The Future of Facebook
Written by Jai on March 29, 2008 – 12:29 am - 3,064 views
It is debatable by many but in my opinion Facebook is going to be increasing its online market share for years to come. Many say that Facebook is going to be the next Google as it eliminates the need for searching, by allowing users to rely on associate’s recommendations. Personally I think this is quite ridiculous and I never see Facebook actually stealing any of Google’s market share. On the other hand I do see Facebook replacing the need to many instant messenger services provided by such companies as
Zemanta - Free Content for the Bloggers
Written by Jai on March 27, 2008 – 3:34 pm - 3,014 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.
Another Premium Theme Giveaway
Written by Jai on March 25, 2008 – 12:14 am - 5,980 views
Congratulations to the last free theme contest’s winner! The winner is the owner of Kahpeng.com and I will request him/her to send me the e-mail address where I should send the prize theme.
I am also giving away a free copy of the premium WordPress theme :- Trueblogger worth $79.99. This premium theme has the following features:-
1. Unique Design & Layout.
2. BBC Style News Ticker.
3. jQuery based scrollable News Section.
4. Separated Comments & Trackbacks.
5. Stylized Comments.
6. Widget Ready.
7. Fully XHTML Compliant.
8. Easily editable CSS file.
9. Web 2.0 Appeal.
If you are interested in winning this theme, all you have to do is blog about the contest and you might just win it. Make sure that you include a link to this entry so that it gets tracked through the WordPress trackbacks. The winner will be declared through a lucky draw just like the previous one. You can have a look at the premium theme here. The last date for entering into this contest is April 5, 2008.
Note :- The winner will get a single user license for the theme which he/she can use on a single website.
WordPress Theme - Corptheme
Written by Jai on March 21, 2008 – 10:22 am - 43,048 views
I take pleasure in presenting a brand new free WordPress theme for all my blog readers - Corptheme
This is a minimalistic theme which comes in four flavors - CorpBlue, CorpRed, CorpGreen & CorpBlack. I have made available all the four versions separately so that people can download the required color without the need of a CSS style switcher integrated into the theme. I have also integrated a drop down menu in this theme which will help you define your pages, sub-pages and sub-sub-pages easily. Now you don’t have to go hunting for this feature because it is not available in most free themes.
Testing your Website in Any Browser
Written by Jai on March 19, 2008 – 12:58 pm - 4,950 views
How many times have you wished that there was an online tool where you could test run your newly designed WordPress theme or the latest website that you have designed for cross browser compatibility?
How many times have you found yourself frowning upon IE or any other browser for not being standards compliant and showing messy designs?
I am sure that every designer or developer must have searched online for such a thing at some time or the other. So, after much searching I finally found a website that definitely comes to your rescue. Browser Shots, which is a free open-source service, lets you make screenshots of your website in different browsers that are available on the Internet. When you submit your URL, it will be added to the standard job queue. A number of different computers will open your website in their browser and then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server. Not only does this tool run your website on different browsers but also on different operating systems including Linux, Windows and Mac OS. The browsers included are MSIE (Versions 4.0 - 8.0), Firefox (Versions 1.0 - 3.0), Opera (Versions 9.23 - 9.26), Safari (Versions 1.3 - 3.1), Netscape Navigator and others.
What’s New in WordPress 2.5?
Written by Jai on March 17, 2008 – 8:11 am - 5,358 viewsWordPress 2.5’s release has been delayed twice and it is now supposed to be released on March 17, 2008 which is today. To give you all a glimpse of the new features included in this version, here is my little report. The new release of WordPress will have the following upgrades.
An Overhauled Administration Interface
- The administration section will now have a different color scheme of light blue, gray and orange colors. I am sure this will bring some relief to the people who are bored of the old colors but can also turn off some loyal users. There will be two default color schemes from which the user can choose and apply their favorite one.
Here is an article on how to create your own admin color scheme for WordPress.
- The “Presentation” section has been renamed to “Design” and all your widgets, themes will be listed under this category from now on.
- The search functionality has been given extra power by allowing the users to search through the posts, pages and comments based on status, months and categories.
Can you be Scammed?
Written by Jai on March 14, 2008 – 1:18 pm - 4,610 views
People get scammed everyday, at the drop of a hat. If you think you are someone who can never be scammed, and trust in your sixth sense, read the following and think again.
You CAN be scammed if you are :-
1. The Curious One
Whenever you see a crowd, and you cannot hold the urge to inquire about what’s happening or has happened, then you are the sort of person that has “SCAM ME” written all over him.
2. The Green Eared One
Buddha once said “There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.” So if you are the sort of person who gets happiness out of jingling coins, get ready to be scammed.
3. The Ignorant One
When your daddy told you to read the newspaper everyday and you ignored his advice blatantly, you fall in this category.
4. The Rich Jerk
From your childhood, you have been dreaming of getting rich overnight, you even went one step ahead to buy the Rich Jerk’s e-book, let me tell you the fact my friend - you have already been scammed 
5. The Chosen One
A true believer. You have subscribed to all the newsletters of all the horoscope websites for your sun sign that came up in Google’s search results for the word “My Horoscope”. My friend, my good wishes are with you.
Free Premium Theme - Anyone?
Written by Jai on March 12, 2008 – 2:51 pm - 13,206 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!
Omnistar Mailer Review
Written by Jai on March 11, 2008 – 12:28 pm - 3,404 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.
