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Microsoft provides a free trial / evaluation download for 180 days of their powerful and most stable Server OS – Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2. This download is available as two ISO image files which need to be burnt on two CDs.
Free Download of Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 is available for both Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. Link for download is given below.

Link for download of 2 ISO image files for Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2.

You may have to register to get the product key for installation if required. Click here to Register and get key.

I found this link while working on a recent project where we had to evaluate some web apps network performance on Windows. We did not had a Windows server, nor we were in position to buy a licence. Thats when we found that Microsoft offers free download for 180 days trial or evaluation) of Windows Server 2008 R2.
Windows Server 2008 R2 download is available as a consolidated ISO image for English, German, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Chinese. Link for download is given below.
Free download of Windows Server 2008 R2 180 evaluation.

You will have to register as an IT Professional or a Developer to get the download image.

Intel marketing has tried to simplify the categorization of its processors, based low-medium-high principle, rather than as they used to do earlier by the confusing the customers with MHz / GHz / MB Caches or Dual Core, Core 2 Duo, Core Solo etc. They have been partly been successful in this strategy. They have essentially linked the categories to the prices (Core i3 being cheapest and Core i7 being costliest) and performance. But there is still a significant confusion around the target usages of these processors. There are many people who think that there are only 3 processors available from Intel, which is not true. This ‘Intel Core i3 vs Core i5 vs Core i7 Processors’ article will clarify the confusion around the target usages of these processors and also explain that i3, i5 and i7 are categories of processors i.e. there are many processors falling under each of these three categories.
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This article is a result of a Google vs. Microsoft vs. Apple debate with few of my friends. Just about everyone wants to hate Microsoft saying that they always release buggy products that frustrate people rather than giving joy of using them. My argument is that not everything that comes out of Microsoft is hated by people. There are good number of products from Microsoft which people love to use. So here is yet another ‘Top 10 Best Products of Microsoft’ list. This list consists of products which people are passionate about, products which have been loved by users. Note: This list is not is any given order.

1. Xbox and Kinect:

Ever met an unhappy Xbox user? I have only met Xbox fans. People love Xbox. Its an awesome gaming system with superb multimedia graphics. It’s not just loved by players but also by the game developers. It is one of the best platforms to develop on. In fact it’s so good that most of the multiplatform games have been native to Xbox 360 and then ported to the rest of the platforms. It has the best game library of 3 the most popular games consoles in the market today.

2. Windows XP (with SP2):

Perhaps this is the only Windows OS that people love. Every other Windows (including Windows 95, 98, ME (pathetic), Vista) have been disliked by the people. XP is so good that I still use it as my primary operating system. I have used both Vista and Windows 7, and then gone back to XP. It is fast, stable, does not hang, fairly secure (with a decent anti-virus) and just runs all my programs I ever need. That’s what an OS should be.
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I keep working on some experimental projects from time to time as they allow me to put all the theories into action. A number of times these projects work as a wake up call that something that I am confident to be working has stopped working in less than 2 months. That is why I thought I will share my learning or rather failings while working on my phlebotomy certification blog. These post is about things that I have learned about the niche till now. Technical details will follow in a separate post.

What is phlebotomy certification

When I first stumbled upon the phlebotomy niche, I had no clue about what the word means. A quick search showed me that phlebotomy is the act of drawing blood from a patient either for testing or donation. We keep cribbing that the medical expenses in the USA is too high. Well that seems to be because even the smallest tasks like drawing blood is done by experts there. Yes phlebotomists are professionals who have passed the phlebotomy certification exam and specialize in this single task.
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I have been using internet since last 12 years. I started with a dial up connection of 32kbps (remember the purr purr modem sound!) and now I am using a 2 mbps broadband connection. Even after getting a 2 mbps unlimited download broadband line, I always feel that my internet connection is not able to keep up with my browsing requirements. It always seems slow for me and I am not the only one.

So after few weeks of research and experimentation I have come up with this list of suggestions on how to make internet connection faster. Essentially, these suggestions will help you to use your internet connection much more efficiently, thus getting maximum out of your internet connection. These suggestions will make your internet experience faster.
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This post contains some really good insights about how to write posts that will attract traffic. Do not go by the lack of flow in the post as I am struggling a little right now since I am back to blogging after a long break. Do read the entire post carefully. You will not be disappointed.

The best way to get more success is to look at what has worked for you in the past and then try and do more of them. That is why I went back to the analytics data of Binaryday for the last one year to analyze the most successful posts to identify a trend in them. I define successful posts based on two criteria

1. Posts that get a lot of traffic and
2. Posts that attract links

Today’s post is about the former category i.e posts that have attracted the maximum amount of traffic. Before I discuss the secrets of these posts, it will be apt to show you the links to all these posts so that you may analyze them yourself as well.

