List of Ping Services

How you want your blog to get noticed? One of it is to use a ping services like Pingomatic or Pingoat. This method is by telling other sites that your site is updated and there’s something new. But it is much better if you have an original content. So here’s the list of ping services that I’ve found at Margin Of Eric blog :

General Ping Services:

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/

Special Ping Services:

http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://www.catapings.com/ping.php
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php

In order to use this in WordPress, you have to  insert these services in Options > Writing > Updated Services. That’s all. Hehehe

Spicy Page

 SpicyPage.com is one of the hottest popularity based social networking/blog community site with a content rated features. It works like any other social networking sites but they have a new layout now and also the new article submission features where SpicyPage users can submit their own article or any other article that link back to the particular site. As this is a popularity based social networking site, users can vote what’s hot or what’s not on a particular submitted sites ologs. This could encourage amount of traffic and increasing of popularity. So check it out, I have my SpicyPage account and already submitted this blog of mine.

ThunderBird

The new Mozilla Thunderbird 2 is out and it is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms in 35 languages. Thunderbird 2 have a lot of improvements including new mail alert notifications, refreshed user interface and supports for Vista. But there’s one MozillaZine member said that he got an error message while upgrading from Thunderbird 2 RC on Vista. I think Vista got a lot of compatibility issues with it and I hope it will get better in the future. Anyway, I’ve installed it in my XP machine and it works fine with me. I’m importing all of my favorite feeds into Thunderbird as my favorite offline RSS feeds reader. This is the best alternatives for Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook. Download it now at Mozilla.com.

Ultimate monitoring software

PC Pandora is the ultimate monitoring software that allow parents to monitor their children, partner can monitor on their spouse, or can be used in office or schools. All activities are recorded no matter you are online or offline including:

• screen content
• keystrokes
• login names
• passwords
• running programs
• websites visited
• emails
• email attachments
• P2P downloads
• MSN Messenger
• Yahoo Messenger
• AOL Messenger
• ICQ Messenger
• Trillian Messenger
• Myspace Messenger

After installation of PC Pandora, there’s a prompt asking for a password for access protection to PC Pandora software. Make sure you remember that password so you can access it. There’s a hotkey sequence to access PC Pandora by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Z (default hotkey) which can be change later. If you don’t want anyone to see the software has been installed, you can change the mode to stealth mode. So no one can know that PC Pandora is in progress of monitoring. Registration of the software is needed to unlock all viewer’s functionality and you have to temporarily disable your firewall/security/anti-virus and enable it again after the registration is complete. This level of monitoring is very impressive as this software could send you an email complete with captured date and monitoring results. In case you need support, don’t worry PC Pandora has a 24/7 support for your convenience

Get paid for blogging

Smorty.com is a blog advertising service that connects advertisers with bloggers. Of course as usual advertisers will pay bloggers for posting their opinion and link back to the advertisers site. What I like about Smorty.com is that they have their own scores for each blogger who join and have completed the task. These scores are based on the performance of that particular blogger. Plus you can get other activity summary such as how many posts have been taken, approved or declined. Earning reports also available in Smorty.com’s member account like total earnings for the last 7 days or last month and pending earnings. So what are you waiting for, if you want to get paid for blogging this is your chance.

Cigarettea – a Healthy Way to Enjoy Your Daily Cigarette

Just imagine the look on peoples faces when you take one of these special cigarettes from your pocket, drop it into a cup full of water and after a while start enjoying your hot cup of tea. Of course there’s tea, not tobacco inside of these cigarettes and the filter works like a float. 

ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas

 This page lists some of the more popular “ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas” posts I’ve done over the last year. My goal is to add 1-2 new posts to the series each week going forward – so bookmark this page for updates, or subscribe to my blog via this RSS feed.To learn more about ASP.NET, also make sure to watch all of the great “ASP.NET: How Do I?” videos (each week a new video is posted). You can also browse a large listing of published ASP.NET 2.0 books here. 

Visual Studio

· Tip/Trick: Optimizing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Project Build Performance with VS 2005

· Common Gotcha: Slow VS 2005 Web Site Build Performance Because of “Dueling Assembly References”

· Resource: VS 2005 Web Application Project Tutorials

· Recipe: Using VS 2005 Web Deployment Projects

· Tip/Trick: Custom formatting HTML in Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio 2005

· Tip/Trick: Fast HTML Editor Navigation within VS 2005

· Tip/Trick: How to Run a Root “/” Site with the Local Web Server using VS 2005 SP1

· Tip/Trick: Changing the default browser used in VS 2005 and Visual Web Developer

· Tip/Trick: Creating Re-Usable Project and Item Templates with VS 2005

· Tip/Trick: Creating Sub-Web Projects using the VS 2005 Web Application Project Option

· Tip/Trick: Spell Checker Plug-in for VS 2005 for ASP.NET and HTML Pages

· Tip/Trick: Using IIS7 on Vista with VS 2005

· Gotcha: Fixing Error with VS 2005 SP1 Beta and older Web Application Project Templates

