Using this guide you will be able to get some significant increase in your Internet Bandwith. Tweaks include QoS tweaking, Host Resolution Priority Tweaking and many more. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Today I spend most of my time designing a new theme for johntp.com. It’s almost finished and I may start using it from tomorrow.

What’s new? This time I gave more importance to content rather than the looks. I am trying hard to create a theme that will hopefuly convert casual surfers to regular readers. I want to make it more easier for new readers to find what they are looking for and to easily subscribe.

Guess what, I have not even put a header like I have currently. Just a simple one with my blog name on it. Like I said before, this time I am concentrating more on increasing my pageviews, regular readers and making it easier for new readers to find the articles that are burried deep in my archives with the new theme.

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FamFamFam has some very cool icons called Silk icons. You may have already seen some of these icons on blogs using the K2 theme.

Anyways I thought of checking out all the icons and was really impressed. Currently there are 1000 of these 16-by-16 pixel icons. You can preview the icons from here. If you like these free png icons, download and use them on your blog.

Download Silk Icons

I have written a number of posts related to blogging- how to increase blog traffic, how to increase regular readers on your blog, how to make your readers stay longer on your blog, etc. If you have missed them, check the Blogging category.

Now I would like you to share what you have written about blogging on your blogs. To share your articles, link to them through the comments.

Now’s your chance to get some traffic as well as share your articles from here.

The conditions are that the articles should be related to blogging and should not be too short.

A reader just reported to me that the Adsense Ads were not being displayed on the header and sidebar. So I looked into it and fixed the problem. Your blog name and description will also appear on header.

You can download TechnoBlue from here.

If you downloaded the latest version of WordPress (2.0.3), you will encounter the “Are You Sure” Bug when you edit comments in the WordPress Administration Panel. When you are finished editing comments, it asks you “Are you sure?” and when you click OKAY, it takes you to the wrong page and screws up your comments by inserting a slash before every quote mark.

To fix the problem download the new WordPress Plugin, upload it to /wp-content/plugins/ and activate it.

Found via Lorelle’s blog

Yahoo! Messenger Ads can get really irritating at times. From time to time it changes Ads wasting our precious bandwidth. One of the easiest ways around this is to remove them using Y.AddsRemover.

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Seth has written a post giving 56 tips on getting traffic to your blog. Read it and let me know if you disagree with any of his tips.

As most of you know, Technorati released their Favorites feature some time ago. Incase you did not know, Favorites lets you create a publicly viewable list of your favorite bloggers, making it easy to track their content. And if your blog comes in the Top 100…imagine the attention you will get

Recently I found that only a few people had favorited my blog since the time the feature had been launched.

So, I thought of having some fun with it. Ok, here goes. Let’s do a Favorite exchange. That is, I will favorite your blog when you favorite mine. Isn’t this going to be fun?

You can Favorite exchange with the readers of my blog too. So if you would like your blog to be favorited speak now!

Click here to favorite my blog.

I am one of the many people who browse the net with images disabled. I do this to reduce bandwidth usage.

Today I came across a site that I liked and wanted to subscribe to it’s feed. But could not as the site was using FeedBurner counter and did not load as I had disabled images.

Just think if this happens to your blog. You will be losing a potential subscriber. The way around this is to put a text link to your feed.

We do not want to lose any readers. Do we?