Editing using Windows Live Writer, Multiple pings
July 1, 2008
I have been using Windows Live Writer as my blog editor. I recently read about getting banned from pinging services and bit worried as I mostly edit my posts or updates using Live writer.
Actually this post is promoting a plugin to avoid pings during edit and I am not sure of the consequences of multiple pinging. If you have any experience on this topic, please comment
Beach In W-Maldives
June 30, 2008
Flash movie created from a divX created by videospin
June 27, 2008
In my previous post I had posted a video which was uploaded to Yahoo video. This video is created in DivX format using videospin and then converted to flash using a free software
Best hair oil to keep your head cool
June 27, 2008
I have been using Navarathna Oil from Himani for some years now. Earlier I was not using any oil before bathing. I used some hair creams like brylcream or Vaseline after bath. Navarathna Oil is an excellent cooler, soothes your eyes, give you a fresh feeling and cool head. As soon as you apply the oil, you will feel the ice cold effect on you head. Other thing what I have noticed is sound sleep. Use Navarathna Oil regularly, you will get some relief from tiredness, and if you use computer for long time, its ideal. I used to have some problems with my eyes after I sit long in front of the computer monitor, but now I spend more time but I do not have any problem.
Just apply to your head and face about 20-30 minutes before bath regularly, you will really notice the difference and the power of Navarathna Oil
Different ways to become famous
June 26, 2008
I was just thinking an easy way to become popular or famous. Suddenly Meenakshi Madhavan , the compulsive confessor came in my mind. Meenakshi became famous, was invited by NDTV for a chat and millions of viewers came to know about her and she is so famous in a very short span of time. I first read about her in a Malayalam magazine called Vanitha.
When I look into my blog statistics, I find lots of searches for Meenakshi Madhavan coming to my previous blog post. Lots of Internet users are interested in knowing about her. Doing great things can make you famous, need not be good thing or things which are useful for the society. Santhosh Madhavan has become famous by taking porno movies doing illegal activities. If you try googling Santhosh Madhavan, you will get hundreds of pages, videos and images. I had been writing pages about Great Indian Legends and when I look into the things that they have done and the time that made them famous are much more than people like Meenakshi or Santhosh Madhavan.
Meenakshi had been writing her personal dairy online for her readers, keeping it public and making it more interesting by reading her readers minds. The incidents which she has written may not be true (her sex life / boy friends , blah blah) but could her fantasies. I feel she is a great writer and she knows how to present things well.
To become a legend, you do things for the country or create history, but to become famous, you just need to do extra ordinary things which can be hot news for a while and time will forget such famous people.
The video above is taken using a canon Tx1 and is of the Hotel Asia Exhibition held in Male’
Videos of Hotel Asia Exhibition in Maldives
June 26, 2008
I got some good videos uploaded at youtube which I had taken at the Hotel Asia Exhibition which was held at Dhurbaruge Hall in Male’.
There were good number of visitors and buyers. The event was well organized and has given opportunities for the Hospitality Industry to exhibit their products and provide information to the buyers
Hotel Asia Exhibition in Maldives - 2008
June 25, 2008
Hotel Asia Exhibition in Maldives was held from 23rd June to 25th June at Dhurbaruge. I have got some pictures of some stalls. Hotel Asia Exhibition is biggest gathering of professionals from Hospitality industry. This event is organized by Maldives Exhibition & Conference Services Private Limited
The Fonterra stall
Sea Food and vegetables
Fresh vegetables
Power of Blogging
June 11, 2008
Have you ever thought about the power that your blog has? Blog is a tool which can convey your thoughts to millions of Internet users. You can create a post and in minutes this is online and your visitors can get your message. Its not just like sending emails to your friends, but its a tool to send message to people who even you don’t know and people who are interested to know about the topic you have written.
News papers days are gone now, you do not need to be a qualified journalist, you can take your camera and shoot some video’s ,compress it and upload to a video hosting site like Youtube, Revver and many more, it goes live instantly. There is no restriction to express your thought.
You find a new information, which you want to share with others who are interested in that particular topic, just post it on your blog. There are lots of social networking sites, like digg, stumbleupon, sphinn, eref, and many more, just post it there and you will find tons of people into your blog.
Once your post is published, search engine spiders crawls your server and indexes the page for relevant searches. When a person Googling for relevant keyword on search engines like Google, Yahoo, the post get listed.
Power of blogging is unlimited, you can create a good social network, create new friends, grow your business, sell your products, earn money and more. Some people blog as a hobby and some are professional bloggers like Darren Rowse, John Chow and many. Darren’s blog, Problogger has subscribers around 48K when I checked last. Can you image, when he does a post, its read by 48K feed readers, has traffic in Millions, the message is spread like fire. When you go through Problogger’s post, you will find that every post in his blog has a good number of commentators. There are real people expressing their views and everything is automated. There is no need to send a post letter to the News paper editor, finally he approves and it’s published in the next issue. This was the past and now no body has time to wait. If you post something online, its really online in seconds. You are the publisher, editor and the first reader of your blog and you have the power to control it.
You do not need to be a programmer to create html pages or write script these days. Just need open source tools like Wordpress or Joomla, or Drupal. You just need to type in the post, insert, images, videos, audio, and click on the publish button and its live. I use Windows Live Writer to update and post new pages on my blogs.
Earning through blogging is another power of a blog. There are lots of bloggers who are full time bloggers and earn from US$ 10K to 40K every month.
I am just trying to explain the power and potential of a blog . Every blog has its own power and potential and needs to used in the right way as there are very less control on a blog or a blogger.
Ships Anchored in and around Male’
June 9, 2008
A small video taken from my home using my canon Tx 1 . This camera has excellent zoom feature and I use this camera for my blog videos. This video is uploaded to my server and I am not using any video hosting for this.
Video Uploaded to Vimeo
June 7, 2008
I just created an account at Vimeo which is another video hosting site. I was googling and found that this site has a better video quality than others, just trying it.
