Do Not Blog for Money Blog for Your Passion

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Wonder why after writing back to back some great posts you feel like you are loosing interest in blogging. You start complaining about not finding enough time to update blog Then suddenly you think about to start a brand new blog may be on any other niche. Well these are all because you loose that passion which is required for blogging. Not all us born with this great idea of making hell lot of money out of almost everything we see. I am telling you how you can bring your blog back to the BANG.

[1] Hitting the Right Cord is important

To know on which subject you would be comfortable writing posts is sometime proving to be a difficult task. If you are into that dilemma then don’t think much about it, write whatever comes to your mind. Soon you will find at what you are good at.

 

[2] Making Money online is peripheral comes with blogging.

Hardly you will find any blog which talk only about making money online. Well that’s a very thin line to walk on. You can not this song for long – ohh dear, come I will tell you how much money I make online. Yeah for sure you need to bring that inner ability of writing to entertain your readers. So better you write in your own comfort zone and money will flew out of it as peripheral.

[3] You so small so what

I would like to throw a question here, when actually you decide to quit, is it when you work so hard and still find yourself tiny and ignorant. Or is it when you see people making lots of wave with very little efforts? Being too small in blogsphere should not be the reason to down under your passion for blogging. All I can say is to make it large.

[4] Hunger for money may distract direction

How often you check your AdSense and other affiliates earning graph. More you feel hungry for money more it will make you divert your approach to the top and upset a peaceful blogging experience. Cool down boy. It’s the hardest task your are wall your are against

FileZilla The Free Software for FTP Files Transfer Solution

How you upload and download files from your FTP Host Server? If you have slow internet connection or you don’t have access to cPenal by your hosting site then this is the worse job you would like to do. This may be the reason you hate to see WordPress Update messages flash every other months.

FileZilla has solution for you. It’s free FTP Software. FileZilla is open source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. With the help of this software you can upload files to your FTP host server must faster.

The FileZilla aimed at helping those that want to download, install, compile and use the FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server software to transfer files across the Internet. FileZilla Client is a free, open source FTP client for Windows.

All you have to do is to download the software install it, fill in parameter about your FTP hostname, FTP username and Password and there you are; It will show you two separate windows one for your local site i.e. your computer drive file folders and the other for remote site i.e. your ftp host files. Moving files between these two local and remote locations will be much easier then you think.

Screen Shot of FileZilla in action

 

Host Your Site With Canadian Web Hosting

Choosing the right web hosting company is the most important and crucial decision that you need to take before starting and setting up your blog. I always recommend my readers if they are wishing to start blogging then they must host it with their own domain name and opt for a right professional hosting company.

Anyway I suggest you a web hosting site on which you can rely on for all round dedicated hosting service, 24×7 customer supports, 99.9 % Up time Guarantee and free setup.

It is Canadian Web hosting; it is Canadian owned and operated hosting sites since 1998 which comes to you with following features.

- Fast reliable web hosting services in Canada.

- IPS and Email Spam Firewall Protection.

- 99.9% Up time Guarantee.

- 30 Days Money Back Guarantee.

In their own words

Our mission is to keep you up to date with the ever changing internet and to bring you latest in hosting technology. We strive for low cost hosting solution without compromising quality. In order to provide our customers with secure and reliable web hosting, we have chosen a 1^st Class collocation facility to operate from. Our services are located at Harbour Centre in downtown Vancouver, Canada. We are 100% Canadian owned and operated. Our service team is well trained, knowledgeable and we don’t give up on our customers. There is no hidden cost and all accounts come with a 30 day money back guarantee.

SEO Canadian Submit

Canadian Web hosting service comes with this helpful CanadianSubmit Search engine submission. CanadianSubmit will optimize and submit your website to hundreds of search engines and directories worldwide to help you unleash the full potential of your online business.

Free Website Transfer

If you are at presently hosting your web site with some other web hosting there is no problem you can transfer your website to Canadian Web Hosting with no extra charges for domain transfer. Enjoy special website promotion transfer will save you time and money when switching hosts. Special transfer team at Canadian Web Hosting Company will move your content and databases from your current provider.

Free Compensation of unused months

Canadian Web Hosting will compensate up to 6 unused months with your previous host, if you leave before expiration. It will add the remaining months to your current Canadian Web Hosting account for free. You won’t lose money by changing hosts.

SiteBuilder Feature

With our comprehensive website building tool and basic planning, you can develop a professional, full-featured website without learning HTML or complicated software. While most services offer limiting site building options that leave you with a “cookie-cutter” Web site, our Web site-building tool gives you the freedom and flexibility to easily design a site that truly fits the needs and personality of your business, club, organization or interests.

