Blog is a qualification

Blogging is no more considered to be something done for time pass.A blog is now considered as an extra qualification for you to get a job.People now mention blog in their CV's.A blog shows you on the top of others with your exposure to the Computer much higher than your competitors in a software job interview.I personally have this experience.A blog can help you get through most of the part of your technical interview part.One of my friend Harsha,author of Grey Square, says
" The first thing the Interviewer saw on my CV was that I had a blog - This Blog. He was kind of impressed and asked me about the stuff I write among other things."
Harsha is now placed in wipro.
In the same way Ram from Torry Harris,co-author of Realview has also got placed in Torry Harris where all his tech-interview is done on his blog.As soon as the interviewer saw his blog link,he opened it and saw the blog.Then he asked him questions on How to buy domains,what is platform,How he wrote the code of his blog and all.
Finally in my case,The interviewer in my interview has asked me the same way with questions like "Define blog??","whats your niche in blog",How you get content?,"who visit your blog??" and all.Im now placed in TCS and Syntel.

Interviewers who don't know about blog might ask you out of curiousity and those who know will ask you to test how much knowledge you are having on the blogs.Companies test your willingness to learn and work.So show them in your way through a blog.All the best readers.

Note : Sometimes they might ask you a question "How much is your chance of taking up your blogging hobby as a profession ?? " .Reply them as "0%" and tell them you are doing it to utilise the free time you have.If you try to tell them that you are going to become a professional blogger,they think you will quit their company in future and might reject you.

If you have any such experience,don't forget to post it as comment.

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Miscellaneous things about Gtalk

First of all some shortcuts that might improve your interfacing with Gtalk :

• F9: Open Gmail compose page to send an email to your friend.
• F11: Start a call with your friend.
• F12: End the current call.
• ESC: Close the current conversation window.
• TAB:Swithc between Gtalk chat windows

Some other facts on Gtalk :

• Max length of any message is 32767 characters.
• Gtalk can recognise certain smileys and dsiplay them in blue colour.E.g :).:D,:P
• You cant format more than 100 characters at a time i.e you cant bold or italicise.
• Right clicking on the message notification window will close it.

Don't forget to check How to send .exe files in Gmail and Gtalk tips & tricks.

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Gtalk tips & tricks

Are you a fan of Google talk,A simple looking messenger from Google which is lighter and faster than other messengers like yahoo!.To increase your user experience with this messenger,I'm offering you some tips & tricks of Gtalk which will be a lot useful to you.

How to give line break in a conversation ??
Sometimes when you want to type a long message before you can send to the other user,you might want to give some line breaks in it.It's simple in Gtalk.Just hold shift and press Enter and you will in next line.This shift + enter thing works with other messengers also like Gaim,yahoo..

How to write bold and italic text in Gtalk Conversation??
Gtalk IM window does'nt have any formatting toolbar like other messenger.So You might not be able to write italic and bold text.Here is the solution
For bold text : put "*" before and after the text.For e.g For typing Hi in bold letters type * Hi *
For italic text: Put "_" before and after the text.For e.g For typing Hi in italic letters type _ Hi _

How to switch windows in Gtalk ??
For switching,Hold ctrl, click on I will switch you through each chat window
For minimising,press ALT+ ESC
For restoring the chaw window.Press Windows + Esc

How to increase the font size in Gtalk ??
To increase or decrease the font size in Gtalk sonversation,just scroll the mouse wheel and the text size will change.

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How to login fastly in Gmail and Orkut ??

All the Google services like Orkut,gmail.. has got integrated now with Google accounts.If you had noticed, the login window in all these sites, is same one which loads through Https protocol in a different frame inside the webpage.This is the reason why Orkut can't open in some proxy sites like Manyarticle inspite of supporting Https as proxy sites are able to proxify only the main page and not the frame inside it.
In lower speeds also,Opening Orkut or Gmail may just irritate you either by giving error messages like "connection timed out” or “server not responding”.This is all because of the rich interface Google has built with that in frame.If you are on slow connection,what should you do ??
For Gmail :

• Gmail has got another version of its mail apart from the typical AJAX interface.This secondary version loads normally when you login and when it finds that you connection is too slow.You can acess that secondary fast HTML version of gmail from the link below.
  
  HTML version of Gmail
  
• There is another low-fi version of Gmail apart from HTML version.It works considerably fast and it is originally devoloped for mobiles.It opens instantly and login page also loads faster. Acess mobile version of Gmail from link below.
  
  Gmail fast version
  

For Orkut :

• For orkut there are no other versions,But you can skip all the home page loading by just typing the URL of the in frame login box which shows only text box of user login ,password and submit button.

Orkut fast login URL

If you are a mobile user and you want to acess Orkut,Devils workshop has got a tutorial on How to acess Orkut through mobile.
See my article on How to send .exe files through Gmail
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Adsense getting transformed

I know very little people who has been successful earlier with the Adsense referrals.Most of the publishers even feel it as a dead branch of Adsense.This concern has made Google come out with new plans in the past few months.Earlier it came out with a new pricing for referrals and now it is releasing Adsense Referrals beta.Unlike earlier where publishers have only four products of Google which are Google pack,FIrefox,adsense and adwords,Google will be going to give you option of choosing the products from different advertisers.The publisher will have full choice of choosing from a wide range of products.Just you have to tell for which keyword you want the ads to be displayed and Google will show you advertisers and their products related to your website.You have to just select the products you want and copy the code into your page.
These ads are cost per Action type.If your reader performs the action the advertiser wants,then only you will get paid.For e.g downloading and installing some software....But the pay will be more as it doesn't just need a click.This will boost you earnings if you properly choose the product to be displayed in your posts.You can even choose multiple products which will be displayed on rotation basis from different advertisers to be displayed in a single ad unit.
For the time being, the referrals beta test is currently available only to English-speaking publishers located in the United States.It will be opening to people in other locations soon.You can sign up for this adsense referrals beta by going to adsense referral page.Click sign up at the bottom of the page and it will take you the sign up form.
Apart from Adsense referrals beta,Google has even made some new changes to its existing CPC ads also.Unlike the text "Ads by Google" which used to appear earlier,it is shown in much stylish way with Google logo text.Google has even removed the borders between different links in a single ad unit making the ad look like text in the post.You can see these changes in my permalink pages.Hope these changes boost the earning of the publishers.Thanks to Google for its efforts to increase the earnings of publishers and itself.
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