by Admin on November 29, 2008
Welcome back!
Hii.. Today I’ll tell about Trackbacks and their importance!
If you’re a blogger, chances are you’ve heard of trackbacks. Most likely, you probably don’t know what these are and what they have to do with your blog. That’s alright, as most people
don’t quite understand how trackbacks work and why they are useful for a blog. In this newsletter, we’re going to go over trackbacks–what they are, how they work, why they are important to blog traffic, and how to get more trackbacks. After you’ve read this, you’ll know practically everything there is to know about trackbacks.
What are trackbacks?
The concept of trackbacks is a bit hard to explain. So we’ll use an example to explain it in the best way possible.
OK, say you see a great blog post on another person’s blog and want to link to it on your blog. You could do this the old-fashioned way by manually putting a link on your site to
that blog. However, if you do it this way, the person whose blog post you are linking to won’t know that you are linking to them unless you tell them.
This is where trackbacks come in. A trackback is a program which will notify the owner of a blog when one of their posts has been linked to at another blog.
How do they work?
A blog that has a trackback system set up will have a link at the bottom of every blog post. This link will say something like “Blog This!” Anyone who clicks the link can then put a link to that blog post on their site. The person who posted the original blog will then be notified via email that their blog posting has been linked to. Additionally, the link that was clicked (“Blog This!”) will change to “Trackbacks”. From that point forward, the “Trackbacks” link will keep track of how many people have chosen to blog about that particular post. So after the first trackback, it will say “Trackbacks: 1″. The number of trackbacks recorded will be updated as they occur.
Why are trackbacks important to blog traffic?
The easy answer is that trackbacks are important because they increase awareness of your blog. Trackbacks also make a blog seem more credible. After all, people have to think your posts are good enough to be trackbacked.
Anytime a person makes a trackback on your blog, they make a post on their own blog about your blog. This, in turn, lets their readers know about your blog. Chances are, their readers will want to visit your blog to see what the big deal is. If they see something on your blog that they like, they’ll keep coming back for more, which means you’ll have a whole new
fanbase of readers. That means more traffic for your blog.
Can you imagine what would happen if 5 different bloggers trackbacked a post on your blog? Depending on how popular their blog is, that’s potentially as much as hundreds of new readers for your blog! Pretty incredible, right?
Also, every trackback made, assuming it is a legitimate one (and some trackbacks are spam, especially if they are there only to link to another site) adds credibility to your blog. Blogs with high amounts of trackbacks look credible because lots of people like the posts enough to trackback them.
How can I increase the number of trackbacks I get?
The easiest and best way to increase trackbacks is to frequently post. If you post frequently (2-3 times a week), people will have quite a few posts that they can trackback. However, it is important to make sure that your posts are of a good quality. Quality blog posts are those that people can relate to and are easy to read. If you post a long boring rant, people probably won’t want to trackback that. But if you post a decent sized rant that is entertaining (and that people are likely to agree with), you’ll get trackbacked.
The number of trackbacks you get is totally dependent on the number of visitors your blog receives and how frequently you are able to make quality posts. If you’ve got a good amount of visitors and write good blog posts, you’ll get trackbacks.
P.S. Trackbacks are a wonderful thing for every blog. You are able to know when your blog posting has been posted about at another blog, plus you potentially gain more visitors. It’s a win-win situation for you!
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by Admin on November 27, 2008
The Google phone is now becoming a stronger contender to the iPhone, thank to two new applications launched for the T-Mobile G1 yesterday. Opera Mini and Fusion Voicemail Plus are now available on the Android Market (iPhone’s App Store equivalent), and best of all, for free.
Not many high profile applications have been launched for Google’s Android mobile OS lately, but the latest offering isn’t one to overlook easily. While other major developers wait for Google to introduce the option of selling paid-for apps on the Android Market, Opera and PhoneFusion are giving away their new apps.
The first Web browser alternative on Android, Opera Mini 4.2 features all familiar features from the Mini family, such as page zooming, bookmarking, searching for in-line text and saving. Along side skins (or themes) for Mini 4.2, the new mobile browser for Android also supports video playback.
Again as a first, Fusion Voicemail Plus from PhoneFusion brings visual voicemail to T-Mobile G1 users. The app can centralize several voicemail boxes and displays a visual list of all the messages in one place. The service also displays caller ID, regardless of contact details stored on one’s phonebook.
However, both Opera Mini and Visual Voicemail plus are not Android exclusives. While Opera Mini is available for many phones that support Java applications, Visual Voicemail can also run on Blackberry handsets and Windows Mobile 5 and 6 smartphones.
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by Admin on November 27, 2008
For all open source Lovers,
Red Hat Fedora 10 Linux is out with major improvements!
The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project on Tuesday released Fedora 10, the latest version of the free Linux-based operating system, with a wide range of improvements in areas such as virtualization management, networking, boot time and security.
The release also bundles in OpenOffice 3.0, the most recent edition of the open-source productivity suite.
The new virtualization features include the ability to manage virtual hosts and storage remotely, which should appeal to network administrators with fragmented teams. “These features combine to make administration of remote hosts much easier, even in cases where direct physical access is limited or non-existent,” the Fedora Team said in a recent blog post on Red Hat’s Web site.
