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The well-known Japanese consumer electronics giant, Sony has announced the new format-friendly S-series Walkman players - NWZ-S730 series, which the company claims as the slimmest (just 7.5mm thin) Walkman player in any of the new series, featuring 2-inch QVGA LCD display, FM tuner, SensMe Channels function, 5 integrated clear audio technologies as well as noise canceling technology that able to cancel up to 75% of ambient noise.



Highlights Of Sony S-Series Walkman Players:

*SensMe Channels function - An innovative feature that actually looks at the beats-
per-minute and an algorithm that classifies and automatically groups your music into channels, making listening and managing all of your content even simpler.

*Supports multiple high-quality video formats (AVC (H.264/AVC), MPEG-4 and WMV3, giving you more freedom to download the kinds of video that you want.

*Long-lasting battery life supports up to 40 hours of music or 10 hours of video.

*Supplied high-quality 13.5mm EX Headphones that engineered with an angular design that fits comfortably in the ear. Even more, the EX Headphones have a built-in noise cancelling function that reduce ambient noises and enhance your overall listening experience.

According to Sony, “The top-end, format-friendly Walkman S-series broadens options for enjoying tunes from multiple sources, including many download stores and personal music collections. The supplied Content Transfer software even simplifies “drag and drop” transfer of non-DRM music, videos, podcasts and playlists from online music services to Walkman players. If you’re migrating your personal collection of ripped tracks from another MP3 player, there’s no need to re-rip all your tunes from your CDs.”

The new Sony S-series of Walkman noise canceling video MP3 players will be available in September 2008 in 4GB (NWZ-S736F) and 8GB (NWZ-S738F) memory capacities for about $150 and $180, respectively.

Continue Reading........Sony S-Series Walkman Players

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There is shortage of magazine style Blogger templates due to the structure of Blogger engine and most of them conversions of current Wordpress Magazine designs. With the flexiblity and rich plugins of Wordpress its possible to create professional magazine templates but when it comes to Blogger its almost impossible that why we have to call templates with columns in footer and sidebar as Blogger Magazine Templates till Blogger engine is improved.

Here , the list of Blogger Magazine Templates which are converted from Wordpress Magazines.

1- Maggo Magazine Template

Maggo Magazine Template was converted by Themelib ,it has nice light color scheme and three columns , and the 468×60 ad space next to header. You can preview Maggo Magazine Template and if you like it you can download it.Thanks Hung for this template.

2-Blue Steel Blogger Template

Blue Steel Template is a conversion of Queen of Blogger who is the author of Blogger Buster. Blue Steel has 5 columns including post column , 2 columns on the left and two under post column, i think its the best Blogger Magazine conversion. You can preview Blue Steel template and if you like it you can download it from here.Thanks Amanda for this template.

3- Blogy Pro Blogger Template

Blogy Pro was converted by a mexican blogger whos the author of BlogandWeb , light blue colors are dominant in this template and there are 2 columns on the and 2 on the footer also theres an ad space next header which lets you boost your CTRs. You can preview this template and if you like it you can download it.Thanks Francisco for template.

4-Vibrant Blogger Template

Vibrant Blogger Template is a Wordpress conversion of mine , originally designed by CustomThemeDesign , it has a pretty color scheme and has 2 columns on the left one of which is wide and designed for ads , also it has java tabs from where your visitors can view recent comments , recent templates and your blogroll , you can preview Vibrant Template and if you like it you can download it from here.

5- WP Polaroid Blogger Template

WP Polaroid Template is a conversion of David whos the owner of eBlogTemplates and its the most downloaded template in David’s template site. It has 2 columns and a wide photo space in header ,sidebar and the footer , i think this template will suit photo blogs much more than other blogs. You can preview the demo of this template and if you decide to use it you can download it. Thanks David for this template.

6-Blogger Ads Theme

Blogger Ads theme is another Blogger Template converted by eBlogTemplates , it has great ad spaces as it can be understood from its name , it has 2 columns on the left and additionally wide ad column for 336×280 ads. You can preview this template and if you like it you can download it.

