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It’s been a long time I have covered anything on Sunday Fun post. Here is today’s take for Fun Sunday . Crush007.com is a fun site and I came across it when I was in school almost 6 years back. This website claimed to predict your future love life and you will be asked few questions.

This is actually a prank site, where few questions are already prepared and you can optionally add one more question of your choice. Question seems to be very realistic and people tend to fall for it. At least I did, when I was in school. So when any one answer all your questions, his/her answer will be sent to you.

Some of the basic question include about your past relation ship and crushes. I’m sure you going to have gala time with this website to find secret of your friends.

Link : Crush007

Meanwhile do check out related fun posts below.

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Prank Find Future love Prediction With Crush007

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Many bloggers face problem like less number of comments or no comments on their blog, despite of useful and unique content. Reasons could be several, may be your blog comment box design, may be your blog loading time or most important you never asked them an opinion.

Your Post Starting and ending points are very important. A great starting means , you won the visitors heart, and a great ending means you won yourself a reader. A reader feel connected when you give them a personal touch or give them a way to put action. Made for adsense blogs put this action by giving them an option to click on ads and get away, but I’m sure you want your readers to take action like adding comments or reading other posts as well.

The easies way to convert visitors into readers is by asking them a question. A visitors spent 2-3 minutes reading your post and don’t you feel you should ask him a question, so that he can add his view into the post?

I have been practicing this way from long time and I can see the increment in number of comments by asking them a question at the end of your post.

One of the big benefit of active posts (via comments) is, it attracts advertisers. Since such blog seems to be very active in terms of readers participation and activeness.

If you have never asked question to your readers, you should start doing it now. The best way to ask question is in between the post and most effective is after the end of the post. Any reader will take some action after reading your post, it can be clicking on your related posts or by answering question, if you have asked one.

Do you feel asking question will encourage comments or it may not work in some cases?

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Blogging : Increase Comments By asking Questions to your readers

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Twitter is one of the best tool to connect to other like minded people, but question remains why do you use twitter? Do you use it to connect to friends or do you use it as a marketing tool? For me twitter is a marketing tool. Since I connect to other bloggers using twitter and get traffic for my blog and for others.

I know many of you might not agree with that twitter is a marketing tooland reason being most of us used it as another social connection tool. No doubt twitter is a social tool and so is other social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumble upon and delicious. But bottom line remains the same “Traffic”. Every one needs traffic to their blog or services and most important targeted traffic. Twitter is one such platform which provides you with targeted traffic, if only, you use it wisely.

Many people have asked me how to drive traffic from Twitter and to be honest it’s not easy as its sound. On the other hand its not tough. Little bit of work and you can start attracting people to your twitter profile, and hence your blog.

My point here is, for social connection we already have facebook and orkut.

The bottom line still remains the same , why do you use twitter for? Just as a social connection tool or as a marketing tool? I will love to know your opinion.

Watch out for upcoming post on twitter series, which will change your perception about twitter. Meanwhile you can add me on twitter @denharsh.

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Why do you use Twitter? Marketing tool or Socializing?

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I’d been waiting to do a Windows 7 and Mac OS X comparison for quite some time now. And was simply overjoyed to receive my personal copy of Windows 7 Ultimate last weekend. So here’s pitting two of the most famed operating systems against each other. Hit the read link to see which one stole the show.

It makes enough sense to do the comparison at this time as Snow Leopard has been updated to 10.6.1 and Windows 7 too had a few updates over the RTM release. Firstly, the hardware – The 64 bit editions of the two OS’ were installed on a Macbook Pro(2009) 2.53ghz, 4GB Ram. Boot Camp 3.0 was used to install Windows. Trust me it makes the driver installation a breeze. No virtualization used.

Pricing

I’d only be discussing update pricing here. Upgrading from Leopard to Snow costs only $29. However, Windows 7 Ultimate will set you back by $219 if you are upgrading from Vista or XP. While Snow Leopard has no variants Windows does and the Ultimate was the only one that would have compete against Snow.

