Making money online with blogging is much easier if you have an ad manager through which advertisers can directly buy ads from your blog. This feature was added by many bloggers by customizing wordpress but it costs a lot of money if you pay a programmer to customize your blog. So, Michael finally made the free wordpress plugin for managing ads in your wordpress blog. Although the plugin is only for 125×125 sized ads, it works quite well and is user friendly. You can customize a lot of features of this plugin and this makes this plugin a great and important plugin for wordpress. I recommend this plugin to every pro-blogger for it is the best solution to managing ads for free.

Features of MyAdmanager wordpress plugin

1. Variable number of 125×125 sized image ads both in rows and columns.
2. Customizable padding between ads.
3. Monthly and weekly options for selling ads.
4. PayPal payment form with IPN and instant activation.
5. Transaction Log table displaying recent transactions.
6. Home and outside ad feature with which you can add your own ads which will be replaced if an advertiser buys a new Ad.

Below is a snapshot of the Options page of Myadmanager wordpress plugin.

MyAdmanager Configuration Page

Download MyAdmanager wordpress plugin

You can read more details about this plugin or download this plugin at its plugin page.

Orkut is a great site to hang out with friends or find new friends on the internet. It is very popular in India and many other countries of the world. However, some people might want to block orkut in their PC. This may be due to many reasons and I’m not discussing it. Whatever the reason may be, if you want to block orkut, you can follow the following steps:

Blocking orkut using hosts file:

1. Open the file “c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts” in notepad or go to Start>Run and type “c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts”, choose open with notepad in the option that comes up. Now, the contents of the file will be displayed and it will be something like this:
   

   # Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
   #
   # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
   #
   # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
   # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
   # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
   # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
   # space.
   #
   # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
   # lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
   #
   # For example:
   #
   # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
   # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

   127.0.0.1 localhost

2. Now, add these lines at the bottom
   

   127.0.0.1 orkut.com
   127.0.0.1 www.orkut.com
   127.0.0.1 orkut.co.in
   127.0.0.1 www.orkut.co.in

3. Save the file and exit the notepad. Now turn restart your system and orkut will be blocked.

Software/Patch for blocking orkut

Here, I’ve made a small batch program for blocking orkut. Its a small program and you can easily use this program for blocking orkut. THIS FILE IS NOT A VIRUS THOUGH THE SIZE IS VERY SMALL and you can check it by scanning with any antivirus. What you need to do is download the file here and unzip it. Then you open the Orkut_blocker.bat file and it will ask you to choose whether to block or unblock orkut. What this file does is the same as I’ve written in the steps above but here you have little to do or know. So, its a lot easier to use and you can use this very effectively as it quickly changes the necessary settings.
Download Orkut Blocker

Another important plugin for your wordpress blog is wp super cache wordpress plugin which is a caching plugin for wordpress. This plugin caches the pages and posts of your wordpress blog including categories, tags and search pages and speeds up your blog’s access times. Without this plugin, the wordpress blog is somewhat slow and consumes CPU resources. But with WP super cache, lots of CPU resources will be saved and will make the blog faster.

This plugin is a very important plugin and I would recommend every owner of a wordpress blog to use this plugin. This can help you and your visitors in many ways. You save your server resources and your visitors will take less time to open your blog.
The options available with this plugin are very useful and easy to use. Some of the features of this plugin are:

Features of WP super cache plugin

• Very fast caching of home, post, page, categories, tags…
• A link for deleting cache at the left top corner after the “dashboard” link.
• Option to clear all cache files when a post or page is published.
• Super Cache Compression
• Exclude urls from caching in a general mode (with exceptions)
• Disable cache for User agents like bots, spiders, crawls etc.
• Lock down – When this is enabled, new comments on a post will not refresh the cached static files.
• Directly cached files.

Configuration page of wp_super_cache wordpress plugin

Download WP super cache plugin

For downloading WP super cache plugin or to view details, visit WP super cache plugin documentation.

The main attack of many viruses of the windows OS is on its registry. And therefore, many problems caused by a virus can be solved by editing the windows registry. However, viruses have started to disable regedit – the windows registry editing tool and therefore leave the user no option. But there are ways to enable the windows registry tool which I’m going to discuss below. One can follow any one of the following ways if there registry has been disabled by a virus:

1. Goto START->RUN and type:
   

   REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

   and press enter. It will enable the registry tools instantaneously.

