Rice Blogger

Big boys such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft seems to be so hungry to own the Internet. The seems like buying every great new invention out there. Yahoo! bought MyBlogLog has only happen recently and now Facebook may be sold to Microsoft.

I would actually thinks that Facebook is cramp with too much application as they have open up their API for developers to have programmed some application which is compatible with Facebook, you must have heard of some Vampire application or some poking application if you have a facebook for quite some time now.

This may be how the new logo of Microsoft Facebook Live may look like

BTW, Wordpress 2.3 is officially out with some extra functions. Download latest wordpress.

BlogRush is actually not quite suitable for a new/low traffic blog, but I will give this headlines changing trick a try before calling it quit. This is a pretty neat trick which I have discovered from John Chow.

It is pretty easy and you are in control of your headlines at all time. Originally, Blogrush only publish your latest post when it is your turn to redeem your syndicate credit. But this method allow you to control to your exact post, and it just take you a minute to edit the file each time.

Here is what you need to do.

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″ ?> <rss version=”2.0″>

<channel>
<title>RiceBlogger at Work</title>
<link>http://www.riceblogger.com</link>
<description>My Bowl of Rice</description>
<language>en-us</language>

<item>
<category>BlogRush</category>
<title>Learn to change your Blogrush Headlines</title> <link>http://www.riceblogger.com</link>
<description>
This description is not used by BlogRush.
</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

1. Copy the code above and paste to a notepad, save it as blogrush.rss

2. Change the stuff needed to be changed. (title, description, link)

3. Upload them to your hosting server

4. Submit a new blog with this new feed (you are not allow to change your feed after you have submited).

You are done!

Once others Blogrush widget shows your feed, it will appear as

Learn to change your Blogrush Headlines

Join Blogrush, if you are not their member.

I bought this HP dv2614XT about a week now and I am pretty happy with it. Here is a review of HP dv2614XT after a week of usage. This laptop is equip with:-

• Core2Duo T5450 @ 1.67GHz
• 2MB 2GB of DDR2 5300. Originally comes with 1GB
• Geforce 8400M it is only 64mb of dedicated graphic card, but could share upto 384MB
• Super Multi 8x DVD Writer Drive with Double Later Support
• Wifi 4569 AGN (It is a ABG and Draft N, which is suitable for future expansion)
• 1.3MP Web Camera
• Windows Home Vista Premium
• 14.1WXGA
• 160GB Hard Drive
• Remote Control (you can see pooping out of the picture) – Kinda cool but quite useless
• Other free stuff such as the carrying case, optical mouse, microphone headset, notebook lock, notebook cooler and a black premium gift pack limited edition (which contain a mug, notebok, candle w/ cup holder, and a pretty sleek carrying case)

This laptop suited my preference as it is mobile unlike my previous dell laptop, I bought a 15″ laptop, it look great on the website, but when I received it, it is just like a brick, plus it comes with an adapter which is a brick. I think the whole bag must have weight more than 5kg with a mouse.

Here is some of the picture from the laptop.

Oh, I nearly forgot, a fingerprint reader comes with this model. It should be the cheapest in the market for this price with a fingerprint reader. This is useful because I am using this laptop for my work as well, and I would read my fingerprint rather than typing a password to log onto Window Vista

After a couple of trial run and tried installing game, this computer actually hang about twice already. I hope this is because of Windows Vista and not the laptop having some malfunction.

The scree is a little glossy, which makes it look great but at time when the back of your workspace is brighter than the front, you will face some reflection as you can see from the picture below with some reflection of my lights.

I bought them at a price of RM4130 on my credit card. Overall, I am happy with it as my budget is on the average side for this laptop.

PRO: Sleek design with remote control, 1.3MP Web Cam, Finger Print Reader, HP Quick Play panel at this average price laptop. Quite mobile. Well build design.

CONS: Comes with Window Vista which I am not prepared to use, I would prefer getting XP Media Center with Vista Upgrade, it is buggy and it hangs. It is a little pricey compare to some other brand. I kinda click on the Quick Play often when I refresh my page when pressing f5.

I don’t usually go to mybloglog but as clear my cache for my browser from time to time, I had to log back onto MyBlogLog. I was finding it weird when it forward me to Yahoo! login screen when I clicked on sign in button on the top right corner.

It should be done a while ago, here is the latest logo of Yahoo! MyBlogLog.

News from Forbes mention that Yahoo did not mention the price that it was traded for, but should be well over 10 million. This is a great news as another man become millionaire by having a great internet service for bloggers.

Just like what had been said in my Blogrush post. Blogrush actually rushes more traffic to a higher traffic blog. This is because higher traffic tends to get more syndicate credit and more referral. They will end up having higher traffic.

I am not getting spam or multi level marketing on blogrush. but look at my stats, negative, I am still paying for my debt. CTR is quite low, very low.

I believe in a week time, this will be off my blog.