Google Adsense : Earning through your blog !

Well guys,

those of you visit here quite often, may have noticed that I had added some extras to both of my blogs. A Google sponsored ad banner here on top and a Google search box at the right sidebar.

You may wonder why I decided to add the scripts to my blog, which makes it look like ............well........kinda 'commercial' sort. However, if you already dont know, here's a surprise for you !

I came across this idea when an unknown person left a comment to one of my posts stating in brief the concept of Adsense. I became interested and here I am now.

Google Adsense gives you the oppotunity to earn through your blog with no extra work. All you have to do is to paste some scripts in your blog's template (there is even a tutorial included for HTML novices in the site), and whenever a visitor to your blog clicks on one of the ads in the ad-banner or clicks any Google ads in the Search Results page by searching from your blog's Google Search box, you get paid. That is, after pasting the scripts, all you have to do is to count money. Those using Firefox, can add on an extension which keeps an eye on your Adsense earnings when you are online.

Though the idea seems to be fantastic, you know, its not that easy to be rich. Well, to say the truth, I am richer by $0.72 after about a week. Moreover, you wont get the money before it gets to $100. If it takes a decade to get to $100 from $99.90, well, you have to wait !

Computer Jokes !

Understanding Computer Technology

Drug dealers and software developers - a comparison

Drug Dealers ----------------------------------- Refer to their clients as "users". "The first one's free!" Have important Asian connections. Strange jargon: "Stick" "Rock" "Wrap" "E" "Stash" "Drive-by" "Hit (LSD)" "Source" "The Pigs" Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market. Clients really like your stuff when it works.When it doesn't work they want to kill you. Job is assisted by the industry's producing newer, more potent product. Often seen in the company of pimps, hustlers and low-lifes When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away, but may be expensive A lot of people are getting rich while still teenagers. Product causes unhealthy addictions. Do your job well and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you.

Software Developers ----------------------------------- Refer to their clients as "users". "Download a free trial version..." Have important Asian connections. Strange jargon: "SCSI" "RTFM" "Packet" "C" "Cache" "CTRL ALT DEL" "Hit (WWW)" "Source-code" "Microsoft" Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market. Clients really like your stuff when it works.When it doesn't work they want to kill you. Job is assisted by the industry's producing newer, more potent products. Often seen in the company of marketing people, venture capitalists and fund managers. When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away, but may be expensive A lot of people are getting rich while still teenagers. DOOM, Quake, SimCity, Duke Nukem 3D... Damn! DAMN!!!

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Who Is Better On The Computer?

Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and God was tired of hearing all of the bickering. Finally God said, "Cool it! I am going to set up a test that will run two hours, and I will judge who does the better job."

So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away. They moused. They did spreadsheets. They wrote reports. They sent faxes. They sent emails. They sent out emails with attachments. They downloaded. They did some genealogy reports. They made cards. They did every known job. But 10 minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder clapped, the rain poured, and, of course, the electricity went off.

Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus just sighed. The electricity finally flickered back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically and screamed, "It's gone! It's all gone! I lost everything when the power went off!"

Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of diligent work. Satan observed this and became irate. "Wait! He cheated! How did he do it?"

God shrugged and said, "Jesus saves."

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How to get a Life !

It's never easy to overcome innate nerdity, a serious Internet addiction, or a hard-core computer gaming habit, but trying usually isn't as painful as kidney stones.

Difficulty Level: Hard
Time Required: Years

Here's How:

Let go of the mouse.

Turn off the computer.

Play a game of solitaire with a real deck of cards.

Eat something other than taco chips.

Fart without recording it and putting it up your Web page.

Get some sleep in bed rather than on your keyboard.

Next time you wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, don't tell everyone on your ICQ list about it.

Open a window without turning your computer back on (yes, it is possible).

Very gradually expose your eyes to increasingly bright light so as to avoid damage or permanent sun blindness.

When you feel prepared for a massive dose of non-CRT radiation, put on welding goggles and go outside.

If you see someone, say "Hi" to them instead of trying to make the modem connect sound.

Visit a friend that you haven't spoken to in years because they don't have an email address.

Have ".com" officially removed from behind your name.

Go on a date with someone you didn't meet in a chat room.

