ZDNet Blogs has a report about Bill Gates’ speech at the Davos World Economic Forum. If you want to charge somebody $0.10 or $1 a month, that will just be a click…you won’t have to manage some funny thing or pay some big credit charge, where half of it goes to the clearing. It appears that Microsoft has plans on entering the Online Payment Processor market, currently dominated by Paypal, which also includes lesser competitors like Google Checkout and 2Checkout among others. Microsoft intends to enter the market by providing cost effective solutions that would work out even cheaper than…

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If you have missed reading the Techtites Daily this week, below is a list of everything I covered this week. Jan 23 – Tool Tuesday: Virtual Drive Creator Jan 24 – WordPress Wednesday: Patching UTW for WordPress 2.1 Jan 25 – Tip Thursday: about:blank saves bandwidth Jan 26 – Fun Friday: Predict your Death Jan 27 – Software Saturday: µBook Reader Have you liked the articles so far? Do you have any suggestions for us? Do write in and let us know.

Found this at Techcrunch. For those who are waiting desperately for Apple’s iPhone, you can now download this image, print it out, fold it along the dotted lines and you have you’re very own iPhone. Who says the best things in life aren’t for free? Sneakmove also has a version of this in PDF format, which instructions. Ohh… the iPhone doesn’t function. If you want a working product, you’re just going to have to wait. And yes, at times the best things in life come for a price

“We are getting an audience large enough where we have an opportunity to support creativity, to foster creativity through sharing revenue with our users,” Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said at the World Economic Forum. “So in the coming months, we are going to be opening that up.” These words herald great news for the millions of users who have been sharing videos on YouTube. This announcement will further motivate users to share more. Details of renumeration haven’t been disclosed as of now. Google had bought YouTube for $1.65 billion last November. If you can’t see the video above then…

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Though it has been a while since I read a book, I do try to catch up on reading whenever I can. For those who like reading on the PC, Project Gutenberg is an amazing source for getting a great number of books. These books are available in HTML and TXT formats besides others. Reading files in Notepad can be really painful. In such cases a specialized reader steps in. µBook Reader is one such application that can read HTML, TXT, RTF, PDB and PRC (not secure) ebook files. It can read directly from inside ZIP files, and supports BMP,…

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In a bid to improve performance of individual ad units, Adsense has introduced ad placements. In addition to creating a custom channel, you can now designate it to be available to advertisers. The screenshot above (from the Inside Adsense blog) shows you how to create / edit a custom channel and designate it to be an ad placement. You can assign keywords and descriptions for the unit to guide advertisers of their location on your site(s). I’ve already assigned a few of my ad units for the same. I’m going to work on making them more descriptive. Let’s see how…

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Amazon has released a wiki exclusively for products. Titled Amapedia, it can be editted by anybody with an Amazon id. Amapedia is a community for sharing information about the products you like the most. Amapedia introduces an exciting new way of organizing products we call “collaborative structured tagging”. In a nutshell, it makes it easy for you to tag products with what they are and with their most important facts, and for others to search, discover, filter, and compare products by those tags. Amapedia is the next generation of Amazon.com’s ProductWiki feature; all of your previous ProductWiki contributions were preserved…

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I’m not sure how much of a “fun” thing it is when a site tells you that you are going to die, but it sure is amusing to read about how you’re going to die. But that is what The Amazing Death Predictor does. All you have to do is answer a few questions and the engines sends out a prediction. The first one I received was: Ajay: At age 60 you will start playing an online game and become so addicted that you starve to death. Well, it describes me completely I decided to change things a little bit…

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about:blank as many of you will just open a blank page. By default Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera are set to open up a webpage on connecting to the internet. Most of the time you won’t be interested in opening that default page. The result is unncessary wastage of bandwidth. This gets severe if you are on a limited download plan with your ISP. By using about:blank as you start page of your browser you’re ensuring that when your browser is opened you do not load any page. The above screen shows you the Options window of Internet Explorer, which…

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I still haven’t upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.1 because of a potential problem with Ultimate Tag Warrior on WordPress 2.1. Tags would get deleted whenever a comment is added. Christine’s latest release too wasn’t able to fix the same. 082net.com has found a fix that has worked successfully for Donncha on his blog. I’ve applied the patch myself and will now be upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.1. For those interested, modify ‘ultimate_save_tags()’ function on ‘ultimate-tag-warrior-actions.php’ about line 502: if (isset($_POST['comment_post_ID'])) return $postID; if (isset($_POST['not_spam'])) return $postID; // akismet fix if (isset($_POST["comment"])) return $postID; // moderation.php fix Update: The…

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