Shankar Ganesh

Mostly everyone who has a WordPress blog has started using the Top Commentators Plugin. Unfortunately, this plugin doesn’t have a preferences page so you’ve to modify its options only using the Plugin Editor available at Plugins >> Plugin Editor.

Don’t worry, modifying the options for the Top Commentators plugin isn’t that tough using the editor. It’s really easy. Let me tell you what what options are available and how you can modify them. All of these are listed at PFAdvices. Read the rest of this entry »

Spreading some link love…

• Tips to increase comments on your blog – Nirmal
• Blogging Strategy: Promote your blog with a T-Shirt – Dj Flush
• Humour: The evolution of a programmer – Joel
• Adsense Mistakes that you shouldn’t commit – Ashish
• Slow motion animations in Windows Vista – Madhur
• How to back up Google Calendar? – Gili
• Wallpapers for your mobile phone – Manas
• The future of content industry – Rishi
• How to remove your name from the Top commentators list? – Keith
• Kodak’s next generation Image sensor technology – Shashank
• Tips to generate traffic for your blog – RamKarthik
• Firefox about:config hacks and tips – Beta3
• Tiny utilities for your PC – Pallab
• Jet that carries you to space – Brown Baron

Have fun! I’m glad that this blog got approved into the India Technology Bloggers Feedburner Network this week, thanks to QOT

Recently, it was reported that India’s HRD ministry is planning to introduce $10 laptops to children.

Now, Techtree is reporting that Intel may bring it’s low cost classmate PCs to India as part of its World Ahead Program. Pilot tests were conducted in some Delhi schools.

Designed for school going children, the classmate PC sports a 900MHz Celeron Processor, Flash memory (no hard disk). While OLPC’s laptops cost around 170$, these classmate PCs might cost around $280 dollars each, but the cost may fall with time.

The cost seems to be good – considering it takes $600 for an average PC here in India. Even though these computers are less expensive, I wonder who’ll train the students to use it. There’s no good infrastructure in India, and there are not so many teachers with necessary qualifications. The quality/standard of computer education is very low. Read the rest of this entry »

HTML Validator is a Firefox Extension which could be useful for web developers out there.

It validates a web page and displays the number of errors and warnings generated during HTML validation in the status bar.

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If you wanna boost your productivity, try ReminderFox, an extension to Firefox which you can use to set reminders and todos from inside Firefox. Organize your day with ReminderFox.

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You’re waiting and waiting and waiting. But it doesn’t seem to respond. This is the case with the Add/Remove Programs applet in your Windows XP Control Panel. It’s sluggish and highly annoying, taking a lot of time to start up. It’s high time you start using some alternatives to the built-in Windows XP Uninstaller. Why not you try these?

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As Wikipedia puts it:

Supplemental Result is a supplementary Google search Index of less important web pages according to the Google Page Rank

It is said that the supplemental results are really Google’s way of filtering out duplicate content. Therefore pages that are modified to contain enough unique content will eventually make there way out of the supplemental index and back into Google’s main index.

So supplemental result pages are those pages that have less significant or duplicate content (atleast Google thinks so).

But do you know how many of your blog’s pages are in the supplemental index? Here’s a quick way to check it:

Type in site:yourblog.com *** -view in Google’s search bar and there you see pages of your site that are in Google’s supplemental index listed out.

You can follow these tips to get your blog out of the supplemental index easily.

I’m unsure as to whether this post is worth it but I decided to publish it. Hope you’ll like it. StumbleUpon is a kind of a social bookmarking network that lets users visit a website randomly based on their interests. Bloggers can use StumbleUpon to get hits to their articles in minutes. Over the past few months, I’ve been using StumbleUpon and here are 5 things I learnt about it:
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Another feature that I believe Windows lacks by default – it does not allow us to move those buttons of minimized windows on the taskbar. But you can get this functionality by using a third party software.

Download Taskbar shuffle from here, install it and then move and arrange buttons on your taskbar – just by dragging and dropping ‘em.

Taskbar shuffle can also group windows based on application usage and number of windows.

For the benefit of SEO, you might have moved your blogroll to a separate page on your blog (instead of having them in the homepage), like I have done here. Remember: less outgoing links, better SEO.

But on the down side of it, you have to type in manually all links, instead of using WordPress’s Blogroll facility.

Here’s a new solution to it: Read the rest of this entry »