Users can now also share their Internet connection with others, and Fedora 10 can also start up faster, thanks to a new graphical boot system dubbed Plymouth.
Security improvements include the addition of SecTool, an auditing and detection kit.
Red Hat has also enhanced PackageKit, a software installation and updating system that debuted in Fedora 9.
“In Fedora 10, PackageKit now detects when the user opens an audio or video media file, and offers to search for codecs used to play that file,” the Fedora Team said in a blog post. “With the user’s authorization, it searches all the software repositories configured on the Fedora 10 system, installs what is needed, and the media begins to play.” Down the road, this capability will be extended to areas like fonts and applications.
In addition, Fedora 10 has a revamped audio system that uses less power; support for “a vast array” of Webcams; improved printing capabilities; and “support for more hardware than any other operating system.”
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by Admin on November 27, 2008
The U.K.’s advertising regulator banned a video advertisement for Apple’s 3G iPhone, saying Wednesday that the ad exaggerates the phone’s speed and is misleading.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 17 complaints about the advertisement, which shows a person whizzing through tasks such as opening a news page in a browser, using Google Maps and downloading a file.
All of the tasks “had waiting times of only a fraction of a second,” the ASA said in a statement. A voice over says no less than five times that the 3G iPhone is “really fast.”
In response, Apple told the ASA that the claim is a comparison between the 3G and 2G iPhone models, and that users would understand that performance could vary. The ad did include a text disclaimer that read “Network performance will vary by location.”
However, the ASA found that the snappy visuals combined with the repetition of “really fast” would “lead viewers to conclude that the device actually operated at or near to the speeds shown in the ad.”
Also, not all mobile phone users may be aware of the differences between 2G and 3G technology, ASA said.
Apple did not have an immediate comment on the ruling.
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by Admin on November 27, 2008
Hii Guyz,
A Los Angeles real estate developer is suing Apple for patent infringement over the way the iPhone navigates Web sites. The suit, which was filed on behalf of EMG Technology, seeks unspecified damages.
EMG Technology is a company that holds the patents of Elliot Gottfurcht, the real estate developer, as well as Marlo Longstreet and Grant Gottfurcht. The company claims that the iPhone infringes on patent 7, 441, 196- a patent that was approved only last month, after a filing process that began on March 13, 2006.
That patent is for an invention that displays “on-line content reformatted from a webpage in a hypertext markup language (HTML) format into an extensible markup language (XML) format to generate a sister site.” This sister site is a simplified version of the original site that is then displayed on any number of devices–including cell phones, EMG says.
Now, it seems to me that this is a description of what every single mobile phone on the market does. Every mobile phone EXCEPT the iPhone, that is. Remember all those commercials touting how the iPhone doesn’t display a simplified Web site, but the full Web page?
The press release issued by EMG claims that the iPhone uses the same method as their invention. So, doesn’t every other mobile phone do this as well? Should a patent granted last month hand over intellectual property rights for every single handheld device that accesses the Web?
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by Admin on November 25, 2008
Paul McCartney says negotiations on a long-awaited deal to make the Beatles’ catalog available on the online music service iTunes have stalled.
“The last word I got back was it’s stalled at the whole moment, the whole process,” the former Beatle said Monday. “I really hope it will happen because I think it should.”
McCartney, who was speaking at the launch of his new album, Electric Arguments, added: “It’s between EMI and the Beatles, I think.”
The band’s holding company, Apple Corps Ltd., has so far declined to allow the Fab Four’s music on any Internet music service, including iTunes. The situation has been exacerbated by a long-running trademark dispute between Apple Corps and Apple Inc., which owns iTunes — a dispute that was resolved last year.
Record label EMI, which owns the Beatles recordings but needs Apple Corps’ permission to release the music in new formats, said it was still trying to resolve the matter.
An EMI spokeswoman said: “We have been working hard to secure agreement with Apple Corps. to make the Beatles’ legendary recording catalog available to fans in digital form. Unfortunately the various parties involved have been unable to reach agreement but we really hope everyone can make progress soon.”
The spokeswoman spoke on condition of anonymity in line with company policy.
Apple Inc. was not immediately available for comment.
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by Admin on November 25, 2008
For all YouTube Lovers,
YouTube announced Monday that it has expanded the viewable width of all videos appearing on the site, creating an image that viewers will likely associate more with a movie theater screen or high-definition television.
The video-sharing site announced the move in a blog posting Monday evening:
We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in a widescreen aspect ratio which we hope will provide you with a cleaner, more powerful viewing experience.
The expanded viewing width will please YouTube users who are increasingly filming and uploading more videos to the site in the 16:9 aspect ratio. However, users worried that their 4:3 videos will be stretched to look like the TBS version of HD should fear not. Those videos will be centered with vertical black bars flanking the image.
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by Admin on November 23, 2008
Hii all Gmail users/lovers,
A Gmail security vulnerability may allow an attacker to set up filters on users’ e-mail accounts without their knowledge, according to a proof of concept posted Sunday at GeekCondition.com.
