Sunday, February 17, 2008

WinTransXP going Open Source

"WinTransXP will be going Open Source". Announcement was made about last week, which would be 13th Feb or so.

I think I will continue developing ,guessing that the software is written in Autohotkey.

The licensing has not yet been decided.

Will update when the source code is released.

Download WinTransXP here.

Monday, February 04, 2008

A new form of advertising: Pay Per Play

Well, this was very interesting and such a late post by me is pitiful.

A few days back ,I received a mail from John Wasilewski about a new form of advertising that would ensure 100% on my traffic and for further information I contact him.


We have a new media source that is 66,000 advertisers strong and we are interested in opening up ad space on any websites that you control without taking up any of your web page real estate.

We will do this by serving a "single" 5 second audio advertisement to website visitors on any and every page of your websites where it would be appropriate for a visitor to hear a 5 second audio ad.

These ads are extremely professional. Best of all the ads will be related to the content of each web page of your website.

Our advertisers will buy ad plays on your website for each of your visitors. In essence you will be paid on a CPM basis and the effective CPM that you receive will be determined by our automated bid management system. This bidding system will always work to ensure that you are getting the highest effective CPM possible.

Bids will vary from market to market.

Test this on some of your web properties. The code that calls the 5 second audio ad is a simple javascript code that you paste anywhere between the <body></body> tags of any web page where it is appropriate for visitors to hear an audio ad.

No web page real estate is consumed. The ad is invisible and is only heard.

This form of advertising is known as Pay-Per-Play and can add a substantial amount of revenue to your bottom line without acquiring additional traffic.

To hear some sample ads ,follow this link:

http://www.netaudioadvertising.net/samples.htm

They officially soft launched on 1st of February.

I think this is very promising. Infact the support and the follow ups were simply amazing.

Sign up here

I temporarily removed my Google Adsense too. Look forward for more template changes.

Saturday, February 02, 2008

WindowsTransparency XP :The smallest transparency software ever

Welcome to WinTransXP. Less than half an MB, this is the smallest transparency software I've got to use.

Well, this site(or blog, whatever you wanna call it) will be the official support site for this software.

Official Site:
http://wintransxp.googlepages.com/

Download the program from here:
http://wintransxp.googlepages.com/downloads

Written by Bharat Kumar Molleti, this is now in Version 1.5 .Quite some bugs were solved since Version 1.1 but some are yet to be resolved. Bug Reports would be greatly appreciated.

Mail me here.

Friday, January 04, 2008

Google Talk on Pidgin for Dummies ,on Windows

To use the clichéd sentence, it's been a long break.

Well, it is nice to be back and thanks to some good friends who were bent on asking me how to set up Pidgin ,and too lazy to find out themselves, herez a "for Dummies" post.

Straight to work.

And oh, I'm setting this up for Google Talk.

Start Pidgin and this is what appears (assuming this is the first time).



1. Choose "Add" on the "Accounts" window.
2. And in the resulting window ,choose Google Talk as the protocol from the drop-down menu (You might as well choose XMPP) under Login Options.
3. Give your Google Account user name as Screen name and enter the password in the appropriate field.
4. Choose "Remember password" if needed, and choose your User Options.
5. Now goto Advanced tab and check "Require SSL/TLS". This is required
6. Fix the proxy settings (if you use your University/Institute connection ,like I do, proxies exist by default, ubiquitous ? ;) )

At the end of it all, it will look like the pic below.



7. Click "Save".
8. Done . :P

Oh well, this post is dedicated to all those who bugged me and made me write this, phew.

Update: The same on Linux, using Pidgin 2.5.3