Leave Comment On Blogger Using OpenID

Leave Comment On Blogger Using OpenID

Do you know, now you are able to allow your readers/visitors to use OpenID to leave a comment. For those who still do not know what is OpenID, OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on system. That means, this system will only need users to register their username and password once, and that username and password can be used at any websites that support this system.OpenID is increasingly gaining adoption among large sites, with organizations like AOL and Orange acting as a provider.

As far as I know from my reading at Wikipedia, this system is fully functional in Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and a few other sites like Wordpress, AOL/AIM, LiveJournal and SixApart.You can see and view the full list of OpenID usage at OpenID Servers.

Just want you to know, this new system and feature is currently in testing phase and if you bloggers would like to giveit a try, just login to Blogger in Draft and then go to your blog Settings. Under comment tab, choose "Registered Users - includes OpenID" option. ( under Who Can Comment section ). Save Settings and you're done !

How to Avoid Getting Bills

How to Avoid Getting Bills

Yeah..It could work..Just kidding. Anyway, take a look at the picture.

My Favorite "Blog About Blogging"

My Favorite "Blog About Blogging"

As you can see, there are a lot of blogs that "Blog About Blogging".Different blogs seems to deliver the blogging tips in a different way.Some of them are worth to read because of high quality content and based on bloggers real experiences. I also got my favorite "Blog About Blogging" and keep visiting and reading them to improve my level of blogging.

For some of you that still do not know, this "Blog About Blogging" usually tell us on how to improve writing, how to bring traffics to your blogs , how to monitize them and a lot more. All I can say is, they are worth reading..

Here's my favorite "Blog About Blogging" blogs that I keep reading, and also subscribe to their feeds..

ProBlogger
-Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging -
This site is dedicated to helping other bloggers learn the skills of blogging, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium.Currently has around 37000 subscribers/readers.

DailyBlogTips
-Improve your blog with Daily Blog Tips. Articles on design, promotion, SEO, monetization, Wordpress and more! Daily Blog Tips, a place where you will find simple yet effective tips to improve your blog.
Currently has around 7400 subscribers/readers.

Quick Online Tips
-A popular blog regularly publishing Technology news, smart blogging tips, useful computer software and Web 2.0 services. The content presented in simple to understand English language, is targeted to the people interested take their blog to a new high, learn secrets of blogging success and monetization and want to keep updated about breaking technology developments and buzz of the blogosphere.Currently has around 14000 subscribers/readers.

BloggingPro
-A collection of links to blogging resources such as plugins, hacks, news, and themes for blogging applications.

CopyBlogger
-Teach you about blogging and copywriting skills.Copywriting allows you to catch people’s attention, and smart blogging allows you to capitalize on that attention by building trust, sales and profits. Currently has around 28000 subscribers/readers.



Blog About Your Blog
-A community blog featuring articles about blogging, making money online and new ways to increase your website traffic.
Currently has around 500 subscribers/readers.

Make Money With Aloha-Ads

Make Money With Aloha-Ads


Today, there are many ad network on the internet like Google Adsense, Chitika, Widgetbucks and many bloggers has made a big profit from it.Its all up to you to choose and they are really working just fine.For me, I've joined all of them, Google Adsense, Chitika, and Widgetbucks to maximize my online earnings.

While surfing, I've found another ad network that you could join to maximize your income potentials.This new ad network is currently in Beta-launch called Aloha-Ads. Aloha-Ads is a no-hassle way for both publishers and advertisers to boost revenue and traffic. Their flexible system is easy to setup and gives you total control over every aspect involved.

First Impression

The design of the site is simple with green glossy color as a theme. There's still have many improvement to be made, like adding "About us" section and "FAQ" section but they do have support forum. They also do not have "Referral" as a part of promotion since they're still new..I also do not know what is the look of the ads, is it look like Widgetbucks, is it like Chitika, who knows...

Payment?

For the payment they wrote "Paypal supported", that means that you dont have to wait for a cheque to come through in the post, or wait until the funds are transferred to your bank account. I always like to join an ad network that pays via PayPal.

Bloggers, come and join this new ad network !

p/s: Hope this ad network will add additional income to me in the future

QuickRibbon:Online Ribbon Generator

QuickRibbon:Online Ribbon Generator


QuickRibbon is an online tool that allows users to plug in a few choices and get a special ribbon banner that can be displayed on websites to announce something special. With QuickRibbon you can display a holiday messages or special announcement on your site with a simple step. No messy code and images, this online tool does almost all the work for you easiest way.

All you got to do is following their 4 simple steps:-

1) Type your Ribbon text. Choose suitable font, size and color
2) Then pick your ribbon style and the color of the ribbon
3) Preview your ribbon
4) Insert your Ribbon hyperlink, target windows and then press "Generate Ribbon" button.

Now copy the generated Javascript code and paste it on your website or blog.You don't need to worry about the ribbon's image file, as it is stored on their server for free.

Christmas USB Gadgets

Christmas USB Gadgets

The Christmas is just around the corner and everybody is so excited..Today while surfing I found some of the coolest gadgets made for Christmas season. Take a look at the photos below :-

USB Christmas Tree

USB Christmas Cake

USB Christmas Pendrive

USB Christmas Boot
USB Fiber Optic Christmas Tree

Windows Vista SP 1 : What Do You Expect?

Windows Vista SP 1 : What Do You Expect?

Are You Vista users? Good because the first release candidate of Windows Vista Service Pack 1(SP 1) will be available within just a few days. So what do you expect from this release?