In his post, Brandon writes that the vulnerability has caused some people to lose their domain names registered through GoDaddy.com.
Without posting the full exploit, here is the key as Brandon explains it relies on obtaining the variables that represent the user name and “at”:
When you create a filter in your Gmail account, a request is sent to Google’s servers to be processed. The request is made in the form of a url with many variables. For security reasons, your browser doesn’t display all the variable contained within the url. Using FireFox and a plugin called Live HTTP Headers, you can see exactly what variables are sent from your browser to Google’s servers.
After that, an attacker just needs to identify the variable that is the equivalent of the username.
“Obtaining this variable is tricky but possible,” he writes. “I’m not going to tell you how to do it, if you search hard enough online you’ll find out how.”
The “at” variable can be obtained by visiting a malicious Web site, writes Brandon, who suggests that Google make the “at” variable expire after every request rather than after every session.
To avoid being a victim of the vulnerability, users should check their filters often, Brandon suggests. Firefox users can download an extension called NoScript that helps prevent these attacks, he said.
Of course, any Web site that uses cookies for authentication requests can be taken advantage of in the same way. To avoid becoming a victim to this type of exploit, Gmail users should logout of their accounts when they are not in use, and–of course–not visit Web sites that they don’t trust.
Google representatives did not immediately return a request for comment.
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by Admin on November 23, 2008
Hii,
I’ll tell you about making your folders private in Win XP/Vista without any extra software!
Just follow this simple procedure:
•Open My Computer
•Double-click the drive where Windows is installed (usually drive (C:), unless you have more than one drive on your computer).
•If the contents of the drive are hidden, under System Tasks, click Show the contents of this drive.
•Double-click the Documents and Settings folder.
•Double-click your user folder.
•Right-click any folder in your user profile, and then click Properties.
•On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private so that only I have access to it check box.
Note
•To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer.
•This option is only available for folders included in your user profile. Folders in your user profile include My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start Menu, Cookies, and Favorites. If you do not make these folders private, they are available to everyone who uses your computer.
•When you make a folder private, all of its subfolders are private as well. For example, when you make My Documents private, you also make My Music and My Pictures private. When you share a folder, you also share all of its subfolders unless you make them private.
•You cannot make your folders private if your drive is not formatted as NTFS For information about converting your drive to NTFS
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by Admin on November 22, 2008
Hii,
Two engineers from China were sentenced to a year in prison Friday for stealing computer chip designs from their Silicon Valley employers and trying to smuggle the secrets to their homeland to launch a government-backed startup there.
Fei Ye, a U.S. citizen, and Ming Zhong, a permanent resident of the U.S., had pleaded guilty in 2006, becoming the first people convicted of the most serious crime under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. They were accused of trying to benefit China with their stolen chip designs, though prosecutors did not allege that the Chinese government knew of their illegal activities.
Ye and Zhong could have gotten 30 years, but prosecutors asked for less because the men cooperated with investigators. Both engineers apologized in court Friday.
Only a handful of cases have been filed under the Economic Espionage law, mostly because it’s difficult to prove someone was trying to benefit a foreign nation, even if investigators suspect it. Prosecutors say the trail of evidence often goes cold because of a lack of cooperation by other countries in investigations.
The case against Ye and Zhong stretches back seven years, when they were arrested at the San Francisco airport trying to board a flight to China. Their luggage was allegedly stuffed with sensitive documents on chip designs stolen from four tech companies they had worked for.
Other papers seized from the men allegedly showed they were trying to solicit funding from Chinese government agencies to help get their startup going. Prosecutors say the documents showed that Ye and Zhong were promoting the startup as something that would elevate China’s chip-making smarts and help China compete better against other countries in microelectronics.
Those documents were critical to federal prosecutors’ assertion that Ye and Zhong were trying to help China — but the papers say nothing about whether anyone in the Chinese government knew the chip designs were stolen. Court papers are fuzzy on how much success the pair had in securing money for the project. And the indictment doesn’t charge anyone in the Chinese government as a coconspirator.
Four companies were victims of the plot: NEC Electronics Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Transmeta Corp. and Trident Microsystems Inc. Ye and Zhong both had worked at Transmeta and Trident. Ye had also worked at NEC and Sun.
The allegations against Ye and Zhong amounted to one of the first economic espionage cases filed. Since then, other cases in Silicon Valley have developed, including one in which an engineer admitted in June he tried to sell fighter-pilot training software to the Chinese Navy. He was sentenced to two years in prison.
Prosecutors in that case said the engineer, Xiaodong Sheldon Meng, who was raised in China and holds Canadian citizenship, was focused on profit, not a foreign allegiance, so they asked for a more lenient sentence than they would if someone was accused of spying.
In a separate case, two other Silicon Valley engineers, Lan Lee and Yuefei Ge, are under indictment on charges they stole chip designs and tried to launch a microprocessor startup with a Chinese venture capital firm. Their trial hasn’t been set.
In Southern California, Chinese-American engineer Dongfan “Greg” Chung, who worked at Boeing Co. and space shuttle-builder Rockwell International, is accused of stealing secrets regarding the space shuttle, a military transport plane and a rocket on behalf of China. Chung has pleaded not guilty.
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