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Here is the Winner of the Last Month Contest for 1000ec. I selected the winner with Random.
Winner is About Blog Contest.1000ec will be transfered to him as soon as he claim the prize, with in one week.
Otherwise, a new winner will be selected after 7 days.
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Today I read this on Wordpress Official Blog
WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts andpages.
Remember it is the final release after the release of WordPress 2.5 Prelook and Demo
Remember it is the final release after the release of WordPress 2.5 Prelook and Demo and Checkout Wordpress 2.5 RC1. If you have some doubts about its instabilities or you ae worried about its similar issues you can test it locally on your PC.
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Google is now distributing one or two stickers per publisher of any country.
How to Get One for You ?
Simply send us a self-addressed, stamped envelope with enough postage to return 1 oz of sticker goodness to you from their office in California via standard U.S. mail. (Sorry There is not a way to calculate total postage !)
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Blogging being a new hype and on running bussiness nowadays, every one trying to find new ways to have online presence or to earn some money via online advertising, even those with some creative brains are chosing the blogging as easiest platform to work online and to contact their customers.
Blogging is getting easier as new ways are coming for userfriendly blogging experience along with new CMS systems for different needs and types of blogging.
This tutorial is about Installing a CMS locally on Windows Xp, process is same for many of the CMS so here I’ll write about how to install wordpress.
Important Note: CMS need a webserver mysql or php to run, locally this function is done by XAMP Lite. Xamp is a localserver easy to setup, easy to run, easy to tweak. It is so easy that you will install you own wordpress or CMS locally in just 10 minutes.
1. Get XAMP Lite (for Windows) and Install it in “C:\” Drive
2. Browse and go to C:\xampplite there double click setup_xampp or setup_xampp.bat
3. Once that is done, double click xampp-control.exe and click on start the Apache and Mysql services.
Note: Certain errors can resist and service may not start. One error may be about mysql or apache is busy. For that simply go to Start > Run > type cmd a command line interface will open, there type iisreset / stop after 3 sec iis service will be stopped, then try to start that service again. (or get more info on this here).
4. Now open your browser (may it be Firefox, I.E, Safari, Opera etc) and go to this address: http://localhost/. From the menu on the left column, choose your preferred language. Although english is default if your PC is on English language by default.
5. Now that the interface displays a language that you can understand, click on phpMyAdmin (on the left column once again)
6. Enter “wordpress” (without quotes) in the “Create New Database” Field, and select utf8_unicode_ci in the drop down box in the next field (as shown in the picture below). Click on Create. The Xampp setup is now complete.
It is needed by wordpress CMS, for certain other CMS or another wordpress installation, you can name it as you like, simply mention it as it is while in installation process.
7. Download Wordpress and unzip it under c:\xampplite\htdocs.
8. Upto this step we have a wordpress folder in c:\xampplite\htdocs. Browse and go to the folder, and you will see a file named wp-config-sample.php. Open it in your text editor and replace the default values by the ones you as follows (below). Save the file with the changes as wp-config.php (under the same folder). Note we have removed the “-sample” in the file name.
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(’DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password (needs to be empty, just for local install)
define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value.
9. Open browser and go to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php , follow all instructions, and finally you are done with the setup.
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Blogger being a competent to wordpress, and holds a lot more blogs then wordpress but lacks a lot features then wordpress. But users and geeksa are always in search making exciting changes in blogger platform to make as useful and friendly as wordpress is popular for. I also follow such a geek all time that is Jack, his blog his all about blogger and it’s templates and about the little bit hacks. I found a great help through his blog.
So as this time time when blogger introduced the Scheduled Post feature, Jack updated me, but then I was unable to make a scheduled post, I did what Jack wrote there.
But I was amazed to see the blue logo there at what Jack showed there in one of the pic, but was unable to understand. Then at some other blog I found that one should have to be signed in via Blogger Draft, then you can make (actually testing this feature) a scheduled post. Jack please update it.
Finally how to do it
Simply log in to Blogger Draft, select your blog, write a post and change it’s date and time to earlier time and simply post that post, and you are done. Post will appear at right time.
Happy Scheduled Posting.
