A Funny Flash Game
Written by Jai on April 28, 2008 – 4:08 pm - 6,712 viewsI just found this really nice flash game which tests your concentration skills. You have to move your mouse cursor slowly without touching the edges and get to the finishing point. The game has various levels and if you make through all of them, consider yourself a real player 
So, how steady is your hand?
WordPress Theme - AdsPress
Written by Jai on April 26, 2008 – 1:16 pm - 19,461 viewsI am proud to release another free WordPress theme called “AdsPress“. The theme is ready to use with Google Adsense and the advertisement blocks are perfectly placed (tested & tried) for giving you the maximum revenue out of your websites.
This is a widgetized, gravatar ready, 2-column theme with inbuilt WordPress 2.5 gallery optimization. I am sure that people looking to benefit from Google’s Adsense publisher program will find this WordPress theme useful for the purpose. I have also included the logo.psd file for modifying the logo image in the theme folder.
The adsense codes are included as images for the theme demo, but you can modify the adsense files and include your own adsense code to show your advertisements.
AdsPress is compatible with WordPress 2.5 and has been tested with Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Please give your comments to make this effort worthwhile for me
How to Choose your Blog Hosting Service
Written by Jai on April 24, 2008 – 10:19 am - 4,289 views
Every blogger has got two basic choices when building his own blog— Either he can sign up for a hosted solution, or he can install a serve-it-yourself solution and take care of it on your own. Signing up for a hosted solution is generally easier (especially if you don’t already have your own website and you’re not terribly interested in jumping through a hoop or two to get one), while installing a serve-it-yourself solution can be more powerful.
Popular hosted blogging CMS (Content Management Systems) include Blogger.com, Typepad.com, Vox.com, Squarespace.com, and others. With these services, you simply access the site, go through a registration process and, in some cases, enter your payment information to cover the monthly fee. (Some are free, some require payment.) These are hosted services - somebody else worries about the Internet server, setting up the Web addresses and all that sort of stuff. You’re given a URL for your site (mostly a sub-domain), some online tools for editing your blog (and, perhaps, for editing the template and making some minor changes to the functionality), and you’re ready to go. With a serve-it-yourself CMS (like WordPress) you’ll need to do a little legwork. First, you’ll need some sort of web hosting account from an Internet Service Provider. You might already have something along those lines from the Internet Service Provider that you use for Internet access, or you may need to shop for a web hosting account that will support the specifications of your blogging software.
Bumper Contest : Win a Sony PlayStation 3 + A Game of your Choice
Written by Jai on April 21, 2008 – 1:08 pm - 15,609 views
CONTEST OVER
Its contest time guys! Woo Hoo!
I have not yet moved from a PlayStation 2 to a PlayStation 3 myself, but I am offering a golden chance to all my blog readers to win a brand new Sony PlayStation 3 plus a free PS3 video game of your choice. For a long time, I had been thinking of running this contest on Blog Oh! Blog but didn’t get a chance to make the post. I would also like to mention that this contest is not being sponsored by anyone..This is directly from me to all of you So here it is, finally!
The Playstation 3 console worth $399.99 ships with the following features as per Amazon.com :-
* Internal 40GB HDD for storing your games, music, and photos
* Built-in Blu-ray player
* Cell Broadband Engine advanced microprocessor
* SIXAXIS wireless controller (very cool!)
* Screen sizes supported : 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
* Memory : 256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM
Apart from the PS3 console, I will also give the winner an opportunity to choose any PS3 video game (already launched or order a pre-release) which should easily be worth $60 (most new titles that ship out are priced at $59.99). So, you will have something to play on your new console as soon as you win it!
Why use WordPress?
Written by Jai on April 19, 2008 – 11:45 pm - 4,714 views
If you are new to WordPress and looking for reasons to use WordPress as a CMS (content management system) in your new website, let me give you some.
Open Source Software
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.
User Friendly
You don’t really have to be experienced to use WordPress on your website. Nowadays most of the hosting companies provide the ability to install WordPress on your site at a single click of the mouse. The administration section is easy to navigate and its even easy to add articles/content to your website.
Themes Support
You will never run short of templates when using WordPress. If you don’t like the themes that come with the default installation of WordPress, you can hunt on the Internet and you will find thousands of free themes that you can download and use for your website. There are themes which can even make your website look like a regular site instead of a blog.
WPdesigner.com going down the Drain?
Written by Jai on April 18, 2008 – 7:02 am - 4,154 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.
WordPress Theme - Statement
Written by Jai on April 16, 2008 – 8:43 am - 49,738 views
Are you ready to make a statement with your blog ? Well, the new free WordPress theme from Blog Oh! Blog lets you do just that and more
I am happy to release a new WordPress theme for all you hardcore bloggers called the “Statement”. The theme features a nice and clean look with two sidebars on the right and a tabbed section (available in many premium themes nowadays) for recent posts, comments and archives. I am sure that this theme will appeal to people running professional services on their blog and catering to well-educated audience, like authors, education services, book blogs, science blogs, publishers etc. I am also providing the PSD for the logo (in the theme zip) which you can use to change the logo image for the theme. The theme is WordPress 2.5 compatible and is also widget-ready.
Please leave a comment to become a close friend of B.O.B (Blog Oh! Blog)
Disappointed with WordPress 2.5 ?
Written by Jai on April 14, 2008 – 6:13 am - 4,953 views
As more and more people are upgrading to the latest release of WordPress 2.5, the number of rants and complaints is increasing steadily. I am sure the developers have worked hard to make the administration section of the new release as user-friendly as possible, but there are some shortcomings which should definitely be addressed in further releases of WordPress.
Here are three things about WordPress 2.5 that have really put me off :-
TAGS
1. First of all, I don’t understand the need of including an “add” button with the tags. The old method of specifying all the tags just separated by a comma was far less time consuming and you did not have to press an extra button every time you wanted to add a tag.
CATEGORIES
2. Adding categories is the worst of all. First you scroll down to the categories section (which were very accessible in the earlier version always being on the right side), then you click on “Add New Category”, write the category name and finally click on the add button. I really hate this part as they have increased the total number of steps to add a category for your posts. Read more
Meet the Bob Family!
Written by Jai on April 13, 2008 – 6:21 am - 3,207 viewsIt gives me immense pleasure to introduce you to the Bob {Blog Oh! Blog} family.
Who are they ??
They are the little bloggy toons who will try to entertain you every Sunday
What do they do??
They just sit there and talk…
Why on this blog??
Hmm.. good question.. I rented out the blog to them since they are so influential!
We DON’T want them in here…
Well…you don’t have a choice.. and anyway, they are already in here, so be good and welcome the new guys
MEET…
Mr. Bob is determined to make it big in the Internet world.
He is fearless, runs 1,443,324,765 blogs of his own using WordPress, uses Adsense on all his blogs (without fearing Google’s smart-pricing gimmick, since he is so fearless), doesn’t care too much about Google PageRank (planning to invent a ranking system of his own called the IRankYourWebsiteAndIOwnYourAss), doesn’t give a rat’s ass to Brian Gardner, Adii, Small Potato and many such not-so-famous people. He has traveled the whole world on foot (planning for a space trip soon - courtesy of NASA), drives a two-wheeled McLaren F1 to his office and finally, has his own comic strip now right here on Blog Oh! Blog. And before I forget, he is a ninja working with the Pentagon who can kick your ass before you can say ” “.
