Colorado Advertising Tax Bill To Be Presented This Week

by DB on January 26, 2010

An Advertising tax bill (House Bill HB-1193) will be proposed in the Colorado legislature this week. If this bill is passed by the Colorado legislature, affiliate marketing will become almost dead in Colorado. A number of companies will rather cut their ties with Colorado affiliates than to collect sales tax. A number of states are [...]

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Free The H-1B’s And See The Receding Economy Of The US Come Back Up

by DB on August 30, 2009

Vivek Wadhwa, a Senior Research Associate at Harvard and visiting scholar at UC-Berkley, has written a guest post over at Techcrunch asking the American President to make it easy for H-1B visa holders to become citizens of the US.
I completely agree with Vivek Wadhwa and feel that the US is actually hurting itself by laying [...]

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No Automatic In Place Upgrade To Windows 7 If You Are On Windows XP Or Windows Vista (Some Versions)

August 7, 2009

Microsoft is scheduled to release its latest Windows Operating System, Windows 7, on October 22, 2009. Windows 7 has received some good review from beta testers and is expected to bring in some big revenue for the software behemoth. Windows Vista had a huge launch, but it left many users unhappy with its features and [...]

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Do Sitemaps & Internal Links Help Search Engines Index More of Your Website

August 6, 2009

There has always been a debate in the SEO industry on the real importance of sitemaps. Some feel that sitemaps are non-essential to SEO as the search engine bots are smart enough to find their way through your pages and index them. I have personally always felt that if you can generate a sitemap for [...]

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Now Spammers Using LinkedIn Social Network To Send Spam

August 4, 2009

Spam email is a problem that has plagued the internet since its invention. Spammers are usually smart people who figure out new ways to spam all of us. Shut a door or two on them and they will find a hundred new doors to still get into your email inbox. They are always a step [...]

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Screenshots & Screen Captures Using Aviary – No Extra Software Needed

July 31, 2009

My favorite screen capture tool is Cropper. Cropper is a light weight utility that gets the job done (but needs the .NET framework) for me. But this new web based tool, called Talon, from Aviary will do screen capture and screenshots of web pages without the need of any specialized software. All you need to [...]

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GMail To Start Allowing Third Party SMTP Servers – No More “On Behalf Of” Emails

July 30, 2009

I can finally start using GMail as the front end for my work email account. Today the GMail team announced that they are enabling support for third party outgoing email servers. Sweet!! This step from the GMail team has definitely made GMail fans like me more than happy. Earlier Gmail used to allow using a [...]

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OpenWith.Org helps find software to open files with unknown extensions

July 25, 2009

There are times when all of us have tough times open files that have extensions that we are unaware of. Your operating system may not have any installed software associated with such an extension and you may be required to download additional software to open such files.
OpenWith.Org comes to our rescue in such a situation. [...]

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Google Joins The Twitter Bandwagon (Twoogling?)

February 26, 2009

Google has now joined the bandwagon and started tweeting on Twitter. You can follow Google at @google on Twitter. The first tweet from Google was geeky and this is what it looked like:
“I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010”
That is binary for I’m F E E L [...]

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Google Adsense Optimization Tips For Bloggers And Webmasters

February 25, 2009

Amit Agarwal (Digital Inspiration) recently presented some of his Google Adsense optimization techniques and tips at the WordCamp conference. He lists out some excellent points on his blog post, which i think every blogger and webmaster should make note of. Adsense Optimization or optimizing for any other ad network is always a trial and error [...]

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