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ShutDown day tomorrow - 24th March 2007 2007-03-23 18:48:42 This is just a reminder that tomorrow
( 24th March
2007 ) we have ShutDown day. So tomorrow you don’t have to switch on your PC and let it take some rest and you also take some rest from your PC.
There will be about 54491 who agreed to participate and shutdown there PC for a day and 8689 thinks that they cannot live without it. Hard time huh?
Now I’ll be participating in it so I’ll not be using my PC and so no post tomorrow but I have a draft saved which I thought to publish today but seems I’ve to do it on 25th March. but this doesnot means you can’t chat with me! I have installed BluePulse on my cellphone and so I will be online using that via GPRS so you can catch me on IMs, again my IM details are here.
So what about you? If you have made your mind to do so then go and register your self at www.ShutDownDay.org ! And don’t forget to tell me about it and if you are not joining then join me via IM.
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Interview with the IndiCast team 2007-03-29 20:29:19 Podcasting, a form of blogging but with voice. As it is new, many people don’t know about it and it is also rare in some countries and India was also one of them. But now Indians are talking a bit interest. This made Aditya Mhatre and Abhishek Kumar start the IndiCast. Also, in one line, Indicast is India’s first multi person podcast which provides opinions on current affairs and events from across the world affecting India and mix it with a tinge of street smart humor; a pleasant deviation from the monotonous nature of conventional news mediums. IndiCast won the award of best Indi-Podcast of IndiBloggies 2006 and have won many titles. They have shown a big success in podcasting and have inspired many to podcast.
Now here I took an interview of the IndiCast team on IM and here it is …
What made you start podcasting?
We both have known each other for almost 6 years since senior college days at Podar College of Commerce & Economics. We parted ways to do our
Reason for no posts or action 2007-04-09 14:54:30 Hello all readers,
You must have not found any new post on this blog for some days back and will also not find any in upcoming days. I’ll not be able to write any post because of some academic problems and some other reasons. I will also take time in approving comments or replying mails. But this doesnot means that this blog is closed. You can say it as a short break of mine. I’ll back very soon.
Thanks for your support.
Regards,
Rishi
Thanks To Our Sponsor: IndiCast Indians about India
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Snap Preview Anywhere is now Snap Shots 2007-04-17 02:38:30 Snap PreviewAnywhere
is no more. OK it can be said in a different manner. Snap Preview Anywhere is now Snap Shots with a intro to some new features. Snap Shots works exactly like Snap Preview Anywhere and you don’t even have to update your java-script.
Snap says …
With Snap Shots, we’ve taken everything we’ve learned from making Snap Preview Anywhere, everything you’ve told us, everything you liked and disliked, and we made it better. A lot better.
Snap some days back conducted a contest in which the user have to submit tips to Snap and win prizes. Now to Snap it was something big. They got a lot of suggestions regarding categorized shots and so there are here with it.
Now if you have a link to any Wikipedia page, the snap shot of it will be different. Same with videos, if there is a link to any Youtube video the snapshot of it will be embed with the video. If you link to any mp3 file, the snapshot will have a music player in it. Same with stock websit
Test version(beta) of Halo 3 from May 16 on Xbox Live 2007-04-16 14:11:24 Hello guys! Rishi is on time-out, due to which he will not be posting often. He has kindly offered guest blogging spot on this blog to me. And what do I do? Accept it. More like grab it with both hands! So, I will be around for some time(time permitting, hopefully See ‘ya around ! I will soon start blogging on Techzilo. Until then, my only job will be here. So here is my first post…
Oh boy! One of my all-time favourite games, Halo 2 will be succeeded by its sequel, Halo 3. And now, Microsoft said that a beta test of the highly anticipated Halo 3 game will be available May 16 on its wildly popular Xbox
Live online gaming service.
The testing phase(beta) of the much awaited game supports online competition that has made the game more popular, and increased its ‘replayability’(excitement while starting over, after having completed the game once). It will end on June 6.
