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Why do I need to Market my blog?
This is the most frequently asked question that I have heard from blogger freinds who blog as a hobby and do not intend to earn money. As a matter of fact many of them find it beneath them to market their blog. So I will like to address that issue first.

It is your duty to the Internet Community
There are two types of people creating content on the internet. People who are creating content for easy money and people who are doing so because it is their passion. The second class of bloggers may monetize their site but money is never their primary motivation for blogging. IMHO the quality of the content created by the second class is better than the quality of the content created by people who create content simply to make money.

Unfortunately the passionate bloggers do not want to market their blog. And the quick maney bloggers have a huge incentive to do everything to get more and more people to read their blogs. Net result of it is that the normal reader is bombarded with inferior quality content while the better quality content remain hidden from him.

If you want to prevent this deterioaration of quality of content on the internet, then you must actively try to make your blog accessible to as many people as possible and try to bring other good quality blogs to the front.

Acer India has announced a special New Year offer to their notebook customers with the launch of a unique “Cash Back” program which will be a first of its kind in the PC market. During this period, customers buying the Acer Aspire 5570ANWXMi and the Acer Aspire 3682NWXCi Notebook models, will receive Rs 2007/- as cash back along with a host of assured gifts from Acer under its special end customer promotion program – ” The Get Gifted Offer” (GGO). The cash back offer can be redeemed by the customer directly from Acer. The offer will be available to customers till January 31, 2007

Customers buying the select models are provided with a range of Gifts to choose from by the partner in addition to the cash back offer, which is available on select models where the redemption process is direct. The gifts range from Acer branded T-shirts, jackets, backpacks, USB thumbdrives, MP3 Players, Tata SKY Satellite connections, Free Reliance USB modem worth 4500 INR etc. The customer needs to register his purchase along with his preference of Gift through the partner on the Acer website to avail of the gift offer.
For more details visit 

www.acer.co.in/press/archives/press/Acer%20cash%20back%20offer%20-%20Jan%202007.doc

If you happen to use firefox and if you dont want other people to see some of the tab labels or what you are upto here we have a plugin available which allows to hide title and icon of the selected tab/page.

Thus it provides more privacy at workplace or some time even at home when mom or someone else go for sudden check on your screen..
The Page Title Eraser:

The Page Title Eraser extension can be used in different ways, by right clicking on a page or from

It also has a hot key Ctrl + Shift + H which will hide or unhide the title bar.

So If you want to hide the titles, then this is a decent extension you can use

Plugin can be downloaded from http://www.download.com/Page-Title-Eraser/3000-11745_4-10746639.html

Torrents are great, they are the best way to share large files with your friends, or even with people you don’t know at all. But surprisingly enough, not many people create or use  torrents when they need to share something.

You can search latest movies , Songs , software both legitmate and pirated on this torrent sites and download them with the help of a torrent client like azures , microtorrent etc…

Here is the list of top torrents which are popular among net surfers..
1. Torrentz.com

Torrentz is a popular Torrent indexing and Torrent search engine. It does not help to track your torrents. The torrent search engine is more advance as it allows you to search for files within the torrents. If you’re looking for unique stuff you should prefer this site

2. BitTorrent

BitTorrent’s software client allows you to quickly download high-quality digital content such as video, music, and games.
It leverages on its community of over 70 million users to securely deliver files to your PC faster than anything else out there.

http://www.bittorrent.com/
TorrentSpy.com

TorrentSpy is a popular BitTorrent indexing Web Site. It hosts torrent and provides a forum to comment on them, as well as a graphical portrayal of how healthy the torrents are. Torrentspy was as popular as Mininova and made it to 2nd place.
www.torrentspy.com
Nowadays dowload managers are also coming with torrent supports so that u can download both normal files as well as torrent files.

Best example is Flashgates

Thanks to network admin team and security policies , we see lot of websites and IM Clients being banned inside most of the office networks in India.

Though we ourselves don’t want to waste our so called precious time on browsing crap stuffs in our office but i strongly feel accessing gtalk does come under fundamental right of every office goers – no matter where he works.

So here is one work around to bypass the filters and enjoy this fundamental rights..But yes its alwayz at your own risk

Nimbuzz : http://web.nimbuzz.com is a web based application where in we can chat with gmail ids. and yes it is of course free.

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I just realized that there’s going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003

Finding the definition of a word
Enter Define : word in the google search box and press enter to find the definition of the word.

Finding Reviews
Enter “nachle more:reviews” into the google search box and press enter to find all the reviews for the movie Aja nachle.

Finding User Reviews
Enter “reliance mobile more:user_reviews” into the google search box and press enter to find all the user generated reviews for the reliance mobile.

Finding Movie Downloads
nachle more:downloads

I wanted to create a list like

• Point 1
• Point 2
• Point 3

in an excel cell.

Bullets and numbering is a widely used feature in microsoft word. Surprisingly microsoft excel does not have any such feature. So I did a bit of research and found the following work around.

insert the following formula in the cell where you want to put the bulleted list.
=CONCATENATE(CHAR(149),” Point 1″,CHAR(10),CHAR(149),” Point 2″,CHAR(10),CHAR(149),” Point 3″)

Keep the cursor on the cell and press Alt+Enter (“For wrap text”) and you will have your text beautifully wrapped up.

P.S If you do not want to keep the messy formula in your sheet then copy the cell and paste the value using paste special.

LogMeIn is a service that allows users to remotely access a number of home or work PCs anywhere they may be through an Internet connection. Users can access their computers remotely, even from Linux machines, Macs, and PocketPC devices. LogMeIn is browser-based and I was able to successfully test the program with both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Because the program is browser-based I can access the Target PC while seamlessly interacting with the PC I’m using to remotely connect.

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Opera has files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft requesting the Commission to implement two remedies to Microsoft’s abusive actions.

First, it requests the Commission to ask Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop.
Second, it asks the European Commission to require Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities.

The first request to unbudle internet explorer from windows is an old one. The case becomes interesting due to the second point. I am eagerly waiting to see if European Commission will indeed direct Microsoft about which standard to follow.

You can see the original press release Here