Introducing Damn Good Lists And A $1025 Contest

Over the past few weeks I have been pretty busy doing lots of things behind the hood, that is one reason you are seeing lesser posts as compared to earlier. Behind the hoods I have been working on several things which you will know about in the coming few months.

However I wanted to take [...]


20
May

Softwares as you know allow you to add different functionalities to your operating system. Even your operating system is a software. But have you ever come across a “Perfect Software”. No its not the name of a software but what I am trying to say is that have you ever come across a software that is perfect and does not need any updates for ever.

Well chances are very low, because every software requires some or the other updates. I being a software developer develop different kinds of softwares but have never been able to create one that didn’t need to be changed at a later date.

The reason there can be no perfect software is that with advancement in technologies software need to update for instance Microsoft released Windows Vista so many softwares could not be used on it because it was not compatible, so in order to use the softwares developers had to work towards making it compatible with Windows Vista.

A software may also need to update itself when a new flaw or bug is found in it. Like say the Windows update which keeps on patching your PC with new updates and security patches for flaws found.

The reasons to better a software is endless and can go on and on and on. It is a process which will always continue. A software never is perfect it needs to improve regularly.

Have you ever used a “Perfect Software” that you did not release updates at a later date? Do let me know through your comments.

20
May

This following post is a “Sponsored review”

Every person has certain goals to complete for which they desire a certain outcome. Managing these goals are sometimes not easy as you have to visualize the goals and plan accordingly. Without having proper planning your goals may not get completed and may lead to undesired outcomes.

Planning plays a crucial role in lot of activities you do. While planning goals it is always good to visualize your ideas and plans and link them to the goal you have in mind.

GoalEnforcer is a software that helps you to visualize your goals. Not only does it help you do that but it also saves you a huge amount of time while planning your goals, because it is easy to visualize your ideas and plan it accordingly.

You can easily rearrange your accomplishments by dragging and dropping virtual objects. Also using the calendar view you can be reminded of important due dates. It is good to use for your personal projects as well as your business projects.

In addition to using it as a Visual Organizer you can also use it as a Project Management Tool, Task manager and a Progress Report generator.

Using GoalEnforcer you can set your goals, track the progress of the activities, visually generate and organize your tasks and even email yourself about the progress reports.

In addition to this it is quite easy to use GoalEnforcer even when you are not using your own PC. Goal enforcer is portable too. So you can use it from a USB Drive too. Isn’t that good since you will be able to set and track your goals from where ever you are. You can also use GoalEnforcer on a ultra mobile PC.

So if you are looking out for a software to visualize your goals then you can try out the Visual Goal Planning Software. It offers a 40% discount for a limited time that means you can buy it for $29.95 instead of $49.99.

19
May

I have been in touch with Google adsense support quite a few times, and at times they have contacted me with regards to my site not adhering to their policies. Overall it has been a great experience so would like to share a few tips to new and old adsense users about it.

1. You do not need to contact adsense support for running your ads on multiple site.

If you are an accepted publisher and run more than one site then you do not need to contact adsense support to add your ad code to another site.

To simplify you can run adsense on multiple site with the same publisher code without getting approval from Google adsense.

2. If you are making any changes to the way you display the ads that is not on the program policies please contact them

What I mean is that when you are trying something new with the way you display your adsense get it approved by the adsense team, mind you I do it every time I play around with ads and it helps a ton because I do not want to be on the blacklist and get banned.

If you are displaying images next to your ads then I recommend you to read these posts. Why to approve your changes with adsense?, well they make policies and ban users so it is better to ask than make money and get banned.

19
May

Tagging game hit me for the first time and Teknobites hit me with a tag for the “My Favorite  Unpopular posts”. After a bit of searching and fretting I found these to be appropriate to be included in this.

To add to the tagging game I have just added the reasons why I think these posts as unpopular :).

Gbuy, Paypal killer on the way
Why this is unpopular to me; It is because this never happened, Google Checkout was something different :)

How bad can games get courtesy sony
Why this is unpopular to me; I don’t know why i posted this but one of my worst mistakes

AdBux.org get 1 cent for every sponsored site visited
Why this is unpopular to me; I posted a scam so I regret this

To continue this trend I am tagging
Kyles Cove
Shankar Ganesh
Rishiraj

19
May

Techie Buzz is announcing its first contest where you can earn just goodies and more goodies. The contest is not unique but wants to give out free goodies to all.