Halo 3 is expected for holidays, as have so many of Microsoft’s other announcements. Mas Read more:version
, Xbox Live
Technorati Favourate Exchange program 2007-04-19 11:09:10
Hi! I was recently attracted toward the ultimate experiment going on i the blogosphere which was started by Dosh Dosh - Technorati
Favorite Exchange
. And so I thought to be a part of it and continue it. Technorati Favorite Exchange is nothing but a favorite exchange in the famous blog search engine Technorati.
How will it help me and my blog?
Technorati Favorite Exchange is a lot helpful thing for bloggers out there to drive ultimate traffic and popularity. This is also a key to enter the famous top 100 favorited blogs list which is maintained by Technorati. Blogs in that list get great traffic.
How can I be a part of this experiment?
There is nothing big and you also don’t need to be a scientist for it. All you need is a Technorati account and a blog. Now follow these steps:
Add Rishiraj.info to your Technorati Favorites by clicking HERE.
Then leave your Technorati username and your blog URL in the comment section.
Done!
Now then I’ll also add your blog in my Te
Customize the WordPress login page 2007-04-22 18:04:10 All bloggers want a fully personalized blog. WordPress, which is the best CMS and blogging tool according to me and other bloggers gives you the feature to customize your blog by using various plugins and themes which gives full personal feel to there blogs. But still, some thing is always missing. Now I found out something which some people miss out. Now it is not very important but gives a professional touch to your blog.
WordPress users must be familiar with the WordPress login page which is located at {blog-URL}/wp-login.php. Have you ever thought to customize it? Although its not necessary but it will give your blog a corporate and professional touch. Its not too hard and risky at all, anyone can apply it, it’s very easy! Here I’ll give a short How To on this.
Before you start, get the login-bkg-tile.gif and login-bkg-bottom.gif / login-bkg-bottom_new.gif images from FTP or direct download, these images are located in your blog’s /wp-admin/images .
the default l
Use Web Messengers 2007-04-28 08:17:54 The thing we all faced in our daily life is over load of softwares in our computers. And at that phase installing IM client softwares is a big heck. They make your PC slow, sometimes install ad-wares and spy-wares and much more. making your system more bulky. To get rid of this problem, you need to have everything in your mighty browser with web messengers.
I have seen many website which provide IM in browser service. Here I have listed the top 5 web messengers which are very popular, used mostly and available all over the globe.
Meebo Meebo, as to its name is a very funky IM-in-Browser service. It has support for all major IMs like Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, AIM, Gtalk, Jabber. It is secure also. I use it regularly and its great. The feature I liked is its chat log web which saves whatever you have chatted with your friends so that you can see it anytime. To get the chat log, you will need to make an Meebo account which is very very easy. Just some fields and bingo!
eBuddy eBuddy is next on th Read more:Messengers
Speed Linking #1 2007-04-29 13:54:20 There are some of the interesting links to the articles / posts I found cool on the internet. Have a look and grow your knowledge.
Fix Generic Host For Win32 Process Error Dj Flush from Sizlopedia shares some tricks and tweaks on fixing the haunted error of Generic Host.
Use the Timestamp on Comments Daniel from Daily Blog Tips shares an amazing tip on how to utilize the Timestamp feature in Wordpress to tackle the breakage of comment conversations.
Review of SeaMonkey - Browser, Email, IRC, WYSIWYG Editor & What not! Mayank from Reviewsaurus gives a great review on SeaMonkey, a great internet suite made on Mozilla technology.
Flex is now Open Source - one of the sweetest announcement from Adobe Brajeshwar gives a overall report on Adobe’s announcement of Flex as open source.
How to make VLC Player work in Vista? Mr. Byte from Lyte Byte gives a short tutorial on how to make VLC Player compatible with Windows Vista.
Now if you have any article from your blog or hav Read more:Speed
, Linking
People I respect, regard and recommend 2007-05-02 21:11:00 I came into blogging quite late. I missed many things and also found it hard to blog. Then there some people who helped me by solving my problems, supporting my work etc. Today when I read a post on the Internet on A Recommendation / Appreciation Baton, I thought also to follow this baton and show my respect
toward some people who I respect, regard and recommend.
