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Our Blog has become one of our treasures and if we are not serious about taking proper care of it, then you are inviting trouble. Or technically, I should say hackers may harm us.

But yes, we have so many tools to support in our Blog Security. But again it depends how we are using it.

Here are few of the points that might be handy in terms of securing your blog…but before you make any changes according to the points below, back up your blog, just in case you need to undo the changes or additions.

Keep an eye on WordPress Release Notification
It’s very important to stay updated on al latest releases (WP and you Plugins). If you are not acting immediately on the available updates, but make sure you are not publishing anywhere. I have seen many commenting on various posts about their delay and hold offs. In case if you are updating late, remove version listings from your templates that could announce what version you are running, and possibly alert hackers to exploits you have available. Make sure when updating your install of WordPress to read the Upgrading WordPress section of the codex.

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Mixx have been working on a Facebook app for a while now, and finally they are up and ready. So now you don’t have to leave Facebook to submit, comment on and share content from around the web, and you can share with your Facebook and your Mixx Friends at the same time. And by setting your Facebook Interests you’ll get the stuff you want delivered right to your profile page.

It’s easy to link your existing Mixx account to your Facebook account or to create a Mixx account and, once you do, voila! It’s a MiniMixx! You’ll be able to:

• See your contacts, your faves, even your Mixx profile
• Find out what’s popular on Mixx: video, stories, photos and tags
• See which of your Facebook friends is also a Mixxer
• Invite Facebook friends to join Mixx
• Find out if any of your Mixx Groups have crossed over
• Take the shortcut to a Facebook version of the MixxLounge and see the Mixxers who are also on Facebook and the number of Karma points they have

You can check their Facebook Application here.

Google has come-up with a new trick to pull all the Money from ours Pocket. Google Adwords is launching a Automatic Matching feature in beta version on 28th Feb’08.

Automatic Matching automatically extends your campaign’s reach by using surplus budget to serve your ads on relevant search queries that are not already triggered by your keyword lists. By analyzing the structure and content of your website and AdWords campaigns, we deliver more impressions and clicks while maintaining your current CTRs and CPCs.

For example, If you sold Nike Shoes on your website, Automatic Matching would automatically crawl your landing page and target your campaigns to queries such as: “shoes” “nike” “athletic”, etc., and less obvious ones such as “slippers” that our system has determined will benefit you and likely lead to a conversion on your site.

Be assured that automatic matching will try to never exceed your budget. If you’re already meeting your daily budgets, automatic matching will have a minimal effect on your account.

The broad match feature of Adwords is already bad enough to kill small Business. Now they’re offering you the exciting opportunity to bleed every penny of your budget every day, advertising against keywords that you didn’t want to bid on.

Data’s are getting very difficult to protect from the dangers posed by computer viruses. These malicious programs have evolved into multiple forms and can harm you in multiple ways, including opening email attachments, clicking on spam or by visiting corrupt websites.

On the brighter side, just as viruses have grown in strength and complexity over the years, so also have the tools used to combat them. With the latest generation of anti-virus software, you can give your computer a level of protection never before possible.

Today’s best anti-virus software come with multiple virus scans, allowing you to schedule scans in advance, giving you access to a variety of location-specific scans and even real-time scanning, which scan your computer every few minutes for viruses—stopping them before they can do damage.

Top anti-virus software should be easy enough for a computer novice to both use and install. Here are the few points that should be considered while choosing the Software.

• Ease of Use
• Effective at Identifying Viruses and Worms
• Effective at Cleaning or Isolating Infected Files
• Activity Reporting
• Should provide Absolute Protection.
• Ease of Installation and Setup
• Help Documentation

 Here are the Next Top 50 Sites for India. The Top 50 can be found here.

Starware.com

Allows you to search the Web using their Toolbar.

Hi5

Offers a profile page, a friend request feature, photo storage, music reviews, video, and email.

Icicibank.co.in

ICICI Bank official Website

Sulekha

Online Indian community with classifieds for 60 cities worldwide, matrimonials for Indian professionals, tickets, petitions, weblogs and news.

Torrentz.com

Search Engine for Torrents.

About

Directory features links, articles and reviews.

Amazon.com

Amazon.com seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices.

AOL

America On Line’s portal, offering search, shopping, channels, chat and mail.

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Here are the Most popular Bit Torrent P2P Software. This List is compiled from hundreds of user comments and reader suggestions.

