Some wars are best fought with Guerrila tactics. What is the second most important virtue of torrents? ease of use, right? What if we can take that away? Instead of trying to fight the spread of movie torrents in the legal way should the movie producers not make it extremely painful for the users to download movies using torrents?

How to make movie torrents a painful experience?

1. By creating confusion. Seed fake movie torrents in the torrent search engine. The user will never know what he is downloading till he has downloaded.
2. Use torrent search engine experts to move the fake torrents to the top.
3. Put up millions of computers that will download the popular movies from the torrent sites. Considering the amount of money movie producers loose to piracy, this may be a small cost 

Movie torrents may be the most beautiful thing to have happened to mankind or the movie torrent may be the worst enemy of the progress of humanrace depending upon whether you belong to the movie production group or movie consumption group. These are just some random thoughts of mine. Check my posts about rapidshare premium account and Most viewed videos

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The recycler virus is one of the most dreaded viruses. The most dangerous thing is that recycler virus makes use of portable devices like usb drives to spread itself. Basic modus operandi of the virus is to keep itself as a hiddent, read-only executable file on the USB. It also inserts a line into the autorun file of the usb pointing to itself. And once you double click on the usb, the virus runs and infects the clean pc.

Removing the recycler virus is as simple as listing files on your usb drive along listing hidden files as well. Look for a file autorun.inf and delete. See my post about removing virus from usb for the exact steps. Hubpages has a good post about usb virus removal as well.

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We at binaryday seem to be too impressed with windows 7, the latest operating system from microsoft. We have previously blogged about windows 7 themes , windows media player 12 or wmp 12 and Free Download Directx 11 with Directx 3D for Windows 7 and Vista. In this blog post I shall be discussing how you can download windows 7 upgrade advisor.

What is windows 7 upgrade advisor

Windows 7 upgrade advisor is a tool that will let you know if all hardware and software on your pc are compatible with windows 7. It can be installed on windows vista and xp. The windows 7 upgrade advisor will hopefully protect users against unpleasant surprises.

Where to download windows 7 upgrade advisor

The beta version of windows 7 upgrade advisor is available at the official microsoft site at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/upgrade-advisor.aspx

How to install windows 7 upgrade advisor

As with all other products from microsoft, installation is a piece of cake and quite intuitive. So I need not explain this step.

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Themes provide a really easy and useful way to change the appearance of content of windows and break free from the default look. Windows 7 themes is one of the many cool features of Windows 7 that include windows media player 12 and Directx 3D to name a few.

Windows 7 Themes

Some of the best themes of windows 7 are available at the official website of microsoft at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/Personalize. Mike Swanson has put together a cool theme for windows 7 at http://www.mikeswanson.com/wallpaper/Mike%20Swanson%20Macros.themepack. However while windows 7 themes have made it comparatively easy to get a cool look, that is not good enough reason to migrate your operating system.

Windows 7 themes for Vista

If you intend to continue with Vista O/S and get the looks of Windows 7, then you can do so by using windows 7 themes for Vista. Some of the best themes for Vista are available at http://giannisgx89.deviantart.com/art/Windows-7-Style-For-Vista-102269037, http://pankaj981.deviantart.com/art/Windows-7-Inspirat-76378417, http://vistaaero.deviantart.com/art/Windows-7-M1-Original-Theme-90127567 and http://deskmundo.deviantart.com/art/Windows-Seven-M1-VS-76834286

Windows 7 themes for XP

If you need to get a look similar to windows 7 on your XP machine, then you should consider using a windows 7 theme for XP.

http://rapidshare.com/files/193530863/Windows_7_M__20VS_2.zip, http://www.askvg.com/download-sevenvg-refresh-theme-with-superbar-for-windows-xp/, http://dopeysneezy.deviantart.com/art/Windows-7-Complete-109505907

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Need to convert docx to doc 

Many people struggle to open docx files with microsoft word as the docx format was a new format introduced by microsoft in word 2007. Many other versions of microsoft word do not support the docx format. The official solution for it is to convert docx files to doc format by using microsoft compatibility pack. However using microsoft compatibility pack for docx to doc conversion can be quite cumbersome, especially if you are a technologically challenged person

Free docx to doc converter to the rescue

I am constantly surprised by the number of free tools that are available online. As I was researching for a convenient way to convert docx to doc format, I came across docx2doc.com. Docx2doc.com offers an online tool to convert docx to doc instantly. Let me know your views of docx2doc.com if you have ever used them before.Btw you may like to check my other posts about windows media player 12 , Free Download Directx 11, rapidshare premium account and Rapidshare download Manager.