Ajay D’Souza
I guess we all know the Ajay D’Souza who is a pro-blogger, a master WordPress guy and also a good person. Ajay guided me in my initial days of blogging by giving me tips, pointing me on my mistakes and guiding me on my every step on WordPress. He used to my words and then give his words. Ajay is a professional but still I cannot find any moment where he acted like a big guy, he used to be simple, nice and humble. I preach him as my leader to WordPress and a a long time friend.
Brajeshwar Oinam
Brajeshwar whom I call Brajeshwar sir is a guy who is a believer of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). He has a
Make professional contact cards 2007-05-01 20:04:23 Contact cards are the most common thing which we need these days. Getting a professional
design is not possible until you want to spend some bucks to the designer, or know some quick photo editing yourself. But now you can make some professional looking cards for yourself easily using a simple generator.
DeGraeve.com which is a site which some awesome tools from one is Business Card Maker which is auto-generates a printable PDF file which the data your entered in the information fields processed and made into a sheet of 12 cards which are in 3.5 in x 2 inches in size each.
The cards made by it is very professional and simple which makes in corporate looking. I’ve made myself a set and also send them for printing and also using it as my email signature. How about you? Did you liked this new tool?
Business Card Maker
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Generate wonderful stripes for your site background 2007-05-05 16:16:12 Getting a wonderful design background
for our side is a tough thing. Spending hours in designing pixel-by-pixel background stripes
is a lot of headache. But now its over. Now you can generate wonder stripes for your site background in seconds.
Now get some cool stripes with different effects like wonderful shadow, different colors, size, angle etc. with a simple and wonderful online tool called Stripe Generator. Stripe Generator auto generates some very cool stripe images for your site on the color of your choice by a color picker, in different sizes as you wish, and also in different angles. It is easy to use and very helpful. And if you are a Photoshop guy then you must try it because it is wonderful, a lot easy from working on pixels for the background design in Photoshop.
After you have done making it, you can simply click on the Download button to download the image you created. Then to have it as your site’s background just tweak your CSS a bit with this simple code :
ba
Showcase your online networks 2007-05-09 17:41:12 Social networking a major thing these days. Connecting with people, sharing ideas, thoughts, knowledge and many more online
has became a trend these days. Sites are like LinkedIn, Flickr, Facebook etc are tools which are heavily used by people to connect, share and learn. But the thing which rises is How to show people how to connect with you? Now here is a new Web 2.0 tool which will do the work.
Hey but these are the days of Web 2.0 and here is another tool to show your network in the internet called ShowYourself widget by Dustin Bachrach. As the name suggest, ShowYourself is a widget for your site, blog, or even a Hi5 or Myspace page which has a chart of all the networking sites on which people can connect you.
You can prepare your own widget by just going to the site, entering your usernames in front of the site name and logo and unchecked it if you are not a member of that site to exclude it from the widget, then just click the Generate Code button and bingo! Here’s your
Annoucement: Rewards to readers 2007-05-14 12:08:36 Recently I have noticed that my blog success is raising up day by day. I have started getting more comments, link backs, hits and fame. This is all because of my content readers
who make my blog successful by giving there time reading it and more to them who give there time by reading and discussing on it by commenting on the particular post. But from now I am going to reward my readers / commentators.
Get free links
Top Commentators: Recently I have installed a plugin called Show Top Commentators which shows the name and URL to the sites of the people who comment max. on this blog. This counter will auto-reset every week so everyone can get in easily. You can get a genuine free link to your by just leaving your thoughts on this blog.
Link Love: I have also installed a new plugin on advice of Ajay and Thilak called Link Love. This plugin removes the nofollow attribute from all comments which is added default by Wordpress. So this means more comments, more links and a Read more:Rewards
10 Evil Things a Directory Can Do For Your Blog 2007-05-12 18:03:58 If you are a good search engine optimization expert or lets say you at least know the importance of backlinks for a blog you would definitely know the importance of having a blog directory too. Blog directories are key tools for blog SEO and site optimization in webmaster world.
Today while having the privilege of guest blogging for the most intelligent young mind I know (Of course I am talking about you Rishi) I shall explain the audience of this blog the most evil things that a blog directory can do for you.