Installation

Both the OS were installed with default settings and power management was set to high performance. You could upgrade Vista to Win7 and Leopard to Snow. Let me tell you upgrading from XP to Win7 will put you through some peril though. We’ll cover that later. Mac users don’t have to worry at all. No matter what version you are upgrading from, no issues whatsoever. For the sake of the test I did a fresh installation of both on different hard disks. Both the installations took around thirty minutes.

First Run

Now something that I really got bugged by and must share here is that Windows 7 does not have these pre installed unlike any version of Mac OS X. No PDF Viewer, No IM application and no e-mail client. They can be downloaded from Windows Live Site but why, Microsoft?

Interface

Microsoft has definitely enhanced the user interface on this one and Win7 is by far the best-looking OS in the Windows family. However, beauty won’t stay appreciated without functionality. Let’s find out. The new Aero themes which we first saw in Vista look pretty. Also, worth noticing, the user interface is more user-friendly than Vista and is less irritating to use.

I’ll briefly mention some of the new Aero features. Aero Shake allows you to shake the title bar of a window, to minimize all other windows. Aero Snap lets you drag the window to the right left or top of the screen and it snaps itself elegantly. Dragging left or right makes it occupy half of the screen while top edge makes it full screen.

The new Windows is less painful to configure but you still have to do some work finding what you want, say advanced power options for instance. Nothing beats the simple layout of System Preferences that Mac has. However, beauty won’t stay appreciated without functionality. While UI is catching up usability wise Windows still has a long way to go.

I also must mention Apple’s striking new feature Spotlight. It’s a search tool but the best you have ever seen on your desktop. It searches through everything you want it to. From system settings to your files, and did I forget to mention, in no time! Windows Search is catching up but not a match yet.

Everyday Tasks

Well, here both the OS fared almost equally well-doing daily errands such as word processing, printing, browsing. Except of course, ease of usability lies more towards Snow. Snow is not only less intrusive but way more user-friendly. Good news here is that Win7 manages your Graphics Processor better than its predecessors.

Speed

When it came to startup or shutdown Snow put Win7 to shame. While Snow took 31 seconds to boot up Windows took 44. While shutting down, Snow took me 3 second and Windows 9 seconds. Resuming from standby was the same on both – around one sec.

Other Benchmark tests

You could do these yourselves as well. In music encoding, the latest version of iTunes took around ten minutes to rip a folder while Windows took a minute longer. So Snow fared better when it came to encoding, start-up and shutdown.

However, when it came to 3D rendering Windows7 did a better job. The game Call of Duty 4 has its own benchmarking system. Win7 on an average score 5fps higher than Snow.

Security

While Microsoft has enhanced security options on this one, UAC still remains annoying, though you can turn it off. Also, Windows 7 has one distinct feature from Snow, that is Address Space Layout Randomization. This functions to randomly reposition important data making it less vulnerable to exploits. One could argue that Windows has far more viruses and trojans than Mac and attribute it to its greater popularity and exposure but that’s turning to prove false as Mac’s share increases.

Battery Life

With moderate use, keyboard and screen illumination set to medium and wi-fi on windows lasted around two third the time Snow did. While Snow lasted 5 hrs 15 minutes Windows ran out of battery juice in 3 hrs 40 minutes. Of course this could also be due to Boot Camp and given the fact that Snow is native to the Mac. That said, you could definitely make out that Windows 7 is more power-hungry if not less than Snow.

Conclusion

While Snow seems sleeker and way more user-friendly, Windows definitely has greater options and wider compatibility to its fame. I have only shared a first hand experience with both. While, we’ve discussed time tests and other surface features another important aspect lies in how the OS responds to third-party installations. Also how multiple processor cores are utilized.

We are not exactly starting an OS war here. Operating Systems have evolved ever since. Likewise user needs are on an increase too. So its just a matter of how the former catches up with the latter. While Microsoft has a wider reach, it’s unpleasant to see so many security updates every week. I’m sure most of us Windows users would be way happier when the very need to release them so often decreases.