UBD Block Ad Plugin A Must Install for Make Money Online Blog

125×125 is the most unique, acceptable and efficient advertising format for make money online blogs. Hardly you see any make money online blog without Block Ad widgets. Managing block ad was never so easy, moreover if you have place more then four block ads then rotation in their position was the other concern, no affiliates would like his ad to be placed permanently at the bottom for that too paying the same price as paid by the affiliate ad placed at the top of block ad segment.

Have a look at the right sidebar of this blog; every time you refresh/reload the page the block ad positioning keep on rotating randomly so that every ad get its due weighting to position at the top.

I am able manage to do this with the help of this awesome UBD Ad Plugin. Guys at Unique Blog Design has come up with this must installed Plugin for superbly managing your Block Ads. Kudos to them removing, adding and placing block ad has become so handy.

Download plug here. Installed it and forget about your Block Ad managing worries.

Get Ready for WordPress 2.6

WordPress 2.6 is now available for Beta Testing. Its final version will be release by mid-July 2008. Keeping silence about those Dancing Text Widgets WP 2.6 is primarily emphasized on internal performance/productivity/security improvements.

You Can Download the Beta 1 Version HERE. 

Main Features of WordPress 2.6 as explained here are;

• Post Revisioning
• A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
• Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
• A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
• Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
• Built-in word counting in the post editor
• The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
• XML-RPC API for changing blog options
• Better SSL support for the Admin
• Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
• The ability to relocate your content directory
• The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
• Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
• Customizable default avatars
• Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
• Check box range selection with shift-click
• TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
• jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
• jQuery UI 1.5
• Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

Happy Birthday Karishma

I am sure we all miss in bollywood today the cherished beauty and extremely talented Diva of indian movies Karishma Kapoor. She was the bollywood queen; hit the celluloid screen with her sensational performances during 90s. She was ruling the cinemas in my youth and I say it with a little timid now that we guys then form a Fan Clubs of her just to contribute a bit for the actress we love. It’s been years since I last throw a party on your birthday but that love and respect is still very much alive in my heart and would remain always. Wish Ya and Miss Ya !!!

How to Download Videos from YouTube?

Many of the videos that you watch on YouTube are really awesome. If you are not in Japan then you must like to download them on to your desktop for uninterrupted viewing. In Japan average Internet download Speed is around 14 Mbps, this is really fast and out, it is as good as watching a video stored in your computer hard drive.

There are two smart ways by which you can download videos from YouTube or from any other such video hosting site. Let me explain;

RealPlayer Version 11

Install RealPlayer latest version 11 and enable web recording and downloading option, it gives you ability to download video you view in web browser directly to your desktop. It allows you to download almost all embedded videos you see on internet.

RealPlayer 11 put a “Download this video” button on web pages that have embedded video content, all you have to do is to just click that button and get your favorite video downloaded to your computer.

NetVideoHunter

If you use Firefox for browsing internet then NetVideoHunter is a must installed Firefox Plugin. NetVideoHunter is a Firefox add-on; which allows you to download videos and music from almost all video-sharing sites. You can download videos from YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, Metacafe, Dailymotion, iFilm, Videoegg, Veoh, Blip.tv, etc You can download music too, if it’s in a player on a website like MySpace Music player.

You must go through instruction page as how to use NetVideoHunter for downloading your favorite videos and music. Click Install to download NetVideoHunter. Visit site for more information.

Wait For The Apple Season

While the whole world is waiting for Apple iPhone, its India launch is still uncertain and surely not in near future. (Will be around early next year). Apple wants to tie up with some specific mobile service provider for its launch in india; Bharti Airtel and Vodafone are the two strong contenders for the deal. May be Apple would like to go with Bharti Airtel as it has the largest amount of mobile subscriber base in India compared to the Vodafone. It will cost around INR 24000 for 8 GB iPhone version while 4GB version would cost approximately INR 20000.

Apple India is playing a silence lamb role right now and not commenting anything about its (iPhone) coming to India. Let’s hope it will do something about it and soon we will see millions of Indian using Apple iPhone.

Update* -Apple has decided to launch iPhone 3G in india with Vodafone.

WordPress 2.5 Live With It

This post is a study about the question which I asked to my reader in a poll last week -Do you think WordPress 2.5 is really Superior then its old version? Well, almost the same number of votes were stated in favor and against on the subject. I also toss this question among Blogcatalog Community. I would like to thanks to those who participated in poll and also express their views. Let see what they expressed;

thewriterspulse says

I haven’t had a problem with it, and I’ve seen no reason to go back to a previous version.