7-Gabfire Mag Blogger Template

Gabfire Mag is another template which is converted by me , it has 4 columns , 1 on the right and 2 on the left  including a wide ad space for 300×250 , and a post column in the center. You can preview Gabfire Mag template and if you love it you can download it.

8-Firebug Blogger Template

Another template by Hung whos the author of Themelib , its a design of BlogOhBlog.com , it has 2 columns on the left and ready-to-use 3 125×125 ad slots ,additionally it has a stylish search bar and a social bookmark widget at the bottom of posts.you can preview it  and if you want to use it you can download it.Thanks Hung.

9-Langit Blogger Template

Ayumi Blogger template looks like Ads Theme and Indomagz Blogger templates.It was converted to Blogger by me, it has 2 columns on the left and a wide ad space upon left columns , you can preview demo of Ayumi template and download if you love it.

14-Funky Zine Blogger Template

Funky Zine Blogger template is a conversion of BloggerTricks, it has cute background image , dark colors are dominant except post column , it has 2 column on the left and a wide column above left columns , costumized search bar , and RSS subcription section makes Funky Zine template more stylish.You can preview it and download if if you want to use it.

Continue Reading........Magazine Style Blogger Templates

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The Japanese consumer electronics giant, Sony has announced a new addition to its slim and stylish Cybershot T-series, named as Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T500. It’s the 10-megapixel digital camera which able to record crisp, clear 720p (1280×720 pixels) HD movie clips with stereo sound at 30 frames per second, based on ‘PC-friendly’ MPEG4 AVC/H.264 codec for video compression and stereo audio.



“Our research revealed that people like to shoot video with their point-and-shoot cameras, but were very dissatisfied with the video quality and the resulting large files,” said Phil Lubell, director of digital camera marketing at Sony Electronics. “Our new T500 fulfills this customer need for a digital camera that delivers high-quality movies in a small form factor.”

Impressive Features Of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T500:

*10.1 effective megapixel
*Extra-large wide 3.5-inch touchscreen LCD display
*5x optical zoom Carl Zeiss lens with wide field of view (33 – 165 mm, 35 mm equivalency)
*Optical SteadyShot image stabilization
*High sensitivity settings up to ISO3200
*Face detection technology (up to 8 faces)
*New HD movie mode capturing high-quality HD video clips


The new Sony Cyber-shot T500 is expected to hit the market by late September for about $400.

Continue Reading........Sony Cybershot DSC-T500

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I’m really confused to see such professional headers on blogspots and i’m pretty sure you will also shock and be inspired by these amazing headers from blogspot domains. First 15 headers were chosed by Pingable , and last 5 were chosed by me . Here the 20 astonishing blogspot header designs.

1-ijdesign

2-blogpappers

3-Poppy Talk

4-Estefany Franco

5-Jennski Studio

6-Inner City Snail

7-Adopt a Microbe

8-Why Me?

9-Ultra-Awesome

10-Super Graphic Blog

11-Eclectic Cow

12-Girl Meets Glamour

13-Penguin and Fish

14-Everybody Likes Sandwiches

15-Design Muse

16-Character Design

17-Bicycle Design

18-Black Eiffel

19-Great Design

20-Rames

Continue Reading........Whoo!!!! Blogspot Headers

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When it comes to web search, Windows Live stands a distant third behind Google and Yahoo!.

There are however are some lesser-known features in Live Search that aren’t just useful, you won’t find them in any of the other popular search engines. Let’s take a look:

1. Watch Video Preview in Search Results

When you hover the mouse over any of the thumbnail images appearing in Live Video Search, it will automatically play a short preview of the video so you have a good idea about the clip without visiting the target website where that video is hosted.

As you may have noticed in the screencast above, this video preview feature is available for all clip indexed by Live Search whether they are on YouTube, MySpace, CNN or ABC News.

