Tim Ferriss View on Building A High Traffic Successful Blog [Video]

Posted by on September 7, 2011 No comments

“How to Build a High Traffic Blog without Killing Yourself” titled Presentation from  Tim Ferriss, author of The 4 Hour Workweek at WordCamp recently, can give the golden keys that can help you build a high traffic successful blog.

This, about 50 mins video, can be quite helpful to bloggers  present date.  He covered a wide range of topics, from posting frequency to blogging tools and community building. The cool thing is that most of the stuff is coming from the tests that Tim run over the years. Worth watching. So, I have included this in the Video Grabber(Weekly) section of Inforids.com

Enjoy the Success tips.

Feel the taste of your Favorite Guest Operating System(OS) on Linux with VirtualBox 3.0.0

Posted by on September 6, 2011 1 comment

Running multiple OS on the system is the choice of various curious programmers who indulge themselves in working on different OS on the same PC  which is very helpful to get knowledge, understanding the technology behind them &  how they works. Although there a different methods like  installing dual Os on the same system etc. using Virtual machines has become quite popular one commonly known as VirtualBox.

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use the popular, amazing, open-source, virtualization software from Sun Microsystems. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).


Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

Sun xVM VirtualBox allows users to create “virtual machines” in their host operating system so that they can install any guest OS, facilitating the development, cross-platform running and testing of multi-tier applications on a single computer. Being very space efficient, Sun xVM VirtualBox has around 40 megabytes and is ready for use after just a five-minute install.

Recently VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems, reached version 3.0.0 a day ago. So, a more powerful one thatis VirtualBox 3.0.0 ia available now with  lots of new features.

The big and breathtaking  implements in VirtualBox 3.0.0 are:

  • Users can now use Direct3D 8 and 9 games or applications.
  • The new SMP (Symmetrical Multiprocessing) guest support with no more than 32 virtual processors.

Other major improvements & additions in VirtualBox 3.0.0 for Linux are:

  • Support for Linux kernel 2.6.31
  • Support for Guest Additions in Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
  • Fixed CentOS 64-bit support
  • Better performance for PAE guests on Linux kernel 2.6.29 or higher
  • Better network I/O
  • Revamped settings dialog
  • Lots of fixes for 3D support
  • Windows 7 Remote Desktop Protocol client support
  • Fixed TX checksum offloading for Linux kernel 2.16.8 or higher
  • Time synchronization handler provided by the new vboxadd-service module
  • Added guest properties, which offers information about logged in users, operating system or network;
  • Added USB high-speed isochronous endpoints support, with read-ahead buffering for input endpoints & many more.

Download Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0.0

Whats New in FireFox 3.5 Web Browser that makes it More Advanced

Posted by on September 6, 2011 No comments

FireFox browser’s latest version 3.5 is released. Firefox 3.5 release promises a lot of new Features that provide its users a much better experience in browsing the web world.

Private Browsing

Now Surf the Web without leaving a single trace.

Search Suggestions

Start typing in the search bar and it will prompt you with a drop down of filled-in suggestions, plus you can use the search bar as a calculator, converter and more.

Password Manager

Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.

Awesome Bar

Find the sites you love in seconds (and without having to remember clunky URLs).

Downloadable Fonts

View a wider variety of fonts on Web sites while you surf.

Super Speed (With TraceMonkey JavaScript engine)

According to Results of a SunSpider test on a Windows XP machine FireFox 3.5 is fastest, compared to FrieForx 3.  New View Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory. Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox3, and ten times as fast as Firefox2.

Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware

Enjoy the most advanced protection against online bad guys.

Session Restore

Unexpected shutdown? Go back to exactly where you left off.

Open Video and Audio

Firefox is the first browser to support open video and audio formats, allowing practically limitless new ways for sites to display rich content.

One-Click Bookmarking

Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.

Forget This Site

Having second thoughts about having visited a certain Web site? With this feature, you can remove every trace of that site from your browser—no questions asked!

