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Ades just let me know about his newly launched site, UserInterfaceIcons, that is dedicated to providing high quality free icons to software and web application developers. You are also welcome to use them on your websites and blogs.
The icons are available in different sizes and are in the PNG format with transparent background.
Have you ever wanted to be online on Google Talk and at the same time appear idle to your friends? Google Talk does not provide built-in functionality to allow you to control your idle status but by installing a simple program called gAlwaysIdle you can be always idle as well as never idle to other Google Talk users.
Once you have installed the program, right click on Google Talk on the taskbar and you will be able to see three new options- ‘Normal Idle’, ‘Always Idle’ and ‘Never Idle’.
Continue reading ‘How To Make Google Talk Status Always Idle’
This post is to reward regular commenters of this blog by linking good posts from their blogs and sending them some traffic. If you would like to get rewarded too, all you have to do is start commenting regularly on this blog.
I hope you enjoy reading these blog posts 
This is a guest post by Keith Dsouza from Techie Buzz. If you are interested in writing a guest post too, let me know
Images can say more than a thousand words. There was never a more truthful saying than this. Images make your posts livelier giving users a clear picture of what you are trying to explain.
Not only do images spice up your posts it also allows you to depict in a visual way what you want to explain to your readers. I tend to use a lot of images while I write how to articles allowing the user to have a view of what exactly they need to do.
While hosting your images you can either choose to host it on your own server or use a third party service like Flickr or Image Shack. There are certain advantages and disadvantages in choosing either of these options.
Here is a detailed comparison which will help you make a decision on where you should host your images.
Do you take a lot of time to write a blog post? A lot depends on how well you can type. If you don’t type well, you should try out some freely available Typing Tutor softwares to improve yourself. The better you get at typing, the lesser time you need to spend on writing the post.
While there are many softwares available that teach you to type faster, the freeware that I liked the most so far was TypeFaster that teaches you how to touch-type and improve your typing speed.
This program has been designed to teach people to touch-type. Touch-typing is a skill that can be learnt with practice and perseverance. Touch-typing is a method of typing which uses 8 fingers and one thumb. Touchtypists do not have to look at the keyboard to find the keys they want to type.
When you first start TypeFaster, it introduces you to the software and gives you basic info like what are homekeys and which keys each of your finger should rest on. Once you are ready you can start the tutor.
Continue reading ‘Improve Your Typing Speed With TypeFaster’
Due to the recent PageRank drop I faced by selling text links on this blog, I decided to remove Text Link Ads and let TLA team know about it by sending them the following email:
Dear Text Link Ads Team,
I will stop using Text Link Ads at the beginning of next month (November
1st) due to the recent PageRank drop I faced by selling text links on my
blog (www.johntp.com).My blog had a PageRank 6 and now its dropped to 4.
I will be uninstalling the Text Link Ads plugin next month (November 1st).
Regards,
JohnTP
and they replied back that they had refunded all the advertisers, meaning the advertisers had almost one month of FREE advertising on my blog!
Continue reading ‘Text Link Ads Refuses To Pay Me This Month!’
Looks like I am the only blogger who hasn’t talked about the latest PageRank update so far. So here goes…there were two batches of PageRank drop - in the first some sites like JohnChow.com, Entrepreneurs-Journey.com and this blog itself (from PR 6 to 5) that were selling text links were hit.
The second batch took place yesterday and I came to know from DailyBlogTips that this blog’s PR had dropped again from 5 to 4 this time. Many blogs were hit in the second batch including popular ones like Engadget, Problogger, Copyblogger, John Chow, QuickOnlineTips and Weblog Tools Collection!
This is a guest post by Aseem from Online Tech Tips. If you are interested in writing a guest post too, let me know
Recently, an article of mine entitled “How to track the original location of an email address” was Dugg on Digg and got the most Diggs I’ve ever received on an article with over 1800! It was a great experience except for the fact that my web site kept crashing and displaying “YOU HAVE EXCEEDED YOUR CPU USAGE” to all of my visitors. This was not only embarrassing, but I’m sure it turned off a good number of visitors! In order to rectify the situation without switching hosting companies (that was really not the problem), I decided to try and optimize my WordPress blog as much as I could. After a few days of tweaking and fiddling, I got Dugg again and this time did not go down except for once for a minute. Not too bad for making some pretty simple changes. So here are a few tips you can use on your own blog to make it run faster than it is now!
Continue reading ‘5 Ways To Increase The Loading Speed Of A WordPress Blog’
When you first start blogging, you may begin with a free blog platform like Blogger but as you become serious with blogging, you may want to move your blog to a good host and get a good domain name (which I highly recommend).
Once you decide to buy a domain name you will need to find one that is not registered yet, which is not easy as most of the domains you can think of may have already been taken.
This post was written by Aditya Mahesh of BlogOnExpo, a free digital conference for bloggers that will feature sessions about blogging and interviews with Darren Rowse from ProBlogger, RandFishkin of SEOmoz, and others. The conference kicks off on December 3rd, 2007.
For the purpose of this post, transparency will be defined as being upfront and honest with your readers. That being said, if you are a blogger and are not transparent with your readers you will fail. Not being transparent not only means lying, it means not revealing any special interests you have with a specific post.
For example, if you are being paid to write a review, say that you are being paid to write the review. If you include an affiliate link in a post, create a �Disclosure Page� that says you may occasionally include affiliate links in posts and link to that page from the sidebar.
Continue reading ‘Transparency - Why Bloggers Without It Will Fail’
