Today I found a video via Problogger.net of Andy Wibbels giving blog tips for new bloggers to clean their sidebars by removing all unnecessary stuff like twitter, del.icio.us bookmarks, flickr photos, etc.

This is one common mistakes most new bloggers make. Infact even I made the mistake in my early days of blogging , I used to fill my sidebars with lots of links, buttons of blog top sites, badge, etc and then I realized later how each of them where increasing my page load time and getting my readers distracted.

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On my recent power of photoshop post, Moha linked to one his Photoshop drawing videos in his comment. Watch the videos and you will see how well talented this artist is.

In the below video you can see the artist drawing a good looking lady, coloring her and then undressing her

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Blogg-Buzz, a Digg like site for bloggers, has been redesigned and is much faster now and includes some new cool features! For those of you new to Blogg-Buzz, it is a blogger driven community, exclusively for bloggers to share, discover and promote blog posts that they find interesting. After you submit a story, other bloggers will read your submission and buzz the story if they liked it. If your post rocks and receives enough buzzes, it will be promoted to the front page where more bloggers will find it.

Blogg-Buzz is not just for submitting blog posts, but also to find interesting bloggers around the world and to get closer to them. Blogg-Buzz can also be useful for those who want to find the best content on the Blogosphere and can give your blog good number of readers when you make a good post and reach the front page.

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Placing videos from YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, etc on a blog post can be hard at times. I have been asked a few times on how to add YouTube Videos on WordPress Blogs by some readers, so I would like to mention some WordPress plugins that will make it easier for you to add videos to your blog post.

Viper’s Video Quicktags is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to easily insert videos from YouTube, Google Video, IFILM, Metacafe, MySpace and Vimeo by just clicking one of the buttons that the plugin adds to the write screen and then paste the video URL into the prompt box. You can also fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, alignment on the page) and much more.

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I reward regular readers by featuring good posts from the best commenter’s blogs. If you would like to see your blog posts featured here, join my MyBlogLog Community and start commenting regularly on this blog.

I hope you enjoy reading these blog posts

• Ten reasons why PC’s dont turn on and how to fix it – Online Technology
• Top 5 must-have blog monitoring tools – Egon
• Speed dial websites with Firefox extension – Nirmal
• Turning visitors into regulars – Grace
• Top 5 tips to get on Digg’s frontpage – The Thinking Blog
• How to convert word documents to pdf format in office 2007 – subhash

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AuctionAds is a Cost Per Action (CPA) based ad program that allows you to monetize your website by displaying live eBay auctions that match the content of your website and you make money online when your visitor buys products they are interested in. The great part about AuctionAds is that it can be run along with other ad programs like Adsense.

Like Chitika eMiniMalls, AuctionAds works best on product related sites. So you won’t be earning much by placing AuctionAds on non-product sites, also remember that you won’t make money unless your visitor buys the product.

To make more money with AuctionAds you can try blending the ads by changing its colors to match your site’s colors and using the right keywords that match your site. AuctionAds has also explained on how to specify the keywords.

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By now most of the WordPress users must be aware of the new version that is available for download. I was having fever so I could not blog about it earlier (I am getting better now).

The new version (WordPress 2.2) includes over two hundred bug fixes and new features like Widgets integration and infinite comment stream that brings in another comment in the background when you delete or spam a comment on your Edit Comments page.

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The below video shows a fat woman being made thin and good looking using Photoshop. I never doubted the power of Photoshop

This is why you should never trust the profile images you find in online dating sites

Sorry for the lack of updates these days, I have been working on a project.

RSS readers: If you can’t view the video, click here.

Few days back I had mentioned the Top 5 WordPress plugins that help increase comments on a blog. Here are some more plugins that can help.

• WP Ajax Edit Comments: This plugin (for WP 2.1+) allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a period specified by the Admin, and Admins can edit all post comments. This plugin can help reduce typos on reader comments and at same time encourage more comments from them.
• Get Recent Comments: This highly configurable plugin displays the most recent comments in the sidebar. You can make the plugin to link the recent commenter’s site along with an excerpt of their comment. Linking to the commenter’s site can encourage them to comment even more.
• Live Comment Preview: This plugin will display a live preview of your readers comments as they type. To install the plugin, just activate it!
• Comment Quicktags: This plugin inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form that will help your commenter’s to easily make thier comment in bold or italics, or to insert links.
• MyAvatars: This plugin displays the reader’s MyBlogLog avatars besides their comments. This may not help in increasing comments much, but readers may like seeing their avatars on your blog

Do you know any more plugins that can help increase comments?

Spider-Man fans who were not able to watch the awesome Spider-Man 3 movie so far can watch it online from here for free. If you have a low speed internet connection, you can press the pause button and wait till the whole movie part downloads so that you can watch it smoothly.

The video is not of good quality and to really enjoy the movie I recommend you watch it from a theater, besides it’s worth paying to watch this movie!