Author: Nafcom

Oddcast’s SitePal’s got a new homepage.

Most of you may know them as ICQ Live Devils.

The funny thing: If you click on the SitePal people, they will get annoyed a lot and if you overdo it, suddenly a monster will appear! So funny! =)

BOO! =)

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The new Opera 9.0 Beta 2 is out!

There are not much changes regarding new features, so it’s for its most part just a bugfix release as one can see in the changelog.

The following bugs I noticed got fixed:

-The Pac Man emoticon caused an XML phrasing error after the email got sent.
-The Opera 9.0 Beta 1 regularly crashed for me.

Also new is the new Widget Management which I personally don’t like 🙁

There are rumours that the final version is exspected for June! 🙂

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Hooray! o/ My blog is no longer a spam blog! 🙂

I have just received the following by email:

“Hello Joerg,

Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that it will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and sign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Sincerely,
Karl
The Blogger Team“

That was quick Blogger Team, thank you! 🙂

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This has been for a little while now, but I anyway want to report about it.

“The Whole World Can Talk For Free”. Now this can be taken literally when it comes to USA & Canada, because Skype announced Free calls to all landlines and mobile phones within the US and Canada.

So let’s quote them a bit:

“If you’re in the US or Canada, you can use SkypeOut to call any landline or mobile number in both the USA and Canada for free.

If you’re in the US or Canada and calling any other country, OR if you’re in any other country and calling landline or mobile numbers in the US or Canada, the standard SkypeOut rates apply.

Of course, Skype-to-Skype calls continue to be globally free, so no changes there.

See also the campaign FAQ.“

Isn’t this great? Unfortunately I am not living in USA or Canada :'(

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Since retro is hip lately, let’s have a view on the History of Windows:

And at the end, we even see the future; Windows Vista.

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If you think you know what “Photo Blogs” are, then you are wrong! =)

Have a look regarding photo blogs at this site. They even have a video tutorial showing how it’s done! 😎

Definately unique! =)

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I just found another cool thing, Kinja, which is a kind of directory with very nice info regarding blogs as you can see above, it displays blogs you link an all kind of info all related to your blog! Very nicely done! I like it! 🙂

So, there is always a way to stand out of the growd! 🙂

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The 2nd Tag Cloud – the ZoomCloud uses my blog’s ATOM Feed to compile it with its tags. Especially Mr. Dew thinks it’s a great thing and a big find. but I am not so sure about that, I prefer the Hot Searches bar =)

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Finally, the //beconfused blog has got tags for its posts and also a Tag Cloud. I also wanted one and I just added two of them.
Both of them can be accessed at the top of each page of my blog.

The first cloud is combined with a search engine. It has the following features:

-Each search inquery you enter will result in giving you similar posts from the following sources:

* The //beconfused Blog
* Nafcom’s Crap Blog! (This blog)
* Blog directories
* Websearch results

Where the results from the beconfused blog and my blog are enjoying major priority
The search results also are filtered (2 search results are always in the wild)

Maybe this will cause an increase of visits to the beconfused blog (no worries, it’s not _directly_ searching on his servers =), I was refering to traffic as in “more readers”), but Mr Dew deserves it, because it’s damn good blog! – And we post about similar stuff anyway!

-Once a day, I receive an email with the search criteries you have used, then I can decide which I will let appear on the cloud.

I will keep the blogger search and the technorati search active and working, since I think it’s up to you – the readers – which search you want to use. Also notice that each of them produce different search result.
So, if you cannot find what you are searching for, try one of the others.

I hope that now, that I have Blog Categories, Trackbacks, Backlinks and now finally Tag Clouds added, that it will add a bit more usablity to my blog, since it grows fast and it became – even for me – harder to find old blog entries I seeked!

So; EnJOY! =)

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My blog has been obviously flagged as spam (see: what is a spam blog?) and as you can see on above screenshots, now I have to do Word Verification before my post will get published!

I have requested a human review of my blog and verification that it is not a spam blog. I hope this proccess will happen quickly.

I find it funny how it’s even possible to abuse a spam prevention system like that =)

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