I have been using Pocket PC for a long time and I use HTC TyTN II right now. I have been using the Push technology for getting my emails pushed to my pocket pc so that I can be aware of the emails as soon as it is on my mail server.

How does Microsoft Direct Push Technology works?

Microsoft push technology was introduced with Windows Mobile 5. If you are using Microsoft push then you are always connected to the exchange server and all the changes are synchronized as soon as a change takes place. When ever you receive an email, instantly you get it on you mobile.

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I use Picasa for editing and enhancing the image quality the images that I take during my travel. Picasa is a free tool from Google. I have been using this software for long time and I am very comfortable using this. Its very simple to you and if you are blogging and want to use the images from your camera or want to enhance the quality of your image, make is smaller for web upload then this is the best and easy one. I had been using Adobe Photoshop which is also one of the best, but its very costly. When you have free tools available, then why do you need to go for a paid tool. Photoshop has much more feature for advance image editing, but we do not need all those feature to edit our images to upload to the blog posts.

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After the victory in SAFF Games by the Maldives Football Team. I was moving around and could see lots of celebrations going on. The citizens of Maldives gave a very warm reception to the victorious team dressed in red color dresses. I have some pictures taken during this time

This is near the Youth centre in Majeedhi maagu

People hired pick-ups and decorated for celebration

A car decorated for celebration

I have been using pocket pc for the past 4 years and these days I always use bluetooth headsets to make and answer calls. I have a good collection of bluetooth headsets.

This is a Nokia headset, good quality reception and good battery life, but bit bulky and not stylish.

This is a Sony Ericsson headset, but the reception is very poor and I really regret to buy this. The advantage of this headset is that its very small and fits well to my ear

This is an excellent headset, very powerful and light, good features and I really like this. One problem I find with this is if you accidentally press the multi-function button, it will redial the last number.

The best that I have, Nokia 800BH, very powerful, like, very clear sound, I highly recommend this

My HTC Tytn II, the best PDA that I have used

I was doing some research on Social Networking Traffic like from Stumbleupon or Digg. Couple of my pages were submitted to Stumbleupon and my traffic really boomed up unexpectedly. I was going through the Google Analytics reports and studying the quality of the Traffic.

What does quality of the traffic means?

Suppose I get a visitor from SU (StumbleUpon) or digg, I found that the visitor hardly spent less than a minute on my website and hardly visited 2-3 pages of my blog. But when I look into a visitor who has come directly to my blog spends 20 minutes and visits about 10-20 pages. I did some googling on this subject and found lots of interesting articles by experts.

Some say even the traffic from search engines are of low quality as they just come to your page and see if they get what they want or just continue with other search results. Looking into this opinion I would like to say is if you have good quality content, the visitor may get impressed and go through other pages and even subscribe to your blog feeds. I usually do this.

My opinion for getting loyal visitors for you blog is to create content which will be useful for your readers and they bookmark your site or link to your posts. I do always link to posts and blogs I like and give the credit to the author. I was reading a post at SEOBOOK which gives some very useful information about the quality of Social Network Traffic

In a post at RandomJabber, the author has described why the social networking traffic sucks. He also feels that the quality of the traffic is very low and of no use for the blog rather than wasting the bandwidth.

One more thing I noticed with Social Networking traffic is the ups and downs in my traffic graph. One fine day, my traffic grows more than 500% and the very next day, it comes back to the same old position. If you do not have a dedicated server, you will even get notice from your hosting company as you may exceed the bandwidth limit. Some sites are down due to such traffic. I would like to recommend this post to be read which is about the results of digging an article called the digg effect

How can a Social Networking Traffic be useful?

If you are selling ads on the basis of impressions then such traffic can be useful for you. Social Networking sites gives you lots of hits, but the conversion or the quality will not be good as I mentioned above. You can sell ads on your blog on the basis of impressions and show your stats to your visitors. My concern about the advertisers is, if they are not happy with the results of the ad campaigns will they renew the purchase? If they are not happy with the CTR or CPA, then they may not be renewing the advertising campaigns. Again the other possibility is that you may get new advertisers who may want to try your advertising program without knowing the results and may use for a month and again they may not be happy with your advertising programs.

My Opinion

• Concentrate of creating good content
• Try to best to provide what your visitors expect from your blog
• Don’t take Social networking traffic as a good growth.
• Track your growth using Google Analytics which will clearly explain you the quality of your traffic

Picture from Kuda Bandos, a picnic island in Maldives

Again its from Kuda Bandos

Its sun-set time

Hmm its me, just returning back to Male’ after the Picnic at Kuda Bandos with the AMDC Team

At AMDC we often go for picnics to nearby islands to have some fun and entertainment. Last year same day we had gone to an Island called Thulusdhoo where coca cola bottling plant is located in Maldives

We planned to reach the Jetty No 1 at 6 am, where we had arranged a speed launch for transfer to Kudabandos

Inside the speed launch

Lunch Time

Chatting after the lunch

The island is full of trees and there are sheds for cooking and having food

Beauty of Kudabandos

Its Kabadi Time

The place is very clean and well maintained

Kudabandos, Maldives, its Jamal on top, taking some rest just before leaving the island

