Saturday, March 13, 2010

Best Adsense Layout? Adsense placement Tips and layouts.

I have been testing adsense on my blog/site for sometime now. And I have noticed that more ads you put on the landing frame (My reference to [B]frame[/B] here would be the visible portion of the screen the user sees when he/she lands on the page), the higher the bounce rate is. They are directly proportional. Read more about this over here.

Make a First Impression at New Job – 10 tips

Remember the old saying – First Impression is the best!!!
If you make a positive first impression, you are off to a flier! Your life at work gets simpler and you will love your work life. But, if unfortunately you end up making a negative impression, it would be very smooth to say, future is going to be very difficult. In this post, I will point out 10 simple steps to avoid landing into that unfortunate negative impression early at a new job.

What is Reverse Ozone Layer Depletion?

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could harness all the ground level ozone, the gas emitted by automobiles and burning fossil fuels that causes smog and subsequent health problems, and release it into to the atmosphere to reverse ozone depletion? In theory, this is possible but the logistics of doing so are extremely complicated and would yield no significant results. It is possible however to reverse ozone depletion in other ways, but this involves the lifestyle and political changes of countries worldwide.

What is Hard Refresh? How is it different from Refresh?

If you visit a website frequently, your web browser stores elements of the web page in a cache so that they do not have to be downloaded again each time you visit, making your browsing faster. These elements might include photographs, pages you have already viewed, or style sheets. Read more here

“Smell-O-Vision” : Smell The Movie

During the 1950s and early 1960s, motion picture companies experimented with a number of gimmicks in order to compete with the new audience-stealing medium known as television. One of these gimmicks, championed by movie producer Mike Todd, Jr., was dubbed Smell-O-Vision because it attempted to use familiar scents to enhance an audience’s movie-going experience. The Smell-O-Vision process proved to be a glitch-filled flop with audiences, however, and only one Smell-O-Vision movie was ever shown in theaters.

Read more about it here…

What is a Live CD? Explainstuff – fact of the day

A Live CD is a bootable compact disk that contains its own Operating System (OS). Booting to a Live CD allows a user to try out alternate operating systems without making changes to the computer’s existing OS, hard drives or files. Read more about Live CD here:

What is Mp3? Explain stuff Concept of the day.

An MP3 is a digital audio file compressed with a standard defined by the Motion Pictures Experts Group (MPEG). MPEG was formed to develop techniques for dealing with digital video; since most video also contains audio, MP3 was developed as an audio extension of that work.

What is Data Mining? What? How? Can? Explainstuff – Concept of the day.

ExplainStuff.com jumps into a technical sector and explains about what Data Mining is and how it is used and can it be used to counter terrorism.

Data Mining was supposedly used to determine the leader of the 9/11 attacks.

Take the real world example of the 9/11 attacks. There is historical data about these attacks: a number of foreign men applied to flight school in the United States as part of their attack planning. Based on this historical data, a model can be created that collects data on all of the future applicants to flight schools to see whether any are foreign, or share other characteristics. Read on further to understand the concept in an in depth detail.

Explain what is a macro? – Concept of the day.

A macro is a series of keyboard strokes recorded by an application. These keystrokes often represent commands within a piece of software which are combined to reduce the work needed to perform the functions. Macros are then stored within the application to allow for repeated use.

When recording a macro within an application like Microsoft Word, the keyboard strokes or commands get bound to a shortcut key or stored within a toolbar making them accessible via the mouse.

Explain stuff – Blue Screen – Fascinating concept of the day

Bluescreen has become such a sophisticated technique that it is now virtually impossible to tell the difference between special effects and real film locations. The process can transport actors anywhere in the world, or out of this world, without actually leaving the studio. It can take you to prehistoric times or transport you to outer space.