Earlier this month, Microsoft’s distinguished engineer Eric Traut gave a presentation at the University of Illinois about Microsoft’s virtualization technology. He also talked about where the Windows core is going and ended with a sneak peek at the kernel of the next version of Windows (Windows Vista successor), known by the exciting codename of Windows 7.

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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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