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Google is everything now on the internet, it is like a mega giant to cater everything from the social services to the personal and blogging platform to the basic searching needs to the video related need of a geek. Geek are also well pampered by it, by its Google Code. SEO techniques are also ON now to take care by webmasters. What else left ? an operating system ! but what if google is already done it or in a way to get that too professionally. Google is working OS with Ubunto and named it gOS.
What is to ponder is the tactic by google for its users in each and every service. It is google manipulated results in its search facility. One is very bad and one is something like good for some but bad for me. Good one first to understand the second one.
Google is very strong in its policies as it shares the main lead in searching, so it dont want to benefit its rivals or competing portals from it. The one most prominent example is of Bitvertiser, it is something not close to google to adsense but it is competant to google adsense in almost many ways as it offers ads in feeds also like google. Even google feed service feed burner can also be integrated with bitvetiser. But try to search this Bitvertiser from GOogle search, not only the bitvertiser pages are deleted even the main page listing is deleted. So pathetic. Consider how many services then be deleted from their search queries, which is altogether a bad user experience. It is against SEO (Search Enging Optimisation).
Second one is also something related to manipulated results. Google by default is now recording the habits of your search to offer you future results according to your searching habbits, it is fine for many users as they really follow their routine, even google depicts this in their yearly zeitgeist. Try to look Pakistan’s searching trends.
So, How it is not good ? Consider me, I user their search engine as the resource center for studying resource for my university assignments and on the other hand as a resource for blogging the tech news at my tech blog, which is although not new or lates but a few days old. What I am trying to say is that my blogging search comes mainly from blogs and from the deep internet websites, but when I search for my assignments I need results from the professional covering websites as well as the language should also be good enough to reckon the authenticity of the material or text content.
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Microsoft has finally released the Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. For standalone installers for x86 and x64 systems. These both updates are in 5 languages English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese.
Microsoft’s words for this release -
“Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to Windows Vista that addresses feedback from our customers. In addition to previously released updates, SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues; supporting new types of hardware; and adding support for several emerging standards. SP1 also will continue to make it easier for IT administrators to deploy and manage Windows Vista.”
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DeanJRobinson, has developed a new wordpress administration theme make the blogging experience more refreshing, although the new 2.5 will be with good looking dashboard with bright colors but if you are already bored with the existing dashboard look try out this theme.
Installation is like another plugin, then unzip it, a folder will appear where you unzipped the plugin, paste this folder in the /wp-content/plugins folder in your FTP Account, and finally activate it from the plugins list under wp-admin. For more info visit this page.
Fluency Admin Theme can be downloaded here. If you are not interested in installing to your main blog, arrange a local installation of the wordpress blog and experience in more risk free manner.
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I at Digital Lounge also designs as freelance but along with the introduction of Entrecard at my site I started to offer my services as a designer in return of virtual money of their system, yes I am talking about entrecards or also known as ec. Below is the another bought banner I designed for the website, Word of Morgon. He is a very nice guy with the tremendous patience. He also respect the opposite person with a great deal. My experience ended with him not so good as I was busy in my other freelancing jobs and chores along with my studies, but he waited far so long. But one day when he asked for the refund, I felt really bad not to serve him and work for him. Then I cut down my time and finally put some effort to make this banner, although it was a as it is described and ordered by the Morgan(that’s what I think is the name).
Morgon, if you are reading this do forgive me for let you waiting for so long and please don’t be Angry Banner Holder ! :P. I really love to design but not with such instances. Design is for fun for me not for making someone hurt only because I got brush to design.
People still can order their designs but in exchange of a post and not from shop of entrecard. But I may also open the shop at any time with reasonable price but for that I need time to design which I lack most nowadays. Blogging is what I only can manage.
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If you can’t wait for wordpress 2.5 or still not satidfies with the pre-look and demo version, then you still got a option to test the RC version, but beaware it comes with instabilities. You need to be brave to take that risk. But here is an option for you all to safely test this unsafe version.
How?
- Simply downloadRC version (Release Candidate) and set-up it on locally. There you can check most of the templates plus one can also play with themes and other risky things.
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Here at Digital Lounge we announce a contest. Winner will win 1000 Entrecard Credits.
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Last date is the 31 March, 08.
Tagged: About Blog Contests, Laura Williams Musings, My Blog Contest, Contest Blogger, The Prize Blog, An Island Review, Contest Beat
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After Wordpress’s so awaited and skipped ver2.4 release, 2.5 is ought to come in late march or in first week of April to reckon the realm of new features along with the stable compatibilities for new and improved languages so as the plugins.