2. Find Web Pages That Link to Documents, MP3s, Videos, ZIPs ..

The contains: operator is Live Search lets you find web pages that link to other online documents and multimedia files like music and video. This is very different from Google’s filetype: search operator (also available in Live Search) which looks for content inside PDF and Office documents.

For example, if you are looking to download a Microsoft Word report from Gartner site that is about elearning, just type: "elearning site:gartner.com contains:doc"

Similarly, if you like to find all pages on Wikipedia that link to MP3 files, type "site:wikipedia.org contains:mp3"

Another example - to learn about software that you can download from the Google website, use "site:google.com contains:zip OR contains:exe"

3. Save Images & Pictures As Your Search the Web

Live Image Search includes something called a scratch pad that lets you save collection of images with a simple drag-n-drop. This comes very handy if you are searching for images using different keywords and need to shortlist only a few from that large collection.

4. Get Live Search Results as RSS Feeds

While there are external services that let you subscribe to search results via RSS feeds, neither Yahoo! nor Google provide RSS feeds of their search results.

You can however subscribe to search pages from Windows Live as RSS feed via this undocumented hack. Open Live Search, type your query and then on the results page, appened "&format=rss" to the URL. See example:

Search Page: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=iphone

RSS Feed: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=iphone&format=rss

This parameter converts the Live Search page into an RSS feed that you can add to your news reader. Thanks Abhishek.

5. Limit Your Search to Website that offer RSS Feeds

Another interesting search operator in Live Search is "hasfeed" - it lets you find only those web pages that link to RSS feeds. For instance, you could say "micheal phelps hasfeed:" to find web pages that are about "michael phelps" and also syndicate content as RSS feeds.

You can group hasfeed: with other search operators so if want to know about all pages related to movies on ABC website that have feeds, just type "movies site:abc.com hasfeed:"

6. Specify Weight (Preference) in the Search Query

Say you are planning for an upcoming vacation and need some advice related to holiday destinations. Now rather than searching for "holiday destinations" that will return very broad results, you could add the prefer: operator and specify places that you’re really keen to visit though you don’t mind other suggestions.

For e.g., says "holiday destinations prefer:japan"

Continue Reading........Windows Live Search Tricks

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Had your important office documents or memorable photos accidentally deleted? It is quite a common problem and bitter experience faced by many users. The important files might have gone missing due to users’ carelessness, virus attacks, system crashes or even sabotage. Or you could have accidentally checked the ‘Delete All Files in Recycle Bin Box Immediately’ function. The price you need to pay for the missing data files could be very high. Try this out, Undelete 2009, a newly released data recovery tool that might resolve your problems and headache.Developed by Diskeeper Corporation, the remarkable data recovery and data protection tool, Undelete 2009, was released in North America early of the month and in Europe recently. This new Undelete 2009 has applied the InvisiTasking Technology which allows all background operations within Undelete to run with Zero overhead. In short, users who use Undelete 2009 will not experience a slowing down in their system. Undelete 2009 replaces the recycle bin with recovery bin. The recovery bin will catch all deleted files and allow users to make instant recovery with just a few clicks of the mouse. This Recovery Bin also features a powerful search function. Users can seek and recover the deleted files conveniently.
Users who want to recover Microsoft Office files to their earlier versions also can get help from Undelete 2009. This application has version recovery functions which automatically capture the old version of Microsoft Office files and allow recovery to earlier or saved-over version when it is required. Another useful feature available in Undelete 2009 is the ability to recover files that were deleted prior to the installation of this program.
Undelete 2009 supports and is compatible with all Windows OS inclusive of Windows Server 2008 and 64 bit operating systems. Undelete 2009 is not a freeware. However, users can download the trial version to get a taste of what it can do.

Continue Reading........Data Recovery

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I have just read Amanda's new way to add recent comments to Blogger layout and wanted share a different Recent Comments hack that lets you show more than 5 comments and much more easier .

