Wisetechie Blog : Ctrl your Tech Life

I went over to a friend’s blog, and i was surprised to see the links having a tooltip which was actually the thumbnail of the site it was linking to. What a perfect way to know beforehand what the site you are going to open looks like , the service was being provided by snap.com. They have a cool domain name no doubt , but hows their service ? , I checked out the site and i was really impressed. The only thing which may deter people from using this service is the fact that the tooltip must have a link to snap.com , anyway all free services have backlinks these days. You can see the script in action on

Ankit’s Life and Technology Reviews

I did not deploy the script on this blog as i still am looking if something better comes along.

People search the darndest things , here are the search engine keywords used to reach our site this week and our take on those key phrases. Read for a nice time.
1. Orkut.com how to become members – Earlier while becoming a member you needed to be invited by someone , however thats no longer needed as Orkut has gone open to all , there is a Join Now link on the Orkut homepage , use that.

2. Airtel Balance Check – Hmmm , here its *123# for balance and *122# for validity.

3. Airtel stop receiving offer of the day – LOL , if you are prepaid i dont think there is anyway , but call your customer care and give them a piece of your mind , collective effort might achieve it.

4. database of Airtel postpaid customer list – Yeah you idiot telemarketer , you can get that for free , just tells you the depths people go to get numbers to call and sell their credit card or insurance.

5. opera mini airtel – Yes , if you have a mobile office connection on airtel , Opera mini would work , but if you only have airtel live , it wont.

6. smart brain logo – Just put my picture there !
7. leaving orkut addiction- Maybe we should start Orkut counselling , Â just delete your account and addiction would be gone .

Another one of my favourite things , the meta refresh tag is a powerful tool. A common meta refresh command will look like

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”600″>

This command is put in the tag of your document. the tells that the tag is meta. The http-equiv=”refresh” sends a command equivalent to the HTTP refresh command which tells the browser to refresh the content. 120 is the time in seconds after which the page should refresh itself.

A further modification of this command exists :-

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”10;url=http://wisetechie.com”>

Here instead of the page refreshing you to same URL , you are in concept redirected to a new URL.

Use these tools wisely my friends

I dug this from yahoo’s site

Yahoo!’s Web crawler recognizes standard HTTP result codes. The basic types of redirect recognized are:

• 301 – Permanent Redirect
• 302 – Temporary Redirect

This means you should keep the delay as low as possible , 0 seconds i recommend if you want search engines to think of your refresh as a hard redirect. That way SEO doesnt suffer.

We have been trying to find a good wordpress theme which is free and so far we have had little luck, primarily because the themes look all well and nice in Firefox , but in Internet Explorer horror strikes, one thing flies there another one here and the third one there. All the more reason for our readers to use Firefox till the formatting issues are resolved by the people at Microsoft , maybe i should try and see what the site looks like in Internet Explorer 7.

We analyse the domains market , and why you should buy your domain ASAP if you have an idea that just might click and some general tips while purchasing domain names.
1. Your dream domain name will be gone – I give my own personal example , i had (have ) a pseudoname on the internet , the .com Top Level Domain (TLD) was available for that. I had the cash in paypal for it but was waiting mindlessly for no apparent reason. 5 days later i convince myself to buy that domain name, but to my horror i discover that someone has already booked my domain and parked it. So it makes sense to reserve your domain name.

2. Buy reputed domain names from reputed domain resellers – Dont go to your local market’s domain registrar , they might cheat you by registering the domain in their name and then blackmailing you. Also dont buy a combined package with hostings (Zac from zoomcities had this tip) , as your hosting provider might again blackmail you. Buy from reputed sites like Godaddy and others. I personally use Godaddy only and sure enough this domain is also purchased through them. (No we are not getting paid to write this , just our opinion). You may use any other reputed reseller also. Or maybe wait till we start reselling
3. Choosing the domain name – This is the most crucial element of your purchase , spend a lot of time researching the names that might be appropriate for your buisness. Your domain name should attract customers and should clearly tell your sutomers what your site is all about. If you are already an established company without an online presence , your job is a little easier , most people will assume that your web address must be yourcompanyname.com , hence some traffic will be automatically sent to your website.

4. Multiple Extensions of your domain name – When you start earning big , people will try to take advantage of your name and will try and malign your site. Its the sad truth. So once you start earning a lot , we reccomend you buy other TLDs of your company too. For example if you are an indian company , once you get started , you might consider buying yourcompanyname.in or yourcompanyname.co.in

5. Dont get a pun domain name – Just like a good domain name can take you very far ahead , a bad one can take your buisness down too. Read your domain name aloud , with all the permutations and combinations , it shouldnt sound like something it isnt supposed to sound like.

We hope our writings were beneficial to you.

Well people have been coming here searching for what all and what not. We analyse some search terms

1. Airtel Live 403 Error – Seems like the access denied or the forbidden error , to the person who searched this : You are receiving this as airtel has limited its net access to only the airtel live portal and some selected partner sites (like indiatimes wap , rediff wap and one or two more) . Many people claim to have a solution for using free internet off of airtel’s gprs service. We do NOT reccomend this as Airtel might find out and charge you and that wont be nice believe me.

2. Orkut Addiction – Absolutely the thing you should search for while coming here. Orkut addiction has reached new levels , people spend their free time reading and writing scraps on this so called social networking site. Good thing , India doesnt know about myspace yet or else thise generation will be literally going to the dogs.

3. Index Ignore command - Read the htaccess tutorial i had posted for more on this. This command can be used to refuse the directory index of your site’s folders.
4. Picasa Web Order Prints – We have absolutely no idea on this having never tried this , but we never reccomend web ordering , just goto your nearest market and order. Believe me face to face ordering is much better than online ordering which can sometimes go horribly wrong although it might be cheaper and convinient.

Lets make this search engine strings analysis a weekly feature !!!