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I have previously written about rapidshare premium account and rapidshare downloader because of the interest shown by the blog readers in these topics related to rapidshare. This is the third post in the series of posts about rapidshare tricks and I shall be discussing about Rapidshare download Manager and Rapidshare manager in this post.

Rapidshare manager is the official download utility from rapidshare

Rapidshare manager is an utility provided by rapidshare itself. It allows users to upload and download multiiple files simultaneously. As typical with rapidshare, there are several restrictions on free users. Still the rapidshare manager is the official utility from rapidshare and hence worth a try especially you are sensitive about security related issues. You can download Rapidshare Manager at http://www.rapidshare.com/rsm.html

Rapidshare download Manager and Spyware

Having provided links to 5 free rapidshare downloader, I just realized that many rapidshare download managers can be a potential spyware. Hence if you must use a rapidshare download manager, make sure that you do enough research on it to satisfy yourself that, it is not a spyware.

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Nero 9 is the latest version of the popular Nero software. Some of the highlights of Nero 9 includes

• Fast and easy rip, burn, Autobackup, and copy functions 
• ability to copy, burn, share, upload, and create music mixes.
• Convert music and DVDs to play on your iPod and other mobile devices

As can be seen from the post above, there is a significant improvement in the user interface of Nero 9. Nero 9 comes with a tape scan feature that allows easy preview and scene selection from digital videos.

Nero 9 Download

As with other versions of Nero, Nero 9 continues to be a not-free software. However the 15 day trial verion is free and can be downloaded here

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Microsoft seems to be giving up its cnfrontation strategy and gradually moving towards a collaborative strategy with Windows 7. Many previously bundled programmes will ship separately now. However windows media player 12 or wmp 12 is going to be one of the few programmes that are going to ship along with windows 7. Btw do check out my post about Free Download Directx 11 with Directx 3D for Windows 7 and Vista.

Windows media player 12 or wmp 12 : the latest media player to ship

The Windows media player 12 is the latest media player to ship from the microsoft assembly line. Actually only the beta version has been made available. The final version will be released along with windows 7 only. In a notable shift from the past, even other formats including H.264 and AAC are supported.

The new interface for Windows media player 12

The biggest improvement on wmp 12 seems to have happened on its interface. wmp 12 comes with brighter and lighter interface. The windows media player 12 comes with 2 distinct interface modes i.e Now Playing view, and Library view. The interface would be pretty familiar to existing wmp users even though some buttons and toolbars have been moved around a bit.

“Play to” the coolest feature of windows media player 12

Windows media player 12 makes it easier to play music with any external device with the pc through a cool feature called “Play to”. It can stream to other computers in your HomeGroup, so, you can actually play back on the HTPC connected to your sound system while browsing your library on your laptop.

Download windows media player 12

Unfortunately, even after lot of Googling, I have not been able to locate a link to download windows media player 12. While I could find some rapidshare links, they were mostly for the spanish version of wmp 12. Let me know if you find a link for english version of windows media player 12.

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The need for Rapidshare Downloader

There seems to be a lot of interest for rapidshare premium account as Rapidshare seems to be doing a perfect job of annoying the free users with slow download speed, delayed start of download etc. If you are trying to download movies, you will have to download multiple files, which makes the process of downloading files from rapidshare even more frustrating.

Free Rapidshare Downloader to the rescue

The frustration is not so much about the delay in downloading the files from rapidshare as anyways the download takes long. The frustration is because of the need for the user to intervene in the download from time to time. Rapidshare downloader softwares make the process less frustrating by automating this process. With a good rapidshare downloader software you can input all the download links at once and forget all about it.