1. It will not slow down your blog's load time.


2. You can add both Recent posts and Recent comments with this way


3. You can show more than 5 posts or comments with this hack.


4. Its easy to apply codes to your template.

Adding Page Elements




Go to your  layout and click Add a Gadget , and then chose HTML / JAVASCRIPT , now type Recent Comments ( or Posts) to title and type same thing (Recent Comments ( or Posts) ) to content and save.



Adding Codes To Template



Now , go to your layout and then click Edit HTML and now check Expand Widget Templates, now find the following code :

</head>

and click here and on the page copy all codes using CTRL+A and then CTRL+C combination and paste the codes before  </head> tag.




You can set the number of posts/comments will be shown on your blog , changing the digit in orange.

var numposts = 10;  

If you did everything i told you to add this widget , now search for the title you typed for the gadget (Recent Comments ( or Posts) ) we added  and delete the lines shown in orange.

<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Recent Comments' type='HTML'>


<b:includable id='main'>

  <!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->

  <b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>

    <h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>

  </b:if>


  <div class='widget-content'>

    <data:content/> >> Delete these lines

  </div>

  <b:include name='quickedit'/>

</b:includable>


</b:widget>

And now add the codes below to the place we deleted the lines , if you can the line in orange to "posts" it will show your recent posts in widget .

 <!-- recent articles code start -->

&lt;script src=&quot;/feeds/comments/default?orderby=published&amp;amp;alt=json-in-script&amp;amp;callback=rp&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;


<!-- recent articles code end -->

And save. You cannot preview the widget without saving , so clicking preview will not show you the widget.



Thats all!

Continue Reading........Adding Recent Comments & Posts Widgets For Blog

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FE-370 and FE-360 is two latest digital cameras from Olympus. All latest FE series cameras follow a “one button, one function” design principle, and has help function and a multilingual menu for easy navigation and operation. Olympus Master Software is bundled with the camera makes for easy photo handling on the computer

FE-360


FE-370



The FE-370 features precision 5x zoom lens (36-180mm). It comes with Dual Image Stabilization that combines both mechanical and digital image stabilization to ensure clear images to be taken. Intelligent Auto Mode automatically detect a range of common shooting scenes and then adjust settings accordingly. Advanced Face Detection Technology is able to recognize up to 16 distinct faces and ensure all is sharply focussed. Smile Shot function automatically takes the picture when it detects your subject’s smile. FE-370 comes in black or silver color, and 2.7” LCD. Additional features such as TruePic III, Perfect Fix and Perfect Shot Preview ensure top image results.

Main features:

FE-360

Miniature 3x optical zoom (36-108mm*)
Digital Image Stabilization (up to ISO 1000)
6.4cm/2.5″ LCD (154,000 dots)
Face Detection Technology
19 scene modes (e.g. Night Scene with Portrait and Fireworks)
Super-slim all-metal body to always be at your side
Movie recording with sound (up to VGA resolution at 30fps)
FE-370

Precision 5x optical zoom (36-180mm*)
Dual Image Stabilization (combines mechanical and digital image stabilizer)
Intelligent Auto Mode
Advanced Face Detection
6.9cm/2.7″ LCD (230,000 dots)
TruePic III image processor
Movie recording with sound (up to VGA resolution at 30fps)

Continue Reading........Olympus Camera FE-370 & FE-360

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If you are using Google AdSense on your website, here’s some very good news.

You will soon be able to track visitor clicks on your AdSense ads using Google Analytics reports.

These new reports in Analytics have enough details to help you exactly measure AdSense performance on every single page of your website.

Google dropped hints on AdSense - Analytics integration some two years but the program has finally entered the beta phase as revealed by a post on GoogleCache (offline now).

Luckily the story remained in FeedDemon’s cache and picking from there, following is a summary of AdSense related data that you’ll be able to track via Google Analytics:

1. The number of times AdSense ads were clicked on any given web page.

2. AdSense revenue generated per page for clicks mentioned in #1.

3. You’ll also know the CTR and CPM for all web pages - no need to create individual URL channels in your AdSense dashboard.

