From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Optimize Your Blog’s Loading Speed With Yslow

by Shanker Bakshi 31 March 2009 The Internet

How long dose it takes to load your blog completely? Well if you look at the Status Bar at the bottom of your browser you will notice that while loading your blog fetch several Java script from external links included in your blog’s widgets and images. Some time these external links slow down the loading speed of your blog.
If you are facing this problem then there is one Firefox Add-on which can really help you .....

TinEye – Search Engine for Duplicate Images

by Shanker Bakshi 29 March 2009 The Internet

So if you want to know who else is using your images, this is the best way to find out, even if the image name has been changed or it has been modified for any reason.
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye .....

Earth Hour and My New Blue WordPress Premium Theme

by Shanker Bakshi 28 March 2009 Ramblings

I wish and hope you all are supporting Earth Hour this 28th March. It’s for a good cause and I support it from the bottom of my heart. But earth hour is also responsible for this new skin on my blog which you see now. Yes that true, interestingly I wanted my blog to cover up in black on Earth House day (They say a website with black background consumes less power: see report here) .....

Trouble With Twitters

by Shanker Bakshi 26 March 2009 Twitter

Super News’s Animated Sketch Comic videos are always fun to see. Now they come up with this comic story about this young guy who struggle against the pressure to twitter his life away. Enjoy. hey by the way Follow me on Twitter.
I don’t mind followed by hundred and thousand of people over twitter and followthem in return.

HostedFTP – Best File Sharing Service for Your Business

by Shanker Bakshi 25 March 2009 The Internet

Now tell me, how you share your files over internet, How you handle it especially when your business grows and need a really professional tool for this job? Well before deciding a FTP file sharing service to start with, you must assure and test the service on three vital aspect of a FTP file sharing service:
Security
Reliability
Trouble-free
I remember when I used to do voiceover job for my overseas clients; and when they usually asked .....

Take Responsibility for Your Life

by Shanker Bakshi 24 March 2009 Ramblings

Everything you experience today is the result of choices you have made in the past. All blame is a waste of time. Be ruthlessly honest with yourself. Be in charge of your own inventory that you have built up over these years.

We see people whining about situations, rants about system, complains about organizations, but if you sit back, relax and think about what you are today, you will find there were moments in your .....

The Ethical Bribe to Increase Twitter Followers

by Shanker Bakshi 13 March 2009 Twitter

A little strange to believe at first but Tim Ferris has come up with this crazy idea to buy Twitter Follower at US$ 3 per follower. I mean he has this noble cause behind this and call this offer as “Tweet to beat”. Here is what he has to say:
This is “Tweet to Beat”, a follow-up experiment to LitLiberation, which was a campaign by bloggers and their readers, and CEOs and their employees, to spread .....

12 Seconds Video Twitter is Here to Stay

by Shanker Bakshi 12 March 2009 The Internet

Basically the thing is that twitter is the most recent phenomenon happens to web 2.0, there is no doubt about it and almost every week we witness new twitter tool, apps or something instinctive out of Twitter API.
But then these three guys David Beach, Sol Lipman, Jacob Knobel come up with this idea that there will be more fun if you can visualize your tweets, I mean why to express what you are doing in .....

What Lessons a Blogger Can Learn From the Movie Slumdog Millionaire?

by Shanker Bakshi 11 March 2009 Blogging Ideas and Guide

Eight Academy awards winner movie Slumdog Millionaire is adoption of Vikas Swaroop Best selling novel “Q & A”. Directed by Danny Boyle the story moves around the street boy Jamal who is a contestant on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Kaun Banega Crorepati) hosted by Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor) in which he won 20 Million Rupees.
Well for me I think there is a lot that you can learn from this .....