My friend passed me this piece of article which I believe is worth taking a closer look. Apparently, there is a new device that is a huge danger to anyone who uses a PC that is not theirs. This is especially true if you frequent Internet cafes or public computers such as those in the public libraries, hotels and restaurants.

This simple looking device is known as a key tracker and it sits between the keyboard and the PC. As can be seen in the pictures it is very discreet but is probably one of the most dangerous item to privacy and personal information.

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BlogRush promises to bring more traffic to your blog. Their ingenious idea works something like this. Every time the Blogrush widget (notice the cool thing on my sidebar?) displays on your blog, you earn credits. At the same time, your latest blog headline is syndicated to widgets on similar blogs. In this way, blog traffic is shared across similar blogs. For blog owners, it increases traffic and for readers it helps find related content. Ingenious?

However, since I signed up with them and put up their widget a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t notice any significant increase in traffic.

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The other day we introduced you to the beautiful permalinks which are search engines friendly and easy to the eyes. You are definitely convinced to change your ugly number based default permalinks to the search engine and user friendly version but you also wonder if you will lose visitors because of broken links due to the change?! Worry not, Permalinks Migration Plugin for wordpress comes to the rescue.

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First of all, what are permalinks? Permalinks are the the URLs or addresses to your blog posts, as well as categories and other lists of your postings. A permalink is what another website or blog will use to link to your post or page. Since the URL to a blog post should not change and should remain unchanged indefinitely, hence… it’s called the permalink.

In WordPress, the default permalink looks like:

http://www.example.com/?p=N

where N will be a number. This is ugly and not search engine friendly. What we prefer to do is to change this permalink to the search engine friendly version where your post title appears in the URL itself. Examples:

http://www.example.com/category/post-name/

OR

http://www.example.com/year/month/day/post-name

These beautiful permalinks look more pleasing to the eyes too, don’t you think so? The more important thing is of course not for our eyes, but for the search engines. You will most certainly get more traffic and wah… your online earnings will sky rocket!

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Have you used Microsoft Windows 1.0 before? I bet you haven’t even seen Windows 1.0 before not to mention use it, unless you are a 60 years old nerd born don’t know how many centuries ago. I hope this will not scare you from admitting you have used Windows 1.0 before in the un-likeliest case.

In 1984, the Macintosh operating system popularized the concept of graphical user interfaces. Microsoft saw the trend and quickly responded with the first version of Windows. It was in fact wasn’t so much of an operating system, rather more like an add-on to MS-DOS. The interface was very DOS-like and very difficult to use.

Let’s check out a few screen shots.

That’s the Microsoft Windows 1.01 boot up screen. Looks like Bill Gates really likes blue color… from the boot screen to the dreaded blue screen!

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