06-21 07:26:54 I am always on the lookout for magic tricks
to amaze girls friends at parties and I guess you would come out a winner if you manage to impress the people with some of these magic tricks tutorials. Some are easy to do; all it takes are simple accessories like coins or a pack of cards, deft hands and some practice without forgetting to exercise your magical charm on the crowd. Others are better left for the pro.
Here’s five I actually loved.
1. The snap card. This tutorial demonstrates how to make a card selected by the audience appear on your hand instantly. Love this one.
2. The revolver. Performed and taught by a kid, but who cares? This trick makes each card in the deck turn over with a flick of the cards. Simply AMAZING.
3. Coin Into A Can - Amazing magic trick.
4. How to tear a phone book in half - Not so much magic, just damn cool.
5. See Saw - Amazing.
Go and check the rest at Magic Uproar.
Via digg.
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How to save money on eBay 2007-06-26 04:53:49 I usually sniff around e-bays looking for items that I can buy at an affordable price. Recently I came across a site, Fat Fingers that uses a new concept or “misconception” to help you save money on eBay.
Thousands of items on eBay are listed with descriptions containing spelling mistakes. These items often expire with no bids on them as no-one can find them. Type in a keyword below and click the Find button. Then click the link and uncover those hidden gems…
Check Out The Cheapest IPODs
I tried out the site with the word “IPOD“.
The engine returned me with a search result of 5813 items found on eBay for the following words(search results appear in a pop-up window, so make sure to Allow pop-ups from Fat Fingers.com within Mozilla Firefox):
ipof,ipos,ippd,ipid,opod,upod,apod,ipog,ipoj,ipob,ipoo,ippd,iiod,
ipodd,ipood,ippod,iipod,ipdo,iopd,piod,ipo,ipd,iod,pod
The Advanced search has some interesting features like:
Include correct spelling
Misspelled in
Things you should know for choosing the right domain name 2007-06-25 02:36:52 Choosing the right domain
name, your site’s address is one of the most vital things before setting up a blog since it will be related to your online identity and fame. But many have chosen domains hastily regretting it afterwards but now moving to a new one could prove to be very fatal. So to avoid you most of those down-pits, I’ll be telling you quick tips in this post you should be knowing when choosing the right domain name for your site.
Keywords in domain should reflect the blog’s identity.Problogger.net & Dailyblogtips.com among many others have one thing in common, is that by looking at the address itself, one can guess what the site’s about. Is your domain name reflecting that?
Avoid your name if it’s professional. I think one of the many things that can help differentiate between a personal/diary style blog and news sites is the use of the author’s name in the domain name. If you blog on any kind of news, don’t use your name in y
Win Free Domain Name & Free WordPress Blog Hosting 2007-06-30 01:32:50 Sabahan.com is a blog related to Computers, Internet, Blogging, Marketing and Interesting Stuffs. A post from contestblogger pointed us to a contest held by Sabahan where he is giving away free domain names and Wordpress blog hosting.
Who is behind Sabahan?
According to Sabahan’s about pages, the blog is authored by Gaman. It was started on January 2006 but Gaman has been dabbling with the internet and internet-related stuff since late 1997. Also if people is wondering what is the meaning behind this unusual domain name, according to his blog sabahan is a native of Sabah, a state in East Malaysia.
What has Sabahan to offer us?
At a first glance, I felt that Sabahan.com was like all the other blog-related blogs sprouting everywhere on the blogosphere, giving already read information on how to make money online but when I started delving deeper in the blog, I realised this was not the case. The following posts got my attention due to the fact that they were highly informative..
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Things you should know when displaying pages in Wordpress 2007-06-29 09:17:34 Pages in Wordpress
are displayed automatically as navigation menu items on most themes. While many people like this feature, some prefer controlling how and which page gets displayed which I shall discuss in this post.
Any page having the Page Status of Published will be listed in the navigation bar according to a special Wordpress template tag placement within the theme. Some may have pages displayed at the header navigation bar while others listed on the sidebar.
Depending on where your pages are listed, open the header.php file if it’s at the header or the sidebar.php if it’s at the sidebar, both found in your current theme’s folder and look for the following code(use Find feature of your favourite Text Editor):
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?> (varying according to different theme)
which is wrapped around an <ul></ul> tag.
