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Happy new year to all our visitor!

Another great finishing as Google updates its Pagerank as a belated Christmas Gift or as a 2009 gift.

This website still maintains its PR3 for one year. I am quite happy because a lot of people are having a drop instead of an increase. I actually felt that it is easier for someone new to create a website and gain a decent pagerank of 3 rather than trying to ask reconsideration from Google to get back your pagerank even though one of my website have not been selling text link and only one paid post is written (and it is removed). Even my personal blog adiwong.com that contains only 4 post had Pagerank of 2 that was not really looking forward for.

Anyhow, it is a pretty good year and hopefully 2009 will be better.

For those who are new pagerank is not that important even if you are making a website that the traffic is very much dependent on the search engine traffic as long as there is sufficient good information for people to search for your website.

The Google’s Gmail team have just introduce a new feature on gmail, which is the option to choose between different theme. It is a cool little function whereby you do not have to look at the same old boring template all day long if you are using Gmail as your daily email for business and personal.

Some theme like Beach and Summer Ocean, that will show a different theme during the day and night. Provided that you have set your location correctly for the correct timing.

Below are two of 31 themes you could choose from.

It is not a big thing, but just fun to change the theme around.

I am a big fan of statistics and I used to check analytics like 10 times in an hour but shortly after, I know that it is not the way. Now I am checking and analyzing my statistics once every 1 to 3 days. Previously I have problem with analytics because I have different analytics account and also access to some of my friends blogs/websites. Previously, when you own an analytics account, other owner will not be able to share their stats with you. Therefore you will have to use another email in order to check the stats.

Today, when I check my stats, I notice some design arrangement changes and I notice a difference in the front page. I have the access to my friends statistics.

After you click on the accounts name, you will proceed to websites that are listed under the accounts.

How did you do on this pagerank update? I have my ups and down on this update. Unfortunately one of my frequently blog have a Pagerank of 0 as of today. Wahlau.NET is one of my earliest domain registered and I like the name because it is slang used in my country. I can’t figure out why does it drop from PR3 to PR0 and kept resubmiting for reconsideration after doing some alteration. Previously, I just link them back to my other websites and my company website. There is no paid link at all. Wonder how the system determine which website violates their Terms and Condition.

My 2 months old New Website is currently PR 3. Not bad for a new website. I will be expecting more submission since it is now with Pagerank and it is rank second for the keyword “Latest Websites”. It does not pass out PageRank to avoid people spamming the homepage, but would generate some traffic for some new website.

There is still no movement at all for this blog, but I am happy with PageRank of 3.

Gmail Custom Time, you could actually alter the date and time an email is sent and best of all you could set them to unread.I just found out about this new feature and there is actually good and bad to it.

Timeline of email communication is actually very crucial, I think this will actually do more harm than good. Especially in business which I use email a lot, what if you have sent someone a good, then sending them a bill which is larger saying that the new prices was already sent on a date.

Even the beta users testimonials is already saying about the harm of it.

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