Easy Customization

Thousands of add-ons give you the freedom to make your browser your own.

Web Application Integration

Expand the power of Web-based applications. Now you can choose a Web mail clients (like Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo! Mail) to launch when you click on that email address.

Tabs

Do more at once with tabs you can organize with the drag of a mouse.

Instant Web Site ID

Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.

Location-Aware Browsing

Now Firefox can tell websites where you’re located so you can find info that’s more relevant and more useful (for example, getting directions or finding restaurants near you).

The Video taking a close look on FireFox 3.5

Download Link: Click here to download Firefox 3.5

The Next Firefox 2010: Meet Namoroka

The next Firefox is currently slated to be released in early- to mid-2010, according to Mozilla’s developer notes. That, as we saw with Firefox 3.5 , can always change as things moves forward; in fact, Mozilla’s already given Namoroka the additional nickname of “Firefox.next” to avoid getting attached to any specific figures.

Best of June 2009

Posted by on September 5, 2011 No comments

The Top 10 topics & posts of Inforids.com in the month June, 2009 (Depanding on the most viewed, popular content, most comments) are:

[1] Top 6 Twitter Profile Secrets for Twitter Users

[2] The Best Free Online Chatting Tools & Services which Add Value to Websites

[3]WordPress Best Cache Plugins to Staticize, Speedup & Increase Responsiveness of Webpages

[4] A 17 year Girl lost her Life while using Twitter during Bath

[5] 30 Must have WordPress Plugins for Admin to Enhance their Website Control

[6] Google New Code Project “Let’s make the web faster” [Video]

[7] Is your PC a victim of the Autorun.inf virus? How to Remove Autorun.inf completely

[8] What Microsoft forget to implement in Windows Explorer | StExBar provides you that

[9] Top 10 BackLinking Strategies helping Websites earn Traffic Boost

[10] Top 3 Ways to Tweet More Than 140 Characters | Now Twitter more without Limits

What Microsoft forget to implement in Windows Explorer | StExBar provides you that

Posted by on September 5, 2011 No comments

Windows explorer helps you do things more easily. But If you have something that Microsoft had not provided in Windows Explorer like your own favorite commands which are not just available from the toolbar, but also via hotkeys and via a context menu. This means that you can line up all your favorite applications right on Windows Explorer’s toolbar.

StExBar is a toolbar for Windows explorer that adds a number of handy commands and shortcuts to it. By default StExBar includes some common action like create new folder, copy file path, rename, open command prompt and a few others. You can also add custom executable files to it.

The StExBAr Below the Windows Explorer

The StExBar Below the Windows Explorer

It comes with a  ‘lightweight’ console which simply requires command you like to execute into the edit box on the right of the StExBar and hit enter. The command will be executed in the system console.

For example, creating a new folder will be just a one click away. It allows you renaming multiple files at once.

You can also perform the following activities with one click:

  • Rename many files or folders at once using regular expressions strings
  • Copy the full paths for files and folders
  • Copy the name of files and folders
  • Open a command window set to the current working directory
  • Show/hide system files with one click
  • Add your own custom buttons and commands
  • Use the text box on the right to filter items in a folder
Configure it according to your taste

Configure it according to your taste & Add more commands

You can also go into the Options dialog and change the order of the commands if you like. You can also hide the filter box or use it as a command prompt replacement. Customize it with your own taste.

You can actually use that text box on the right as a command prompt. Go into options and uncheck “Use filter instead of cmd replacement”. Now you can type commands into the box just like you would if you did Start and then Run.

So, StExBar is a must have utility for making day to day tasks very easy & comfortable.

Google New Code Project “Let’s make the web faster” [Video]

Posted by on September 4, 2011 No comments

Together, let’s make the web faster! is what Google is saying now. Its a Video form Bill Caughran & Vic Gundotra, VP Engineering , Google telling about what Google is looking forward in making Web faster.