Popular free rapidshare downloader software

1. http://www.rapget.com/en/
2. http://www.rapidme.com/
3. http://www.knowledgetraders.com/rapidharvest.php
4. http://www.4shared.com/file/70381361/767cfc2f/RapidsharePlus.html
5. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Download-Managers/Rapidshare-Auto-Downloader.shtml

Let me know if you use any other rapidshare downloader.

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What is common among my posts regarding rapidshare premium account,core 2 duo vs dual core, gmail proxy,how to remove virus from usb, ntldr missing vista, and free bollywood movies download? I had written all of them after significant amount of keyword research. Each of them get me more than 200 pageviews daily and they bring in a good amount of my total traffic. Goes on to show the power of keyword research.

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I seem to have found a new interest in technology. After writing a post about free rapidshare premium account yesterday, I am back with a post about free download of Directx 11 for Windows 7. The few people who visit this post regularly for posts related to blogging, need not worry. The reason I am not posting about blogging is I am in the middle of a really good research about twitter. So please bear with these posts about Directx 3D while I complete my research.

Directx 11 for Windows 7 is the latest graphic technology

If Directx 10 was the preferred version for Vista, Directx 11 is the recommended graphic technology for Windows 7. Directx 11 is available as part of technical preview for public testing. It has got several new features. Hence our recommendation is that you must download Directx 11 ASAP.

Free Download Directx 11

The following are the links to the section on microsoft site from where you can directly download Directx 11.

• Download Directx 11 SDK here
• Download Directx 11 End-user runtimes here

Directx 11 with Directx 3D

The Directx 3D seems to be generating lof of buzz. Honestly I have not been able to figure out what is great about Directx 3D. Please leave a comment if you know the answer. The links to download Directx11 3D are the same as the ones listed above.

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There seems to be a high demand for free rapidshare premium account going by the large number of blog contests with a rapidshare premium account as the prize. Hence I am taking a break from normal blog posts about blogging and writing some tips that you can use to get a rapidshre premium account for free.

Google Alert for rapidshare premium account

From time to time bloggers post a free rapidshare premium account username and password to attract new users to the blog. You can see the blog posts about free rapidshare premium accounts through google blog search. However most of the time the account would be useless by the time google picks it up. You can solve this by creating a google alert for ‘rapidshare premium’. This way you will get alerted as soon as anyone makes a post about rapidshare premium account.

Get a free rapidshare premium account by accumulating rapid points

You should consider creating a free rapidshare account. Then upload some interesting videos and share it with friends and blog readers. You earn rapid points for every download from your rapidshare account. Once you have enough rapid points, they shall give you a rapidshare premium account for free.

Advantages of a rapidshare premium account

If you have been wondering why the hell you need a premium account, then let me tell you that rapidshare has some real luxury for its premium customers including unlimited parallel downloads, unlimited upload space, fast connection speed among others.

How do you manage to find free rapidshare premium accounts?

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It is applicable to a situation when a person/team/organization spends too much time analyzing a problem that they are left with too little time to work on the ideas generated by the discussion. I have suffered from this disease myself in the past.

Here are some symptoms of paralysis by analysis

• You spend more time reading blogs about blogging and less time on writing posts for your blogs
• You have not changed your blog theme in the last 3 years because you have been searching for the perfect theme
• You never get time to build links for your blog because you were busy reading articles about how to get links
• You have not sent an email to another blogger asking for link/interview/review because you are not sure if he will read it

Just Do it

The easiest way to find out if a trick works is to just do it. If it works great. If not big deal. I will try out something else.

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Few days back I had made a post about the larger amount of blog traffic that will be generated for search terms related to IPL 2009 and had asked my readers about how do they plan to take advantage of it. Harsh has left a comment that

Using Google trend to drive traffic is good strategy, but then if its not your niche , you will simply end up increasing your bounce rate. Is int it??

