I received an email from Blogged.com today, informing me that they have reviewed this blog and rated it 8.2 out of 10. Well, that's quite an achievement considering the fact that the time and effort being spent on this blog is not significant :P.
The widget on the sidebar is the score badge from Blogged.com. Feel free to rate my blog if you like. Blogged.com is a new blog directory which focus on helping people to discover new quality blog. If you like your blog to be listed on Blogged.com, you may submit your blog for them to review.
If you are using blogger.com as your blogging platform, here's a great tool for you -- Blogger Backup from Codeplex.
Blogger Backup is a free software that enable you to easily backup your blog posts and comments in your local hard drive, and restore them when needed. The software is free. It's one of the project of CodePlex, an open source community.
Why do we need to backup our content for blogger blogs? The answer is for precaution that this message shows up on your blogger account one day:
“This blog has been locked by Blogger’s spam-prevention robots. You will not be able to publish your posts, but you will be able to save them as drafts.”
Blogger.com is aggressively locking out accounts that they suspect to be spam blogs recently. So in case your blog is mistakenly treated as a spam blog, and you are not able to claim it back, you can at least restore your blog quickly by republish everything on a new account.
This is really hilarious.. Indian Superman and Spider Woman.. Watch how they save the world! =)) Can't stop laughing while watching this video.. Hope you enjoy it too :)
I have recently installed two really cool software on my PC. Both of them are free.
The first software is called RocketDock. A "Dock" is simply an application launcher that allows you to easily run your favorite programs that you use frequently. It's a feature that has always been available in Mac OS X but not in Windows XP and Vista (unless you install RocketDock). By installing RocketDock, you will have a bar of icons at the top, bottom or side of your Windows desktop, which looks very much like the dock in Max OS X. Watch this video to see how the RocketDock works.. it's really cool:
The second software is called Dexpot. It's a software that allows you to create multiple virtual desktops on XP or Vista, so that you have more workspace on Windows. Here's the brief description of Dexpot's features:
"Dexpot allows you to create multiple, virtual desktops to increase the work area of your screen by up to 20 times. Each virtual desktop is independent from the others and can have its individual wallpaper, resolution, and icons (or no icons at all). You can easily switch between desktops from the tray icon, or via hotkey, or even use an automatic desktop slideshow that rotates all virtual desktops. In addition, you can move and copy windows from one desktop to another among the desktops, set up rules to automatically move, copy or close windows and more. Dexpot is one of the most advanced desktop managers out there, that is easy enough for beginners, but offers some great flexibility for more demanding users as well."
Again, Virtual Desktop has always been a useful features in the Linux operating system, but not in Windows. But now with Dexpot, we can have this great feature on XP or Vista as well!
It's great to discover all these useful softwares that we can install for free. Thanks to those who created the software, and generously release them for free to the public :)
