From the monthly archives:

August 2006

Wordpress – Plugins/Themes

August 31, 2006

Wordpress, the publishing software which runs this blog as well, is powerful because of 2 things

You can add additional functionality in the form of plugins.
You can change the look and feel of the blog just by a click and the changes are applied instantly.

Plugins
BlogJoint has compiled a list of Top Wordpress plugins. You can find [...]

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Bad Behavior

August 28, 2006

Spam in Blogs is one of the major problem faced by most of the blog publishers. It shouldn’t be confused with splogs (Spam Blogs) which is often used to increase the PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from visitors and use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed.
Comments [...]

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Zidane – Game On

August 26, 2006

We all know about the famous or I should say “infamous” Zidane headbutt to Materazzi. On the next day itself, there were quite a few games (flash based) based on this incident.
I found another cool game at this link
http://footyflash.com/game/144/Zidanes-Forehead-Fr…
You just need to move the mouse and headbutt all those “Materazzis“. Zidane does grow [...]

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"Hidden" iTunes Toolbar

August 25, 2006

I have been using iTunes for quite some time, but I was not aware that iTunes had a nice little toolbar as well.
This is how you activate the toolbar.

Open iTunes
Right Click on the Taskbar and select Toolbars -> iTunes(This toolbar option appears only when iTunes is running and its kind of totally disjoint to the [...]

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Technobytez – Forum for Bloggers

August 24, 2006

Technobytez is the new forum for bloggers started by John. It was in a invite only mode from the past few days, and few of his friends including me have hepled in getting it going.
You can find more information about Technobytez in John’s post here.
If you are a blogger or a newbie and want to [...]

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DivX Stage 6 – I like It

August 24, 2006

DivX has come out with a new online video sharing service called Stage 6. Already the site has pretty impressive collection of videos.
About DivX
DivX is a video codec created by DivX, Inc. (formerly DivXNetworks, Inc.), which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively [...]

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Evolution of Dance

August 24, 2006

This is one of the “Most viewed” video on Youtube. Check it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
Check this video too (Nice background music )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkh5opBp6K4
This is the sequel to Matt Harding’s original “Dancing” from 2005, which gained wide Internet popularity. Matt’s first video of him dancing around the world was so inspiring that he actually got sponsorship [...]

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Tracking Outbound Links

August 23, 2006

I was checking out on a new analytics service called CrazyEgg. The application is supposed to help you get a clear picture of where your visitor are clicking including the Ads. Accordingly the user can change/customize the layout of the site. It does display the clicked links pretty nicely. You can view the results in [...]

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Online Monopoly and more …

August 23, 2006

I have a craze for computer games, especially strategy games. Age of Empires, Caesar 3, Railraod Tycoon,Rise of Nations, Dune are some of my favorites. Once I get hooked into the game, I never realize the passage of time.
Before I was introduced to a computer, I was hooked onto board games like monopoly and business.
Atari [...]

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I Need a Good RSS Reader

August 22, 2006

I have been using the FeedDemon RSS Reader from the past 29 days and the trial version will expire in a day. I am definitely not going to shell out 30$ for the full version. The reader has all the features that I need, but there is nothing special in it, for me to buy [...]

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