……and here the devilish journey starts:
1 . More Blog Promotion
Often bloggers ask me how I managed to promote and publicize the News Blog to such a large audience in such a short period of time. The answer is clear and simple just get yourself some Directory
-Love and you are on the move.
2 . More Backlinks
Trust me or not on this one but the hardest thing for a blogger to get for his/her blog in this competitive blogosphere is ‘Backlinks’. Ho
Posting frequency : Regular posting vs Sparse posting 2007-05-20 10:41:06 You are starting a blog. No, make it a nice blog, with a cool design, not to mention your extraordinary writing skills. These are probably the most important factors in deciding the success of a blog in its early days.There are several questions that you need to answer, inorder to be consistent in what you do.
One of those questions that beginners in blogging often face is how often you will post. Sure, you read in every “blogger’s guide” that regularly updated content improves your readership and search rankings. So you decide that you will post often - at least once a day.
But let me ask you this question : in the early days of a blog, are there enough readers to justify the time and effort you spend? Unless you are something sensational(ie. celebrity), the definitive answer is no.
But, if you decide that you will not post regularly, you could lose your readers. What is the value of a blog without loyal readers?
In recent surveys, most notably the one conducted by D
Top Commentator reward of May 2007: Zapfino Linotype One 2007-05-20 03:40:34 After a hit to my reader wit the offer that I will reward
the top commentator of every month with a reward / gift. Now this month that is May 2007’s reward to the top commentator is Zapfino Linotype One font.
Zapfino Linotype One is a wonderful royale font from the Zapfino Linotype family which costs $24. This gift is sponsored by Phalgun Shenoy from TechProNews. Thanks Phalgun!
So keep commenting, the current lead is given by Sumesh Premraj so try coming up fast now everyone!
Read more:Commentator
Ubuntu guy wearing a Dell t-shirt! 2007-05-24 10:00:14 We all know that Dell will now ship Ubuntu
pre-installed on there upcoming systems and Ubuntu regarded as one of the best OS ever made and the best linux ditro. After so much acceptance by Dell, what do you think Ubuntu for Dell now?
Now what they did is hilarious, Ubuntu added a new guy with a Dell t-shirt to one of there chief banners of there website. I noticed it when I was just browsing Ubuntu’s website for some Ubuntu buttons.
After using Ubuntu for some days, I am also in love with it but the thing which discourages me to use it is that Ubuntu doesn’t my kind of ASDL modem which my sick ISP BSNL DataOne provided .
Check out what Shankar thinks on this…
Anyways, Ubuntu rocks!
Read more:wearing
Buying many domains - good or bad? 2007-05-27 04:18:42 Domains, a very important part of the internet. Can be said as the only important of the internet. Domains are one of the keys behind a successful website. But these days, domains are being manupulated. People buying to many domain names ( called Domaineers ) and then selling them for high rates - Good or Bad?
People are buying domains hapazardly and selling them at auctions for a big price. Daniel from Daily Blog Tips onced asked me that why I bought a domain name with my name for this blog, the answer is I can’t get any good domain left and those who were available at auctions were too costly for me to buy. Its a fact now, as this manupulation of domain names are increasig, people are buying hundreds of domain names and parking them, selling them after sometime for big rates. :O
For many this is not a topic to even think but for some its a major issue. Interest of people in blogging are increasing everyday. Every big blogger like Daniel, Andrew, even me and many more recommend Read more:Buying
Ubuntu guy wearing a Dell t-shirt! 2007-05-24 10:00:14 We all know that Dell will now ship Ubuntu
pre-installed on there upcoming systems and Ubuntu regarded as one of the best OS ever made and the best linux ditro. After so much acceptance by Dell, what do you think Ubuntu for Dell now?
Now what they did is hilarious, Ubuntu added a new guy with a Dell t-shirt to one of there chief banners of there website. I noticed it when I was just browsing Ubuntu’s website for some Ubuntu buttons.
After using Ubuntu for some days, I am also in love with it but the thing which discourages me to use it is that Ubuntu doesn’t my kind of ASDL modem which my sick ISP BSNL DataOne provided .