This seems interesting man, so why not have a pre-look of the upcoming rocking version with new colors and interface. Yup, it is available, up and running. Automattic’s Chris Johnston made it available for us.
Try it out here. or Log in with the username admin and password demo, and enjoy the pre released feature !
Remember Wordpress 2.5 would be coming with following features
* New and Improved Dashboard
* All Media Uploader
* Dialog Writing Screen
* Manager
* New Design
* Improved Widget Interface
* New ways of deleting and adding tags
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Among all blog publishing tool including qumana, msn writer, etc I liked the Scribe Fire extension of the Firefox, which quite handy as well as easy to use and add blog of any type and location and almost any blogging platform for easy publishing.
It seems it’s Firefox or it is scribe fire team who read my mind, dont know when but they added the most wanted feature I needed first time I used the scribe (when it was named as performancing), the alignment and in text toggle feature of images and between posts.
Simply put up the extension from the here, open the extension from the firefox status bar by a single click on the golden notepad and by the sidebar add your blog by selecting your own blogging platform tanging from blogger, typepad, wordpress, wordpress hosted even jeeran is there.
Write a post and add tags to the specific post and press Publish. For advanced users one may also see the coding of the post for any changing or lookup.
Enjoy the best publishing platform !
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Here at Digital Lounge I welcome the new month of March with full arms stretched as much as because this is most favorite month in whole calendar as I was born in this month at 22, but this year after spending a leap year, this month would be hectic because of my exams which is most the un-fav thing occurs in my life every 3 months 
Last month I was willing to start and hold a contest but the whole month spent in laziness but in march I would be looking forward towards a contest first then would be concentrating about technology in Pakistan along with a shared attention to my another blog Pakistan Speaks to make its future withstanding..
About February Round up.. last month was very good in so far running adverts, they attracted visitors and advertisers more then January, even the google seems lot more effective this month (hope no effect on leap else I can’t wait for another one ! )
In february month Digital Lounge receives 3,191 visitors with the average of 110 daily ! Quite good though..
Here is links to last month’s each and every post ..
- Leap Year and Leap Day
- … - Flicking the FlickR
- DL Review | Xavier Media Blog
- Be My Technorati Favorite
- Liked The Girl At Project Wonderful
- Yahoo Video, Relaunched
- Happy Valentine, said Internet
- Mozilla introduces third Firefox 3 beta
- My Flirty Soulmate
- Porn Temple
- Product Development Lifecycle
- I can see fine without windows - Flicking the Flic…
- Money Power
- How to Tick People OFF ! : Digital Uslessness
- DL Review | Yimto
- Rasterbator, wow !
- Digital Uslessness
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Today was the Leap Day of the Leap Year 2008. It was the last Friday of the month but amazingly the fifth Friday in single month, which was last observed in 1980 and next will be Inshallah in 2036. Amazingly this month was also started with a Friday and now going to end at Friday too. Being busy I was thinking to at least post something about this occurrence, so here is it another useless post remarking the specialty of this year..
How is it to celebrate the Leap Year ! and where would you really loved to do so? Here is a place which is hosting the 6th worldwide Leap Year Festival from February 28 to March 2 2008. To know more about it check this link. Moreover, history of leap year’s leap day’s is here, go it yourself :D. Do you know February 30 also exists, although temporary but yes it exists about two centuries later the Soviet revolutionary calendar featured February 30 as a result of
an attempt to cut seven-day weeks into five-day weeks and to introduce
30-day months for every working month.
So boring post .. what you think, do comment
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Last week I email the Text Link Add service about in order to approve my website which was in pending since two months or I should say last year.. but today I received their email in reply .. sadly they didn’t liked me.
After reviewing your site, we have decided that at the present time, we cannot work with your site. Please be aware that this should not reflect negatively upon your site, it simply means we do not want to work with your site at this time. Thank you for your interest in Text Link Ads.
We look forward to potentially working with you in the future, we just feel that at the present time, it’s not a good fit for us to work together.
Thank you for understanding.
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Xavier Media BlogAll you need to know as a website owner, blogger or webmaster.
First look? the big black cross or big X as a log fetch my attention.
Advertisement? Hosting Add in banner, Peel-off corner add, and 4 125×125 adds including entrecard.
