Nowadays, every Tom Dick and Harry is coming up with a blog of his own. In such situations, along with the content, the other important aspect that one needs to think about is his domain name. Let me tell you some small tips regarding that before we move on.

• Your domain name must be as short as possible.
• Always use .com domains rather than .info or .org just because they are cheaper to purchase.
• Try to avoid hyphens and numbers in the domain name.
• The domain name should be pronounceable. Like, ‘google’ is always easier to remember than ‘xzyqp’ right?
• The domain name should be purchased from a known registrar.
• Make a list of the final 3 domains you selected and ask some of your friends which they liked the most.

You can follow the tips given above, but the question is how to find great domain names? You can always put your brain to work for finding good domain names. But then, why not make the use of tools already available that will simplify your need of a domain name? Let me show you some awesome tools for the same.

DomainR

Xona



DomainTyper



DomainFinder

If you are one of those who loves chatting and making friends online, there are a few things that you need to be careful about in these days of cyber crime. With hacking becoming a rampant problem, your past chats can reveal a lot of your personal details. To ensure that you don’t fall into any such trap try to keep the following points in mind.

• Never Reveal Your Financial Details

You could be chatting online about money matters, but ensure that you never reveal any money related details. Be it your account number, credit/debit card number or your PIN umber, do not reveal these things on chat.

• Don’t Add Just About Anyone To Your List

Don’a add people in your chat list just to have a long list of friends. Know the person a bit before adding him/her. Check out the mutual friends if possible and get details about the “to-be friend” before adding.

• Be Careful In Chat Rooms

Chat rooms are one of the best places to interact with people around the world. But do understand that there are strangers lurking around there so you gotta be careful and think twice on what you are saying.

• Be Polite But Not Over-Friendly

If someone pings you, it’s customary to say “Hi!” and have a small chat with them. But make sure you don’t get over-friendly. Don’t promise to meet them or be their best buddy. If someone suggests you to meet him/her in the first chat itself, you do have to block button to your rescue

• Don’t Use Profanities

While gossiping online is very much in, don’t use profanities when in a chat room. Saying nasty things about other people is known as “flaming” in cyberspace. You can be blocked from further discussions in the chat due to such reasons.

• Watch What You Say

Some organisations get experts to keep a tab on their employees chats. Maybe it’s not a good idea to gossip about office politics or back-stabbing your boss. Keep it for conversations over a coffee with friends at some cafe.

• No Expectations

The basic rule of chatting is that don’t expect anything if you are chatting with a stranger. You don’t know the person on the other end, so don’t expect him/her to be funny, witty or sensitive. The conversation might lead to a friendship or a fight. Don’t get hurt if someone doesn’t want to be your friend and ignores you or blocks you. Be open minded and chat with the people who accepted you as a friend

GoDaddy is considered as the top domain registrar in the world. What makes it famous are all those discount coupons released by them every month. Even a person who registers his first domain goes for GoDaddy because it will save him a few bucks. People buying multiple domains too get great deals from them…

Though GoDaddy is such a great hit, I personally prefer Name because it gives me a whole bunch of free features like Whois Protection, Google Apps, etc. Another reason for not choosing GoDaddy is due to the problems faced by the users. (Read more about it here). Well, it’s just my personal opinion so don’t get offended if GoDaddy has offered you a great service

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We have learnt in our history lessons that Neil Amstrong was the first man on moon.(Did he really walk on moon?). Now, we might have another person added in text books very soon. T.J. Creamer is the first astronaut to Tweet from outer space.

Astronauts aboard the space station received a special upgrade – to access internet World Wide Web (Or should we say Outer World Wide Web? )

Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer made first use of the new system Friday, when he posted the first unassisted update to his Twitter account, @Astro_TJ, from the space station. Previous tweets from space had to be e-mailed to the ground where support personnel posted them to the astronaut’s Twitter account.

“Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station – the 1st live tweet from Space! More soon, send your ?s”

This personal Web access, called the Crew Support LAN, takes advantage of existing communication links to and from the station and gives astronauts the ability to browse and use the Web. The system will provide astronauts with direct private communications to enhance their quality of life during long-duration missions by helping to ease the isolation associated with life in a closed environment.

Click here to follow the astronaut on Twitter!