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Identifying these posts was relatively easy. But once I had identified these posts, the next question that I had to answer was Did these posts have something in common that made them get more traffic compared to other posts. I found some really interesting ideas from this exercise.

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Daniel at DailyBlogTips has announced a webmasters challenge in which participants will be required to start a blog from scratch and develop it over 4 months period without any support from existing websites and without spending any money on advertising, tools etc.

The result of the challenge will serve as a great case study for anyone starting out on the internet. That is why I am participating in the competition even though I am confident that I will NOT win it as I am busy with my new startup and lot of professional bloggers will definitely participate in it. I will not be able to share the details of the site before the competition comes to an end as per the terms.

Since all my blogging effort will be focused on the new site for the next four months, I am planning to post a few technology related posts to keep Binaryday fresh. I shall be sharing the details of my new startup and few niche sites that I am working on currently.

Making money with blogging requires one to do all of keyword research, seo and social media marketing on a consistent basis. My inability to come up with a post over the last few days, made me think about what if I want to focus on only one of the above skills and only when I feel like. Can I still make money? This post is a summary of what I found out in my quest for finding ways to make money online without maintaining a regular blog.

The post covers the following topics along with some handy and actionable tips to enable you to start making money right away. Some of the methods require you to have an adsense id though.

1. Make money by writing for other blogs/ website (along with a list of 25 such blogs)
2. Make money from your twitter account (along with a tip that I have used in the past with good success)
3. Options to make money from Facebook

Make money by writing for other blogs/ website

There are lots of blogs that allow you to put your own adsense code in posts that you write and you get to keep 100% of earning. The main advantages of this method are

1. You will not be restricted by the topic of your blog. You can  write about any topic and then find a suitable blog that will accept it. If there are no such blogs then you can submit it to some of the websites like hubpost and infobarrel that accept all posts.
2. You get to piggy back on the strength of these established blogs both in terms of SEO strength and regular user base. The key skill required here is an ability to do keyword research to find high paying keywords that will fit the niche of your target blog. If you manage to select a keyword with decent traffic and optimize the post for the keyword, then it can easily rank well because of the authority of the host blog.

The following are 25 Google adsense revenue sharing sites.

Tip: Interlink the posts to help them rank better and even the blog owners will be happy to see you adding links to their blog posts.

Make money from your twitter account

The following services allow you to make money by sending out sponsored tweets to your followers. Most of them allow you to disclose that the specific message is a sponsored one.

1. The first one is sponsoredtweets which allows people to set their own price per tweet. Advertisers are then presented with a list of twitter users who have signed up for the service. If an advertiser selects you then you get to tweet out the message and pocket the income. You can always adjust your price according to your follower number and hence you should be able to get a sponsor.
2. The other services that allow you to make money on twitter are twitads and mylikes

Tip: You should seriously consider making affiliate sales through twitter as well. While I do not do this all too frequently due to time constraint, the method converts very well on occasions that I do.

1. Select some products that you really like. In my case these may be products that help people to setup a blog by recommending certain hosting services.
2. Now setup search channels on an application like Tweetdeck so that you can get a notification when someone tweets about issue related to the niche. In my case, I will be observing queries regarding hosts gone down, migrating from one host to the other, incompatibility of an application on a host etc.
3. Next reply to the person with some well researched articles. That is why I have my pdf about how to create a blog. You can also recommend sites like hostgator discount code.
4. Help the other guy out with whatever issue he is facing. Then request the person if he may sign up through your affiliate link so that you can make some money without him having to pay anything extra.

Make money from Facebook

Clickbank, one of the largest marketplace for information products, has made it awesomely easy to earn affiliate income from your facebook likes. Simply log into your clickbank account. Select a product to promote and like it. Clickbank automatically inserts your tracking id into the link and you get an affiliate income in case of a conversion. More details on this page. Mashable lists these 9 facebook applications that will help you make more money with Facebook.

As I noted in my last post, I am suffering from a writer’s block and hence unable to come up with any cohesive post. I was working on the theme of my other blog about price in India and my toolbar showed that the site has got 600 backlinks. I was surprised, since I had done hardly any work on the site till now. I opened up yahoo site explorer to check the backlink profile. Most of the 600 links are from different pages of callingallgeeks.org That is 600 links from a PR3 blog!!!

That is when I realized that I had made guest post about the web not yet dead on the blog around 2 months back. The nice guys at CallingAllGeeks have got a “Latest Contributor” section on the sidebar which directly links to websites of authors that have submitted guest posts on the site. Not every blogger accepting guest post is as nice as Harsh but still Guest blogging is a really awesome way to get some direct traffic and search traffic.