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All .com, .net, .org three letter domain names have been registered. Even all three letter .ws have been registered. So there are to ways to get them, either by buying one for a high price at sedo or buying in an international tld or the new extentions like .cd, .cc etc.. Finding an available 3 letter domain name there can also be hard. I wonder if anyone is interested in buying 4 letter domain names. If so just send an email to admin@tech36.com or leave a comment with your email here and I will send you the list of available four letter domain names for FREE!

Adsense is not the main revenue generator for our blog here but it is the main source for many other blogs, so here is a small tip on high paying adsense keywords. Many people are looking for the expensive adsense keywords, that is ones which pay you the highest. Some claim that keywords like lawyers and some diseases give a lot of pay. Finding the right keyword is just a game of common sense.

A keyword will fetch you more money if more advertisers are competing for it, yes, keywords like web hosting have a lot of advertisers ready to invest. So think about the niche where advertisers will pay a lot for people to visit, like websites selling some service and develop a website based on that. You don’t need adsense keywords list and stuff like that, you just have to think and use common sense! So people who are wasting money on top adsense keyword lists and stuff like that, stop it!

I do suggest you to read other adsense blogs. These blogs can give you certain feedback. This whole month I will be writing about adsense here.

There was a lot of hype about facebook and it is good. It has a lot of features and a nice design. It was marketed very well too. In spite of the all the praises, there are incidents when errors occur here.

Facebook has a very good design with a blue and white look, has man features like testimonial, wall, albums et cetera. It is pretty fast too. Some can find it to be a bit complicated though, but it will be easy for all the geeks.

This error was spotted twice while loading the top friends section in a profile. The error is ok but the way they put it is nice, unlike Orkut. Facebook simply accepts the fact that there is something wrong with it and politely tells us to get lost from that part for a few days (until its fixed).

Facebook is real fun if you love social networking. The features on Orkut and Facebook are similar now. Errors on Orkut have reduced now, after the recent update.

Subscribing to a feed can be helpful if you want to follow new news and updates on a blog or a website. Feed is a XML based document containing the different articles or posts within a website. Subscribing to a feed using Live Bookmarking (in Firefox), makes it easier and simple.

To subscribe to a feed to the following:

Go to the feed URL. Usually the feed URL is shown using a Orange Box.

After going to the feed URL following will be shown in Firefox:

Now select Live Bookmarks as your option and click on Subscribe Now.

Using feeds is very simple. A tab will come on your browser, click on it to see the new posts. This feature is not only in Tech36 Technology Blog but also can be seen on most of the Blogs which run on wordpress and also in many other blogs and websites.

It is the best way too stay updated with the blog/website you like.

It was the hot buzz all over that Microsoft will release it’s service pack 3 version of Windows XP. Finally it has and it is available at the Microsoft website for  download.  It  comes along with many hot fixes for better security and performance.

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 is known to have many flaws and features. There were claims that someone had released Microsoft Windows XP Ultimate, just like Windows Vista Ultimate. This version has over 1000 fixes for the bugs in Windows XP SP2.

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So there is a demand for content and you don’t know where to get it from? Well I made a tool which works as a Text Generator. It works pretty neat and does the work well. It randomly generates text. It has been coded in Delphi.
Installation is not a big deal in this. All you have to do is download the tool from below and run it. Sometimes, computer hangs up when you ask it to generate 10000+ lines of text. But generating 10000+ lines of text for one page is useless.

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I have a bsnl 2 mbps broadband connection which is known for its speed in my country. But speed equivalent to what I got in utorrent was never achieved before. For a standard 2 mbps connection, we should get a download speed of 256 kbps, I know , but the actual speed is never achieved. But this time I got real close to it by using utorrent and some very high seeded torrents. I got the torrents from mininova, which then asked me to install utorrent and download. I was astonished seeing the plain power and speed of these torrents. Yet utorrent was so simple to use.
I am not giving free publicity to utorrent, but I really liked the speed in which I could share and download files. Any new file I make, will be put on one of the torrent sites and download starts. If people like it, even they can seed it using utorrent.
You do have to remember that utorrent is not the only torrent downloading tool which gives high speed, there are many others.
Do remember that you can use torrents to share files under GPL or Free distribution only. Due to the ease of sharing, there is lot of piracy too.

bbPress was made by the developers of Wordpress, Matt Mullenweg being the main person behind this project. bbPress is a forum software that can be easily integrated with wordpress if it is placed in the same folder in which wordpress is placed, else integration becomes a little harder but it can be done. My forum is also powered by bbPress and it does a good job, but that does not mean it does not need more development, there are some bugs that need to be fixed.

I did a lot of searching inside the bbPress source and found that unless a code which was modified is installed on your server, there is not much to worry about getting hacked. But still there is one exploit which may come after installing Allow Images script (hey, I am just telling, I am not sure if it’ll come) and the problem that may come is cookie theft, but even if you’re cookie gets stolen, all you have to do is log out and login. If you want to be safe, be sure you install plugins only from the bbpress.org website, don’t take it from any other source no matter what it claims.

Another good thing about bbPress is that it is free, unlike other forum systems like vBulletin. You won’t have to take the software from insecure Warez sites and you won’t go to jail if you use it. bbPress is released under the GPL license, so it can be used freely for commercial purposes but you are not allowed to modify the code.

This is all the good part of this software but there is another side to it, it’s not that simple, especially while integration with Wordpress which is placed in another folder. Practically I had to do a lot of work inorder to integrate and I am good in PHP, but what about the people who have no idea about PHP? Well they will not be able to integrate these two very well. If you don’t have to integrate then all you have to do is edit the config-sample.php file and rename it to config.php (You’ll have to enter details like Mysql user name, password, database etc..).

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You don’t necessarily need to pay lot of money for softwares to make your computer work well, there are many powerful freewares that can do the trick that most of the paid softwares can.

OpenOfficeOrg - Looking for a Microsoft Office alternative, then look no more. Openofficeorg has all the features of Microsoft Office (More like a replica) and it is free.

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VLC Media Player - It has the capacity to play any type of media (popular ones), including Flash Videos (flv) and Windows Media Videos. It’s very light and thus ideal for all purposes.

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Mozilla Firefox - This is one of the best and the most popular browser, it is light, now it is very secure and proxy configuration is very easy. It also has a script executing add on called Greasemonkey which is very helpful. There are many other addons for Mozilla.

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Gimp - It’s a free image editor tool. Numerous digital photo imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt simply choosing the corrective mode in the transform tools. Eliminate lens barrel distortion and vignetting with a powerful filter but a simple interface.

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AVG - This company claims that it has provided security for over 50 million computers, it is a good anti-virus solution. It can protect you from spywares, trojans, worms, virus, filters junk emails and more.

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