4. "Top AdSense Referrers" - this is the most interesting report as it helps you know about revenue made per referring websites.

Let’s take an example. Assume two sites - digg.com and cnn.com - have linked to a page on your website and are sending some referral traffic. Now Analytics will tell you exactly how much AdSense revenue you are making through traffic from each of these sites.

This report has enormous potential as it lends a "measurable" value to each incoming link. Some sites could even use this as a replacement for affiliate programs.

All the above information is based on screenshots that were shared by Google Cache but that story is no longer available on the web.

Continue Reading........Coming soon Google Analytics-AdSense Clicks Tracking

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Just checked official mail from Vodafone confirming launch date and price of Apple iPhone in India. Vodafone is launching iPhone in India from August 22, 2008 with 8GB & 16GB models, priced at Rs. 31,000 and Rs. 36,100 respectively.



Vodafones rival, Airtel is also launching iPhone on 22 August probably at the same price.




This is much higher than what I have expected. Also as these prices are clearly targeting very rich consumer section, these iPhones may come altogether with different plan with higher call rates / GPRS charges.



But I am still hopeful that prices will drop significantly once telecom companies make enough profits from first wave of iPhone customers. So I will surely wait for atleast 2 months before buying iPhone.

Continue Reading........APPLE IPHONE

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In conjunction with the Olympic event in China Beijing, Samsung has just launched a new Windows Mobile 6.0 smart phone that can access TD-SCDMA (Time-division synchronous code-division multiple access), a China local 3G network service being initiated by China Mobile across the country. Named as SGH-i688, the new mobile phone can hop to WOW (Wireless Olympic Works) network to gain real time Olympic information such as game schedules, latest results, weather and all related details.



The smart phone has been customized for WOW network specifically for this important event in China. Besides the real time information delivery, it also features with PTT (Push-to-talk) function which is common in 2-ways radio usage but has been extended to cellular network for fast communication to take place. According to Samsung, the official Olympic sponsor of wireless equipments, this latest model has been delivered to 2000 VIP officials as part of the communication devices since opening ceremony early this month. Some of the great features include a 2.8-inch touch screen LCD as well as embedded 3 Megapixel camera module that can capture and view interesting program on the move.

No pricing has been disclosed to public yet, the smart phone is powered by Chinese version Windows Mobile 6.0 OS and can run on tri-band GSM or EDGE network that makes it usable in most of the countries in the world.

Continue Reading........Windows Mobile 6.0 Device to Stay Connected with Latest Olympic News-Samsung's New SGH-i688

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On most OEM computers running Microsoft Windows operating system, regardless of it’s a desktop, notebook or laptop PC, now comes with pre-loaded trial version of Microsoft Office 2007, primarily Home and Student Edition, which is a time-limited product for evaluation if use without proper activation.

However, Office 2K7 is not the only product that is installed, there is another program calls Microsoft Office Activation Assistant that co-exists in the program list, with the purpose to guide user through to activate (of course, after paying) the Office suite product. It’s not required by any mean, and can be easily uninstalled and removed by using Add and Remove Programs in Control Panel (Programs and Features in Windows Vista). The trick is, Microsoft Office Activation Assistant has to be uninstalled before Microsoft Office 2007 Trial is uninstalled or removed.

If you have uninstalled MS Office 2007, and now try to uninstall the Activation Assistant program, the following error message may appear, and stop user from uninstall and removing the Microsoft Office Activation Assistant, despite there is no more Office program available.

Microsoft Office must be installed before you can uninstall this program.

To fix the unable and cannot uninstall the Office Activation Assistant issue, the solution is pretty easy. Just download a trial version of the Microsoft Office 2007 software from Microsoft, and install it on the PC. Then proceed to uninstall and remove Activation Assistant properly, before continuing to uninstall and get rid of the Office trial again.

