Utom has released some free Icons of Web 2.0 logos like Del.ico.us, YouTube, FeedBurner, Technorati, Flickr and an RSS icon. The icons look like candy to me 
You can download them in both PNG and ICO format from here.
Found via MaxPower
Check this strange AdSense Ad. They have larger font size, different font, bulleted list and no background color for the Ad. They have not even put a visible border between the Ad and image.
Or do those bullets qualify as a division between ad and image?
Do you think they are a Premium Publisher? Or are they just violating the AdSense TOS?
Found via Digital Point Forums
When Microsoft released IE 7, I thought that all my IE problems would be over, but I was wrong. It just doubled…now I have to check my designs both in IE 6 and 7 as I have 30.63% of my traffic using IE 6 and 10.69% using IE 7.
After I designed my new theme, readers reported it to be completely messed up in IE 6 which I had not noticed as I had upgraded to IE 7. What do I do now?
Should I remove IE 7 and install IE 6? But I will have to check my design on IE 7 too as it may cause problems that IE 6 does not 
I am very confused. What should I do?
One reason why some bloggers stick with partial feeds is the fear that their readers will stop visiting their blogs and start reading their content through Feed Readers. Well, there are some ways to get your RSS readers to visit your blog.
Like for example, when I had announced about my new blog design, I experienced a slight increase in traffic on that day. It might have been my RSS readers who visited my blog after they read about the new design on their Feed Reader.
Continue reading ‘How to Get Your RSS Readers to Visit Your Blog’
Because my cat asked me to stop posting 
For the past few days I have been getting funny PMs from a few people on my Yahoo! Messenger Buddy List. These are some of the messages that I got.
Breaking news : school girls are kidnapped by the terrorists !! hxxp://mytermex.com/?news_id=18388
damn, she is so cute hxxp://nsl-school.org?id=miss_world
you are virus infected . Use this tool to remove viruses from your PC : hxxp://mytermex.com/?id=virus_shield
oh my god , i’ve won a 20000 usd lottery :O hxxp://nsl-school.org/?id=winning_list . Come to my house tonight for a party !!
Luckily I was aware about this virus as I had earlier read about it on Digital Point Forum.
After you get infected by the virus, it will try to kill your AntiVirus and will instantly send a PM to all your IM buddy friends. The virus does not affect Firefox and Opera, but IE users are going to have a tough time with it.
Have you come across this IM Virus? If yes, how did you get rid of it?
After a few days of work I have decided to put up ContentWise v2 which is based on TechnoBlue’s Style for TripleK2.
In the first version of ContentWise, I had given more important to content and in increasing my pageviews. Infact it worked well and I used to run out of bandwidth easily.
So this time I tried to decrease my pageviews a bit by removing the header navigation I had earlier.
Some of the main changes in ContentWise v2 :
- moved Menu to sidebar
- moved Subscribe buttons to sidebar
- added a post divider
- increased width of Content column
- sidebars on both sides
- tweaked for AdSense
- fixed many bugs
- updated to the latest stable version of K2
- implemented Section targeting
- added rotated Refferal Units on header (not rotated yet)
Note: I am still testing the new design and have not optimized it for IE yet. Since I upgraded to IE 7, I could not check on IE 6.0.
I would like everyone’s opinion on the new design. If you still see the old theme, please clear your browsers cache.
And please do report any bugs you may come across. I would love to hear your suggestions too 
Update: I reverted back to the first version of ContentWise. The new design will be back after I fix the problems it has with IE 6.
I provided a screenshot below (click to enlarge) of the new theme for readers who has not seen it in action. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Did you know that you could find the definition of a word using Google? Here’s how you do it - if you would like to find the meaning of a word say ‘blogging’ you could search for define: blogging and Google will show you the definitions of blogging on the Web.
The information is shown from a variety of dictionary related Web sites such as Wikipedia.org, and there’s a link to the full entry for each Web site. Google also provides links to related searches, such as “blogging engine” in this example.
I had learned this trick from a friend but you can find this on About.com.
Update: Other Google Web Search Features can be found here
Popularity Contest, a plugin for WordPress that will help you see which of your posts are most popular, was updated yesterday to version 1.2. The significant changes include:
- Support for recording page activity
- Added a [?] link (optional) to explain the ‘Popularity: 27%’ that is displayed
- Added a hook for other plugins to conditionally change when the popularity % is displayed
- Use defined variables for options so that they can be defined in other plugins - easier upgrading and no editing required.
Update: A new version has been released (1.2.1) to fix some bugs in the 1.2 release.
