What is this – “#” sign doing in a lot of Twitter tweets? Why do most of the webmaster and bloggers use this hash symbol in their tweets? In simple little words – it’s just categorizing or grouping your tweets like you categorize/group your blog posts in categories. Here is how Twitter defines it - “Because Twitter provided no easy way to group tweets or add extra data, the Twitter community came up with their own way: hashtags....
It’s going to be one of those crazy-busy-full-of-wonderful months, I predict. ;) I’m so excited to share with you some new features to my blog (http://avinashkblog.blogspot.com)). This blog is at its peak in just 100 days and its an honor and I am so excited to put even more effort and love into this blog. Most of you know that I have purchased a custom domain last week and now I am so excited to graduate it to public - www....
In its 60days of launch, this blog is currently at its peak level with 43 posts (not many though) and 1342 page views altogether! Here is the detailed report: Visits overview: I would discuss AdSense reports on some other day. Thank you all!
Now that Microsoft has released Office 2010 Final build officially to public, you can download the 60-day trial version from the link http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/download-office-professional-plus/default.aspx After installing it, user will have initial 30 days of free evaluation period before having to activate the product for lifetime continuous usage. Now to extend this expiry period to 6 months, we have to REARM the product. (Just follow the steps below instead of searching for REARM!...
Facebook isn’t just popular with its 500 million or so users. According to the copy of The Facebook Effect, Fortune editor David Kirkpatrick’s brilliantly-reported new book about the company’s founding, Facebook has also always been very popular with the M&A suits. Below is the list of all the companies that swung and missed– 1. In June 2004, an unnamed financier offered $10 million 2. Friendster also tried to buy Facebook...
Adobe is thinking different countering Apple’s hate with love. This blog readers already knew that Steve Jobs announced in the past of removing Flash support from Apple products - http://avinashkblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/we-are-removing-flash-support-from.html Today Adobe started a new campaign to the world that they love openness and Apple through essays, ads, etc. Adobe says: We love creativity We love innovation We love apps We love the web We love Flash We love our 3 million developers...
Ok. A bunch of people that are my friends are getting this video posted on their walls, and it looks like porn or something. A lot of my friends have gotten it. Even I allowed it incidentally and it posted on many of my fr’s walls automatically. Its this lower half of a naked girl (nothing shown!) The application seems to be called “Optical Illusion [HQ]’ and if you click on one of the links it will send out the link to people on your friends list stating person’s name, this is without doubt the hottest video ever!...
Many people want to stop, delete and remove Farmville, Zoo world, Mafia wars like App Notifications, emails, updates, posts on their Facebook wall and news feed. I have so many friends playing these kind of Apps that my FB news feed is full of unwanted crappy updates! Your friends are addicted Zoo world, Farmville fans and will not stop playing just because you don’t want their FB updates from messaging your wall....
Avinash’s note: This guest post is written by Pooja Bhardwaj. She is a typical Piscean who loves to enjoy each and every min of her life. Standing near the door, managing myself in half square feet of area, amongst hyperactive women cribbing about mother-in-laws, bitching about “to-be daughter in laws”, at 7 in the morning makes me wonder if a special “Viagara powered women horlicks” is available at the local chemist....
Just installed Fedora9 in a Windows Virtual PC VM for my brother. Will it install out of the box if you have .iso Fedora image. The answer is no. When I booted the VM after inserting .iso Fedora image, VPC turned off with error - ‘An unrecoverable processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset now.’ Fortunately, after googling sometime, I came to know that I have to add some parameters noreplace-paravirt to the end of the boot parameters....