Google is the worlds most popular and most used search engine. When I started using Internet, I was using search engines like Altavista, Yahoo, excite and the search results took so much of time to load. History of Google is not something which I am going to discuss in the post, but to stress that Google is now not just a search engine but they have a wide range of products. Google was co-founded by Sergey Bin and Larry Page, who studied together at Stanford University. Google has grown very high with wide variety of products changing the online experience of Internet users. Interesting advantage of Google is that you do not need to create different accounts to use Google Products. You can use your existing account to sign-in for any Google Product. Another positive feature of Google products are most of the products are free for individuals to use, like the Gmail, which has taken over all the free email share on the world wide web. I am listing all the products here but only the products that I have used or at least spend some time trying to use it.

Google Web Search

Google web search, was the first product launched and this was what made Google. Google search engine has billions of pages indexed and stored in machines in different data centres around the world and can show results in seconds. Google has the worlds biggest network of computers which are custom made by Google. Google search engine is a combination of algorithms, software, hardware and teamwork.

Google Alert

Sign-up for Google Alert and receive emails. Suppose you want to be informed when a new page is listed for a particular keyword, you just need to create an alert for that. You have the option to receive an email everyday or whenever it happens or weekly. This is a very useful service to keeping a watch on the keywords that you are working or you have a site which tops on Google for a particular keyword. This is one the service which I use and I found it very useful.

Book Search

Google Book Search is a search engine for Books. If you want to search for a book, just go to Google Book Search

Checkout

Google Checkout is something like Paypal, you can use this shopping cart to accept payment for your website and considered to secure and spam free. I could not use this as its restricted to users in United States

Desktop

Google Desktop is a desktop application with lots of features. I had used this, but somewhat got bugged up with some features that was slowing down my computer. This is something that everybody can try, but again it depends on the person to person to use it. Lots of widgets are available like the RSS readers and many. I would advice you to download it and try. This application will index all the files locally and show up in the search results.

Google Maps

Google maps is something worth trying. Now you can find many applications, integrating this product.

Google Reader

One of my favourite. I read more than 100 blogs and news sites every day using this product. Just start using it. I have more than 200 subscriptions and I read almost every subscribed feed or at least scroll through the headlines everyday. If you have an habit of different blogs or news site, then you should use Google Reader

Image Search

If you are looking for an image for a particular keyword, just go to Google Image Search

Gmail

Gmail is something which is very popular and I do not need to talk about Gmail here. Gmail was launched only through invitation and after lots of testing, it was opened for direct sign-up. I started my Gmail during the invitation period and had to pay somebody get an invitation and it was worth. The best feature that I like about Gmail is the search feature. You can find all the latest features of Gmail here.

Google Docs

Google Docs, growing with new features everyday. You can create docs online, share it with your friends, save it for your future use. The advantage is that your document is online and you can use it anytime anywhere. One of the feature I use the most is converting my documents to PDF format, which is very easy here.

Google Groups

Something which I used long back. Its again a community building tool

Orkut

Orkut is a very popular site among youngsters. I have not used this much, but heard a lot about this

Google Talk

Goolge talk is one of the most popular IM today. This is integrated with Gmail and its very useful

Translate

Transalate any page to any language, a great feature which should be useful to everybody

Youtube

Youtube was acquired by Google in October 2006. Youtube is the most popular video sharing site, where you can upload your videos, share it and even embed a youtube video to your website, but just inserting a few lines of code.

Google Earth

Want to see the picture of the place where you stay, yes Google earth can show you that. Google earth has pictures of earth stored with them and frequently updated. Just type the address and see the 3D picture of the address or building.

Google Mobile

Most of the Google products are mobile friendly. I use Gmail, Web search, Reader which has mobile version

Picasa

Picasa is a photo editing and sharing software

Google Analytics

A tool to monitor the performance of your website. A must use tool for webmasters / bloggers. Google Analytics tracks your visitor details, web page information, statistics, traffic sources, search engine rankings, keywords, referral websites and almost everything.

Google Adwords

Google Adwords is an advertising program where you can do advertising campaigns for your products. I should say that Google Adwords is dominating this service and has good results. I have been using this for the past 2 years and have done lots your mistakes in beginning and lost money. But now I know how to run a well tuned campaign to get the best out of it.

Google Adsense

Last but the best money maker of webmasters. Sign-up for a Google adsense account and show ads related to the pages where the ads are shown. This is the feature that I like the most.

Google has contributed a lot to the online world since it has showed its online presence. Google has acquired top companies like Feedburner, Doubleclick and its growing on and on.

Recently it has launched a new product by Invitation - Google Ad Manager, where you can manage your website advertisement. This is again just by invitation. I have requested for an invitation, but still no response by Google. I will come back with a post on Google Ad Manager if I get an invitation

Branford Magazine Theme

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This theme is mix of Brain Gradner’s revolution theme

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All these themes are of very high standards and worth using.

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