Diskeeper 9 Pro: The Fastest Defragger !

I was getting too much bored by Windows XP's built-in defragger and tried out Diskeeper instead. This turned out to be too good and very effective. It is highly recommended to all.

Check the awesome features of the Professional Edition.

Window Blinds

Some of you Windows XP users may have got bored of the old fashioned GUI. So here's a wonderful chance of giving a brand new look to your dessktop and overall shell configuration.

WindowBlinds is here for you !

Here are some images of my desktop......

A relief for WinXP *ahem* Edition users !

After Microsoft had launched the Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation thing for its updates, life has been terrible for all *ahem* version users.

Until this happened .......

Microsoft Cracked !

After that life is as smooth as ever !

The Most Efficient System Optimizer !

Wow ! I feel so thrilled to write about this 'aweware' (my self-given name for an awesome software) ! I had installed Ms Windows XP Pro a couple of days back. But as my ystem configuration is very outdated with a 20 GB Hard Disk and 128 MB RAM with no additional graphic card, this OS didn't live up to my expectations at first. I used WinASO Registry Optimizer (this is also an aweware, but for Win98SE Environment) but it also couldn't help much. It took so long to log in and log out. Even the folders opened so slowly. Everything seemed to be crippled. But now after installing and running the utilities of this aweware everything seems to really 'run'. No one would really know at the first glance whether I have a 256 MB RAM or higher !

This aweware : TuneUp Utilities 2004 is an all-in-one software that provides registry cleaner, system tweaking, system optimizer, RAM optimizer, file shredder and more ! This is like heaven and I never knew WinXP had so many internal effects and settings hidden before installing this aweware.

However, as a word of precaution I must tell you something. I had surfed through scores of software distribution sites and read user reviews. Virtually everyone of them rated this aweware 5 stars. But some of them faced problems when they tried to defrag the registry using this software. I tell you, use WinASO for this, its free and extremely reliable.

Anyway, all of you system-buffs, go ahead and JUMP FOR IT !! Right now I am using the Full Version of this software.

NTFS File System and System Security

After I installed Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition in my computer, I had been busy exploring this wonderful Operating System. I had lent a book 'Missing Manuals' on XP from my local British Council Library and started studying it. This book turned out to be very handy to comprehend this OS.

I had always stressed on System Security, Disk Management & Optimization. But unfortunately, after formatting my C drive and installing the OS, I found out that I had chosen the FAT32 file system during formatting while the NTFS file system (browse the other webpages in the given link for detailed information) is far more advanced in terms of security and data revovery. So I was a bit depressed....But Google, my dearest friend solved the problem for me.......

Here is the link from Microsoft itself stating the mechanism how to switch over to the NTFS file system, without even reformating the drive. It solved all the problems for me. Now I really feel like an Administrator of my system !

You can also checkout these Microsoft pages :

1. Choosing between NTFS, FAT & FAT32.
2. NTFS Technical Reference.

Great Softwares !

Today I downloaded some great softwares....

Among them the best were :
1.PowerToys for Windows XP from Microsoft's site (PowerToy Calculator : which generates graphs of functions, Tweak UI and Command Prompt Here).

2.But by far the best was Screen & Print Capture .
I've been searching for this piece of software for the last 2 years and it is a FREEWARE ! It captures active window/whole screen and automatically saves the images in GIF/JPG/BMP etc formats in ur selected folder !

Yesterday night I went to sleep at 4:30 am at night after my Windows 98SE crashed and I installed Windows XP Pro SP2 and all the 30 application softwares that I use ! I'll tell you more about my discoveries in XP later. Till then , ROCK ON !!

My latest downloads....

I've downloaded two 5 star rated antivirus softwares today. Both of them are freewares.

1. Avast Antivirus : famed for its awesome skins and GUI and also for thorough impenetrable scans. But it gulps some memory while scanning and slows the system down.

2. AntiVir Antivirus : famed for its simplicity and large collection of virus definitions (about 80,000). It hasn't failed a single test yet.

I've also downloaded the Opera browser which claims to be faster than Firefox. But I'm more than satisfied with Firefox. Even I prefer Firefox 1.0.6 more than the Deer Park version.