Technotip.org - Part 50

No new posts in Technotip.org for next 3 days

no-internet-cartoon Hi all readers, there will be no new articles in Technotip.org for next 3 to 4 days. We will be going to Bangalore / Bengaluru to purchase some gadgets, books and for some other important works. Even though I am going to Silicon City(fully wi-fi/wi-max enabled), I would prefer not to behave like a blogger there, just for a change. No laptop, no internet, no computer for 3 to 4 days. It would be a great change to have. Hope we will get refreshed and comeback and write more useful contents.

While we were writing this post, we thought to have some conversations/exchange of ideas here. So what would you do when there is no time to write and publish articles? When you goto some far place where there is no internet connection, for about 3 to 4 days. Then what will you do to manage your blog ?

Will you inform your readers (before going!) the reason to not have new articles for next 3 to 4 days on your blog ?

Please share your ideas in the comment section. Remember, “If two people exchange 1$, both will have 1$ each. But if they exchange 1 idea, both will have 2 ideas each”.

Ask questions here and Celebrity Bloggers will answer it(an Interview)

There is a good news to all Technotip.org readers….

We will be doing interviews of some of the celebrity bloggers in the future. So you can expect some inspiring articles being published here.

Its hard to interview a Celebrity Blogger, as there will be no time with them to answer everyone’s questions. But still we will struggle and try to do it. For now, the good news is, one of our favorite “Celebrity Blogger” has agreed to give us an interview this weekend( Shhh..suspense!). Cheers….

And we expect lot of Diggs, stumbles, buzz! etc from our readers, to make the interview stories big and to help as many people as possible by sharing these articles.

speak-up Now this article is mainly written to inform you all about the future posts, and we also want you people to participate.
We have already prepared some questions to ask, but we thought that it would be great, if we give a chance to our readers, to ask some more questions.

So please leave some interesting, useful questions in the comment section of this post.

And please remember that, you are asking questions to a “Celebrity Blogger”. Don’t just ask – How to install wordpress? What is your blog income ? What is RSS? etc. Please just don’t ask such questions. You can ask such questions in some forums and get the solutions to your problems.

Ask questions, seeing which the “Celebrity Blogger” should feel like answering them happily and he should also feel good for giving the interview.

You can ask questions like – how you spend your day, personal hobbies and interests, life before blogging, blogging life, where you want to see your blog in next 5 or 10 years time? etc.

Keep in mind that, your questions should be useful to other readers also.

We will include your questions while interviewing the “Celebrity Bloggers”. And we will give you full credit for asking good questions. We will write a special article(with link Love) to thank all people who give us a good question to ask.

And we make it clear that, all questions asked here will not be asked to “Celebrity Bloggers”, we will select good and insightful questions only. And please do not hesitate or underestimate yourselves, every person on this earth has got his own abilities. So ask questions, even if you do not have a blog or if you have a small blog or no blogging experience. We will surly take your questions, if its a good one.

And please do not ask for the name of the “Celebrity Blogger”, because this will dilute the thrill and more over the interview is not only for one “Celebrity Blogger”, we will use some of your questions to interview some more “Celebrity Bloggers” in the future. While asking questions, think that, you are asking the question to someone who has achieved a big thing in his life and he is good and famous.

Please use this opportunity to full extent and make use of the experience and talent of the “Celebrity Bloggers” by asking relevant questions. Who knows, the answers given by the “Celebrity Bloggers” may become your key to success.
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Google services on your mobile browser, worth checking

Its a general convention to have m.domainname.com as the mobile version of domainname.com. And now its great to see the big “G” going that way. Yes now you can easily access almost all Google services using the URL m.google.com from your mobile browser.
We personally like reading stories on our mobile using “Google Reader” and to watch “youtube” videos whenever there is free time!
With the release of Android and “Chrome“, Google is quickly entering the mobile arena.

Do not miss watching this short video demo:

Mobile version of Google supports BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Nokia S60 phone, other Nokia phone, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and many Others..

Mobile version of Google has:-

Smooth and responsive user interface
Powerful shortcut keys and intuitive menus
Search and find any Gmail message
Includes almost all Google services.
You can also use IMAP to sync your Gmail with your phone’s native email client.

Google-mobile-services
click here to configure your mail client or wireless device to download Gmail messages.
Also look for your handset compatibility details here.
I am really thankful to Google, for making the entire world(internet) into my pocket. Clearing my “Google Reader” stories has really become dam easy now.
Thank you Google….

9Rules – Round 7 results are out

Many bloggers who had applied to 9rules had been waiting at 9rules blog, refreshing the pages to see the final result announcement. 9Rules have finally released the much awaited results, and as we gone through the accepted sites, we feel that, all these sites really deserve to be on the board of 9rules. So well done 9rules.

For those unaware of 9rules, it is a collection of independent blogs with a focus on networking and love for design & knowledge sharing.Thanks to — Paul Scrivens, Mike Rundle, and Tyme White, Who Runs 9rules

We had also applied to 9rules, but our blog is too young(2 months) to get into 9rules community. Anyway, we will apply to it when our blog is atleast 6 months old(its also a kind of requirement to apply to 9rules). I have had chat with some of the lucky guys who had been accepted into 9rules in previous rounds and they revealed me that their blog get around 100 to 300 visits from 9rules…..that’s not at all bad, additional traffic for no extra work is always good.

Good thing about 9rules is, they only accept sites after individually checking them out. This ensures that, whoever have subscribed to 9rules will get only interesting things to read. So 9rules subscribers will never get pissed off and there will surly be constant increase in the subscribers list and thus the accepted sites get more traffic whenever there is an interesting article published. So 9rules creates totally a Win-Win situation. Technotip.org really likes the concept and is in full support to 9rules.