• uTorrent
  Known as both “u-torrent” and “micro torrent”, this is the most popular torrent tool today. uTorrent has all the functions a torrent downloader will ever need, and it only requires 1 MB of hard drive space and memory. uTorrent has all the downloading and seeding performance of its competitors, but with minimal impact to the rest of your computer’s speed.
• BitComet
  Good, but losing popularity to uTorrent
• ABC
  Another very popular Torrent client
• BitLord
  A popular tool that has a built-in torrent search engine…you may never need to use a torrent search web site ever again with this product
• TurboBT
  Nice-looking GUI appearance with this package
• Azureus
  A Java language client; was considered “king” of the torrent programs until uTorrent software came along and took that crown away. As with uTorrent and any other software you install, ensure that you virus scan.
• The Original BitTorrent Client
  Authored by Bram Cohen himself; no fancy GUI here, but it downloads quickly. Recommended for programmer types and Macintosh users

Yahoo!

Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.

Google India

Indian version of this popular search engine. Search the whole web or only webpages from India. Interfaces offered in English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil.

Google

Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company’s focus is developing search technology.

Orkut

Social networking and discussion site operated by Google.

Rediff.com India Ltd.

Online portal with free e-mail and many other services.

YouTube

YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!

Blogger.com

Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.

Windows Live

Search engine from Microsoft.

RapidShare

Users can upload up to 100 meg files for sharing. Provides downloads of 100 megs per hour on the free service. Premium service also available.

Wikipedia

An online collaborative encyclopedia.

Facebook

A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.

MoneyControl.com

MoneyControl.com is India s leading financial information source. It s the official site for CNBC TV18, and provides news, views, and analysis on equity / stock markets, commodities, personal finance, mutual funds, insurance and loans.

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I was looking for a Registry Cleaner Software for myself. We all know finding a application for Vista is tough and this time it was no different.

Why do we need Registry Repair Software?

Everyone loves to see their PC Fast and Furious. And for the same we need to keep it healthy and wealthy and for that PC’s Registry should be nourished properly.
Registry Repair Software can clean up your registry to make it quicker, fix a recurring error or broken link, or catch early signs of severe problems.

The most important thing to remember when selecting a registry repair utility is that safety is the most critical issue. You may end up removing vital pieces of information that can destroy your entire system if you are not careful.

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• Winning isn’t everything. But wanting to Win is.
• You would achieve more, if you don’t mind who gets the Credit. 
• When everything else is lost, the Future still remains.
• Don’t fight too much. Or the enemy would know your art of War. 
• The only job you start at the top is when you dig a Grave.     
• If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for Everything.  
• If you do little things well, you’ll do big ones Better.       
• Only thing that comes to you without effort is Old age.        
• You won’t get a second chance to make the first Impression.    
• Only those who do nothing do not make Mistakes.      
• Never take a problem to your Boss unless you have a Solution.  
• If you are not failing you’re not taking enough Risks.
• Don’t try to get rid of bad temper by Losing it.     
• If at first you don’t Succeed, skydiving is not for you.       
• Those who don’t make mistakes usually don’t make anything      
• There are two kinds of failures. Those who think & never do, and those who do & never think.
• Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to Win.        
• All progress has resulted from unpopular Decisions.  
• Change your thoughts and you change your World.     
• Understanding proves Intelligence, not the speed of the learning.        
• There are two kinds of fools in this World. Those who give advice and those who don’t take it.   
• The best way to kill an idea is to take it to a Meeting.       
• Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.  
• Friendship founded on business is always better than business founded on  friendship.

The way things are moving on the Web, it’s time for Small Business to come out from their own shell and shed the mindset for being small. Internet is big and vast and it’s not the race between the Big and Small Business for the bigger pie, it’s a race for those who think big and act accordingly.

Yes, one of the biggest problem with the small businesses have when it comes to growth is that they maintain a small business mindset. The time says “ACT NOW”. With the growth in Online Sphere, now small businesses can easily compete against the big guys on more of a level playing field than the offline world allows.

It’s not how big you are, but how smart you can be with your money. It’s not about reaching on top, thing that matter is how much you are getting in your kitty.
As a small Business unit, you need to think upon your chances and effort you need to take. It’s always better to learn from your Superior. You cannot do all kind of things which Big Unit does, but you can take lessons from what they do and determine how best to scale them into your plan. In compare to Big Units, one of the slightest advantages Small Business is adaptability. Think big, move fast, and invest in areas where your larger competition is overspending and underperforming.

Over the Online Sphere, you don’t have to be that Big to win the battle. All you need is take calculated risk, be wise and keep yourself updated.