Rss Readers? Nobody knows, except him, no RSS show-off.
CMS? using wordpress.
Blogroll? yup but in a separate page, with the heading Exchange Links.
How old it is? It is about 2 years and 11 months year old..
Language? good (for general bloggers out there).
Anything else? Rss subscription offer by reader and email is at right place, […]
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Let’s exchange some Technorati Fav, as it quite worth it for fetching vistors to your site. So why not have as many Technorati Favs as much as one could easily afford ! 
Simply follow these steps to do so easily
Simply follow these steps to do so easily
- Add my blog as your favorite by clicking Add Digital Lounge as Favorite from link in the top Side bar orClick here to do so.
- Now comment in this post and let me know about yourself and your link there.
- Now as soon as I receive the comment I’ll be favorite you up also.
How’s it ? not bad either. It’s an easy and simple way to share some love among us in blogging fraternity.
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Mozilla has finally introduced much awaited third Firefox 3 beta, with 1,300 changes allover.
It would be more stable, faster (it is ), effecient in memory tackling, and will be serving varioud operating systems than the previous versions.
First Impression? yup, pages are loading much faster then the previous one. Main feauture of this release is this taht user can view who is owner of the website protecting the pc against sites known to install viruses, and malware.
Where to download ? Ofcourse here, at it’s official homepage.
Many old extensions are not available, but hope will soon be coming to the new 3 beta. One of the mentionable is of one I used to open links by selecting the link, just like selecting files in windows, that has fastened up my browsing a lot, I’ll miss it pr will think to get back to the old one instead of bearing the new one.
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- Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.
- In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sexual favors.”
- Specify that your drive-through order is “TO-GO.”
- If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
- Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.
- Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions “to keep them tuned up.”
- Reply to everything someone says with “that’s what you think.”
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Checkout all 32, HERE
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Nice representation of the a Product development to the marketing strategies and also the user experience. Worth a look.
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Yahoo Video, has been Relaunced with some great content this time. Yahoo is getting cooler and cooler with quality loaded services.
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This is my article published today at Pakmarkaz.net
Being a believer of the fact that “Internet has the solution of everything”, I had always used it to seek help in how to do’s, study, news and analysis, e-zines, even for new seasonal sms greetings and never got disappointed.
These are among few benefits but the term everything comes loaded with all the wanted and unwanted things, from which one can select the wanted and can easily discard the unwanted ones. However on internet you get a limited choice to avoid the unwanted stuff, I am not talking about spam, viruses, hoaxes, but a sad aspect of unwanted bombarded porn and vulgar content from internet disguised in advertisements. Internet advertisements are not up to the standards as of the real bill boarded version. We, average users seek help from internet, via search engines mostly, from where we are redirected to websites with most appropriate keywords, there, with the we experience various advertisements in various forms, shapes, sizes and colors for the sake of some bucks to the owner of the content. Often advertisements are good enough to be viewed but at times we are referred to totally wasted websites with explicit text and content as there are only keywords related to our search query but no content, merely some copied text or pictures.
If content is good enough for user compliance but at along the sides of the page, or at top, or in a big square nearly at the centre of the, we experience a bikini girl showcasing the hotel resort or a beach holiday offer, it send only one message to visitors mind, “We are here to click and this website is for earning bucks only“. New users and the people of lower age group will be attracted more towards such ads, a link which is of no use to them. Lower age group include pre-teen, and teenagers which access internet simply for some basic research of assignments or for online games but along with it their ethics are on risk as bikini girl won’t do any good to them but may earn some cents to website owner, that’s bad really bad to even think and for me to write it here. We should strongly condemn such websites and promote the use of the anti-porn softwares at large, parents should acquire good tactics to avoid such instances, if they are not able to install such a software then they may easily get installed it from market instead of putting their young ones upon the mercy of cruel and non ethical internet world.
If we see and observe Pakistani websites are not far behind in such attack as one of the text link “Pakistan Romance” at ATP (All Things Pakistan) which has nothing to deal with the content of website direct its users to a list of similar links directing to explicit content. I don’t blame the owner simply consider the minds of users going after that add link for no use. Another example I observed at Pak Spectator, this time it’s again google text link “Pakistan girl” referring to same results which are itself not good enough to be displayed.