Continue Reading........Microsoft Office Activation Assistant

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In normal working environment, PC system will be remained power on almost all the time for office application and normal task processing. However, there are certain scenarios whereby the PC usage is only required to work during specific event, probably less than ten or twenty percent of the total time. By looking at this opportunity, Intel has just announced a new series of platform that will enable PC system to wake from sleep mode for specific tasks processing such as handling VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls.



Named as DG45FC and DG45ID, the platforms are enhanced with remote wake technology that can wake the whole system up from a power saving sleep mode to continue handling important tasks. Just imagine, now the machine can detect phone call over the Internet and wake up from standby mode to serve the call without any miss. Of course you can choose to let the system permanently on but it will only waste the unnecessary power consumption for nothing. According to Intel spokesperson, it will be able to save a significant power of more than 20 percent as compared to normal operating PC. Besides, there is another usage model that user can purposely wakes the system up remotely via phone call, in case there is a need to do some software patches or document retrievals.

Although this technology is currently only working on Ethernet connection, but it shouldn’t be a major issue since most of the PC systems in the market are designed with it. Even before Intel plans to release the first shipment by next month, there are already some engagement going on with major OEMs such as HP and Dell to incorporate this feature into future PC products. No doubt, this is another good effort being initiated by giant PC maker towards green environment.

Continue Reading........Intel Remote Wake Technology Wakes PC System from Sleep Mode to Handle VOIP Calls

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Presenting your reports or articles in PDF format could be very monotonous and unappealing to readers. Readers need to scroll down or move the page to read the content. To make your writing more interactive and interesting, why don’t add some spice to it with Issuu, an online service that can convert your documents into an online publication format.

A favorite and popular service for advertisers, marketers, businessmen, designers, etc, Issue can convert PDF presentations to online distributed publication formats such as magazines, newsletters, catalogues, etc. The conversion process is pretty fast and most important, this service is absolutely free. Users who have registered to it can join a living library where they can share their publications with friends and get their comments. The converted publications can be posted on some social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, etc. Users can also embed their publications via Issuu’s non-branded standalone viewer or as a small preview.

Issuu has made some improvements and enhancements lately. In terms of presentation mode, Issuu is featuring full screen support. Users can enjoy full screen reading fun now rather than viewing the presentations as Flip magazines only in the earlier stage. Other than that, users can shift to paper mode to view the presentations or publications in the event their web browsers do not have the Flash plugin. Issuee has added a new online web based PDF reader that can work entirely without flash. Users can view the slides as regular images via this PDF viewer conveniently. Apart from the viewing ability, Issuu also allows users to change and customize the background color so that the article can blend in just right with the color scheme of their website.

Continue Reading........Add Spice to Your Publications with Issuu Online Service

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Most of us dont care driving traffic from Google Images , but its important and you can drive more traffic than you think from Google Images with a few steps.Since Google bots cannot see what pictures are about , there are a few things which are important for bots to have an idea about pictures and search results are showed according to these things. Now i will share how do i drive traffic to my Windows 7 blog only from Google Images.


Names of Pictures

URL is the most important criteria for Google Images. Dont underestimate the name of your picture while uploading it since its name appears in URL .

http://img.src.com/cat/picture1.jpeg FALSE
http://img.src.com/cat/usain-bolt-pictures.jpeg TRUE

ALT Tags

ALT tag is the second most important determiner for Google , typing keywords to ALT tag will affect your results positively.But do not exaggerate it and type only 4 or 5 keywords.

< img src="/usainbolt.gif" alt="usain bolt world record picture" > FALSE
< img src="/usainbolt.gif" alt="usain bolt pictures , usain bolt videos , usain bolt 100mt " > TRUE

TITLE Tags

TITLE tag is the third most important for Google , i advise you to use ALT tag instead of Title tag .

