Shankar Ganesh

You’ve started blogging, and you’re writing good posts. Your blog could get even more better with a lot of free, cool stuff available online. Let me list some cool, general resources that will surely help in spicing up your blog.
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You’ve seen ReviewMe, SponsoredReviews and other services that pay bloggers for reviews you write on products.

Here comes another one with a really cool concept: ReviewBack

Here’s how it works:

• All blogs that have signed up with ReviewBack network are listed in this page.
• Sign up, add your blog and contact the other blogs in the network for mutual reviews using the same page.
• Once they agree – you review that blog, and that one reviews yours! Simple and lovely.

Great news for bloggers who cannot afford paid reviews.
Share your thoughts on ReviewBack in the comments.

Exchange reviews at ReviewBack.com [Via Hongkiat]

The following post reflects my personal thoughts and opinions, and is well suited for blogs of a similar niche like mine.

The design of a blog is as much important as it’s content. I believe that a site’s design need not be highly exquisite, but usable. So assuming that you have a WordPress blog or is looking to have one in the future, here’s an article that’ll tell you what you need to look for in a WordPress theme:
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As a blogger, you write a lot of posts – many a time, you edit them again after publishing. Atleast, I do

Sometimes, you forget the most important – and then go back and edit. So, here’s a checklist to help you out:
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Pidgin is now becoming the popular choice for a multi-protocol messenger where in you can connect to different networks that include Google Talk, Yahoo, etc.

Pidgin, by default, does not notify you when a buddy comes online. But you can activate that feature. It’s known as Buddy Pounce on Pidgin. Here’s how:

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Once in a while, you might want to switch to the Safe Mode in Windows during boot to solve some problems on your computer.

If you find it hard to boot into safe mode by pressing the F8 key – you can add the safe mode to the Windows XP boot list. Windows will now ask you whether you want to boot into the normal or safe mode everytime you switch on your computer.

To do this, try the following steps:

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This week’s link batch.. I really liked the articles Nirmal posted this week

• Unlimited email addresses with one Gmail Account – Nirmal
• Important things to do while changing WordPress themes – Nirmal, again
• Online YouTube Video Editor – YouTube Remixer – Dj
• Increase Productivity with the MeeTimer Firefox Extension – Gili
• Free PDF Compressor tool – Ashish
• Save Last.FM with the Last Ripper – Madhur
• How to use the middle scroll button in your mouse – RamKarthik
• Free eBook reading software from Adobe – Shashank
• Brain as a remote – Brown Baron
• Online presentations with Wink – Ram

Spock is the online leader in personal search, helping users find and discover people. With over one hundred million people already indexed and millions added every day, Spock is building the broadest and deepest people specific search engine.

TechCrunch has an extensive report on Spock, the People search engine

Spock just gave people 101 invites and I’m one of them. If you wanna try out Spock, just drop a comment here so that I can invite you.

Make sure you use your full name in the comments, Spock asks me to fill in both the first name and the second name

First come, first served.

[This post is a part of Techie Buzz's Make things better train]

Though I’ve moved to WordPress, I still have a little place for Google’s free blog hosting service, Blogger – in my heart. It’s a good platform, very useful for blogging newbies. But it needs quite a lot of improvements. Here’s what I would like to see in Blogger:

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School just re-opened. I’ll be back with some good stuff soon.
Till then, Enjoy.

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