Since the past few months, you might have seen Twitter in the newspaper headlines for some wrong reasons because of Shashi Tharoor’s comments which were blown out of proportion. Now, I just found something spicy for my readers. For those who didn’t know, you can contact your favourite bollywood actors on Twitter

• Prateek (Yeah, that’s me )
• Shah Rukh Khan
• Abhishek Bachchan
• Priyanka Chopra
• A.R.Rahman
• Karan Johar
• Deepika Padukone
• Akshay Kumar
• Preity Zinta

• Farhan Akhtar
• Anupam Kher
• Sonam Kapoor
• Imran Khan
• Genelia D’souza
• Neil Nitin Mukesh
• Celina Jaitly
• Minissha Lamba
• Sajid Khan
• Reteish Deshmukh
• Lara Dutta
• Gul Panag
• Mallika Sherawat
• Vishal Dadlani
• Fardeen Khan
• Mahesh Bhatt
• Amrita Rao
• Uday Chopra
• Dino Morea
• Konkona Sensharma
• Vivek Oberoi
• Ram Gopal Verma
• Pritish Nandy
• Shreya Ghoshal
• Meghna Gulzar
• Ranvir Shorey
• Madhur Bhandarkar

These are just some of the bollywood personalities we all adore. Follow them and enjoy chatting

As you might have known, one of the tools to rate a website other than the traffic is PageRank. In fact, if you try to sell a website with high quality content but no PageRank, you will find it hard. Now, many of my friends do ask me on how to get a good PageRank. I will answer that in this post. Many webmasters can afford to pay or do backlinking on their own but don’t know where to start. One of the simplest ways for increasing PR is dofollow blog commenting.

If you don’t know what is dofollow blog commenting, let me try to explain that to you. Blogspot based blogs have rel=”nofollow” attribute set as default. If such attribute is set, the commentor on his blog won’t have any effect on his page rank. Only his time will get wasted. There are many bloggers who care for others and using plugins, turn the attribute to “dofollow”. Such blogs are knows as “dofollow blogs”.

Yeah, now the question you must be thinking is, how do I find these dofollow blogs? I will share a few tips to find such blogs.

• DoFollow Search Engines like CommentHunt and EzBusinessNeeds
• DoFollow Directories like DoFollowBlogs and DoFollowBlogsList
• Lists on forums and SEO websites like DigitalPoint and Courtneytuttle
• Google for phrases like THIS!
• Find images on Google by using phrases like “U Comment”, “I Follow” or “U Comment I Follow”
• Use advanced search syntax like “inurl:ucomment” and “inurl:ifollow”

Some More Tips On Commenting :

Now you have learnt the basics of increasing PR. Here are some tips on commenting :

• Never spam dofollow blogs with lots of spam comments. The owners of such blogs who change to “dofollow” are generally strict and will categorize your comments as spam.
• If those webmasters complain to Google and report your site as spam, Google will penalize your website and you wouldn’t surely get a PR update. In worse cases, your Adsense may also get suspended.
• So, on a safer side, just make 3-5 comments on any given day. Not more, not less.
• Leave comments on all types of blogs, it doesn’t matter if it has a PR 6 or a PR 0.
• Your comment has to look natural. Always put your website link in the box provided for giving your website and not in the text box. Such comments will be regarded as spam and will be edited before publishing. The box provided for adding your name must have your real name and not something that spams your website.

Hope this post helped you, keep the comments flowing in

Let me start this topic with a conversation with my online friend (name withheld for personal reasons) :

Friend : Hi Prateek! Need some help bro

Me : Yes, what help do you need bro?

Friend : Actually, I am going broke. Dad’s not giving me enough money. I took a free co.cc domain and blogged for 2 days and applied for Adsense. But Adsense flatly refused my application. All my posts were original. What should I do?

Me : LOL Wait till I write a article on my site, then you will understand where you went wrong. You, like other new bloggers, have taken Adsense for granted.

Most of the bloggers (basically, even I) took to blogging just for Adsense. People make the mistake of linking money with Adsense. They think that all they need is a few posts (which they do by copy pasting or intelligent ones spin those articles). Day by day, the adsense policies are getting stricter. As of now, these are the compulsory requirements for getting Adsense approved on your website.

• Buy a Top Level Domain :

Many new bloggers make this mistake.  Moments after making the decision of blogging, they head over to blogspot and get a free blog. Some of them try taking co.cc domains and host it on a free hosting. My dear friend, you need to a bit more professional when you think of earning money. You strictly need a Told Level Domain. The best top level domain is “.com” domain. Just head over to some domain registrar and go get one for just about $9. You can even get coupon codes that give free domain for first year or domain for just $1 only. All you need is a bit of Google searching.

• Age Of Website :

For your website to be qualified for Adsense, you need a good aged website. Your blog must be minimum 6 months old before you can apply for Adsense.

• Write Original Content :

Who would like copied articles? Same is the case with Adsense. These guys have advanced checkers that can easily detect whether the articles are authentic or just some copy paste. Your site can only have content that agree to Google Adsense’s policy. Hacking tutorials or tricks are a strict no no. In a word, everything that you post should be LEGAL. Also, just having a few original articles won’t do the trick. You must have atleast 50-60 originals before you think of applying.

• Having Some IMPORTANT Pages :

Your website must have important pages like Privacy Policy and Terms Of Use. Such things elevate the level of professionalism of your website and can impress the people at Google. Also, tend to AVOID popups like subscription boxes on the home page. This shows that you are making the website for only making profits and not sharing information.

