Archive for June, 2007
Safari is now available for Windows
Apple has now released the Safari Browser for Windows. A very good news for web designers they say.
Three Online Password Managers Reviewed
In this age of having tens of online accounts for services ranging from emails to
ecommerce, remembering passwords is a hefty task. There are many password managers that let you store passwords securely, and these tools have even migrated to the online world. Many [tag]online password managers[/tag] are now available for you to keep track of passwords. Let me review four of them here.
I’m not gonna go into reviewing their encryption stuff and that, what I’m gonna see is the usability factor.
Smorty: Another way to earn money via your blog
Smorty is another way to earn money from your blog. Smorty connects bloggers and advertisers, letting bloggers review advertisers’ services and products.
Advertisers can advertise on blogs with quality content to get opinions on their products and services. Bloggers get paid for the reviews approved by advertisers via Paypal. The pay out is weekly, and this attracted me.
Reviews must have a minimum of 150 words and a maximum of 400 words. Bloggers get paid for the reviews approved by advertisers.
Smorty’s interface is really simple to use. All available opportunities are listed on the panel for you to accept/decline. There’s also a referral program that lets you earn more bucks by referring new sign-ups.
Something which I found lacking was the usage of RSS feeds in the system. It would be easier for bloggers to keep track of available opportunities via feeds. Many similar services have integrated RSS feeds in their system very well.
Overall, Smorty seems to be a very good platform that lets bloggers get paid for blogging.
Disclosure: This is a sponsored review
Links
Link love is good…
- Free Softwares to connect Sony Ericsson mobile to PC – Nirmal
- 5 hi-tech USB gadgets – Dj Flush
- Windows XP Black Zune Theme – Joel
- How to increase traffic to your blog with Answers.com – Gili
- Wireless Electricity may become a reality – Ashish
- How to save streaming video? – Pallab
- Youtube’s new type of embedded video player – Madhur
- Firefox Tip : Create Smart Keywords For Searching Websites Easily – Manas
- Hiding affiliate links – good or bad? – Rishi
- How to view the uptime for Windows since Restart – Keith
Hope they’ll be reciprocated 
Vote for the Taj, please
There’s a campaign going on to list the new 7 wonders of the world, you might have known – at new7wonders.com
21 finalists have now been short listed and the new seven wonders will be announced on 07/07/07 – that’s July 07 this year, less than a month from now.
These new wonders are selected based on the number of votes they managed to receive from people all over the world. You can vote for any monument/site that you consider worth a wonder.
If you’re an Indian, you must consider voting for the Taj Mahal, India’s pride. I’m not imposing my views on you, but I strongly suggest you to cast your vote for the Taj. People say it’s going down in the list, so please consider voting for it.
You can vote online or via the phone. Vote now here.
Avoid post excerpts from affecting your blog’s RSS feed
Either for the benefit of increasing page views or for avoiding the problem of duplicate content, you might have decided to display only post excerpts on your home page. You do this by adding the <!–more–> tag to your posts.
The reader will be able to glance through entire post only if he clicks on the ‘more’ or such links on your post. It’s a good thing to do, but do you know that this affects your feed too?
Most of you give out full feeds but the fact is that displaying post excerpts makes it partial. The feed too displays only the post excerpt. Most readers are against partial feeds, you might know.
But there’s a plugin to avoid this thing from happening – it’s the Full Text Feed.
Once you’ve installed this plugin on your WordPress blog, feed readers will be able to see the entire article even if you’ve used the <!–more–> tag on your posts.
You can download the plugin from here. Did you find it useful?
Tiger Admin WordPress plugin: Polish your WP Control Panel
Bored by WordPress Dashboard’s default bluish look? You might want to give it a polish.
Here’s a plugin to do that: WP Tiger Admin Plugin.
It basically uses CSS 2 to redesign your dashboard, and does not mess up with XHTML stuff – so you need not worry about any serious problems.
With light colours, and tiny descriptive icons for options – this is a great add on to refurbish your WP Panel.
Download the plugin from here. Screenshots are also available in the page.
Your feedback needed
It’s been over a month over three months since I started writing on this blog and I’ve been writing on a wide variety of content.
Just thought I can get your views regarding what you type of articles you would like see on this blog. Please take some time to vote on this poll:
(If you can’t see the poll in your RSS Reader, please click on the post title to come to the site and vote)
Also, please drop in your valuable suggestions in the comments. I’m open to any kind of criticism too 
. Thanks!
Have you installed the Random Posts plugin?
Random Redirect is a WordPress plugin that lets your users to easily visit a randomly picked post from your blog – in StumbleUpon style.
May be useful for those lazy readers who feel bored to go through pages and pages of archives and category posts.
It’s fun. Just download the plugin from here, install it, activate it, and just put up a link to yourblogdomain.com/?random and you’re finished.
Clicking on the link, your blog’s readers will be redirected to a random post on your blog.
Some bloggers have already installed it and they’re using a dice icon for the links to increase the fun factor. You can also see it live on this blog in the sidebar.
I liked this plugin very much and I recommend to you all to install this one on your blog.