Its a nice video exploring what Google is thinking to do to achieve a better, faster Internet. What changes they are going to make in communication protocols to let internet users a more faster web experience. So , included this video in the Weekly Video Grabber section of Inforids.com

Why WordPress as Website or Blogging Platform? The 6 Heavy Reasons you can’t Ignore

Posted by on September 4, 2011 1 comment

WordPress, first appeared in 2003, is a free and open source blog publishing application. WordPress is the official successor of b2cafelog which was developed by Michel Valdrighi. The latest release of WordPress is version 2.8, released on 11 June 2009. When you think of WordPress you probably think of blogging. That’s how most people use it. They sign up for a free blog and start posting about a variety of things. Some blogs are very specific and targeted while others are just general every day kind of blogs. You might not be aware of it, but some excellent looking websites are also using WordPress without using it as a blog at all.

Those 6 heavy reasons that insist you to use WordPress as your first website or first blog are:

Its Free & Open Source

WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial website without have to pay a single dime for it. It is built on PHP/MySQL (which is again Open Source) and licensed under GPL.

Ease of Use

WordPress is designed for the masses. That means there’s really no specialized knowledge necessary to sign up for a blog and get started. If you want to go beyond the free blog and take advantage of their premium features, they’re thrilled. So they lead you through it step-by-step to make it easy.

It assumes that you have Zero knowledge of web designing. Deciding to go from a free blog to hosting a domain with your blog as your site is fast, inexpensive and easy. At that point, your .com address contains the blog, which you can arrange pretty much any way you want.

Built-in Tools

Using the blogging and content tools provided by WordPress, it’s easier for many to create a great looking website than it is to use a more complicated piece of software. To create a WordPress site you don’t need an HTML editor or some “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) software to help you build the site. You can still use these, for the most part, but you can also do the same things right through the WordPress interface, including using CSS.

You also won’t need a tool for uploading like an FTP client, and you won’t need to learn a complicated file manager or control panel. If you’ve chosen a theme and made a few blog posts, you already understand how making changes in WordPress works. There’s really no learning curve in going from free blog to website.

Search Engine Friendliness

WordPress blogs, if they’re using keywords and contain relevant content, can rank high in searches on those keywords. Google tends to favor some sites over others, while completely ignoring some domains. Content on WordPress tends to be favored. So your website, as long as you actually do concentrate on keywords and content a bit, will probably have a better chance at showing up in search engines than if it were hosted somewhere else.

Popularity and Community

If you’re not paying WordPress and website experts to do your website for you, then the idea of setting up a website anywhere, let alone on WordPress, is probably daunting. But because WordPress is so popular and used by so many people, it’s easy to get help with a problem.

If you have your website set up with Host X and you’re having problems with the PHP, you can wait to hear back from them or do an online search and try to find the exact problem in the exact server configuration in detail. But the WordPress community has active forums where you can ask questions. And chances are your blogging question has already been asked and answered, so your problem could be solved with a quick search.

Support & Forums

If you got stuck somewhere, then its a NO problem. This is because there are so many people using WordPress, so many websites on support which are always there to take you out from the trouble easily. Also,  many Intellient Minds are working in WordPress support forums, where you will be listened & answered.

See what is new in WordPress 2.8

Top 6 Twitter Profile Secrets for Twitter Users

Posted by on September 3, 2011 3 comments

If you are a twitter user like other 40 million users, how you can use twitter more effectively.

Here are the top 6 twitter profile secrets for twitter users.

[1] Choose your username wisely. It should be simple & clear. You can either go for your website name or your name.

[2] Use a profile image that is clean & good. It should convey some meaning.  It will be better if you relate to your website. A close-up, company’s logo or other catchy and meaningful image on your profile display image will be nice.

[3] Don’t write long bio in your profile. Keep it clean and catchy. Let visitor search for that.

[4] Use keywords (for which you want to be found) in username & bio.

[5] Design custom background image for your twitter profile. It shoud be simple & clean enough so that visitor feel it interesting in each visit.