Check out what Shankar thinks on this…
Anyways, Ubuntu rocks! Read more:wearing
Posting frequency : Regular posting vs Sparse posting 2007-05-20 03:41:06 You are starting a blog. No, make it a nice blog, with a cool design, not to mention your extraordinary writing skills. These are probably the most important factors in deciding the success of a blog in its early days.There are several questions that you need to answer, inorder to be consistent in what you do.
One of those questions that beginners in blogging often face is how often you will post. Sure, you read in every “blogger’s guide” that regularly updated content improves your readership and search rankings. So you decide that you will post often - at least once a day.
But let me ask you this question : in the early days of a blog, are there enough readers to justify the time and effort you spend? Unless you are something sensational(ie. celebrity), the definitive answer is no.
But, if you decide that you will not post regularly, you could lose your readers. What is the value of a blog without loyal readers?
In recent surveys, most notably the one conducted by D
Top Commentator reward of May 2007: Zapfino Linotype One 2007-05-20 03:40:34 After a hit to my reader wit the offer that I will reward
the top commentator of every month with a reward / gift. Now this month that is May 2007’s reward to the top commentator is Zapfino Linotype One font.
Zapfino Linotype One is a wonderful royale font from the Zapfino Linotype family which costs $24. This gift is sponsored by Phalgun Shenoy from TechProNews. Thanks Phalgun!
So keep commenting, the current lead is given by Sumesh Premraj so try coming up fast now everyone! Read more:Commentator
Annoucement: Rewards to readers 2007-05-14 05:08:36 Recently?I have noticed that my blog success is raising up day by day. I have started getting more comments, link backs, hits and fame. This is all because of my content readers
who make my blog successful by giving there time reading it and more to them who give there time by reading and discussing on it by commenting on the particular post. But from now I am going to reward my readers / commentators.
Get free links
Top Commentators: Recently I have installed a plugin called?Show Top Commentators which shows the name and URL to the sites?of the people who comment max. on this blog. This counter will auto-reset every week so everyone can get in easily. You can get?a genuine free link to your by just leaving your thoughts on this blog.
Link Love: I have also installed a new plugin on advice of Ajay and Thilak?called Link Love. This plugin removes the nofollow attribute from all comments which is added default by Wordpress. So this means more comments, more links and a grea Read more:Rewards
10 Evil Things a Directory Can Do For Your Blog 2007-05-12 11:03:58 If you are a good search engine optimization expert or lets say you at least know the importance of backlinks for a blog you would definitely know the importance of having a blog directory too. Blog directories are key tools for blog SEO and site optimization in webmaster world.
Today while having the privilege of guest blogging for the most intelligent young mind I know (Of course I am talking about you Rishi) I shall explain the audience of this blog the most evil things that a blog directory can do for you.
……and here the devilish journey starts:
1 . More Blog Promotion
Often bloggers ask me how I managed to promote and publicize the News Blog to such a large audience in such a short period of time. The answer is clear and simple just get yourself some Directory
-Love and you are on the move.
2 . More Backlinks
Trust me or not on this one but the hardest thing for a blogger to get for his/her blog in this competitive blogosphere is ‘Backlinks’. Ho
Showcase your online networks 2007-05-09 10:41:12 Social networking a major thing these days. Connecting with people, sharing ideas, thoughts, knowledge and many more online
has became a trend these days. Sites are like LinkedIn, Flickr, Facebook etc are tools which are heavily used by people to connect, share and learn. But the thing which rises is How to show people how to connect with you? Now here is a new Web 2.0 tool which will do the work.
Hey but these are the days of Web 2.0 and here is another tool to show your network in the internet called ShowYourself widget by Dustin Bachrach. As the name suggest, ShowYourself is a widget for your site, blog, or even a Hi5 or Myspace page which has a chart of all the networking sites on which people can connect you.
You can prepare your own widget by just going to the site, entering your usernames in front of the site name and logo and unchecked it if you are not a member of that site to exclude it from the widget, then just click the Generate Code button and bingo! Here’s your
Generate wonderful stripes for your site background 2007-05-05 09:16:12 Getting a wonderful design background
for our side is a tough thing. Spending hours in designing pixel-by-pixel background stripes
is a lot of headache. But now its over. Now you can generate wonder stripes for your site background in seconds.