Depending on the kind of results or effect you want(for e.g listing specific pages,determining pages&rsqu
Speed painting galore 2007-06-28 06:20:47 I hope we could all be doing this in the near future with the Microsoft Surface but for the time being for those enjoying speed painting, which consists of painting something in a very short lapse of time, do check out Speed
-Painting.com which features galore of those marvelous work.
Head to the Speed Painting section at the top navigation bar on the site where all the speed painting works are displayed for you to view them(YouTube videos). For the time being you can enjoy speed painting of Jack Bauer, characters from Lost,Lord of the Ring and Planet of the Ape, Spiderman and lots of other celebrities. Make sure to stay tune since soon they shall be bringing the tutorial for you to do these marvels.
Thanks to Rishi Raj for the link of the site and for Nym’s post on the subject.
Hope you’ll enjoy the ride. Feel free to leave a comment and tell us what you think on this subject.
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3 really simple ways to speed up your blog 2007-07-04 05:19:55 There are several methods to speed up a Wordpress blog like optimising images or reducing the HTTP Requests, etc but here I’ll describe to you the most important ones which you should first take into consideration before applying any other techniques. By following these 3 simple steps, you’ll will gain a considerable boost in speed right away.
Use excerpts on frontpage
Many people still doubt or prefer not using excerpts but indeed post excerpt has various benefits, one of which is to help you gain some speed. Instead of displaying several full posts loaded with images, clips, etc, use the excerpt feature on the frontpage making your blog load faster when someone is accessing it. Read the full details on using post excerpt at Things you should know when using post excerpt.
Wordpress’ built-in compression feature
A really nifty feature of Wordpress which many of us don’t use is its really simple compression feature that can be activated at a click’s reach
Free books for you 2007-07-03 07:40:48 Have you ever dreamt of possessing thousands of full-text free books? I have. And FullBooks has made this possible. They contain literally thousands of books, mostly classics ones such as Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle. Being a great fan of mystery books and Sherlock Holmes, I checked out the collection of books on Sherlock Holmes and clearly, Fullbooks live up to its name. The site contains all the books on Sherlock Holmes and many more.
One downside the site has is that there is no system of searching. The books are arranged in alphabetical order and you must know the name of the book to look for it. Or else you can just browse a book at random to read for your own pleasure.
You do not need any special reader like Microsoft Reader or adobe acrobat reader to read the book. It is displayed on your browser directly. Each book is divided in 7 parts and the format of the book facilitates easy reading. There is no method of bookmarking a section though. You have to
More free money,prizes and contests for you! 2007-07-02 01:30:18 There’s a surge in a new kind of niche blogs, those keeping track of contests where you can easily participate to win great prizes. All you should be doing for such contest would be to either write a review(tell some simple things you like or don’t about the site) or really simple tasks like commenting,etc and you’re a participant which might get you to win great prizes. Really keeping track of those contests isn’t easy using Technorati and other blog search utility like Yan described in the post, Do you know the easiest way to win free stuffs on the net?
I’ve been recently contacted by Walt, Blog Contest owner who told me about his blog :
The purpose of the Blog Contest is to give bloggers a place to announce their original contests to the widest possible audience, to give you a one-stop-shop to discover new blog contests, and to give you a resource that will provide content for your site as you’re entering contests that interest you and your visit
Web 3.0 analytical stats package rocks! 2007-07-12 02:50:08 Some times back, there was a video clip on John Chow.com showing us the porn’s rate on the web around the world. Check it out below(mind you, a bit not safe for work):
Then some days back, I found the following clip on Property Investment’s blog showing some Property facts :
So I was asking myself, would that be a great kind of stats service for us bloggers? For e.g you log into your stats account and you’re shown your daily hits and amounts of visitors on a sexy lady’s body. LOL, I kind of starting laughing to myself. Just think of that? I’m sure that would be the most rocking web 3.0 service which would ever exist.
But nonetheless I gave the Property Investment’s blog a look and found interesting things hanging around there. The blog’s main subject is to detail you things you should be knowing to become your own house’s owner providing you too with various Property Statistics of the current state of household(UK). So you might b Read more:package
6 Games To Supercharge Your Brain 2007-07-10 09:21:52 Do you have the brain power to focus all your attention on a given task for a long period of time? Do you know how to manage the limited resource (money, time) allocated to you effectively? Well below are 6 fun ways to boost your brain power.
