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Archive for January, 2008

Killer Links #1

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What a great month it has been! I’ve started making money by writing for other blogs, and I’m getting a good amount of income from what I’ve been doing. I’m also waiting for my 4th AdSense cheque to arrive!

Killer Tech Tips has been doing pretty good, and has already registered over 24,000 unique visitors and I hope the figure goes up.

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January 30th, 2008 at 7:52 am

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Optimize your Blog Post for Google – Tips that you might not have heard

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Hey, what’s more exciting than getting huge organic traffic from Google and other search engines to your blog? Every other day, you write posts. Not every post gets noticed. Not every post is picked up by Google. Not every post gets the fame it deserves.

Here are some tips to optimize your blog post a bit for search engines if you’re looking for driving some traffic from Google and other crawlers. Try these, some day one of your posts will drive tens of hundreds of visitors via organic searches.

Though I’m not an expert in SEO, I can give you a few tips based on what I’ve learnt in the last year of blogging. Here we go!

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January 25th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

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How to rip an Audio CD using AudioGrabber?

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If you’ve just found time to rip all your normal audio CDs to your computer, it’s time you download AudioGrabber.

AudioGrabber is an excellent Audio Ripping Software that’s available for download here.

Let me tell you how you can rip music from your old audio CDs to your computer easily using Audio Grabber. First, download AudioGrabber from the official site and then install it in order to be able to rip audio CDs to your computer.
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January 25th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

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Is the ‘Send To’ Menu opening up too slow in Windows?

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Everytime you right click and select the ‘Send To’ menu it takes ages to load. If the Send To menu is opening up slow when you right click on icons or files, it’s time you fix things right.

Here’s how you can make a slow-loading Send To menu load fast in Windows.
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January 21st, 2008 at 7:50 am

Best Bandwidth Monitoring Software for your computer

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Some of us use internet connections that come with a bandwidth cap, and it’s essential to keep an eye on the amount of data you’re downloading and uploading every day. There are specific tools available for this particular purpose, and help in effectively monitoring, and sometimes controlling the flow of your internet bandwidth and speed.

Here’s a list of the best:

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January 15th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

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gOS 2.0 Screenshots and Review

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gOS 2.0 is a Linux Distro based on Ubuntu using the Enlightenment Window Manager. Nothing really ground-breaking here, but gOS can run from a live CD and has icons pointing to various Web apps like Gmail, YouTube etc. for easy access.

It can be said as a stripped down and polished version of Ubuntu. Stripped down – because it’s using a light window manager, and, polished – because of the good integration with the latest web 2.0 services and a light graphical appeal.

Here I leave you with a few screenshots that may tempt you to grab it and try it:

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January 12th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

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Best Software Tools for the Family Tech Support Guy

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Most of you reading this have encountered people asking you solve problems on their computers – more than once. You’re an expert in their eyes, and they want you to solve the problems they’re facing with their PCs. They might be your family members, your colleagues or whatever.

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January 12th, 2008 at 7:33 am

How to embed Google Docs Presentations in your site?

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Google Docs Presentations came out with a very useful feature days ago, and now you can embed your presentation slides in your website/blog itself. It’s pretty easy to do, anyway here’s a quick guide on how to embed Google Docs Presentations in your website:

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January 6th, 2008 at 6:19 am

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How to update the firmware of your Nokia mobile phone?

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Got a Nokia mobile phone? It’s important that you update the mobile phone’s firmware once in a while. Firmware is actually the software that keeps things on your Nokia mobile phone running.

There are a lot of benefits of upgrading your phone’s firmware. You may get functional enhancements, bug fixes etc. Some issues that you might be having with your phone can be solved with a firmware upgrade.

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January 5th, 2008 at 7:45 am

How to convert AMR format mobile recordings to MP3

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If you have a mobile phone that supports audio recording, chances are that the recorded files are stored in AMR format. If you want to convert AMR files to MP3 format, here’s the procedure to do the same:

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January 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 am

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