Digital Inspiration

A word of caution to all Blogspot users who are still on the old Blogger platform. There are some serious bugs in the template editing feature (introduced only recently) that will change your important Blog settings like date formats, comment moderation, etc whenever you edit and save your custom Blogger templates. Here's a description of problem that I been seem to occur very often in the recent days: 1. While editing a template, if you preview the changes two or three times and then save the template, it will internally modify the blog archive settings such that the "Enable Post Pages" setting will be switched off. That means all your permanent URLs will be gone. 2. The above bug also modifies the Archive Index Date Format that you generally see on the right sidebar of this blog. 3. Today, it was worse. I made a small change in the blog template and it completely ruined by Comment settings. Almost all the values were toggled including the "Enable Comment Moderation...

HindiKalam.com is a new website for writing text in Hindi with English alphabets using the standard QWERTY keyboard. [Kalam means a Pen] While the Hindi typing features in Hindi Kalam are much similar to the popular Quillpad [ read review ], one feature that simply rocks in HindiKalam is the Hindi Spell Checker - a a big help when you are unable to form those complex Hindi words using any permutation of English characters. Hindi Kalam has this additional feature where you can also mix text from any other language like English, French or even Chinese . Just enclose the text inside square parenthesis and HindiKalam would skip converting that to Hindi. Though Quillpad lets you type in most Indian languages, Hindi Kalam, as the name suggests, is limited to only Hindi. Hindi Kalam - Writing Hindi was never so easy Thanks Devashish Fuloria for the tip who writes "The best thing is that it works according to the QWERTY keyboard making hindi writing very easy for rare users like me....

Do you know how much money advertisers have to shell out to run ad campaigns on highly trafficked blogs ? Read the following comparison of the advertising rates on the three most popular blogs on earth. TechCrunch.com - This Mecca of Web 2.0 generation generates over 2 million page views per month and advertisers can rent prominent 125x125 banner space on Techcrunch for a fee of $10,000 per month which translates to a $5 CPM. A skyscraper on Techcrunch available via Federated Media is priced at $20 CPM which is roughly $40k for a month. Lifehacker.com - The average CPM for image banners is $8 while a 7-day text link on Lifehacker is available for $100. Lifehacker receives around 200,000 views per day so a month long banner campaign on Lifehacker could cost you $48k @ $8CPM. BoingBoing.net - This directory of wonderful things handles close to half a million hits per day. A 125x125 text ad on BoingBoing costs $350 for a week while rectangular banner ads are available at $20 CPM....

Techsmith have just announced the next version of Camtasia Studio and a new screencast hosting service called Screencast.com which is like a private and ad-free version of Youtube for Screencasting Videos. Camtasia Studio has always been a very powerful screencasting software packed in an easy-to-use interface. Now some of the new features in version 4.0 will also appeal to podcasters as they can record, edit and produce polished video podcasts or audio-only podcasts with Camtasia alone. Should you upgrade to Camtasia 4 ? Can Camtasia be used as a standalone podcast editing tool ? We discuss all this and more but first, let's look at the new features and improvements in detail here: User Interface : If you are a Camtasia Studio 3.1 user already, you may not notice any difference in the user interface of Camtasia 4 until you hit the screen record button. There's a new control bar that sticks neatly to the recording area and allows you control the screen and voice recording...

Looking for some inspiration to wake up early in the morning and jog ? Watch this ad picked from youTube. The iPod becomes your personal trainer giving feedback on the number of miles you have jogged, you average speed and how far you are from the target destination. You can later sync the workout session with your computer to track your progress. If you don't have those extra 100 bucks to spare for the Nike sports shoe, the wireless sensor + iPod Nano combination can work with even your existing pair of shoes. No more excuses. Apple iPod + Nike [Thanks Dave Mozealous ]