Google announces, today Tuesday 6th May 2008, that AdSense for search is now powered by Custom Search. This means a lot new enhancements and boost for those using and earning a from AdSense for search.

The integration of Custom Search into AdSense for search, will allow you to take advantage of (Custom Search Engine) CSE’s most popular features as listed below:

=> Site Search
=> Improved indexing of your pages
=> Vertical search
=> Tuning search results and ads with keywords
=> Selecting ad location
=> Quick and easy updates

Here’s a video to help you understand things:

For a complete detail and explanation, head on to the AdSense blog.

Good luck with your Adsense earnings!

Today, Tuesday 6th May 2008, Opera released the first alpha (alpha 1) of their new web developer tool, named as Opera Dragonfly. This tool is a competing one to Firefox’s Firebug.

Features:

=> Support for Dragonfly in Opera 9.5 beta 2
=> Reach breaking point step by step
=> Redefine your style.
=> Spot your errors
=> Debug the DOM
=> Development for JavaScript debugger and CSS/DOM inspector (Screenshots and more info here!) http://dev.opera.com/tools/
=> Debug your phone or TV
=> Think open and free
=> Always up to date

Future Enhancements for Alpha 2:

=> Improved handling of threads in the JavaScript debugger
=> Inline CSS editing
=> Infrastructure for localization
=> Improved remote debugging

For a complete detail and explanation, head on Opera’s main site for precise news from the developers: Opera Dragonfly on the prowl!

Opera browser 12-year history

Here’s a small vid to give you a picture of Opera’s history and journey till now..

I will soon try both of these softwares and give you my pe rsonal opinion and possibly with my own video or screenshots.. Till then, happy reading and testing!

Today I share with you three prayers from three different great, wise personalities. These prayers seem to be simple, but if you take some time to meditate on them, you will see that there are so many wise hidden meanings in them.

- Sioux Indian Prayer -

“Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks”

- Rabia al-Adawiyyaa -

“O God! If I worship Thee for fear of Hell, send me to Hell; and if I worship Thee in hopes of Paradise, withhold Paradise from me; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, then withhold not from me the Eternal Beauty”

- Sir Alex Paterson -

“O God, help us to be masters of ourselves that we may be servants of others”

Voice Your Perspectives?
Please feel free to contribute your part..

Also while we are at it, Jirel from Positve N Success, recently had a discussion on Believe in God or not and why? You might want to check it out since Prayers and God are always related

What’s Next?

=> Knowledge - An Important Word In All Important Inspirational Words Of Important People
=> Secret to your success! Do you have a vision of who you are & who you want to be ?

I recently read a thoughful and insightful article on Problogger where Darren Rowse explains: “A Secret to Blogging Success - Build Upon What You Build“.

I was very touched by this article. It is something which is so simple and effective and which we fail to take time to think about. Not because we are not sensible, but due to the fact that we are so taken by the pace of our life and objectives. It often takes the advice of someone else to revive your motivations, aspirations and to rise stronger.

What I read on Problogger, kept hitting my mind this weekend. It is something which I need to focus more on because I tend to do so many things at the same time; I blog, I code, I design, I read, I work..etc, etc. But at times I think I just fail to build upon what I have already built. So I want to say a BIG thanks to Darren for this “push“.

While Darren applies this technique for blogging, I believe this is very fruitful if you also apply it to any of your daily challenging nitty gritty.

And I’m sure you too might benefit from what Darren said and that’s why I wanted to draw this article to your attention - you’ll thank me later!

Have a nice week!

Suggested Reading:

=> Bloggers Should Polish Their Old Posts - Old Is Gold!
=> Content Is King, But The Queen Remains Uniqueness! - (Blogging)
=> Enhance Your Blog Posts With Line Jump And Page Jump
=> EntreCard As A Niche Discovery Tool ?
=> Wonderful Blogging Ideas - How To Maximize And Boost Your Ideas? => PART 4 (Final)

As part of your blogging activities, you should take some time to maintain your blog. Everything needs a special consideration to be productive in the long run.
The most common mistake that some bloggers do, is to neglect old posts. Once written, we get a feeling that “this” post is now the past and we are yet eager and preoccupied by “how to come up with new wonderful ideas” for the incoming days, months, years..

Old Is Gold

The best thing to do, is to polish your old posts which get the most number of hits. To deduce your elite posts, use your Awstats, sitemeter or any tool that you use to monitor traffic on your blog. This is one of the important reason of why you should use such a traffic monitoring tool.

Why Should You Bother To Polish Your Old Posts?

Some of you might be wondering why to waste your free time doing such a time consuming activity when you could just concentrate your energy on new posts. Well, let’s try to make you change your mind

1) From my own experience, I have observed that now I write in a better and improved “style” from what I used to do in my early blogging days. It’s all normal, since early days are the most uncertain, shy, weak and experimenting moments. As you persevere with time, you should be doing much better, at least to a level with which you are satisfied with yourself. (Set some goals!)

So, this “may” mean that some of my old posts are not to the level which I’m breeding now. It might not be to the same presentable fashion. Further, my readers might have some ambiguities and frustrations to read them. Do you want this to happen?

2) Polishing your post also means to fix broken anchor texts, removing non-existing links, remove and update videos and fixing grammars..etc

Did You Know?
The Google Spider is excited when it sees you are updating your blog, old posts and repairing dead links.

It’s time to dig that old archives to polish those diamonds and make them shine brighter than ever!

And How About Your Approach?

I did this activity myself for a couple of my old post, but I’m still not satisfied with some. So I think I will take some time with my archive this week.
And how about you, what is your approach?

Recently I met an old friend of mine who trains a lot for races (running).
He bought a Nike+iPod and he was training with this sports kit. I was very impressed as he explains to me all the available functionalities and boost which this Nike+ gadget provides. It is simply amazing..

What Is Nike+iPod Sports Kit

- A small device which measures and records the distance and pace of a run
- used to track walking, running, and combinations of the two

The Nike+iPod consists of 2 parts:

1) A sensor - precisely called as a piezoelectric accelerometer. It’s embedded with a transmitter that is mounted under the inner sole of the shoe. (see diagram above)

2) A receiver - This is meant to be connected with your iPod. (see the diagram above)

Any Special Shoe needed?

While Nike recommends that the sensor needs a special Nike+ with a special pocket in which to place the device, my friend told me that his non-nike+ shoe was equally good for this purpose

How to Use the Nike + iPod Sport Kit

The best place with the best diagrams and clear explanation is surely the Nike+iPod Get in gear - have a look at the diagram there..

Something Striking

This device have in-workout audio feedback and pre-recorded congratulations provided by famous athletes like Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Paula Radcliffe whenever a user achieves a personal best. See the following 2 videos for a concrete understanding:

Nike Plus Motivation

Another demonstration with steps:

Your Stats Can Be Integrated With Nike+ WebSite

When the device is tracking your progress and personal workout, you are essentially connected with the Nike+ Website and getting exposed to other products also.

Quote from Wiki:

In addition to tracking personal workout statistics, the Nike+ integrates directly with the Nike website. Workout data can be automatically uploaded to the website during an iPod sync with iTunes or through another program via the website’s public API.