If you are a YouTube channel partner and have opted for showing up ADS, you are most probably confused about the difference between "Hosted Adsense For Content" and "YouTube" earnings shown on your Adsense reports.
YouTube says that they only publish revenue data at the end of month but the "Hosted Adsense For Content" shows data on daily basis. What is this data ll about then? [More]

I just noticed a new change that Google has introduced to its custom search box and its results. It is now showing the image thumbnail of the image that appear on web page. It is being shown on the left hand side of the search results.

I am not sure if this is part of Google experiment or the change has been commited as i did not hear about it yet on any major technology blog. [More]

This article aims at demystifying the steps to create a Facebook application. The app. creation is fairly simple but a complicated as far as configuration steps are concerned. Follow these steps and your app. will be up and running in 5 minutes.

Facebook app. is nothing but a page on facebook which actually shows a page from your OWN website inside an iFrame. This iFrame can have a width of maximum 520px.. Hence, you can show your content inside this 520px with no height limit. If the height is more than facebook page, it shows the scrool bars. [More]

Android services and applications consume internet data in background. Use a data management application to find out the exact usage and block any unwanted applications to use excess data to reduce costs. [More]

Looking out for a smartPhone, i was always having a question mark in my head about the difference between the three types of memory generally advertised by manufacturers i.e. RAM, Internal Storage and External Storage (SD card). I did a bit of research and tried to find the difference and relative importance to make a purchase decision. Here are the things explained in simple english for your reference. [More]

Facebook or any other social sharing platforms generally pick up an image from shared web page
using their own algorithm. But there is a way that you can point them to an image that you want to be shown as a thumbnail.
The solution is to add an open graph meta tag in your web page with the link to the desired image. The open graph standard is followed by many social sharing sites including Facebook. Here is an extension to add the meta tag on its own to your BlogEngine's posts.
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Thousands of companies have jumped into this arena in the last couple of years and have been cashing on the lure of sendign FREE SMS (text messages). Well, as somebody has rightly said "No
lunch is FREE in this world", the statement holds true here too. [More]

It is a common belief that China is the manufacturer and US is the consumer and hence US economy is considered in danger. Buth, if we take a look at the facts collated by FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO, the actual percentage is just 2.7% of overall US comsumption [More]

Credit history checks for a job in brokerage institutions and financial institutions is a normal trend in USA. Do not expect a favorable response if you have been struggling with bad ratings lately.

It has been argued that this trend makes life difficult for an already burnt person. It throws him in a vicious circle.

He cannot pay back his credit and improve his ratings unless he gets a good job.
And he cannot get a good job unless he has good credit history. [More]

If your credit card has been rejected due to varied reasons and you are desperately in need of one, you can certainly help the bank with some cash and change their mind towards your application!!

Nooooo...I am not talking about bribing the bank executives. It is a new option that banks have recently rolled out to meet your plastic money needs.

It is called 'Secured Credit Card' in financial terms :). Well, the concept is simple. You deposit some amount of cash as a fixed deposit with the bank and they will return a favor by issuing a credit card. [More]

We always wonder about what could be the difference between taking a loan from a public sector bank and a private bank. The young generation always prefers private banks whereas our parents would always guide us to get it from a public sector bank.

We are listing down certain important points and the terms and conditions which can make a huge difference to your decision here. [More]

Owing a home is a dream come true for most of us and I am no different. This is my personal story that I want to share so that other people who are also in the same boat can benefit from my experience. [More]

You bought a smartPhone recently and want to use its GPS navigation service but are not sure if it actually uses your mobile's internet ervice or not? Well, this is a most common question that each one of us would have and I am trying to dig deep into how the whole thing works here. [More]

Most of the bloggers/forums use some third party service like FeedBurner to distribute RSS feeds. I also use Feedburner to deliver my new articles here to subscribed users. Now, what people with determined mind of copying do is simple read out the RSS feed using an automated tool and paste it on their own blog.

What do the original writer get in return? Nothing. And it is pretty difficult to catch these copiers and even more difficult to force them to bring down the copied content.

So, I thought that the best way out is to add a link back to my own website within the RSS feed so that i can at least gain a link when somebody blindly copies it!! [More]

Yes..You read it right. You can save tax upto Rs. 13,015 per annum and increase your take home by Rs. 1084 per month if you use food coupons.

Food coupons are nothing but plain vouchers given by organisations to employees to have a meal at your convenience. The two big companies that issue such coupons are SodexHo and Ticket Restaurant. [More]