The goal of Windows Vista SP1 is to address key feedback Microsoft has received from its customers without regressing application compatibility. Windows Vista SP1 will deliver improvements and enhancements to existing features that significantly impact customers, but it does not deliver substantial new operating system features. For example, the service pack improves the performance of the desktop shell, but does not include a new version of Windows® Media Center.

The updates in Windows Vista SP1 fall into three categories, Quality improvements, Improvements to the administration experience, and Support for emerging hardware and standards.

Some of the updates and improvements are:-

· SP1 addresses issues many of the most common causes of crashes and hangs in Windows Vista, as reported by Windows Error Reporting. These include issues relating to Windows Calendar, Windows Media Player, and a number of drivers included with Windows Vista.

· Adds support for exFAT, a new file system supporting larger overall capacity and larger files, which will be used in Flash memory storage and consumer devices.

· Enhances support for high density drives by adding new icons and labels that will identify HD-DVD and Blu-ray Drives as high density drives.

· Improves power consumption and battery life.

· Improves the speed of adding and extracting files to and from a compressed (zipped) folder.

· Improves the speed of copying files, folders, and other media.

· Improves startup and resume times when using ReadyBoost.

· Users can control which volumes the disk defragmenter runs on.

You can read the detailed about Windows Vista SP1 enhancement at iStartedSomethingdot]com.

Got Invitation To Join Grabmyads

Got Invitation To Join Grabmyads

Today, I got an invitation to join Grabmyads by e-mail. Grabmyads? Never heard of it before. So I go to their "About Us" section to find out more about them.Basically, Grabmyads™ is a blog advertising network company from Malaysia. Their mission is to create an effective, easy-to-use advertising system for Authors, Advertisers, and the Audience.

Why Join Grabmyads ?

1- No Traffic Qualification -Whatever traffic you got from your blog, you're qualify to join Grabmyads.
2- Real Time Statistic -While you earn money displaying their ads, they also keep track of your blog statistics in real time, provide detailed reports about your blog.
3- More Income, No Fixed Amount For Ads Unit -Which means,once your put their code, their system will calculate your price of your ads strips.You'll get more income by placing ads strip position high on your blog.
4- Payment In Local Currency -They pay you in Local Currency, via cheque in RM
5- Other Advantages -Their team will ensure the ads served on your blog match your content.Moreover, Global Ads wil be shown when you don't have target graphical ads.

By the way, I like their motto "Helping Bloggers Earn Better and Easier". More info, you can visit Grabmyads ..

p/s: Now Malaysian got Nuffnang, Advertlets and Grabmyads. Hope Grabmyads will serve better and their ads will not slow down my blog's loading time.

Make A Good Use Of Your Old Computer

Make A Good Use Of Your Old Computer

I never taught that old computer is very useful and can be turn into such a great things or gadgets.If you have one, don't just throw it away. Make a good use of it and try to be more creative. Want a free samples, just look at the pictures below and I'm sure you'll be amazed..:D

Character in Starwars

Use YieldBuild To Maximize Your Adsense Revenue

Use YieldBuild To Maximize Your Adsense Revenue

If you are an Adsense publisher, I'm pretty sure that you've read a lot on how to maximize your adsense revenue.We are all the same. But somehow, rarely among us read about the importance of testing your Adsense blocks placement, colors and size to improve the ad’s CTR.

Some bloggers, after implement Adsense ads into the blogs, they consider it done.Now they only have to drive traffic to their blogs.The ads’ formatting and placement is seldom tested and altered to get more clicks. As a result, the ad’s true earning power is never realized.For the bloggers who want more earnings from their blog, testing ads placement and formatting is a must.I've found a good place to start with...

YieldBuild is a new service that provides automatic yield management for Google AdSense, Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) and eBay AdContext. Their software algorithmically changes ads format and place to analyze what can be done to maximize text ad revenue.

They created an optimization system that allows for ongoing testing and improvement with minimal involvement on the part of the publisher. The system automatically determines what should be the best placement and appearance of your ad. A process called behavioral formatting is used to optimize the layout of ads. Behavioral formatting automatically adjusts the ad’s placement and appearance according to the characteristics of the visitor.

The system continually switches layouts, color and networks, looking for the highest performing configuration. According to YieldBuild, it takes about 100,000 impressions to train the system. As users become unresponsive to the ads, the system is supposed to switch in a more profitable combination of layout and networks.

YieldBuild is free to try for 30 days. After that, YieldBuild’s share is 3% of impressions.

Using YieldBuild is easy :-
1- Apply for YieldBuild account
2- Setup ad zones on your pages
3- Insert their code on your site/blog

More info, you can visit YieldBuild's site..

BananaScreen:Face Recognition Software for Login

BananaScreen:Face Recognition Software for Login

BananaSecurity has produced BananaScreen, a face recognition software for Windows login.In other words, use your face as a password for Windows login.BananaScreen is a fun and easy solution to lock and unlock your computer using only your face.
> BananaScreen automatically locks computer when you're away from your computer.
> BananaScreen will automatically unlock your computer when you're back, taking less time than it would take to enter your password.

How does BananaScreen works?

With a simple webcam, facial features are captured to build a statistical representation of the face. No picture is stored on your harddrive (or anywhere else) but only your face model (binary format).


Try BananaScreen and have fun ! Moreover, it's FREE ! "Just your smile..all you need to login".

You can download the software by clicking the image below.


p/s:- currently, the software does not support Mac OS X.