I was going to respond to him in the comments section. However I just realized that many established bloggers and webmasters seem to have accepted the theory that high bounce rate = bad quality as gospel truth. That is NOT necessarily TRUE.

I Love high bounce rate on certain pages

You read that right. I love high bounce rate. I actually brainstorm for quite sometime everyweek trying to increase the bounce rate. And trust me I have not gone mad. Not yet atleast

High Bounce rate means higher CTR for adsense

What are the normal advice you have heard/read for decreasing the bounce rate? Provide lot of interesting links to your other pages from the body of the post, at the end of your post, provide links to your most interesting posts from the sidebar etc. Now think about what those interesting links are doing to your adsense blocks. All those interesting links are competeing with the adsense blocks for the attention of the user. As you succeed in making the internal links more and more interesting, the adsense blocks continue to become less attractive. Is it any wonder that your CTR keeps going down.

Answer to some queries about high bounce rate raised in the comments

I think Nihar, Tarun and Harsh have raised some really valid points in the comments section. Instead of answering them in the comments, I will deal with them here.

1. If you are blogging solely for money, then a higher bounce rate is good: I think this statement is true for most bloggers who monetize their blogs through ppc. However if you are monetizing your blog through affiliate products or if you want to monetize your blog by selling some service/product then this does not hold good
2. If you want to convert a google reader into a regular reader then you need to give them some option: Again true. However you need to answer some questions to know if it is true for you
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         • What % of your feedreaders actually read your blog daily? It is less than 15% for most of my blogs
         • How much you would have earned by putting an adsense block at the end of your post
         • What is the worth of the feed subscriber to you
3. A High bounce rate will decrease your ranking: Fair and logical point. However I and several authority figures in SEO do not think that Google has started using bounce rate as one of the quality parameters. My experience with the post about core 2 duo vs dual core bears it out. I think this is because bounce rate as a ranking factor is quite noisy and susceptible to manipulation.

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I have been working on a resume website to try out my seo skills and to put my theoretical learnings into practice. My progress on google.com has not been great though the site has started to get some fairly good results on the google.co.in domain for search terms like sample resume, fresher sample resume, java sample resume etc.

While I continue to study the reason for this sharp difference in ranking on google.com and google.co.in, I had decided to try my hand a single word keyword i.e resume. For this purpose I created a specific page about resumes with optimized title tag, meta description, h1,h2 tags and keyword usage etc. The page has been indexed by google for somedays now.

However I am facing a unique issue and on close examination I see that issue being repeated on my other domains as well.

• My initial content about sample resume was ranking at 90-100 range on Google.
• Google avoids keeping 2 pages of the same website on the SERP. For really good authority site it puts up 2 links as well
• Now google seems to be ignoring my new page. Since the original page was not optimized for resume as a keyword, it continues to linger at 90-100 position only.

Have you ever faced an issue like this? What is the solution to this issue?

I will appreciate some links to my sample cover letter page as well. It is right now at 45 position for “sample cover letter” and I shall like to see the effect of external links on the ranking.

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If your homepage has a pagerank of 4 and it links out to only 1 outgoing page, then the outgoing page gets all the benefit of the pagerank of your homepage. However if the homepage is linking out to 10 pages then each page will get only 1/10 benefit of the original pagerank. The obvious step is to reduce the number of links on your homepage that are not adding to any ranking increase.

Check your homepage links to any of the following pages and nofollow all of them

1. About Us page
2. Contact us page
3. Feed-subscription link
4. Logo/Home/Header Keep maximum 1 link and nofollow everything else
5. Archive page Unless you want to rank for January, february modifiers
6. Privacy page Especially after the recent change in adsense TOS, you must have added a privacy page. Make it nofollow
7. Outgoing Links inside your post body Make intelligent use of more tag

Ajith has detailed post about pagerank leak. Do check it for a detailed discussion of the topic

* I do not mean the toolbar pagerank. I am talking about actual Google pagerank

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Blogging

1. Motivates me to research about topics I care
2. Allows me to put my thoughts into perspective
3. I can control what anyone will find on Google about me
4. One task that I do not HAVE to do but rather LOVE to do
5. Make Money
6. Be friend with some really wonderful persons
7. Everyday I wake up with the same dream I have joined the A-List and Amit Agarwal has sent me a link request

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The IT revolution with all its plus and minus has been a wonderful journey for India. It has created jobs, given us hope and more importantly a confidence that we can compete with the best in the world. The IT revolution seems to be slowing down due to several reasons including a backlash against outsourcing in the developing countries in the wake of the global recession.