If you review Techie Buzz you can get a free domain hosting with webspace, well not just webspace let’s say a whopping 5 GB of webspace so that you can host your site and files and lots more and more and more.

In addition to this you get a bandwidth of another whopping 25GB per month. That means you do not have to worry about getting Dugg too.

So if you are interested you can write a review and email me the link and details at techie@techie-buzz.com. You may leave a comment too on this post too .

There will not be 1 not 2 but 5 winners who will get free hosting for 1 year so get your reviews submitted right now and get the goodies. The good news is there are 5 winners every month for next 10 months and I will increase the gifts too. Once you win you do not have to worry for a year.

I will announce 5 winners per month for next 10 months and winners will have 12 months of free hosting with the above packages.

Why Participate

The whopping FREE webspace is one thing, the other thing is that Techie Buzz may get a PR of 6 in the next update and will get into the 100K sites ranked by Alexa too. It has a Technorati ranking of less than 50K and it is bound to improve. So not only are you getting free giveaways but you are also linking to a potential high ranking blog.

Once I receive reviews, I will post it on the site and this will serve back as a permanent link back to your site, these links will NEVER be removed. All in all you just goodies and more goodies. The reviews will be randomly selected over a draw to win the FREE hosting.

Just to add all entires must follow the rules that are given below to be eligible. Other than that just write anything good or bad it’s all welcome.

Rules

1. You have to review this site using a few key words links to this site like the below example

a. Techie Buzz which links to http://techie-buzz.com
b. Techie Buzz Reviews which links to http://techie-buzz.com/reviews/
c. Free webspace and bandwidth - which links to this post and talks about the prize !!!

An example; Techie Buzz writes about Technology News and is giving away free webspace and bandwidth to the winners, there are 5 spots up for grabs and you have to get yours fast.  Techie Buzz Reviews are a eye opener and allow users to know more about a product. So go ahead an get a whopping amount of free webspace now.

While you are linking please note that Techie Buzz does not use a www subdomain.

You can enhance your chances of winning by including a link to allow others to write about this site like “go ahead and review Techie Buzz to get a chance to win whopping free webspace and bandwith” which links to this post or http://techie-buzz.com.

This is not required though and will just add to your chances of winning more.

2. Favorite this blog in Technorati.

3. Join MyBlogLog Community.

4. Once you win the whopping 5 GB of space you cannot host any illegal files on it, If I get any complaints I will terminate the account with immediate effect.

5. Be fair and you can absolutely give negative feedback. All reviews will be accepted it they follow rule 1, 2 and 3.

17
May

Hey all, Techie Buzz is looking out to hire freelance developers for a project and would like experienced people to work on it.

There are a few restrictions on who may apply for this project. There are a total of 6 modules which include child modules within it. I would like to have people who can work on this project and complete it on time.

Each developer who takes up this project will be given a set deadline for each module and sub module which has to completed within the given time. As I am a developer myself, I have already created the time span for each module. I will ONLY pay using PayPal so NO cash or cheque request please.

To apply for this project you need to know these well

  1. PHP
  2. Linux
  3. MySQL
  4. XML /DOM and XSL

Please do not apply if you are not aware of these.

You can send me a email with your resume / project development experience to freelance [at] techie-buzz.com.

You can make use of other available open source solutions ONLY. If you are not using open source solutions for any code please let me know prior hand.

The code will have to be documented separately along with providing in-code documentation.

Preferred type of coding is Object Oriented (OOPS).

If you are interested please contact me at freelance [at] techie-buzz.com with your profiles.

17
May

Many of you may already know by now that Wordpress 2.2 codename “Getz” has been released and many of you may also have upgraded already. Wordpress 2.2 adds a new feature called Wordpress Widgets that allows you to add widgets to your sidebar.

Gary King has written a great article at Blog Herald to enable sidebar widgets for your theme. So if you have still not widgetized your theme, I recommend you read the post.

Wordpress widgets is available as a option in Theme Editor and you directly drag and drop widgets into the sidebar.

So go ahead read the tutorial and Widgetize your theme.

By the way If you get lots of comments on your blog check out the Better Comments Manager plugin from Techie Buzz.