Archive for April 2009
Indian forum to discuss Stock, Commodities and Forex
If you are interested to invest (making money!) in stock market (since the Indian stock market is again bouncing back after touching 3 year low few months back) but feels you don’t have enough knowledge for it, then there is a very good Indian forum TraderJi where lot of small investor hangs out and discuss where to invest.
Its a good place to start as there is lot of beginners content and you can make lot of friends there too which will help you alot. You can form partnerships if you have money but don’t have knowledge in investing in Stocks, Commodities and Forex.
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Zip a Folder in Linux
Lot of people get confused and don’t know this simple command. Most of the webmaster uses ftp programs like filezilla or cuteftp or winscp and are not very comfortable with shell but sometimes for taking backups, it becomes very important to use zip to get backup of all files and folders.
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Inlinks
In the past i had covered about textlinkads and how bloggers can make easy money from it by selling links, albeit there are chances of your blog getting penalized.
Now the same company has launched another service, calling it Inlinks (it was launched some time back actually as a separate entity from textlinkads). Inlinks offers selling of incontent post links which means once you install the inlinks module/plugin onto your wordpress, movable type or drupal blog you don’t have to do anything and inlinks programs will sell links on your blog automatically. Since the links are sold incontent and there are no traces or footprints of selling links, I can easily see many bloggers must have started using it (I know many who are using it).
Microsoft Shutting Down MSN Encarta - Wikipedia Wins
Microsoft has announced that they are shutting down MSN Encarta, their multimedia encyclopedia. Encarta has thousands of articles (more than 62,000) including audio video clips, visual and graphics, interactive content, atlas and maps etc. The content was also available on CD ROMs as well as being available online (for a fees)
The Encarta encyclopedia is shutting down on 31st of October (the japan encarta will be shut down on 31st December). As per Microsoft announcement, its not possible to run it in current format (though no official reason was given).
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Fund your Startups with Gooogle Ventures
Google has launched Google Ventures to fund startups under various niches like software, hardware, bio-tech, clean technology as well as health care. It is still in very early stage and I don’t publicly there is any company which has been funded by Google ventures but looking at the FAQ of Google Ventures, they are certainly looking very big on this. Google is willing to invest seed fund (normally of few hundred thousand dollars) to tens of million dollars on Good ideas/startups as per their stage.
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How does LCD and Plasma TV Works
I have wrote few reviews on our reviews blog about LCD TVs and Plasma TVs and felt to write about LCD TV and Plasma TV on this blog.
Initially LCD TV were not in bigger size and were fairly costly but now in terms of screen sizes and prices, both LCD and Plasma TVs compete with each other.
Youtube April Fool Prank
This is just awesome, today I saw a message that youtube is down for maintenance and I thought, OK, they must be doing some upgradation and then now it seems, everything is upside down!!!
Check any youtube video and you will understand what do I mean
Geek April Fool Jokes and Pranks
Well here are some good Geek April Fool Jokes and Pranks videos. (courtesy youtube). You can use these videos to make quick april fool joke and prank.
New Alexa HomePage Design
Well Alexa has finally changed its homepage and its looking pretty good. They have given it a blog sleak blog like shape as compared to old alexa homepage which was very wide. Here is the new design -