Technotip.org will be eagerly waiting to get into 9rule community soon.

Ok…here’s the list of sites which got accepted in the 7th round of 9rules…CONGRATS!!!!

If anybody is leftout from the above list, then please inform us.

Finally what we can say is- “9Rules, you really Rule”.

Download Google browser: Chrome

We already have many Free browsers, then why did Google think of releasing yet another ?

[ Get Paid for using the Brave Browser, from the founder of Mozilla Firefox and inventor of Javascript. ]

The answer is, Google’s “Chrome” is not just an ordinary browser. Its an application which enables users to better handle interactive applications and resource-hungry web pages such as video clips and online games. It is also less likely to crash. This might be a step into the next generation web. I personally feel that, this is the beginning of next generation Internet.

google-chrome-screenshot

For now we can not talk much about “Chrome”, anyhow we are also eagerly testing the Beat version of “Chrome“, link to download “Chrome” is at the end of this article. Its launched in almost 100 countries today and only for windows users, but will be soon launching in all countries and for all operating systems.

Its built on Open Source platform and the browser will remain Open Source. Google has also released official Google Chrome comic book and its worth taking a look and it almost explains all its features and its purpose, so I will not cover all those things here.

Google will host a webcast press briefing and demo at 11 a.m. Pacific time today and here are the link to watch, if you are interested – Windows Media Player or Real Player.

“ I think in the coming years Microsoft’s IE(followed by their Operating System’s) will vanish and Mozilla Firefox may merge with Google and the Operating system may go online with Google OS or something like that, with xxGB or/and unlimited(for premium users) storage etc…these are my wild personal predictions….nothing might even happen like this! “

Google is showing the download link to “Chrome” on its homepage– google.com, as Google know that, it need to compit with those browsers which come in as default with the Operating System. Click below image to enlarge..

Google say that, this is just the beginning of “Chrome” and it has a long way to go and keep improving over time.

You can download the Beta Version of “Chrome” by clicking here or by visiting Google’s official blog.

Its quite funny, as we can not install Google Toolbar to “Chrome“!

Your AdSense a/c might be in danger

We were looking at our AdSense account and wanted to test a feature in it…” Allowed Sites “. Login to your AdSense account and click on the “AdSense Setup” tab, there you can see the option “Allowed Sites“, click on it.
Adsense-Allowed-Sites
There choose “Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account“, there, list all the URLs where you are using your AdSense Ads and click on Save Changes. Now just leave it and visit the same page again after a week.

Below the Save Changes Button, there will be a list of “Unauthorized Sites“, which will be using your adsense codes!

Actually its cool right, someone using our ad codes and helping us earn more! But wait, just see who are using your ads? Technotip.org is still a new blog and I was shocked to see even the porn sites Using our ad codes! and many other URLS which required password to access. We just rescued our AdSense account from getting banned, by using “Allowed Site” feature.

allow-certain-sites Just opt into “Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account” option and make sure that your ads are not used on illegal sites.I don’t know what these people will get by including our adsense ads on their blog. By listing our URLs ourselves, we will rescue our AdSense a/c. And by using “Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account”, we will not get paid for the clicks and impressions from other URLs displaying our Ad codes.

Do not forget to list these URLs:-

1. Your sites/blogs/forums. If all these are in the same domain, then just give its homepage URL once.

2. 209.85.171.104 — Google Translator

3. stumbleupon.com — As people may open your blog from within Stumbleupon to vote/stumble your article.

And keep checking your adsense account to see all those sites which are using your ads, if you see one which is not offensive(Ex:- like Google Translator etc), then just include that URL in your list.

By this you will be securing your account.

Have you used this feature of Adsense? Does this make sense to you? If you have not used this feature, then we recommend it to you all orelse you will be putting your account under risk without your knowledge.

iPhone 2.0.2 Software Update for latest version of iPhone 2.0

1. Connect your iPhone to your computer.
2. When iTunes launches, select your iPhone under Devices in the Source List on the left.
3. In the iPhone Summary tab, click Check for Update
4. Click Download and Install. Do not disconnect your iPhone until the update has finished..

Its easy, just follow these simple steps.
iphone2.0-upgrad-iphone2.0.2
1. Connect your iPhone to your computer.

2. When iTunes launches, select your iPhone under Devices in the Source List on the left.

3. In the iPhone Summary tab, click Check for Update.

4. Click Download and Install. Do not disconnect your iPhone until the update has finished.

With the free iPhone 2.0.2 Software Update, your iPhone does even more. Extend its capabilities with innovative applications you download directly from the new App Store. Get push email, calendar, and contacts from your Microsoft Exchange server at work. And use great new features in Mail, Contacts, and other applications.

Code to redirect basic html page

We have seen many plugins and 301 redirection … bla bla bla in wordpress and many other blogging platforms, to redirect the users automatically from a webpage to another webpage or from one domain to another.

Ex:- You have shifted an article to different page and now you want your visitors to automatically get redirected to the new page, instead of showing the link “click here to Enter” etc and expecting your visitors to click that link and read the article.

But many people using basic html face problem using the redirection. They need to manually create a link to navigate to different pages..this can be avoided by using these simple codes

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; URL=http://www.google.com/”>

This code should be placed between head tag. And replace http://www.google.com/ to whatever URL you want your visitors to be redirected.

Another method is to use this code…

<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>window.location=”http://www.google.com/”;</script>

Here also replace http://www.google.com/ to whatever URL you want your visitors to be redirected.

Using such redirection may not be SEO friendly, but use it when its very much needed.

But people using WordPress, blogger etc, please do not use this type of redirection. There are many SEO friendly redirection methods that you can incorporate and save your Search engine juice.