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I’m riding the wave of gravatar fad today.
I haven’t fully implemented the gravatar in my comments posts and I still have to customize much of it. Check it out later when you leave a comment.
So what is a gravatar? Gravatar is Globally Recognized Avatar.
Simply put: When you leave a comment on a weblog and provide your email address, the weblog can use your email address to look up your avatar. Since the collection is available to anyone, a single avatar image can represent you across many different weblogs.
Register an account today. All you need is an email address and a small square picture. 
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Man, i wish i can have one of this.
Sana rin may pirated versions ng dvd games. hehe
I’m a little delayed with the upgrade. Didn’t know WordPress released an upgrade 6 days ago.
I encountered a database error while upgrading, but if you can read this new post, chances are things are still going smoothly.
I’ll be trying to contact my host later and ask why I can’t access my MyPHP panel here in ePinoy.
Shamelessly ripped from TimYang
Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. Here are my favourites (please let me know if there are better services and I’ll update). I use this list to convince people to start using an RSS feed reader. There’s more to RSS than just weblog syndication and news aggregation.
- Get the news as it happens from multiple news sources
An RSS feed reader is an aggregator of numerous feeds from news sources (and nearly every major paper and TV news network has RSS feeds today). But now there are even feeds that aggregate other feeds. The new RSSmix.com lets you combine all the news source RSS feeds into one single feed so you get news as it happens.
- Collect your email from all your email accounts in your RSS reader
Easily done with mailbucket.org. And each Gmail account has an RSS feed too. Or if you’re a user of Mailinator.com, then you’ll be glad there’s a similar service called dodgeit.com but with RSS feeds.
- Track Fedex packages
Ben Hammersley says Just add your tracking number to the end of a special RSS feed address.
- Get notified of bargains at Ebay
RSSauction.com lets you specify the type of product, its description and even the price range in their customised Ebay feeds.
- Get stock updates
There have been various paid services and limited unpaid ticker services around. Tim Bray made a customisable feed. Yahoo is introducing its own RSS ticker service.
- Get the weather reports
Weather Underground has the weather of every city and town in the world. And each of them now has an RSS feed. Alternatively, there is RSSweather.com.
- Find out what people are saying about you, your company or your product online
Services like technorati.com and pubsub.com offer something that’s popularly called persistent search delivery. You type in a search term such as your name and or your company name or product name and they will return the newest indexed references to you in a customised RSS feed. Both services scan blogs. If you want persistent search delivery from a broader range of sites, you have Googlealert.com.
- Get music, radio programs and TV clips
Now you have podcasts and directories like podcastalley.com that also serve the latest podcasts in several RSS feeds. And increasingly, like Comedy Central’s Daily Show, broadcasters are finding it effective to promote and deliver their shows in RSS. Videobloggers now have a community website called Mcfeedia.com that adds tags to video blog RSS feeds.
- Stay updated on someone’s schedule
RSScalendar.com lets someone input new events and meetings on their schedule for free. And if you pick up the RSS feed for that schedule, you’re always up-to-date on what’s going on in that person’s day.
- Get cinema schedule updates
Quietly getting popular, a movement led by small local cinemas like City Cinema, rather than big cinema networks. But the bigger cinemas are delivering updates via email and these can be converted into feeds by mailbucket.org.
- Read your favourite comics
Many daily and weekly comic authors publish online and have an RSS feed. Dilbert of course has one. Best way to locate the feed is to type in the name of the comic into either Feedster.com or Bloglines.com (both are great RSS feed directories). And even if your favourite comic doesn’t have a feed on its website, a good comic will have someone somewhere creating an unofficial scraped feed. Comicalert.com has a large updated list of both official and unofficial RSS feed list of hundreds of comics.
- Find out what other people surfing
I don’t mean spyware. A lot of people use online bookmarks which they make public. Places like del.icio.us, feedmarker.com, furl.net and the new wists.com are online bookmark services that create RSS feeds for each user.
- Automatically backup your weblog posts
If your RSS feed is being picked up by an online feed reader service like Bloglines.com, they will store all your entries on their server. Unfortunately, they don’t have an export feature. But at least all your entries (if you have full entries in your RSS feed) are safe and dated.