< img src="/usainbolt.gif" title="usain bolt world record picture" > FALSE
< img src="/usainbolt.gif" title="usain bolt pictures , usain bolt videos , usain bolt 100mt " > TRUE

A Tags

Giving link to picture is quite important. Use advantage of this trick and give link to images like this :

< a href="/usain_bolt_video.html" >
< img src="/usainbolt.gif" alt="usain bolt pictures , usain bolt videos , usain bolt 100mt " >
</a> TRUE

Continue Reading........5 Ways to Drive Traffic From Google Images

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The good folks at FeedBurner have pushed some changes recently that has affected the design of the feed count badges. See some example below:

The lower half of the badge where it says "By FeedBurner" is no longer rendered as a transparent graphic and hence you see that ugly bar at the bottom.

If you are displaying this FeedBurner badge on your site, read this workaround to hide that lower portion of the graphic.

Open your blog template and enclose the badge image inside the following div code.

<div style="overflow:hidden; width:88px; height:19px"></div>

Continue Reading........Clean that FeedBurner Subscriber Count Badge on your Site

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WhoIsHostingThis, a free service that helps you determine the web host of any website, has published a list of web hosting providers that are popular among the top 100 blogs according to Technorati.

Media Temple and Datagram have emerged as the two most popular web hosts among A-list bloggers as they house nearly 20% of the top blogs.

See complete list here. TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and Mashable are on Media Temple while all Gawker blogs are hosted on Datagram. Ars Technica, CNET and AOL owned blogs like Engadget or TMZ.com were excluded as they mostly host blogs in-house.

Continue Reading........Most Popular Web Hosts Among Top 100 Blogs

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Nintendo Wii is very popular gaming console that still sold out in many stores around the world, equipped with a DVD-ROM drive. However, the DVD drive does not equip with DVD player or playback function and feature. For some reason, Nintendo released Wii with DVD disabled, causing owner unable to use Wii to watch DVD movies or titles. However, with little hack, it’s possible to enable and turn on DVD player feature in the unmodified Wii.

For Nintendo Wii owner who want to skip buying a separate unit of DVD player, the hack is pretty simple, although user requires to add Homebrew Channel (some Wii, especially firmware version 3.3 or without a modchip may require Twilight Hack too) to the Wii to add ability for Wii to run home-brew software. And then, download and install the installer.dol found in the DVD installer package to install a DVD-capable version of mplayer on an unmodified system.

mplayer is a full feature media player that able to play back DVDVideo, and also supports reading video files off the SD card as an experimental feature. So to playback any DVD, just launch mplayer. Beside, for Wii console which has a mod chip, patchmii_core.dol is also required, and user has to click on patchmii install first before proceeding to normal install.

Continue Reading........How to Enable Player to Playback DVD Movie on Nintendo Wii Without Modchip

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The leading manufacturer of DRAM memory modules and Flash based storage devices for computers and consumer electronics, Super Talent Technology has debuted the world’s smallest USB drive equipped with a swivel system - Pico D.

“Pico D is an exceptionally smart looking product. But after you carry it in your pocket and use it for a while you realize that there’s much more to it than handsome looks; very few other USB drives can measure up to the Pico D in features, performance and quality”, said Joe James, Director of Marketing, Super Talent Technology Corporation. “Our engineers and manufacturing people fussed over minute details for months before we took Pico D to production, so the finished drive has an unmatched feel of quality to it.”

According to the release, “Super Talent achieves maximum miniaturization in the Pico series, renowned as one of the world’s tiniest USB families, by using chip-on-board (COB) technology. While typical USB drives are 2.5-inches in length, the Pico D measures only 1.4-inches. Moreover, Pico drives are shock resistant, water resistant, and support up to 200X (30MB/sec) transfer speeds. The Pico D is available now from NewEgg and NewBiiz in capacities up to 8GB.”

Continue Reading........Super Talent Debuts New Pico D USB Drive

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The industry’s leading provider of Intelligent Touch Control solutions for mobile devices, Atrua Technologies announced that Lenovo Mobile has selected Atrua’s made-for-mobile fingerprint solution for Lenovo’s first commercial cellphone with fingerprint biometrics - Lenovo P960.