Reverting to an earlier version of wp means subjecting your blog to a version that has a security hole in it. As for the results of the 2.5 and 2.5.1 upgrades they are variable. Some people had no problem at all but for many others, myself included, there are serious problems that have yet to be fixed. If you are having image problems then here’s an useful link onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/wordpress-image-uploading-troubleshoot…If those instructions do not work for you then wordpress.org/support/ You will find the same question you posted here on the wordpress.org support forum here wordpress.org/tags/upgrade under wordpress.org/support/topic/182214

PetLvr says

Do the earlier versions really have security holes?

I’m not sure – I think that’s a myth … 2.3.3 is apparently still secure as far as I know. When they issued 2.5 there were security holes, and 2.5.1 was then released and is the latest secure version. I also believe that 2.2.2 was/is pretty secure as well. The thing about asking whether or not to upgrade is this – 2.3+ drastically changed the way wordpress operates and introduced Tagging. A lot of plugins were upgraded to work better in the 2.3+ tagging environment, and some were dropped. Wordpress.org has been trying to release new versions every 3-4 months or some timeline, and took too long to release a meaningful 2.4+ and skipped right over to 2.5+ version. 2.5 not only ALSO changed the way the database and wordpress works over 2.3 but changed the dashboard and operation and feel of wordpress. A lot of plugins have been updated to work with 2.5+ series

I believe the only wordpress that the .org is maintaining any support and with the plugins is the 2.0+ series .. So, if you have 2.0 – you’re safe and you should have safe plugins. If you have 2.1 – you can’t go back down. You may be safe at the latest 2.1+ version but – one of these days everything will catch up to you and you won’t be able to get cool plugins, or cool templates, or anything like that – because wordpress.org has told us – they intend to keep upgrading to newer versions. So .. the day will come and you will want to upgrade – but, you must realize – you can’t upgrade from 2.1 to 3.3 or some future version … If you are on 2.1 .. you should upgrade to 2.2.2 … then to 2.3.3 then 2.5.1 etc etc and making backups for each upgrade, upgrading plugins to the latest version .. it takes more time. I’m still using the InstantUpgrade plugin and it literally takes me 7 seconds to upgrade each blog to the latest version. If you are on 2.3+ you might have noticed that top bar that suggests there is a new version out there, and warns you to upgrade. In the 2.5+ series – it does the same with the plugins – and, can automatically upgrade each plugin to the latest version too.

DaneMorgan says

It gets a little complex, actually. You have to look at two things. What is a latest secure release and what is on an upgrade path. 2.3.3 is on a support path. They won’t release any more 2.3.x EXCEPT to fix critical security problems. 2.5.1 is on an upgrade path. They will continue to release new 2.5.x releases for bug fixes, security patches and feature additions. 2.1.x is also a support path where they will release security patches, but I don’t recall when the commitment for that path ends.

XIII says

Imho it’s bigger, but not better. Image uploading is awkward and unintuitive and widgets that were once WYSIWYG and meant for newbies are now a pain in the ass to manage.

carlgalloway says

I wish the darned thing would handle multi-lingual sites out of the box. I’d also like to see plugin management enhanced, its pretty bad at the moment. The gallery still needs to be improved, and the wysiwyg editor is rubbish. Actually, I’d like WP to be more like Serendipity.

werelax says

I would vote for gallery improvements too. Particularly ability to store pictures in subdirectories. ie uploads/images/people or uploads/images/nature.

Plugin for Automated WordPress Database Backup

As my guitarist friend Abhinav suggested here about installing WordPress Database Backup Plugin, I immediately followed the link, downloaded and the installed Plugin and it’s really working great.

Italy based Austin Matzko, desired Philosopher, sweet father of Samuel and Margaret, designed this Plugin.

WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.

This Plugin allows you to;

* Save to server: create a file in /wp-content/backup-*/ for you to retrieve later

* Download to your Desktop.

* Email: this will email the backup file to the address you specify.

So download this Plugin from here and forget about all your database backup worries.

Dancing TEXT Widgets of WordPress 2.5

Many bloggers who upgraded their WordPress to 2.5 facing this problem, every time they try to add and edit a Text widget goooooooshhh it got disappear. And believe me this is not the only problem or bug they are fighting with; There are 979 posts in WP Forum only on TEXT Widget on-off dancing problem; well few of them who disappointed with this new avatar of WP installed back the old version 2.3 again on their site. I want you to give me idea how you find this new WordPress 2.5 it’s bigger and better then the previous version or you think you should have stick with your old WordPress 2.3.