- Get software updates
Popular software downloads sites like Download.com and versiontracker.com let you keep up with all new releases via RSS. So you can also be alerted when your favourite softwares have a new version or when there are better releases.
- Get the latest bittorrent files and ahem, p*rn
As they say, if its worth something, it’s worth more illegal. Bittorrent directory Torrentspy.com was the first to have an RSS feed that lets its users know what has just been uploaded. And the online p*rn industry, being always on the cutting edge of online business, was probably the first to take to blog CMSes and use them to generate traffic through RSS feeds. I’ll refrain from linking to one here, but it just takes a Google search to find several.
I’m into podcasts nowadays. It’s much like an RSS feed but instead of delivering texts to your aggregator software, audio files will be delivered to you. These are 20-25mb mp3 files delivered to you.
I’m currently subscribed to Leo Laporte’s podcast. Leo is a pioneer of the now defunct show The ScreenSavers Show and Call for Help. Both shows were aired at Studio23 a few years back. They already have 4 mp3s up for grabs from the same site. Obviously, the ’show’ is all about tech stuffs. One thing I like in this method is that I can multitask of hearing the latest news and working at the same time. I still have my feeds subscribed but sometimes I find it hard to read all of ‘em.
Another thing I found out is that you don’t really need a third party software to download the podcasts. Just figure out the direct link of the mp3 file and then you’re good to go. Like so: Fourth Episode of This Week in Tech, this is a 25mb download therefore dialup users are forewarned. The downside of this method is that you have to constantly check the main site if a new podcast is being offered. Leo’s podcast is delivered every monday (Tuesday in the Philippines) so I’m pretty much confident that I will not be left behind.
There are tons of sites which offers podcasts. Here is a per category listing and here is the top 50 podcasts. Try to download one and see if you’ll like it. Some mp3’s are only 5mb which basically plays for about 10-15minutes. Mostly are 32-64kbps as opposed to music files ranging from 128-192kbps.
I’m currently on the hunt for good humor podcasts. I have downloaded few standup antics but they are not that funny. I’ll tell you if ever I find one.
From BBC News
Bogus blogs snare fresh victims
Cyber criminals are starting to use fake blogs to snare new victims.The bogus web journals are being used as traps that infect visitor’s machines with keylogging software or viruses.
Filtering firm Websense said it had found hundreds of bogus blogs baited with all kinds of malicious software to snare the unwary.
Websense warned that the baited blogs could get past traditional security measures that try to protect people from malicious programs.
Just be wary when you are blog hopping and consantly puts your email address and *password* to be able to comment. Scammers grab these passwords and will jump in to your accounts. This is especially true if you are using the same password all over the internet.
This is not to brush off people commenting to blog sites. The thing is, identities and passwords are easily stolen when you are gullible enough to give sensitive informations.
I sure do not know what to do with the 1gb mail space Gmail initially offered. And now, Google is making news again. They just upped the storage capacity to 2gb. Now, that’s a lot of mail space. Yahoo offers it’s 2gb mail for some amount while Gmail is doing it for free!
Problem with Gmail is that it is not folder driven. I am so much used to moving mails to its proper folder. I haven’t got the chance to use it’s labelling feature too. And when I tried to use the POP3 feature, my outlook at the office can’t download my Gmail account. But still, I am using Gmail as my primary true identity web based account. 
Apparently, I have 50 Gmail invites and since I have 2 Gmail accounts, I have a hundred Gmail invites all in all. So now my problem is what to do with these 100 Gmail invites. I used to have 6 for each account and I have given them away to my friends.
Hit me a mail if you want one. 
Whew.
Thought I might lose my data when I upgraded my WordPress version.
Version 1.5 Strayhorn is available now. I’ll take time to upgrade your WordPress versions if I can find time (yes the four of you).
The one problem I easily encountered was the style I have been using. Buti na lang at naibalik ko pa rin kaya parehong theme pa ang nakikita nyo. Hehe.
OK. Fun’s over.
Back to work.