UI

· Tip/Trick: Using Server Side Comments with ASP.NET 2.0

· Tip/Trick: Use the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Control Adapters for CSS friendly HTML output

· Tip/Trick: How to Register User Controls and Custom Controls in Web.config

· Recipe: Dynamic Site Layout and Style Personalization with ASP.NET

· Tip/Trick: Advanced Article on ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages

AJAX 

· Tip/Trick: Nikhil’s WebDevHelper Utility and ASP.NET AJAX Support

· Tip/Trick: Handling Errors with the UpdatePanel control using ASP.NET AJAX

· Tip/Trick: Cool UI Templating Technique to use with ASP.NET AJAX for non-UpdatePanel scenarios 

· Gotcha: Lost HTML Intellisense within ASP.NET AJAX Controls

· Gotcha: Don’t use <xhtmlConformance mode=”Legacy”/> with ASP.NET AJAX

· Tip/Trick: UpdateProgress Control and AJAX Activity Image Animations

Data

· Tip/Trick: Online Database Schema Samples Library

· Recipe: Great ASP.NET 2.0 Three-Tier Data Tutorials Published

· Recipe ASP.NET 2.0 RSS Tool-Kit

· Resource: LINQ Demos, Slides + Samples

· Recipe: Building and using a LINQ for SQL Class Library with ASP.NET 2.0

· Recipe: Tagging Data using LINQ

· Recipe: Paging through lots of data efficiently (and in an Ajax way) with ASP.NET 2.0

· Recipe: Efficient Data Paging with the ASP.NET 2.0 DataList Control and ObjectDataSource

· Tip/Trick: ListControl.AppendDataBoundItems Property in ASP.NET 2.0

Security

· Resource: ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Resources

· Recipe: Enabling Windows Authentication within an Intranet ASP.NET Web application

· Recipe: Implementing Role Based Security with ASP.NET using Windows Authentication and SQL Server

· Recipe: Configuring ASP.NET 2.0 Application Services to use SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005

· Gotcha: Always set the “applicationName” property when configuring ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and other Providers

· Common Gotcha: Don’t forget to <clear/> when adding providers

· Tip/Trick: Source/Documentation for Simple ASP.NET 2.0 SQL Providers Published

· Tip/Trick: Guard Against SQL Injection Attacks

· Tip/Trick: Gathering Custom User Registration Information

· Recipe: How to add a Login, Roles and Profile system to an ASP.NET 2.0 app in only 24 lines of code

· Gotcha: Authorization with the built-in VS 2005 Web Server (aka Cassini)

· Gotcha: Forms Authentication timeout default changed between ASP.NET 1.1 -> ASP.NET 2.0

· Tip/Trick: How To Share Authentication Cookies across ASP.NET V1.1 and ASP.NET V2.0 Applications

Deployment

· Gotcha: Don’t run production ASP.NET Applications with debug=”true” enabled

· Tip/Trick: Patterns and Practices Guidance Explorer for .NET and ASP.NET

· Tip/Trick: App_Offline.htm and working around the “IE Friendly Errors” feature

· Tip/Trick: Show Detailed Error Messages to Developers (and only to Developers)

· Tip/Trick: Logging ASP.NET Application Shutdown Events

Performance

· Tip/Trick: Implement “Donut Caching” with the ASP.NET 2.0 Output Cache Substitution Feature

· Tip/Trick: Disk Based Output Caching Feature Now Available for ASP.NET 2.0

· Tip/Trick: Cache Manager

Miscellaneous

· Resource: Credit Card Payment Processing with ASP.NET

· Tip/Trick: List Running ASP.NET Worker Processes and Kill/Restart them from the command-line

Auto-hide blogger navbar like Windows taskbar

Hello Friends,

Avatar from Bloggeratto has put up a comprehensive post on how to get your blogger navbar to auto-hide like the Microsoft Windows taskbar. This means that after using the code from his post you can make the blogger navbar hidden and it appears only when one hovers the mouse cursor over the navbar section.

To view what I am talking about, just view Bloggeratto in Firefox and check out the navbar section. See how the navbar appears when you bring the mouse cursor near it and auto-hides when the mouse cursor is taken away. You can learn this hack on Bloggeratto from here.

Shakira – Hips Don’ Lie World Cup Video

Shakira – Hips Don’ Lie World Cup Video

Where is the Submit (to sex) button?

There is so much humor in sex. Is it me or is it the World that’s failing to understand? I mean, why do we have to read news items like Church warden charged after sex with corpse? Totally uncalled for.

Here are a few quotes that take sex lightly and make fun of people who don’t get enough of it.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
R. D. Laing

I’m too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don’t know.
Garry Shandling (1949 – )

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
Bill Watterson (1958 – )Calvin in “Calvin and Hobbes”

I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor (1919 – )(this one is my favourite!)

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns (1896 – 1996)

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
Jimmy Demaret

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
Billy Crystal (1947 – )

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There’s just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger (1923 – )