Links From The Blogosphere (Batch 8)

No wonder you did not see some spicy and Interesting posts on this blog this week. Thats because my 3rd semester final exams are on my head and as usual I am forced to study so I am giving this blog a little less than usual time. However this did not keep me from changing my theme and redesigning my theme. My readers really like this new theme which is basically based on the Fresh theme. I personally think the new theme has more web 2.0 effect and increased visibility.

My Internet Ramblings and Blog discoveries never came to an end even though I am busy with my studies stuff lol. I would like to declare Clazh as my favorite of the week. I discovered this blog since its writer came to discussions at sizlopedia. You can call it a a blog with beauty and brains. Moreover I am experiencing an increase in my blog traffic but a decrease in my adsense earnings. I hope this gets stable pretty soon though.

Here is the spice of week for which you all have been waiting for:

Shankar gives a tip on how to find your blog pages in Google supplemental index

It is said that the supplemental results are really Google’s way of filtering out duplicate content. Therefore pages that are modified to contain enough unique content will eventually make there way out of the supplemental index and back into Google’s main index.

Nirmal shares his list of Top 5 Google Gadgets

Google has huge collection of widgets for your blog or website, to be precise the Google Directory has over 8500 widgets available. The widgets are classified into 8 different categories based on their use. Here I have listed the 5 most popular widgets (in fact the list has 6 widgets) from Google which can be used in your blog.

Madhur introduces a vista hack to enable slow motion aero animations

This is an interesting hack for Vista through which you can enable “Slow Motion” animation that will work if you are holding the “shift” key while minimizing , maximizing , closing a window.

Thilak tells you how to customize welcome messages for your audience

Adding a welcome back message in your sidebar might be cool, but if you can customize it and target it to your individual reader, it would be pretty awesome in building good readership. I just ran into a plugin on Blogosquare, which shows a nice welcome message along with the MyBlogLog avatar of that reader.

Joel discusses a funny topic: Evolution of a programmer

I have been doing programming since high school days and I always wondered why the examples used have the output as ‘Hello World’. If you have noted carefully, the size of the program increases as you go high up and graduate but the output remains the constant.

Gili has nice article on how to protect your pc with Finjan SecureBrowsing

Sometimes while you browse the web, you encounter those standard looking links that after being clicked suddenly deliver malware and spyware to your PC. This obviously jeopardizes your productivity, might damage your data and compromises your privacy.

Arpit shares his secret of making a custom feedburner chicklet

One of the reasons why I don’t have a FeedBurner Chicklet on my blog even though I have over 200+ RSS readers is that I never like the way its been designed and it looks a bit awkward when I put it on my sidebar. I been trying to find a way to make a customized FeedBurner Chicklet using the FeedBurner Awareness API. The FeedBurner API is a way by which FeedBurner enables Third Party Applications to access the RSS stats from FeedBurner.

Brown Baron takes us back in time with Rome rebuilt in virtual 3D

Rome Reborn 1.0 is a real time 3D reconstruction of 320 A.D. Rome created by an academic team of architects, computer scientists and archaeologists from UCLA, the Milan Polytechnic and the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. Visitors can navigate through the virtual streets of Rome and even visit the Colosseum.

Shashank has some highlights on the First ever car that uses air as fuel

The new car which will be the world’s first car to be powered by compressed air is set to launch on India next year by TATA motors, India’s largest Automobile maker. This car is a innovation of ex-Formula One engineer Guy Negre (Head MDI group) in collaboration with TATA motors.

Jake brings us 10 best youtube alternatives