• Traffic :

Traffic is definitely a important criterion for getting Adsense. Adsense will never accept your site if you have very less traffic because they will stand at a loss. Low traffic website owners sometimes do illegal things like ‘click exchange’ which results in losses for both Adsense and the websites who advertise on Adsense. So you need to have a site that generates constant traffic.

Just make a small checklist and try to assess your website with the following points. I am sure you must be getting rejected because you don’t comply to one of the terms. Enjoy blogging!

Majority of us have seen some gadget or other on some website that we just love and drool for many minutes over it. But there is a slight problem, a problem of money. But today I am going to show you guys a site that will give you every gadget you can think about, from Apple iPhones to Playstations to Digicams and even hard cash. WinMeAuctions is the site where you can get high quality products. The best thing here is that you can get those mind blowing gadgets at just 1% of the market price. It just depends on how you lay your tactics and how quick you bid for it.

WinMeAuctions is different from other bid websites. The method is simple, you need to buy bid packages (there are different packages at different prices). I just purchased a package with 175 credits at a damn cheap price. After purchasing the required bids, one can bid on any item on the homepage. Every bid increases the time counter by 10 seconds. If you are lucky to be the final bidder when the clock becomes 0, you win the product.

When I was writing this review, 30 free bids were won by Kayrajmu while Zellax was lucky to win a Dell Studio Laptop.

But the question in your mind will surely be, is this a scam? Well, only thing I can show you is this. This definitely doesn’t seem to be scam since they are earning great amounts from the biddings. For example, a product which sells for 6.93 rupees converts to 693 bids. And if we take an average of 30 rupees per bid (from the packages), 20,790 rupees. So after the cost of the laptop (Rs 16,000), they get a cool profit of 4,000 rupees. Isn’t that great for both, the bidder as well as the site admin?

Second Story: Love and Loss

Steve is pretty lucky, because he did what he liked. Within 10 years Apple turned into 2 billion dollar company with 4000 employees. They produced their one of the finest creation MAC. Everything went fine in Steve’s’ life; he doesn’t know a big tragedy is waiting for him. His board of directors decided to fire him out of the company. What a hell are you speaking about..? How a founder and CEO of a company can be thrown out.(well , I too don’t know the reason behind it, if some one knows that share it with us). Soon he became a public failure. He came back where from he started. Almost he came to the roads. But again Steve continued to do what he loves. During the first few months, he doesn’t know what to do. Something started to dawn on him. During the next five years he started a company named NEXT and PIXAR, now Pixar is one of the most successful animation studio in this earth.  Pixar made the computer animated film “The Troy Story”. Soon Apple brought The Company NEXT and its not alone Next went under the control of Apple, it is also Steve who returned back to Apple. The technology that Steve developed in Next became the renaissance of Apple. He also met his life partner when he was out of Apple for five years. None of these could have happened if he was not fired out. Remember work is going to be filled for major part of your life. Do the work that makes you to feel great about it. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. Along with time you will tend to grow in a positive way.

Third story: The Death

Remembering that we will be dead soon, is one of the most successful tool, because almost everything starting from your fear of loosing something, pride etc falls away in front of dead. You are already naked; there is no reason that you should not follow your heart. Another blow came to him; he went to a doctor for a diagnosis. The doctor diagnosed him and said that, he is suffering from pancreatic cancer, a cancer that is incurable. The scan clearly showed a tumor in the pancreas. He had a biopsy in the following evening. The doctor took a piece of tumor cell, “Oh..! Jesus this is rare form of tumor that is curable with by a surgery”-said that the doctors. He undertook a surgery and thankfully he is completely cured. Thanks to the God.

Conclusion:

It’s simple. A life without failure is something unimaginable. You got to be a failure in some form otherwise how is that we are going to learn things. A big failure may thrash you out completely, but it’s the starting point for a beautiful thing. Love what you do and have some faith in you, and then God will definitely give you a hand.

Some window keystrokes work in the same way irrespective of all applications. One such keystroke is Alt+F4. What will happen if someone presses Alt+F4, the current active window will close, so if you have pressed it during the middle of something your current active window would have closed.  Well, then what will happen if you don’t have an active window. A small modeless dialog box will appear with three options, turn off, restart, stand by are the three options that will be displayed.

Windows offers us several other keystrokes that become handy during most of the times.

Alt+Ctrl+Delete will bring up the task manger.

Ctrl+Esc will pop p the start up menu.

Alt+Tab will bring up all the applications that are opened and also allows you to cycle through applications that are opened.

Ctrl+C are used to copy something.

Ctrl+V are used to paste something.

Ctrl+X is used to cut something.

On the left corner of space we have something a window like key, let us call it us “Win”.

Win+e start the window explorer.

Win+F pops out the search box.

Win+Ctrl+F pops out the find option to find out a computer on the network.

Win+R pops out Run dialog box.

Win+M will minimize all the windows and chows the desktop.

Win+Shift+M will restore all minimized windows.

Win+F1 starts window help.

Win+Pause will pop out the system properties.