I have been studying the pagerank profile, alexa rank, overall ranking and earning details of Indian bloggers with a lot of interest over the last few months. Based on these studies and my interactions with emerging bloggers like Pavan, Ajay, Abhishek, Nihar, Tarun and Harsh I am becoming more and more confident that blogging as a profession and business will create even more opportunity than what IT has done for India in the last few years.

I am aware that, it is quite a big statement to make and I do not expect you to accept my words at face value. Hence in the paragraphs that follows, I shall be putting forth my logic for coming to the consclusion above. This is going to be a rather longish post. Hope you have some time on your hand to go through it completely.

1. Large pool of english speaking population: Actually blogging requires English writing skill and we have an even larger pool of English writing population as students from Tier-II, Tier-III cities are perfectly ok writers while they struggle in the spoken english department.
2. 24 X 7 development cycle: In software development working on 24 X 7 time schedule was a choice. Companies embraced the idea to decrease the time to market. However in the online world 24 X 7 is a necessity.
3. Blogging needs zero capital investment: What was great about IT business was the low capital requirement compared to traditional manufacturing businesses. This allowed the entrepreneurial middle class professionals to set up IT companies. Blogging does not need any capital what so ever. That has allowed students and IT profeesional in India to create blogs and earn money from it.
4. Large pool of engineers ready to work for a lower salary: The recession is only going to increase that number. Aspects like Search engine optimization, analytics etc are predominntly logical tasks that can be carried out by Indian engineering students with a lot of ease.
5. Blogging will generate oppurtunity for students of other streams as well: Job creation in IT was restricted to engineers alone. Blogging by its very nature will provide a great opportunity to students of other streams like arts, designing etc.
6. Blogging is independent of cultural bias: In the early years of IT revolution, Indian companies had to fight the negeative bias of their clients about the quality standard of Indian companies. Luckily in the world of blogs, each post is judged by its own merit alone.
7. Blogging does not need no Visa: I do not need to be in the USA to blog about US. If your blog is good, no government will stop its citizens from reading your blog, clicking on your advertisement or buying products from you.

Challenges for Blogging becoming the next IT

1. Our habit of getting paid at the end of the month: We are accustomed to working in an office and getting paid at the end of every month for the work we have put in. Unfortunately blogging does not work that way. I had to put in close to 6 months of blogging before I started to make any money.
2. Our reluctance to learn marketing: Blogging is not about writing great content alone. To be a successful blogger, you need to promote those posts, convince others to link to you and convert the readers into subscribers. I see a distinct reluctance amongst Indian bloggers to take up these other aspects of blogging.

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These are tips that help you increase your earning without any increase in traffic or without having to make a new post.

1. Optimize your adsense blocks right now. Proper optimization of adsense blocks can increase your earnings by as much as 100%
2. If your site is already optimized, change the font/color of the ad blocks. Works like magic to fight off ad-blindedness
3. Replace that default site search feature with adsense for search. There is nothing better than google for search and it increases your earnings
4. Make use of several advertisement products. Start using in-text advertisement, paid review etc. On Binaryday Infolinks now earns as much as adsense. I am so sad I was not using them for all these days
5. Replace the last adsense block with an affiliate link. Unlike adsense, affiliate links may not earn on a daily basis. But on the days they do, you will get a good return
6. Start selling some private advertisement on your website. The great thing about direct sales is you do not have to pay any commission to anyone else.
7. Create another blog with some high paying niche like make money online, automobiles, legal or medicine. Advertise the blog on your main blog. I have been amazed by the results. You will be amazed as well

Let me know your experience on this topic.

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