2. • START->RUN and type “gpedit.msc” and press enter.
   • Go to the following location: User Configuration -> Administrative Templates-> System.
   • In the Settings Column, find “Prevent Access to Registry Editing Tools” and double-click on it to change.
   • Choose “Disabled” or “Not configured” and click OK.
   • Close the Group Policy Editor Window.
   • Restart the computer.

Very unnaturally, my computer was disconnecting from the internet automatically again and again since yesterday. I have vista ultimate in my system and I have never had this problem before. So, I was searching on the internet for how to solve this problem but I was disappointed at first. But finally I came to this solution. However, I’m sure that solution only applies to problems which occur in the following manner.

Problem Statements:

• Connection to the internet is lost after a certain period of time.
• Connection to your network is also disconnected.
• There is no problem with the modem or anything and the internet is working properly in other OS like windows XP.
• The disconnection problem is gone for a while after a restart or a standby mode but is disconnected shortly after that.
• There is no problem with the hardware or the Internet service provider.

How to solve this Problem?

The problem is because the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service is on and there’s a bug in the windows vista you are using. However, this problem has been removed in the latest service pack 1. So, you can follow one of the following steps:

1. TURNING OFF INTERNET CONNECTION SHARING (ICS) SERVICE: To turn off this service, go to START->RUN and type “services.msc” without the codes and press enter. Then in the services column, find Internet Connection Service and right click on it and choose “Properties”. In the Startup type option, choose “Disable”.
2. DOWNLOAD SERVICE PACK 1: This problem will be solved by downloading the latest version of service pack 1 for windows vista. You can download the latest Service Pack 1 here.
3. DOWNLOAD HOTFIX: Windows has released a hotfix for the problem and is available here.

Being an experienced webmaster for more than 2 years, I have learned a lot about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and I use it in each and every site I have. However, it is quite difficult to implement the SEO optimizations in a wordpress blog. In fact, wordpress doesn’t allow you to have a unique Meta description or a Meta keyword tags for each posts. This is quite a big problem for those who want to optimize their wordpress blogs. Also, even though you can put these Meta tags in the homepage, it should be done with the theme editor which needs a little bit knowledge of PHP and HTML. And therefore, this might be problem for bloggers who don’t know coding.

But with the All In One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin which I found recently, all the SEO stuffs are a lot easy and handy. You can insert description and keyword Meta tags for each post and easily add Meta in the home page too. Thanks to Michael Torbert for creating this plugin. Now, I would like to give a few features of this Plugin.

FEATURES OF ALL IN ONE SEO PACK WORDPRESS PLUGIN

• Easily change the title, Meta description, Meta keyword tags of the blog’s homepage.
• Change post title format, page title format, category title format, Archive Title Format, Tag Title Format, Search Title Format, Description Format, etc.
• Insert additional headers to your blog’s home, post and page templates.
• Option to enable no index for categories, archives etc.
• Insert unique title, Meta description, Meta keyword tags to each post/page while publishing the post.

Well it really helps me optimize my blog and I recommend it to all bloggers who want to optimize their site for search engines. Here’s a snapshot of the plugin’s configuration page:

Snapshot of All in one SEO Pack WordPress Plugin

Download All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin

Click here to download All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin.

Yesterday, a friend of mine bought a new Compaq CQ45 112AU Notebook. With the price, it was such great configuration and I thought “This is great” and here I’m sharing you a few features of this new Notebook.

Features of Compaq Presario CQ45 112AU Notebook

Well, its quite a great configuration to get at Rs. 38,999/- only. The model looks really cool and attractive with a small screen. It’s light and handy and is really economical. So, if you are looking for a cheap notebook with a great configuration, this will do.

Where to buy Compaq Presario CQ45 112AU Notebook?

Well, you can buy this notebook at Ebay.

Download Vista Drivers for Compaq Presario CQ45 112AU Notebook

Yesterday, I was searching for about an hour in google for vista drivers for Compaq CQ45 112AU Notebook without any valid results. Finally I found the drivers page in HP’s website and I want to share this with you because I know its hard to find it in google. So, Visit the following link to download vista drivers for Compaq CQ45 112AU Notebook.
Compaq cq45 112au Drivers for Vista

Installing Windows XP in Compaq Presario CQ45 112AU Notebook

As many people who have bought this product would have known, you can’t install windows XP in this product with the normal procedure you always do. Some people said that XP can’t be installed but recently, I asked an HP Customer care and it came out that there is a way to install windows xp in these laptops(including other laptops of compaq and hp which wouldn’t normally install xp) with a little bit of extra procedures. Well, the install instructions are described in the pdf file on Installing windows XP or use Alternative method to install XP.