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WPdesigner.com going down the Drain?
Written by Jai on April 18, 2008 – 7:02 am - 1,613 views
If you are a WordPress enthusiast and have been following the latest news, you will know that Small Potato (Wpdesigner.com) recently sold his blog for $65,000 to some Polish guy called Pawel Ciszewski. It is really amazing that the blog was sold for that much money even when it was not earning any substantial revenue. But anyway, I feel that SP (Small Potato) has made a wrong choice by selecting someone who is not related to the WordPress field and the blog is in jeopardy now. I guess SP was in a hurry to pack his bags for his tours.
There has been no news posted since March 28, 2008 on the blog which is making the blog readers impatient and many have already unsubscribed from the blog. Pawel who is the new owner, promised the blog readers that he is hunting for theme designers and other staff who will run the blog. But its very ironical that there has been no update after that point. According to some readers’ research, Pawel Ciszewski runs some online casino sites. So, this really shows how much he will care about the reputed blog which was taken to a high level by SP. But SP, shame on you… your baby is dying out there and no one really cares.
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Written by Jai on March 27, 2008 – 3:34 pm - 1,273 viewsTired of looking for content to post in your blog?
Recently, I came across an article at Techcrunch.com about a Firefox plugin called Zemanta which can ease your life by suggesting relevant links and related content to your post. This plugin integrates with your WordPress, Blogger or TypePad installations and helps you by providing links as and when you are creating a new post.
Let’s take a look at how it works.
When you start writing a new entry in your blog, it surfs the Internet for news based on your keywords and after every 300 characters, provides you with a list of related news links. You can then enter those links in your post by the simple click of a mouse button (you can see them at the bottom of this post too) or you can visit the particular website where that news has been published. Moreover, the extension also automates the process of adding tags to your posts.
Zemanta also has the ability to pull images from different sources based on your post keywords and lets you include them in your post in the same way like the news links. I am sure that this feature will save a lot of time for bloggers who have to hunt the Internet for relevant images to publish in their posts.
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Written by Jai on March 12, 2008 – 2:51 pm - 5,312 views
All right guys and gals! Once again it’s the lucky draw time on Blog Oh! Blog 
. Today, I am offering a free copy of one of the premium themes available here called - Money Blogger. Basically, the lucky winner is going to get the Premium WordPress theme absolutely free of cost which is worth $49.99.
In order to be one of the lucky contestants, all you have to do is blog about this entry on your blog(s), and that will entitle you to win this very customizable WordPress theme. The contest will run until March 25, 2008 and I will declare the winner on that date.
On a sidenote, a little birdie just told me that Wpdesigner.com is up for sale here. If you got $65K, buy it here! It’s a shame to see competition dying out like this, but anyway, if you gotta go, you gotta go my friend!
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Written by Jai on March 11, 2008 – 12:28 pm - 1,290 views
OmnistarMailer.com is a web based e-mail marketing software developed to manage your e-mail list campaigns. Omnistar Mailer installs easily on most PHP web servers, and once it is setup you don’t need to have any technical experience to use it. Everything is managed through a convenient and user friendly backend interface. Omnistar Mailer also includes a form building component that allows you to add a sign-up box or customized newsletter sign-up form to your website in order to gather e-mail addresses, as well as any other information that you may require from your subscribers. If you have an existing list of e-mail addresses you can even import them all at once, allowing you to change over to Omnistar Mailer very easily.
Omnistar Mailer also comes with an auto responder feature, allowing your subscribers to automatically get recurring e-mails on a continual basis. Through the Omnistar Mailer auto responder management area you can easily schedule e-mails to automatically go out to your subscribers at any date in the future. The auto responder feature will allow you to automatically follow up with current customers, send out frequent promotional e-mails or newsletters and even send to a specific target list. Overall, auto responders help improve the quality of the connection that your mailing list members have to you and your products and services.
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Written by Jai on November 25, 2007 – 6:28 pm - 1,236 viewsI was working on the blog as usual (4:43 A.m.) and suddenly everything started shaking!! I told my wife to take Rhea (my daughter) and rush outside but it only lasted for a few seconds. It was the strongest earthquake that I have ever felt in my lifetime. Nature has its way to show us that it is the boss.
Just switched on the TV and saw that the whole city of New Delhi was awake!! The earthquake has been measured 4.3 on the Richter’s scale but it really felt like the strongest earthquake that New Delhi ever experienced - Nuff said!
Note for the Smart ones : The following picture was taken after the earthquake passed
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