Vista and XP users must try Windows 7 as it is the best windows ever made. As for the hardware I’d always advice in favor of the Mac for only a Mac lets you taste the best of both worlds. You could run both Windows and Snow leopard on it. Final verdict at the end of the day: Snow Leopard

PS: We have a lot of Mac coverage in store for you. So those of you who are curious about the Mac experience or have had trouble choosing between a Mac and a PC, we’ll have loads of info for you coming later this month. Do leave a comment – about Mac and Windows alike.

Given an option between Windows 7 and Apple Snow Leopard, which one will be your choice and why?

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Apple’s Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7

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As you must have noticed we’ve been covering Google news a lot these days. Well it’s for the reason that Google has been innovating at an unprecedented lately, and we can’t help but admire. Today they released Google Dashboard.

Did you ever wonder how much of your data is stored along with your Google Account. Google brings you an easy solution. Dashboard offers a concise view. All simplified and put in one place.

With countless number of users around the world, the folks at Google do respect the trust we lay in them. This is their latest step to further protect our privacy and data. As Google itself suggests “transparency, choice and control have become a key part of it’s philosophy.”

Getting back to the Dashboard. You have to try this first hand to believe it. As simple as it could get, Dashboard summarizes each Google product that you are using and also carries links to change specific settings. The most commonly listed services include Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Latitude etc.

Indeed this is a first of its kind step by any provider and we sure hope other Internet Companies follow to make it an industry standard. Head over to your own Google Dashboard here google.com/dashboard

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Google enhances transparency by launching Dashboard

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Twitter announced back in august that it will roll out retweet feature in its web interface and good news for all the twitter lover is twitter has finally rolled out retweet feature in small number of Twitter account.

Meanwhile from official twitter blog

We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy. In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the network making its way efficiently to the people who want or need to know.

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Seems like its going to be a big feature and people might tend to leave many web based twitter websites and will stick to this new retweet enabled twitter site. Unluckily my twitter profile was not lucky to try this feature , so I guess I need to wait for a while to have this new feature.

What about you? Do you see this feature on your twitter homepage?

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Twitter Website Added Retweet Feature

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Shoutmeloud is revenue sharing blog and here we allow to guest post along with running your adsense with your post. So that you get exposure to your blog along with monetize your guest post. FYI Shoutmeloud is a page rank 4 blog and when you do a guest post here , you will get a link back to your blog.

Here are round up of Guest posts published at Shoutmeloud for the month of October 2009.

• How to make URL shortener under Your domain Name
• 10 Things to consider before becoming a professional Blogger
• Google maps Showing state part of two country
• Smart way to remove autorun.inf from Pen drive
• Wordpress featured Post plugin : Smooth slider
• How to Add Stylish Feed Subscription Box at Sidebar
• How to start with guest posting?
• Email bookmarklet : Share Web page With One Click
• Why Bloggers Drink and How to avoid Drinking
• Free Automated Online Backup tool : Dropbox
• How to run mobile games (.jar files) on PC/laptop
• Google Enforces navbar display
• How to use forums to promote your website?
• An Online venture to Save newspaper
• Facebook offer translation for Websites
• 10 tips to Increase Laptop Battery life

We got almost 30 Entry for Guest posts and out of them 16 can make it to the blog. If you planning to Write for Shoutmeloud, here are some tips which you should follow

• Write Quality posts and original
• Try to add images. Images speaks 100 Words. Take your own Screenshot or Give proper credit to Image source.
• Use proper English
• No affiliate posts or self promotion posts will be allowed.
• Copy paste guest posts will automatically be deleted and guest poster will be banned

Just for the info, I get Email from bloggers asking about writing guest post at shoutmeloud and on behalf they need a link back with anchor text to 1-2 blogs. We allow one link back to the Guest author blog, provided his blog should not be spam or should not be violating any TOS in any ways. I will look forward to see your entry. To get more info about our revenue sharing program and how to join Shoutmeloud read Join Shoutmeloud.

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Shoutmeloud Round up of Guest post October 2009

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