“We evaluated a number of potential fingerprint solutions for this project, and found that Atrua delivered the superior combination of features and performance for mobile phones,” said Paul Wu, General Manager of Lenovo Mobile’s Product Department. “Because of the Atrua sensor’s small size, we were able to fit it conveniently on the edge of the P960.”

According to the press release, “With fingerprint recognition now common in laptop PCs, the capability has been increasingly finding its way into mobile phones. Atrua’s fingerprint touch controls deliver all the benefits of fingerprint sensors found in laptops, and more. Studies have shown that mobile phones are frequently lost or stolen and many users are concerned about compromising the private and valuable data on their phones. Since typing passwords is even more cumbersome on phones than it is on PCs, the convenience of never having to re-type passwords is all-the-more appealing to phone users. In addition, Lenovo’s P960 has an innovative ‘VIP recording’ feature that automatically records calls from designated numbers. The fingerprint biometric technology is used in the P960 to protect sensitive data such as VIP recordings, text messages, call history, and address book information.”

“We are pleased to see a recognized leader in fingerprint for laptops adopt our technology for their mobile phone and we are delighted to have the opportunity to support such a leading global manufacturer in their ongoing effort to bring greater levels of security and convenience to users of mobile devices,” said Anthony Gioeli, CEO of Atrua Technologies.

Continue Reading........New Lenovo P960 Handset Using Atrua’s Fingerprint Solution

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The world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products, Kingston has launched its new 32GB Elite Pro SDHC flash memory card, seems perfect for users of today’s digital video camcorders and other high-resolution imaging devices.

“With the growing popularity of digital video and the HD format, consumers continue to look for ways to extend recording times and maintain fast data transfer rates (DTR) to maximize the performance of their recording device,” said Wendy Lecot, Flash business manager, Kingston. “Our new 32GB Elite Pro SDHC memory card is optimized to meet the demands of high capacity and fast write speeds to help consumers share their lives through the use of video, photography and other creative devices. With the addition of the 32GB capacity card, Kingston is at the forefront of offering a versatile line of SDHC solutions to solve a variety of needs in today’s digital imaging world.”

Features And Specifications Of Kingston 32GB Elite Pro SDHC Card:

* Compliant: with the SD Card Association specification version 2.00
* Secure: built-in write-protect switch prevents accidental data loss
* Compatible: with SDHC host devices; not compatible with standard SD-enabled devices/readers
* File Format: FAT 32
* Reliable: lifetime warranty
* Simple: as easy as plug-and-play
* Capacities: 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB
* Dimensions: 0.94. x 1.25. x 0.08. (24mm x 32 mm x 2.1mm)
* Speed Class 4: 4MB/sec. guaranteed minimum data transfer rate
* Operating Temperature: -13° F to 185° F (-25° C to 85° C)
* Storage Temperature: -40° F to 185° F (-40° C to 85° C)
* Voltage: 3.3V

The new Kingston 32GB Elite Pro SDHC card that able to store over 6,000 still images (with 10-megapixel camera) or more than 8 hours of video (for 6Mbps HD Extended recording) is now available for $308.

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When you right-click on the Windows desktop, there’s an option to change the default size of desktop icons - you could either choose medium, large or the default "Classic" size.





Now if you are looking for something extra and don’t want to limit yourself to these three default sizes, try this trick:

Left-click anywhere on the desktop, hold the ‘Control’ key and move the scroll wheel on the mouse - the desktop icons will grow smaller or larger depending upon the direction of your scroll.

Uncheck the "Auto Arrange" option for some more interesting results. Now I use this on a Windows Vista desktop but the trick should probably work on XP systems as well (sorry, its a Vista specific feature).

Continue Reading........Make Your Desktop Icons Smaller or Larger with the Mouse Wheel