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Google Acquires Feedburner
TechCrunch reports that Google has acquired Feedburner for $100 million dollars. This is indeed a great achievement for Feedburner. For us publishers, I see a lot of good things in store…
WordPress Wednesday: Getz WordPress 2.2
One week after WordPress 2.2 RC1 was released, we have 2.2 Getz available for download.
Finding Good Writers for Your Blog
Finding Good Writers for Your Blog guides you through picking a good writer for your blog. I’ve been toying with the idea of opening up Techtites.com to writers in return for a generous share of adsense revenue on all their posts.
Multimedia Monday: MediaCoder
MediaCoder is a FREE universal audio/video batch transcoder distributed under GPL license, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats. The best feature of MediaCoder is the ability to transcode files in batch format. If you’re looking to load your music player and you have all your files in different formats, then you can use MediaCoder to convert them all into the format supported by your player.
China limits kids’ online gaming time
Amidst concerns of curbs on free speech and online gaming addiction, China has passed a decree to limit the amount of time kids spend gaming online report Xinhua. Kids spending more than three hours online will lose half the credits they earned and those spending more than five hours online lose all of them. Online gamers will also need to get themselves registered.
Tip Thursday: Personalize Google
People using Google Personalized Homepage would be well aware that you can add pages, read feeds and lots of other stuff. Recently the folks at Google introduced a brand new feature to make your homepage look even better, viz. Themes.
Tool Tuesday: Lorem Ipsum Generator
If you’re familiar with free templates, or have been working in the printing industry you would have come across this text often: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
Multimedia Monday: Prism Video Converter
Prism Video Converter is a free video file format converter for Windows. It can convert video files from avi, mpg, vob, wmv (Windows Media Video formats) and more into avi, asf or wmv files. You will need to have the appropriate codecs installed in order to run the conversion.
Fun Friday: Rotate
Don’t we all love games. But, nothing stimulates the mind more than a game that needs you to rack your brains. That is what Rotate and its successor Rotate2 hope to establish.
Google TiSPs over
Google launched their brand new ISP which provides free in-home broadband via wifi. The ISP is called TiSP. Read the official press release or find out how to go about getting it.
WordPress Bug Fix Release
The WordPress team has released WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.
Tool Tuesday: IE NetRenderer
If you’re on a Mac or you have already upgraded to Internet Explorer 7, then you’ll be pretty lost about how your site looks like on lower versions of Internet Explorer. For me this is a big problem because half my visitors to my several sites are still using IE6 and you have to admit that IE6 is a pathetic browser. IE7 is a lot more compliant and displays sites a lot correctly than its predecessors.