[6] In website column, apart from website or blog URL you can put effective landing page’s URL to make first impression very impressive.

This can help you increasing your foloers on twitter. You can follow me. Follow Techprism

10 Nice Reasons to Start a Blog | Blogging is Power

Posted by on September 3, 2011 4 comments

We think that its blogging, but its more than that, Its Power.

In the early 1990’s people started to set up their own websites known as web logs, a term which has been colloquially evolved into the term blog. What is a blog? These days every 1.5 seconds a new blog is created! Putting that in  another way:

• 7.4 Million blogs were created in the last 120 days

• 1.5 Million blogs were created in the past 7 days

• 900,000 blogs created in the last 24 hours

• 37,500 blogs created every hour

It means blogging is becoming more and more popular everyday. Should you join the blogosphere?

Yes you should , but lets see why do people blog?


Your Thoughts and Opinions are Important

Publish your thoughts & notions through blogging. You have something to say, and blogs provide a place to say it and be heard.

Take Out Your Inner Expert

Why hide your inner expert? Put the beauty to the world. Blogs are wonderful tools to help bloggers establish themselves as experts in a field or topic.

To Make a Difference

Encourage people to go for things which you think is right. Many blogs are issue-based meaning the blogger is trying to provide information to sway people’s thinking in a certain direction.

There are People Like You. Connect to Them

Build a like-minded community. Listen to those who think like you. Blogging brings like-minded people together. Starting a blog can help you find those people and share your opinions and thoughts.

You can Help Many

You can be the a source of great help for someone. Many blogs are written to help people who may be going through similar situations that the blogger has experienced.

Echo your Voice to Turn into Billions

Take your business, company & voice to billions. Blogging is a great way to help market or promote yourself or your business, product or service.

Stay Updated & Increase your Knowledge

You will get something that you don’t know yet, through blogging. Since successful blogging is partially dependent on posting frequency and providing updated, fresh information, it’s a perfect way to help a blogger stay abreast of the events in a specific field or topic.

You Love to make Money

Open doors for making money. It’s important to point out that most bloggers don’t make a lot of money blogging, but the potential does exist to generate revenue from your blog with hard work and commitment.

To Have Fun and Be Creative

Doing blogging for just fun is common. If writing interests you, certainly it will become your passion. One of the most important keys to successful blogging is having a passion about your blog’s topic, so you can write prolifically about it. Some of the best and most interesting blogs started out as blogs that were written just for fun and to give the blogger a creative outlet.

SEO Guide for Creating XML Sitemaps for your website

Posted by on September 2, 2011 1 comment

After understanding what are sitemaps & importance of sitemaps for SEO of your site it is now required to go for the first step, creating sitemaps for your website. What are Sitemaps & how important they are in SEO?

There are so many methods to create XML sitemaps. XML sitemaps can be create using online tools or by softwares.

Create XML Sitemaps Online

Somtimes it is needed to create sitemaps online which is a much easier option when your site is having page size less than 500 MB. This option is excellent for you if you own blogs on Blogger, Typepad or other free blogging platforms.  To build your website XML sitemap online you can use the excellent free service provided by xml-sitemaps.org which helps to create sitmaps in different formats like XML, ROR, Text & HTML.

Just enter the website URL & other details just what I have done in the following screenshot below & Click Start.

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Field value for Inforids.com

This process will take some time depending upon the pages in the website.

Result will allow you to save the sitemaps in all the different format. Just Downlaod them & its done.

Create XML Sitemaps using Plugin

Thanks for the Google Sitmap plugin allows to create sitemaps for once & leave the rest of the job to this plugin.

This option is most suitable & easy to implement if you own a website hosted on servers & use WordPress platform. Simply download the plugin & upload it to the server using FireFTP or FileZilla software. Activate it from the plugins page & configure the options you want. All Done.

Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones.

So, Once you have an latest sitemap in hand you can submit it to different search engines, which will be covered in the nest post under  Complete SEO Success Guide for Bloggers section.

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