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Installing Vista SP1 just a few hours ago, and my rig hasn’t crashed so it might be worth something. Not that my rig has crashed a lot running Vista. Anyway, that prompted me to look at other tweaks that you can do with Vista.

Some hate the drop shadow effect on icons but we’ve already solved that here. Here’s one other beef that a lot of people have with the Windows Desktop - the arrows on shortcut icons. While some programs leave decent icons without the arrows upon installation, by default, you simply get shortcuts with arrows on them.

If you want to get rid of it, you might want to try this program out - Vista Shortcut Manager. The name’s quite misleading since all it does is tweak how the arrows display on the shortcuts but at least it gives you the functionality to customize the arrows on the shortcut icons. You can swap it with a smaller arrow, set your own custom arrow or totally eradicate the darned arrow. You can even set it to automatically remove the arrows upon installation.

Download Vista Shortcut Manager here. You need the .NET Framework for this to work.

The Internets are abuzz with the news that Microsoft has finally released the first service pack to its widely successful Windows Vista, just one year (plus change) after it first hit retail store shelves.

As a user of Windows Vista Ultimate, I watched the service pack through its beta period with interest. As I’ve mentioned before, Windows and I don’t always see eye-to-eye, so I decided it best to refrain from installing an unstable, pre-release quality operating system on my production machine — a MacBook Pro.

So, I grabbed the Service Pack 1 updater from Microsoft. Weighing in at over 400 MB, the download took roughly an hour to complete. I giddily started the installation at a quarter past 11 PM; after a few reboots during the install process, I was greeted with a fresh view of Windows:

It isn’t often that a 255 by 139 pixel screenshot conveys so many layers of information. Your eye might first be drawn to the third line of text, suggesting that I have pirated Windows. Not so — in fact, my cell phone shows that I placed a 6 minute, 17 second call to Microsoft’s activation center at 8:50 PM, when I activated Windows for the nth time. The update seems to have deactivated my install; I haven’t tried to activate for the (n + 1)th time to see if it will work.

Second, you might notice that the time is 3:06 AM. That’s right — it took four hours to get me back into Windows. Consider that a fresh Windows Vista install takes around 45 minutes (if I remember correctly); OS X takes around 20. Never mind why I’m up at 3 AM on a school night, four hours is a ridiculous amount of time for a system update.

Third, the well-informed reader will note that the build number in the screenshot, 6000, does not match the build number of Windows Vista SP 1, which is 6001. That’s right. After four excruciating hours, the install failed — with no particularly informative error message. I can’t find the exact error number in my Windows logs, but there are thousands of entries at 3:01:37, all reading

Windows Servicing failed to complete the process of setting package
Package_82_for_KB936330~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.0.1.18000 () into Staged(Staged) state

Finally, we note that the screenshot has a hideous red outline. I couldn’t figure out how the equivalent of print screen on my MacBook Pro keyboard, so I used the “Snipping Tool.”

Source : http://alacatialabs.com/2008/03/19/review-of-vista-sp-1/

Seo : Search engine optimization it helps to get more Traffic to a website from search engines like Google,Yahoo,Msn,Ask and more.There are Various Steps should be Followed to Get Better Search Results in Search Engines.

Tips to have better results in Search Engines.

1) Always try to have unique content.

2) Concentrate on Meta Tags.

3) Have a Xml Sitemap ( more info about sitemap Can be found here

http://blog.errorforum.com/what-is-sitemap/)

4) Use Robots.txt to tell  search engines to not to index unwanted urls.

5) Try to have friendly static urls.

6) Try to Build Back Links From Good pr Blogs,Social Bookmarking,Directories.

7) Submit your site to open directories.

8) Free press release.

9)How to protect your meta tags efficiently from snooping competitors.

info: ( http://fantomaster.com/fasmbacntut01a.html )

10) You must have a good content with your target keywords. Should be a relevant content.

11) Writing and submitting articles to article directories can provide a large number of links. Not only can you submit one article to numerous directories but each directory has the potential of generating a number of interested websites. These websites also publish your article (which includes an author bio section with your link). This can be a good way to get authoritative sites to link to you.

A site map is a graphical representation of a web site. This helps visitors and Search engine spiders to find pages on the site.

Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:

• Your site has dynamic content.
• Your site has pages that aren’t easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process - for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or Flash.
• Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn’t well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
• Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

Benefits of sitemaps

Site Map can improve Seo ( Search Engine optimization ) of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found.And it will be Easy for Search engine spiders to index the site map it will be in organized way.

Types of sitemaps

HTML page sitemap

XML Sitemaps

Submission of sitemap to Google information can be Found here

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=40318

what is important in search engine optimization?

There are two primary ideas of search engine optimization – that of on-page seo and that of off-page seo.

On-page seo is primarily that portion of seo that is performed on the web page itself – hence on-page seo. On-page seo is the least important form of seo, although without it one would wonder if a web site should really be ranked at all. On-page seo is simply very elementary, and foundational.

Off-page seo is primarily that portion of seo that is performed outside the realm of the web page itself – primarily on other people’s web sites – hence the term off-page seo.

On page seo generally deal with such areas as optimizing the title, the keywords, the description, and the contents in such a way that when the search engines read the source code of the page, the automatic assumption is that the web page has as its main premise, the idea that the keyword emphasized, connotes.

Off-page seo is generally the creation or proliferation of inbound links that are themselves optimized for the web pages’ keyword or keyword phrase. When the search engines see that there are many inbound links to your web page that have similar topics to your web pages’ theme – namely keywords (although a word of warning here: all the text anchors should not have exactly the same text) – they will assume that your web page is viewed by other web pages as being respected as a web page specializing in your chosen keyword.

Hello Webmaster’s,

1) What are Back links ?

Backlinks are Incoming Links to a Website or Webpage.The More Number of Backlinks you will have Better Google Page Rank.a backlink is any link received by a web node.

2)Ways to Build Back Links

Bookmarking your articles to sites like http://www.digg.com,http://www.jeqq.com

list of Social bookmarking sites
http://www.blogmarketingtactics.com/social-bookmarking/social-bookmarking-top-links.html

3)Directory Submission

4)Press Release

5)Submitting Feeds to Feed Directories

6)Link Exchange

Hello Webmaster’s,

1) What are Back links ?

Backlinks are Incoming Links to a Website or Webpage.The More Number of Backlinks you will have Better Google Page Rank.a backlink is any link received by a web node.

2)Ways to Build Back Links

Bookmarking your articles to sites like http://www.digg.com,http://www.jeqq.com

list of Social bookmarking sites
http://www.blogmarketingtactics.com/social-bookmarking/social-bookmarking-top-links.html

3)Directory Submission

4)Press Release

5)Submitting Feeds to Feed Directories

6)Link Exchange

Search engine optimization it helps to get more Traffic to a website from search engines like Google,Yahoo,Msn,Ask and more.There are Various Steps should be Followed to Get Better Search Results in Search Engines.

Easy ways to Get more Traffic to your Website

1)Friendly urls

2)Social Bookmarking

3)Submission of Feeds

4)Link Building

5)Original Content

6)Robots.txt