You know the feeling. It’s that rare state when it seems you can do no wrong. Maybe you’re playing tennis and every shot is landing exactly where you aim it. Or perhaps solutions to those gnarly work problems are coming to you so easily that you wonder why they seemed insurmountable before. For most of us, these moments of vision and high performance are too rare. Why is it that sometimes you fire on all cylinders and at other times you can’t even start the engine? The answer may be this: You need to learn the art of laser focusing your concentration and all your attention on a particular subject and the following list of games which require extreme mind and will power, have the advantage of boosting brain power.
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Winner of the BlogoSquare theme/design competition 2007-07-09 04:13:08 We’ve got our list of winners for the BlogoSquare theme/designcompetition
:
1st prize : Ben Jacob previously blogging at feather.wordpress.com has got a fresh new Wordpress install hosted at the domain of his choice, feather.com.
2nd : Anoop takes back home the Mint’s rocking analytical package.
3rd : No 3rd runner up since there weren’t enough minimum votes for the 3rd one.
Congrats to the 2 of you. Hope you did enjoy the contest and the prizes you’re taking home. Do subscribe to my feeds to receive updates of new contests with great rocking prizes. More coming in the near future Thanks to everybody for participating and a special thanks to MBT for sponsoring this competition.
Things you should know when using permalinks 2007-07-09 03:45:07 Wordpress is the real way to a truely professional and outstanding blog but many new blogs fail even if they have got good resources since they haven’t configured some simple features of Wordpress to match their audience and provide a strong base for the blog to grow on. One of such features is the Permalink which I shall be discussing the basic things you should be knowing on it in this post.
If people like your post, they would want to save it, bookmark it or send it to friends. And what’s more frustrating(especially when there are several links from the same domain), to have something like blogdomain/?p=10,blogdomain/?p=153, Wordpress default link structure which convey no meaning to the content the link is pointing to.
Wordpress thus offers a nice feature to allow your blog’s links to have a pleasant format, called Permalinks that you can customise to your liking by going to your Wordpress Admin section > Options > Permalinks and configuring things from there.
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8 Powerful Ways To Add Value To Your Blog 2007-07-17 16:05:30 A “detour” is a “deviation from a direct course of action”. Given the perspective of this blog, providing value in and within each post is somewhing we strive for and given the nature of our personal life (medical internship/journalism), this is far from being a possible task. This is where I see many bloggers succumb to the universal blogger problem:
Quality or Quantity?
When trying to settle for a compromise between quality and quantity, many bloggers miss the essentials of blogging. Blogging as it is, is a powerful, growing medium and the following ways will show you how to yield this power carefully.
1. Attribute Your Material
In copyright law, attribution is the requirement that an author be given credit for their work in any context in which it is used. It is required by most copyright and copyleft licenses, such as GNUFDL and CC-by.
[Wikipedia: Attribution]
In simple term, attribution is giving credit to one person’s work or idea. Often, I see blo Read more:Value
Orange in France deals for selling iPhone at the end of the year 2007-08-23 05:48:29 From reports, French people may now start waiting patiently for Christmas shopping for the widely acclaimed iPhone
. It will be the popular Orange
mobile distributor that will be the sole distributor in France
. Deal that shall be announced during the IFA meeting in Berlin through the next few weeks.
Read more about this in French here.
If you have missed the news, iPhone is a must buy for anyone who dislikes the traditional keypad on their phone since everything is done like à la Minority Report : Touch sensitive selection.
Nonetheless, I’ve tried searching through Orange official site for any mention of the info but I couldn’t spot any bit. Perhaps they aren’t willing to disclose anything before the sales. Does anyone among us willing to buy the iPhone?
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Latest David Guetta Rocks 2007-08-30 11:27:26 The new DavidGuetta
’s, When the light is too cool :
We’re getting more and more French DJs throwing out cool tubes : from David Guetta, David Vendetta to Bob Sinclar.
The latest Bob Sinclar, Fireball :
The latest David Vendetta, Break 4 Love :
Ain’t these music cool?