Now get some cool stripes with different effects like wonderful shadow, different colors, size, angle etc. with a simple and wonderful online tool called Stripe Generator. Stripe Generator auto generates some very cool stripe images for your site on the color of your choice by a color picker, in different sizes as you wish, and also in different angles. It is easy to use and very helpful. And if you are a Photoshop guy then you must try it because it is wonderful, a lot easy from working on pixels for the background design in Photoshop.
After you have done making it, you can simply click on the Download button to download the image you created. Then to have it as your site’s background just tweak your CSS a bit with this simple code :
back
People I respect, regard and recommend 2007-05-02 14:11:00 I came into blogging quite late. I missed many things and also found it hard to blog. Then there some people who helped me by solving my problems, supporting my work etc. Today when I read a post on the Internet on A Recommendation / Appreciation Baton, I thought also to follow this baton and show my respect
toward some people who I respect, regard and recommend.
Ajay D’Souza
I guess we all know the Ajay D’Souza who is a pro-blogger, a master WordPress guy and also a good person. Ajay guided me in my initial days of blogging by giving me tips, pointing me on my mistakes and guiding me on my every step on WordPress. He used to my words and then give his words. Ajay is a professional but still I cannot find any moment where he acted like a big guy, he used to be simple, nice and humble. I preach him as my leader to WordPress and a a long time friend.
Brajeshwar Oinam
Brajeshwar whom I call Brajeshwar sir is a guy who is a believer of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). He has a
Make professional contact cards 2007-05-01 13:04:23 Contact cards are the most common thing which we need these days. Getting a professional
design is not possible until you want to spend some bucks to the designer, or know some quick photo editing yourself. But now you can make some professional looking cards for yourself easily using a simple generator.
DeGraeve.com which is a site which some awesome tools from one is Business Card Maker which is auto-generates a printable PDF file which the data your entered in the information fields processed and made into a sheet of 12 cards which are in 3.5 in x 2 inches in size each.
The cards made by it is very professional and simple which makes in corporate looking. I’ve made myself a set and also send them for printing and also using it as my email signature. How about you? Did you liked this new tool?
Business Card Maker
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card, degraeve, generator, internet, maker, online tool, rishi raj, rishiraj, tool
Speed Linking #1 2007-04-29 06:54:20 There are some of the interesting links to the articles / posts I found cool on the internet. Have a look and grow your knowledge.
Fix Generic Host For Win32 Process Error Dj Flush from Sizlopedia shares some tricks and tweaks on fixing the haunted error of Generic Host.
Use the Timestamp on Comments Daniel from Daily Blog Tips shares an amazing tip on how to utilize the Timestamp feature in Wordpress to tackle the breakage of comment conversations.
Review of SeaMonkey - Browser, Email, IRC, WYSIWYG Editor & What not! Mayank from Reviewsaurus gives a great review on SeaMonkey, a great internet suite made on Mozilla technology.
Flex is now Open Source - one of the sweetest announcement from Adobe Brajeshwar gives a overall report on Adobe’s announcement of Flex as open source.
How to make VLC Player work in Vista? Mr. Byte from Lyte Byte gives a short tutorial on how to make VLC Player compatible with Windows Vista.
Now if you have any article from your blog or hav Read more:Speed
, Linking
Use Web Messengers 2007-04-28 01:17:54 The thing we all faced in our daily life is over load of softwares in our computers. And at that phase installing IM client softwares is a big heck. They make your PC slow, sometimes install ad-wares and spy-wares and much more. making your system more bulky. To get rid of this problem, you need to have everything in your mighty browser with web messengers.
I have seen many website which provide IM in browser service. Here I have listed the top 5 web messengers which are very popular, used mostly and available all over the globe.
Meebo Meebo, as to its name is a very funky IM-in-Browser service. It has support for all major IMs like Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, AIM, Gtalk, Jabber. It is secure also. I use it regularly and its great. The feature I liked is its chat log web which saves whatever you have chatted with your friends so that you can see it anytime. To get the chat log, you will need to make an Meebo account which is very very easy. Just some fields and bingo!
eBuddy eBuddy is next on th Read more:Messengers
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