Google Adsense hold the fair market share in providing such pay per click ads for website publishers, and it is in Google’s own policy not to display adult oriented ads in AdSense in order to protect the publisher’s readers, audience and reputation. Not only advertisements should be filtered by the owner, he should also ask his advertiser to remove them as soon as possible if automated script is used. Other similar advertising websites offer the option to put-off adult and mature ads now it’s the responsibility of the owner of the websites not to select such ads for a good reader and content relationship instead of being selfish and greedy.
In 2006, google listed Pakistan as the most sex-starved country in world; many debates were carried along the Pakistani blogs against and the factors behind it, some felt that listing as a result of only search, some thought it as a conspiracy by the google’s engineered results against the muslim countries, some blamed the lack of sex understanding in people and some quoted the religion factor, but all along it was somehow true that internet is also serving as a porn station which is very bad indeed both as socially and ethically. Amazingly its now Egypt (another muslim country to top the list) but Pakistan(now) is not even in top ten, nor any of our city is listed there.
Many of us may think, websites with porn content are already having the 18+ legitimacy but this can be by-passed easily with a click or just selecting 18+ age or year of the birth, and you are legible to access all mature content. Better try it by selecting adult content ON inside Youtube profile, your all videos will somehow become adult instead of getting the value added videos.
Serving as the major informative resource internet should be filtered by good and positive measures to block the porn on internet are still lacking, possible policies from ISP’s would be appreciated. Every new website should be launced by some policy, to which it would be the responsibility of that website to not only provide good content but also to maintain the quality.
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This is my article published at Pakspectator.com
It’s 14 February again, the much awaited date for the lovers to say each other Happy Valentine and share some nice presents, even on internet we observe many writers and bloggers taking notice about this loved event in their own ways even some social websites and community blogs greet their users with the valentine theme.
This time Yahoo and Youtube have changed their logo to greet their users a ver
y Happy Valentine. It was of Youtube I found first and thought about to post here, but then scaling the logo, I got an idea to check other websites also like yahoo, google, orkut, facebook and my space. Out of all I found Yahoo to also have greeting, but it is an animation of two bird, adoring eachother then the female one kisses the male and a heart pops up..nice na. Hope some other sites also start to greet their users too in this way.
Update: Google has also joined us in valentine theme..
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Today liked the girl at Project Wonderful, it’s a nice advertising website like entrecard, I would galdly be joining it as soon as I confirms it’s compliance with the Google Adsense.
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It’s my article appeared today at Pakspectator.com
It’s valentine time again and I haven’t found anyone ready to be my beloved red-red valentine. That’s not fair at all, every boy in universe have someone to designate as valentine although he don’t care about her after the 14th’s evening. It’s really terrible for me to think myself as lonely crow oh i meant lonely bird to be called as love bird. What to do now? is there any option or place to find a kilo of them, I mean at least only one to come with me, to say all day with me saying some lovely shairies, sending me the love greetings or at least gift me some expensive watch…! It can be fulfilled but unfortunately only in my dreams, sad huh ! 
One should give it a try as “Where there’s a Will, there’s a way”. How’s about pasting a vacancy on the college noticeboard? ATTENTION VALENTINE NEEDED ! or running a compaign on tv .. or spamming it into the orkut communities holding the contests like Beautiful Orkut Girl(not boys), with the main pink tag line …Be a valentine and free appreciation, (nice offer for those who don’t listen many kind words whole day) any one can apply then in the end listing all the restrictions which may include ..
* Apply with 3 model photos with different poses and dresses..
* Age should be not more then 25 
* Should be a girl, no matter how beautiful.
* Apply with the name of gift (required). Gift will be opened before starting dating to prevent frauds.
* Ready to pay date bill
* Should have personal cell no to be contacted (for sms chatting)
* ….more will be provided via sms.
Selected valentine will be awarded with the delicious full packet of Made in Pakistan (not china) Chocolates which are itself the symbol of love sharing and valentine’s standard gift since ages.
It looks nice to market the valentine needs as there should not be anything hidden such a sacred relation.. lol. So here is a way for you all to search for your valentine with a broad approach. Any confusion can be removed by calling +92143143143
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By Baithak.Net
I met money one day. I said, “You are just a piece of paper.”
Money smiled and said, “Of course I’m a piece of paper, but I haven’t seen a dustbin yet, in my life”
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