Win 2 MacBook Airs + $ 1000 with Blogging Ads

Okay lets have a winning start, after playing lost and found with my blog whole last month its time now to rejuvenate the entire blogging arrangement with this entry ticket to one of the greatest contest hitting blogsphere these days.

My idol and blog friend Mike has come up with this wonderful contest; giving away 2 Brand new MacBook Air and US $ 1000 hard cash. Mike, a 20 year old student started blogging ads in April 2007 with this kind idea of free blog reviews. He felt there are people paying to get reviewed weren’t very fair to smaller blogs or blogs that do not receive income. But am afraid I haven’t seen any such reviews on his blog in recent times

This is how you can grab these cool prizes;

Subscribe to Feed ( 1 ticket )- All you have to do is to subscribe his feed via E-mail. This will just guarantee you an entry.

Participate In Forums ( 1-10 ticket per day ) – Participate in 2 of his forums and you will get entry methods depending on how much you participate. Here is the first forum on His blog and second EntreForums.

Participate On Bloggin-Ads ( 1 ticket per comment / 5 limit a day ) – comment on the latest posts, you’re guaranteed 1 entry per day.

Write About It ( 10 tickets ) - Write about this contest

Stumble / Digg / Propel ( 3 tickets ) – Just Stumble or Digg this post and you get 3 tickets.

You can also BONUS ( 5 tickets ) by posting the contest banner on your blog’s sidebar/blogroll.

I know you Love MacBook and would definitely like to jump in the contest. Its HERE.

Re-birth of Shanker Bakshi dot Com

I completely lost my blog last month, what you see now is the mirror image of my previous blog which is based on memory about how it was before ceasing. It took whole month to re-build it. But they say every accident is an opportunity to learn something. It was a heart breaking experience for me. Let me explain how it happened and why it happened so you may also avoid mistakes which I did and ruined everything.

I am not a full time blogger. I am in a job which eats 12 precious hours of my day and that too for full six days of a week. I start my journey to my job every morning at 07:00 AM and come back home in the evening at 07:00 PM. Spend one hour daily in the evening in reading blogs of my fellow bloggers. Try to write blog posts every alternate day (most tough job for a part time blogger). So because of short of time I delegated WordPress installation and up gradation job to one of my friend Abhishek, who also own a site hosting company Technoportsolutions.com

What was the blunder?

My WordPress 2.3.1 was having lots of bugs so when the software upgraded to 2.5 version, I requested my friend not to upgrade software and installed new WordPress 2.5 altogether

Our WordPress saves data in SQL format and you are always advice by everyone to keep on taking your database back up from your PhpMyAdmin control panel. So before installing WordPress 2.5 my friend suppose to take Backup of SQL Database. He did, but unfortunately the SQL backup file he downloaded from PhpMyAdmin Control Panel was corrupted and was not complete infect it was downloaded with lots of bugs in it. So when he tried to upload SQL Data back on newly installed WordPress 2.5 it was not uploading. He don’t have any other back up in hands so either he has to make good that corrupted file and upload it. We pray god to do miracle for us.

I wrote mails to my friend bloggers, raised questions in Forums and searched for help at many places but no luck. I definitely would like to mention here that one of my newly founded blog friend Michael Aulia was in touch with me all thru this tough time and suggested few measures which unfortunately didn’t work but thanks Michael for being there and doing that. You are great and I am blessed to found you. Abhinav Sonkar also showed his concern while the blog was down.

So how I get my blog back?

Well that was quite unprofessional and very un-scientific way thru which I got my blog back, so I would not reveal how I managed to rebuild it again. Instead I would like to ask you this – Do you subscribe to your own feed to any of your mail ID or in any feed reader – If not then do it now, you will always have a copy of your blog posts in your INBOX. That’s it.

What I learn from it?

The moral of the story is never delegate important task to others just try to learn things to do by your own.

The first thing I did after getting my blog back – I kick out my friend’s hosting site Technoportsolutions.com, learned how to take back up from SQL database from PhpMyAdmin control panel and how to upload it. I shifted my blog on a new hosting site Bluehost. Believe me they are superb, they extend live chat help, give you unlimited storage of data and an excellent customer ticket management system.

Happy Blogging Shanker Bakshi Dot com. Thank god you are back in my life again dear. I was missing you like anything for this whole month. Never leave me again or I would die.

The Picture Perfect

Posing for a photograph with dollar check in hands and a smiley face behind that is every blogger’s wish. I use PayPal for receiving all my payments as the post system in India is not very strong. To fulfill my above aspiration I ask one of my payment sources to send me a check for a small amount so that if it gets lost in transit the damage would be a minimum. Look after wait of two months finally I have it in my hands. Amount is US$ 26 from ReviewMe.