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Google has released an updated version of its Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer.

* The new Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer lets you Add gadgets to your Toolbar to view your favorite content from any site.

* You can also fill out web forms with a single click all due to a much improved AutoFill which also lets you keep multiple profiles.

* You can also access your Google Toolbar from any computer and restore your settings by saving your settings to your Google account.

* Another amazing feature is the ability to clip content as you browse through the web. You can store this content in your Google Notebook which is now fully integrated with the Google Toolbar.

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While many of your readers may not be familiar with RSS, almost all of them are familiar with email. Expand your subscriber base by delivering your content in a format familiar to them.

Nourish is a next generation newsletter service which allows you to take any RSS feed from content you publish (like this blog), and convert it into an automated email newsletter readers can subscribe to. This way, you can focus on creating great content and let Nourish take care of the rest.

Nourish allows you to manage as many campaigns as you want. Each campaign represents a different newsletter that your readers can subscribe to.

Managing a large list of subscribers is effortless. The opt-out process, as well as subscribing/unsubscribing to individual campaigns can be completely automated.

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The much awaited Beta 2 for Firefox 3 has been released and is available for download.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

* Protection from cross-site JSON data leaks, tighter restrictions on site-specific content using effective TLD service, better presentation of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, version checking for insecure plugins.

*Improved ease of use through: better password management, easier add-on installation, new download manager with resumable downloading, full page zoom, animated tab strip, and better integration with Windows Vista, Mac OS X and Linux.

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A high PageRank means Google tends to give the content on your site that much more importance. A high PageRank would also mean that your content will rank higher in search results.

Following is a list of sites who attained perfection with a PageRank 10.

1. Adobe : http://www.adobe.com

2. Apple : http://www.apple.com

3. Blogger : http://www.blogger.com

4. U.S Dept of Energy : http://www.energy.gov

5. U.S Govt Official Portal: http://www.firstgov.gov

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Matt Cutts of Google gives a great interview about Search Engine Optimization and also the improvements made by WordPress 2.3 specially the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) improvements and other canonical URL improvements that went into the latest version of WordPress

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If you are one of those lucky people to have GMail 2.0, Gmail chat now gives you the option to integrate the popular AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) with your GMail account allowing you the option to chat with your AIM buddies right inside GMail. Your AIM buddies will populate your Gmail Contat list and you can search for them just like your GTalk contacts.

Once you’re signed in, just click the down arrow next to your status message and select Sign in to AIM. If this is your first time connecting, you’ll be prompted to enter your AIM screen name and password. Click Connect to continue.

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Wordpress by default displays all the pages and the sub-pages you create in the main menu or the navigational menu of your blog. However, there are situations where we don’t want certain pages from being displayed on the main menu but still retain their functionality. Sometimes when you have too many pages in your blog, your navigational menu starts overflowing from one horizontal line into two and more …

In the article, I will tell you how you can hide pages in WordPress and prevent them from showing up on the navigational menu of your blog.

Method 1 : Write and save a page as a Draft

Yes, this simple method lets you retain all the functionality of a page. You can still access this page by searching for it and this page will still be accessible if you type in the URL of that particular page.

So, create a page as usual and then under Page Status menu on the right hand side, choose Draft and hit save
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The key to any successful blog and while you are at it, making money online is your Site Traffic. Quality articles contributes to increase in site traffic. However, the Blogosphere has become huge with almost 200,000 new blogs everyday. So, how do you let people know of the quality content on your blog.

Enter BlogRush to the rescue. BlogRush is one of the fastest and Easiest way to instantly increase site traffic and drive a flood of targeted readers to your blog .. Absolutey Free!

How does BlogRush work?

BlogRush is a “Cooperative Syndication Network”. When you sign up at BlogRush, you run a “widget” on your blog. Each time this widget is loaded, it will contain 5 clickable headlines to other users’ posts. Visitors to your website can launch these related posts in a new window. This is sorta like sphere, which provides related content to your blog.

How would BlogRush increase your site traffic

Being a syndication network, your blog articles would be posted on thousands of related pages on different blogs bringing in traffic from all those blogs and also added promotion. Now, if you run the BlogRush widget on your blog, which gets say an average of 1000 page views / day. This means that headlines from your blog will be viewed 1000 times on other blogs running the BlogRush widget. Everytime you refer another blog to the network and say that is a popular blog with 10000 views, you will get your headlines shown 10000 + 1000 (your traffic) = 11,000 times. And then someone gets refered from their link, you get your headlines displayed based on their traffic too. This can go on upto 10 generations.

Still confused … check out this video which explains how BlogRush works and learn how this powerful service works to exponentially increase your site traffic.

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If you are a webmaster or have your own blog, uploading and sharing pictures from your own or hosted webserver usually is a pain especially if you exceed bandwidth limitations and you end up paying extra money to your host ISP. To avoid all this, I use Flickr and before that I used to use Photobucket.

I have come across this free service called Shareapic which not only matches the quality levels and ease of use of Flickr and Photobucket but goes a step further that makes it different from the rest. You also get to make Money $$$ simply by sharing your photos online. When you host a picture gallery on Shareapic, you can shown this gallery to your family and friends and also to your blog visitors. Every time someone views a picture, you get paid.

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If you are getting a database error like this after upgrading to WordPress 2.3

WordPress database error: [Table ‘yourdb.wp_post2cat’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT cat_ID AS ID, MAX(post_modified) AS last_mod FROM `wp_posts` p LEFT JOIN `wp_post2cat` pc ON p.ID = pc.post_id LEFT JOIN `wp_categories` c ON pc.category_id = c.cat_ID WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ GROUP BY cat_ID

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 67

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 68

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 69

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 391

The cause of these database errors where wp_post2cat does not exist is due to a single plugin which is not compatible with WordPress 2.3

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