It seems like I’m using Twitter more and more every week. I am following tibipuiu and I read his tweet yesterday about Google updating the PR. In the next few minutes I was checking my blog’s PR. Nothing has changed. However yesterday in the early afternoon I noticed that the Live PageRank Firefox addon was showing me a PR2. The next thing I know, I was on Daniel’s blog (because I knew almost for sure that he’ll mention this event) and I was reading his post about it. I decided to let things settle in their place and check them out today. This blog is online for a couple of months and it jumped from PR 0 to PR…

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Daniel Scocco over at DailyBlogTips had an admirable idea of entitling 1st of May as the “RSS Awareness Day”. He wrote about his initiative and invited everyone to get involved. Though I found out about this quite some time ago I didn’t had time or I wasn’t in the mood to write about it. However today I’ve said to myself that it’s better later than never.

I think that the best definition for RSS out there is over at Wikipedia so I’m going to quote them:
RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts. An RSS document (which is called a “feed” or “web feed” or “channel”)…

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Great news ! Finally your wait has ended. I’m more than sure that folks that are using the K2 theme were very anxious and waiting for the next version that would be compatible with Wordpress 2.5.

For example I know a couple of guys that were patiently waiting for the latest version of K2 as this was their only reason because of which they delayed the upgrade of Wordpress on their blogs.

I used this theme for quite a lot of time on my other blog and actually created a modified version of it. I must say that this is one of the greatest themes out there with hundreds of customizing possibilities available. I strongly recommend it to people who don’t…

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I like to offer you all tips regarding different monetization opportunities because I know how hard it is to find some truly working systems that are playing fair. I would like to introduce you SocialSpark. It is a relatively new system about which some of you may have already heard. So what is this so called SocialSpark all about ? Well, at first it may seem like just another pay-per-post company. Fortunately it is way more than that.

SocialSpark offers you two monetization opportunities: sponsored post and blog sponsorship. What is truly original about it is that it acts just like a social site. Under its wings bloggers and advertisers create an interesting community. Everyone has an ordinary social profile….

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As we all know, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is now available. I can’t wait to install the new release as I am a huge fan of Ubuntu. I still remember my first encounter with Ubuntu a few years ago. A good friend of mine handed me a copy of Ubuntu he received in his mail. I can’t remember the version but I know it had two CDs in the case: a live and an install CD. Since then I started playing with it and never got bored. Fortunately I had a little of experience with Knoppix and Red Hat. Also now I know my way pretty well in SuSe, Fedora Core and Mandriva. However Ubuntu and SuSe, both have…

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I was writing a post a couple of days ago about how great FeedReader3 is. It’s definitely a neat tool when it comes to concentrating all your subscriptions in one place and handle them as you like. But what happens when you are using Ubuntu or other linux distros ? Unfortunately most of the alternatives that try to offer the same services as a Windows application don’t succeed (of course there are a few exceptions).

So what I will try to do is to pretty much compare a linux feed reader alterantive with FeedReader3. Currently i am using SuSe 10.3 and Ubuntu 7.10 and I have installed Liferea on both. It works like a charm. Unfortunately I am not aware…

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Nowadays data backup seems to be of great importance. Isn’t the backup process alone, a proof of the lack of confidence concerning the reliability of computers ? As the need of backups grows because more and more companies, home users, etc. want to eliminate the risk of loosing their precious data, we can regard this growth as a lack of confidence or simply as a matter of awareness concerning loss of data.
My backup experience
As I have limited knowledge related to backups that involve more than 20 machines I will focus more on backups for home users. Related to home made backups I recall my first experience dated back in 2002. I remember I was then using Microsoft Window 2000…

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If i keep writing articles related to phpbb i might turn this blog into a “phpbb howto” site.
Unfortunately there are too many platforms, programs, scripts and other cool stuff to write about. However phpbb3 is truly the best open-source forum out there. It is almost as good as IPB is, but of course there are some features that you can’t have without paying for them or coding your head off. In the end the “good” label is just a matter of personal opinion.
So why use RSS instead of email subscriptions ?
Power of choice. That my friends, has a tremendous power. I’ve been interacting with forums for many years now and early in 2006 i started to help a friend…

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What is Feedreader ?
“Feedreader is a FREE RSS news aggregation solution that provides robust, state-of-the-art features in an intuitive, user-friendly environment.”

I think that pretty much covers it all. A good application, just like any other product or service will speak for itself. Basically this neat app has everything a feed reader should have. For the beginning you should know that this is not a web-based feed reader like Google Reader or many others. No, this is a 100% desktop application that collects your feed data and serves it to your delight.
What is so cool about it ?
The structured way of interaction, the user-friendliness, the easy-to-follow, non-intrusive grouping of news makes everything so easy with FeedReader3. I honestly think that…

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I just wanted to check out something related to my AdSense account and i noticed that the Google AdSense page was temporarily unavailable. However no reason was exposed.

I am looking forward finding out what determined this issue.

LE: it crossed my mind to check out their blog and i found out that this was a scheduled maintenance. You can read it on the official AdSense blog. Depending on your time zone you won’t be able to access your account at a certain time.