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Wow.. Google adsense page is looking damn good after the change they made . Ihad logged in the morning , it was still the same. Just now i logged in and they have this new refreshing look.

awesome .. The new page has a tabbed feature below which explains about getting paid , Customizing AdSense,Where do the ads come from,Show only appropriate ads,how to get started, publishers words……

Recently we have also seen google ads style being changed giving them a new look too..

I checked just again and the new look is gone ..maybe they are testing the new look !! 

So Take a walk into Google Adsense new refreshing look !

[ Google Adsense ] 

Most people are familiar with the Lord’s Prayer. Less known is the aXXo prayer, dedicated to the popular DVD ripper that goes by this name. (found this @ Torrent Freak)             

People who use Torrents & download dvdrips from famous torrent sites might know whom i am talking of …anyway ..here it goes !

Our Ripper, who art on mininova,
aXXo be thy name.
Thy torrents come.
Seeding will be done,
Here as it was on suprnova.
Give us this day our latest rips.
And forgive us our leeching,
As we forgive those that leech from us.
And lead us not on to private trackers;
But deliver us from the MPAA:
For thine is the ripping, the seeding, and the glory,
For ever and ever.

Amen…                                        - Courtesy of “the_dwarfer”

Long Live aXXo !  

Anti-spam specialist maps the spam world

Sophos has published its latest report on the top 12 spam relaying countries during the first quarter of 2007.  Experts at SophosLabs have revealed that yet again, the U.S. relayed considerably more spam than other nations, producing just less than one-fifth (19.8%) of the world's spam.

According to Sophos, the overall volume of spam increased about 4.2% during Q1 2007, when compared to the same period in 2006.

The top 12 spam relaying countries are as follows:

 January to March 2007

 1. United States 19.8%
 2. China (including Hong Kong) 7.5%
 3. Poland 7.4%
 4. South Korea 7.0%
 5. Italy 5.0%
 6. France 4.1%
 7. Germany 3.7%
 8. Spain 3.5%
 9. Brazil  3.1%
 10. Russia 3.0%
 11. India 2.8%
 12. Taiwan 2.5%
 Other 30.6%

"Although the U.S. continues its reign over the dirty dozen, it has reduced its output in the past 12 months," said Ron O'Brien, senior security analyst at Boston-based Sophos. "It's likely that computer users in the U.S. are growing wiser and securing their computers more thoroughly."

"Mobile spamming represents a new method for crooked marketers – many people are used to ignoring unsolicited email spam, but they don't necessarily expect it to turn up on their mobile phones," said O'Brien. "Users who receive spam on their mobile phones should call or email their network providers immediately. Although this type of spamming is on the rise, it only represents a small problem compared to email spam." 

via [ Sophos ]

Related Picture :

A nice picture showing the type of spam we get daily …. 

At Palm's analyst and investor conference in New York Tuesday, CEO Ed Colligan announced that the company was investing in a new Linux-based platform for its line of Treo smart phones.

Colligan said the Linux platform "will build a new foundation for Palm" and give the company, users and developers more flexibility.

The platform has been in development for "a number of years", he said, but emphasized repeatedly that Palm is still committed to the Palm OS and will continue to ship products based on that platform.

Those were the only details provided.

Access purchased PalmSource, developer of the Palm OS in 2005, and last year licensed Palm OS back to Palm. Access then rebranded its version of the platform as Garnet OS and is developing its own Linux version of the platform 

PN:

Other news sources have reported that Palm will introduce products based on its Linux platform later this year. When contacted, Palm was unable to comment on whether these products would be available in the Asia-Pacific region.

via [ cnet ] 

MySpace is at it again ! It has banned use of Photobucket pictures,videos into MySpace..

Photobucket, founded in 2003, has 39 million registered users and ranked 34th among comScore's top 50 U.S. Web properties in March, with almost 16.8 million unique visitors.

Photobucket ranks by far as the most popular photo sharing site in the U.S. with 41.4 percent of visits to sites in that category in March, according to Hitwise.

Photobucket, which lets users store photos, slide shows, videos and graphics on its servers and then link them to other Web sites, receives almost 57 percent of its upstream traffic from MySpace, according to Hitwise.

Photobucket even had exclusive pages like "The most popular myspace icons on Photobucket" etc…

Likely Reason:

Not a word still from News Corp. as to why; though Mike Arrington @ TechCrunch said that it may be because Photobucket is looking for a buyer. Where the photo and video sharing service is to fall into the hands of one of MySpace's main competitors — say Google or another big media company.

From Photobucket's official blog:

MySpace became successful because of the creativity of you, its users, and because it offered a forum for self-expression. By severely restricting this freedom, MySpace is showing that it considers you as a commodity which it can treat as it sees fit.

Is this a bad news to the mashups going on ??How is this ban affecting the users on MySpace ?? Is it too much restrcition?? pour in your comments

Growth takes off in a big way: Jet will have more than 50 per cent market share of domestic air traffic. 

The deal for Jet Airways buying Air Sahara is through. Air Sahara has been valued at around Rs 1,450 crore.
 
Harish Salve, the legal representative of Jet, said Rs 400 crore has to be paid to Air Sahara before April 20.

The deal was signed by Saroj Dutta representing Jet and Pallav Agarwal representing Air Sahara.

[ via News Sources ]

This type of shortening the url is a cool option to avoid long url's while sending a mail or putting a url link on the forums,blogs,websites etc or to some friend or something. I usually use tinyurl which is my favorite. 

I tried some real big url's and it worked out fine. Still its the same thing , i mean the way it reduces the pain of those long url's , the style of shortening is similar to tinyurl. DwarfUrl provides a unique id for everybody (obviously) for every long url .

For example : Long Url : Move cursor here to see the long url.

This loong url is made short like this .:http://dwarfurl.com/281dd

They even have their own Firefox Extension(plugin).

Note : At present their extension doesn't automatically add itself to your toolbar.You must goto View->Toolbars->Customize to add it to one of your toolbars. Go get the dwarfURL Firefox plugin here.

Happy shortening !

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