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5 Blogging Tips you Should Read Right Away
The Floppy Disk Drive is officially dead
Remotely Accessing Linux via Windows
Follow cost: Find out the cost of following someone on Twitter
5 Best Websites to Watermark Images: Worth Bookmarking

5 Blogging Tips you Should Read Right Away

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 07:42 PM PDT

Getting successful in blogging is a long process and one should be perfect in every ways to make most out of blogging. Many young-bloggers are getting into professional blogging and it's a big step. Though one rule of blogging is get your basics right. Here is a round up of 5 posts published for bloggers to refine their blogging experience:

7 Ways to sell more Advertisements: Every blogger wants to make money from their blog. Selling advertisement is one of the easiest way to make money from your blog. This post will highlight 7 working ways to sell advertisement on your blog.

5 reasons why you should subscribe to other blogs: Every one around love to read news and reading other blogs give you ample amount of ideas and creativity. This post highlight more reasons for subscribing to other blogs.

5 SEO link building mistake: Link building is an essential part of any blog to rank better in search engine. In this post we will let you know few link building mistakes which you should avoid.

8 common mistake every Blogger should avoid: In blogging margin of error is very less. Though for budding bloggers, it's the other way " make mistake and learn from these mistakes". Though in this post Kranthi, share what 8 common mistakes every blogger can avoid to make their blog perfect.

5 Social media websites you should know about: Social media websites will help you to promote your websites to a new audience and also drive traffic to your blog. P.K. Arun shares, 5 most popular social media websites which you should know.

From my experience of blogging, you should read articles related to blogging every day. This will help you a lot to become a better blogger.

Do let us know which blogging topics you liked the most?

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The Floppy Disk Drive is officially dead

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 08:23 AM PDT

A few days ago I wrote about how data storage has changed dramatically in the past 20 odd years. One thing I did think about then was what happens to floppy disks. I have a few stacked away but now my only computer is a laptop and hence no option to use them. I read on Yahoo, that Sony has decided to stop the production of 3.5 inch floppy disk and it has heralded the official demise of the Floppy Disk drive.

Why did Floppy Drives die?

Like all technology floppy disks got defunct. As a matter of fact it has been widely of use only as Bootable Disk in the last ten years rather than be alternatives for storage of data. Finally with the arrival of cloud computing and DVDs becoming the norm Floppies had no value as you could store more data on one single email instead of a whole floppy drive.

Where will you see floppy disk?

There are still large corporations using old systems which were created in the 1980s and they will be probably the only ones using floppy disks to boot their systems or save data. But with newer systems where someone carries a 4GB USB storage drive I cannot see any revival for the poor old floppy disk.

I think not many will miss the floppy disk drive much. I can see that the only time we’ve mentioned the use of the floppy drive has been to about how to run a Messenger from a removable storage. I will some how always associate floppies with childhood memories of playing a round of Dave on a whirring behemoth of a computer. So what are your memories of the floppy drive ? Do let me know through your comments.

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Remotely Accessing Linux via Windows

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 05:26 AM PDT

There are situations when you want to access a system remotely. If both the systems have Windows OS then it’s not a problem but what if one system has Windows & the other has LINUX/Mac.

The solution is to use VNC server.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer. VNC is platform-independent.

Linux

Almost all Linux OS have inbuilt VNC server. For connecting Linux system to Windows you need to install VNC viewer which you can download from www.realvnc.com or www.tightvnc.com

Windows

You need to install VNC server from above mentioned sites on your system.
Steps to connect Windows viewer to Linux server
Start VNC server on linux system using command VNC Server
Click on Start and Run VNC viewer on Windows system.

VNC server

Type the IP Address of the system to which you want to connect and then click OK.
Now you can access the remote (Linux) system.

The only problem which I came across is that when you completely maximize the screen it locks & you have to manually close session from remote system to gain the access again.

If you liked this post you might also find how to troubleshoot a friends desktop remotely and how to control a Linux PC with a blue-tooth Mobile as remote very useful. Do let us know your views with your comments to let us know if you found this post useful.

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Follow cost: Find out the cost of following someone on Twitter

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 01:00 AM PDT

We all love Twitter and like to follow interesting profiles. But what exactly are these interesting profiles? For me it is someone who shares interesting information. But at times you see that some people also end up sending 40-50 tweets in a single day and this can be undesirable, especially if the tweets are repetitive.

With Follow Cost you can know the cost of following someone on Twitter.

About Follow Cost

Follow Cost calculates and displays the number of Tweets per day on an average and also displays the number of Tweets per day for the last 100 Tweets.
This is a good way to understand if someone is tweeting too much and hence might affect your Twitter time-line.
There is also another purpose and that is to check if the account is updated regularly. There is no use following someone who is inactive on Twitter.

Some sites can be quite useful and have niche importance compared to others which have online apps for Twitter. If you liked Follow Cost you might also like to check the first person you followed on Twitter and also how to create RSS feeds of your Twitter timeline.

Do let me know your views on Follow Cost through your comments.

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5 Best Websites to Watermark Images: Worth Bookmarking

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 09:58 PM PDT

Watermarking images is a great way to promote your blog and ensure that others won't copy your blog's images. There are chances that people might copy your watermarked images also, but these chances are very rare. Adding watermark to your image might be time consuming if you have to use any tool for it but what if you get your images watermarked online?

I use few websites for watermarking my blog’s images, it's free and easy to use. Here is the list of 5 websites for watermarking images:

Picmarkr

Picmarkr is very popular online watermarking images which allow you to add watermark to your images. You can choose from text watermark, image watermark or tiled watermark. It also offers you option to browse the image from your system or Flickr.

picmarkr 5 Best Websites to Watermark Images: Worth Bookmarking

Watermarking Tool

Watermarking tool is another online watermarking software. It gives you options of formatting text size, color or position of watermark on your image so that it can be blend properly with you image. For free version, you don't require any signup but if you need extra facilities such as higher file size limit or save your watermark setting you need to pay for it.

watermarkTool 5 Best Websites to Watermark Images: Worth Bookmarking

Watermark-images

I like watermark- images a lot. This gives you option to watermark your images as well as your PDF files. You can format font, positions and color of watermarks like Watermarking tool. If you want to create your EBook , this online service will help you to watermark your images and PDF files.

Watermark-images

Watermark.ws

Watermark.ws offers wide variety of features apart from watermarking your images online for free. It also offers features like image compression, text and image watermarking with transparency, batch processing and resizing. You will get all kind of image service at one place.

watermark.ws 5 Best Websites to Watermark Images: Worth Bookmarking

Free online Watermarker

Free online water marker can add image or text to your digital photos to give it a customized and attractive look. It accepts formats like jpg, gif, png and Bmp. You will able to add watermark to one image at a time but if you choose to go for paid service you can watermark multiple images at a time.