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Look cool killing time with your pen 2007-08-30 11:16:44 When you’re sitting in that classroom trying to figure out everything you can do to arouse the interest of your friends around, look no further than your own pen. Watch the below clip several times to get acquainted to the various techniques of making cool flip with your pen and try them out:
And for those who sit in the exam room unable to figure out what the paper is about, trying to find something to kill time without having the invigilator over your back, the above may well help. Do tell whether you could get them done. I’m still trying them out
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Forget Agloco; earn real money while surfing 2007-09-29 16:59:41 I jumped into the bandwagon when Agloco launched, trying to get some referrals and earn some cash with the bar that promised to pay you the money you deserved for surfing. But I’m really finding it useless and fruitless . Nonetheless I didn’t abandon the search and fell on something really interesting and paying at the same time : Eurobarre.
An ad bar is displayed at the top of your screen, nothing really obstructive, just some fancy looking stuffs displayed randomly. You earn points for the amount of hours, the ads are displayed(therefore amount of time you’re on the net), and at the end of the month, those points are AUTOMATICALLY converted into cash, cash that is AUTOMATICALLY sent to your paypal account if you’ve got one, else you can also ask for a cheque once you reach the minimum amount of 15 €. Its referral system is too great, when you refer someone, your points are doubled.
But I’m sure you would tell how didn’t I hear of something like
Quick fix for myJournal Hypereal bugs on Wordpress 2.3 2007-10-09 14:00:47 If you have upgraded recently to Wordpress
2.3, you’ll notice the following error message appearing either under your sidebars or at the bottom of your blog :
WordPress database error: [Table 'edrop.wp_categories' doesn't exist]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_categories
This is caused for the simple reason that some codes have been deprecated in the new Wordpress 2.3 which causes the above error. It’s really easy to fix this problem, just proceed as follows:
Using your favourite FTP program(FileZilla is a good one), navigate to wp-content/themes/myjournal hypereal theme folder and open the footer.php using your favourite text editor.
At the top part, find the following code and delete it:
$numcats = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->categories");
if (0 < $numcats) $numcats = number_format($numcats);
Then somewhere at the bottom of the same file, footer.php, find this part :
extending over <?php echo $numcats; ?> categories and Read more:Quick
WideJournal : myJournal Hypereal adapted for large resolution! 2007-10-04 15:52:17 After the many requests of correcting the banner which was shifting to the right of the screen when the theme was displayed on monitors with high resolution(1280×1024,etc), I decided to update myJournal Hypereal. I also waited for Wordpress 2.3 to get released so that I can correct any bugs or errors showing up with myJournal Hypereal. All this to tell that you can now grab the new version : WideJournal.
or check out the live preview on Wordpress 2.3
Some of the noticing features of WideJournal:
The rotating banner is displayed at the center of the screen
The search form is found at the top left together with some navigational and translation icons to get you anywhere quicker and allow your visitors to read you in their favourite languages.
+ all the existing features of myJournal Hypereal
I hope you’ll enjoy using WideJournal as I enjoyed developing it. Do leave any requests or queries about the theme at the forum.
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Convert your PC into a mac 2008-03-24 19:31:29 It’s a PC user’s dream : to be on a mac. Actually what motivates this craving desire for the mac, imho, is the look : both the hardware(the mac) and the accompanying OSX look great. It’s stylish, fresh and sleek.
But if you’re on a PC, no need to despair or hack it down to [...] Read more:Convert
PC transformers 2008-04-01 17:29:15 Surely you must know the Transformers, the hit movie and lately the popular Vista Transformation pack. Nirmal from Life Rocks 2.0 published an excellent list of all the popular Transformation pack around for Windows XP, moving your normal PC to a real cutting edge and dazzling new machine(new look and behaviour).
WP 2.5 breaking news 2008-04-03 12:31:04 DON’T UPDATE NOW!
Even if you’re constantly reminded to do so from your WP admin panel :
And if you happen to be someone visiting the WP download page everyday, you’ll probably see this :
The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.5) is available
but no no, it’s not really stable. As with every major update, it [...]
Behold the Legend of Zelda is coming on screen 2008-04-06 08:32:06 Hold your breath, Nintendo fans, here’s a breaking news for you ; the Legend
of Zelda
movie is soon to be released. Check out its trailer below :
Happy April Fool : I know it’s a bit late but better late than never. As you perhaps guessed it, it was the an IGN’s joke. Read more:Behold
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