Yeah! After using internet for so many years I fell into the same old trap by not checking the sender’s email address in the first place. Last night I got this email:

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I got this error while starting Apache service in my Windows 7 laptop. And for my case I was surprised to find Skype as the original culprit! Skype uses port 80 and 443 as alternative ports for incoming connection. So port 80 got occupied by Skype and Apache couldn’t use that while starting up. So if you have installed Skype already in your Windows system and are trying to set up Apache there, you might face the same issue. You need to disable this alternative connection settings in Skype to make Apache work. [...]

Now Adsense ads are going to get social!From early October Google will be showing +1 button on Adsense display ads.According to Google, it will help in determining an ad’s relevance. Suppose if you see your friend has already clicked +1 button for that ad, you are most likely to check it anyway. And as an Adsense publisher it can increase you click-through rate too. Google is likely to even show the friend’s face who +1′ed it. This feature will be turned on by default and it will start showing +1 button on Google Adsense ads. And if you want to disable it, you have to go to your Adsense account. Personally, I don’t like this too much social stuffs. So I will keep it turned off. But I might try it soon enough if I see it really increases the click-through rate for others. I don’t want to earn less money where I can after all [...]

In case you have missed this much awaited update from Google, Gmail offline version has been released at the end of last month. But current offline Gmail is only supported in Google Chrome browser and for that you need to go the Google Chrome web store and install this Offline Google Mail app extension. So whenever you don’t have internet connection you can click Gmail Offline Icon on the tab pane and use the interface to access, read and respond to your emails. Gmail Offline will synchronize messages and queue them up to deliver whenever internet connection is available. It can be pretty handy if you are an extensive Gmail user or use Gmail as part of Google Apps for your domain or business. [...]

Yeah! These guys from Master Google SEO company have been giving away free SEO service for quite a while now. And this free service doesn’t only mean there will be only keyword analysis and SEO analysis and to do the optimization you will have to pay from your pocket. Rather they will do some basic website optimization stuff according to their SEO analysis of your site. And that includes meta tag and HTML tag optimization, image ALT tag optimization and inserting keywords in your textual content where they see fit. You will be able to see improvements in your search engine ranking in Google, Bing and Yahoo in the coming first few weeks. And for that you don’t have to manually search with your keywords and find your site. Master Google will be sending a weekly report with all these. [...]

Google just announced this significant change on link reporting feature in Google Webmaster Tools on their official Webmaster Central blog. Previously the links from your sub-domains were considered as external links by Google and they used to show these links in external links section. That included www subdomain too. Suppose you registered www.yoursite.com in Google webmaster tools. So links coming from yoursite.com would have been considered as external links. Even in case you registered a domain with sub-folder path like www.yoursite.com/test/group1, link from www.yoursite.com/test/group1/profile.html would have been considered as internal link whereas a link from www.yoursite.com/test/ would have been an external link. That was because Google used to only consider links that started with your exact registered url as internal links. [...]

Does it sound too good to be true Don’t have any doubt. StartSSL has been offering free SSL certificate for a long time now. And it’s not just for testing purpose like some other SSL providers provide you with 30 or 90 days of free trial certificates. It’s a real deal. Each free SSL certificate has one year validity and you can have unlimited renewal after that. It can be a good free alternative if you are using COMODO PositiveSSL certificate. Both have 128/256-Bit encryption and both basically validate only domain name and email address of the subscriber. But for PositiveSSL you will have to pay $49/year if you buy directly from PositiveSSL site or $8.95 if you use a reseller like NameCheap, whereas StartSSL is 100% free. And like any other well-known SSL providers like Thawte or Comodo, this certificate supports all major browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome. [...]

I was looking for a YouTube to WMA conversion service that is free. There are lots of YouTube to MP3 online converters that you will find if you search Google. But trust me finding a free online service to convert YouTube video to .wma file was not that easy. After searching for quite a while I was able to find Mobile Media Converter online service where you can convert YouTube Videos to Windows Media Audio format. Of course, there are few other options too like converting to .mp3 file. But I was looking for WMA format conversion specifically because WMA format is generally smaller than same quality MP3 files. [...]

Do you want to check whether your site is already listed in DMOZ or not? Then you don’t have to go to any online DMOZ listing checker for that. These services use the same basic principle as I am going to share here. But when they display the result most of them will show that your site or blog is already listed in DMOZ open  directory, though in reality your site is not listed there at all. I tested several of those DMOZ listing checkers personally. I never submitted my site to DMOZ and it is not listed there. Still many of them showed that this domain name is already listed there. [...]

Perhaps, many of you have read online that Google has just announced that it will shut down Google Labs and rather from now on it will concentrate on new experiments on specific product channels like Gmail Labs or Maps Labs. But one thing might have gone under your radar and if you are a webmaster or a blogger I would like to update you that Google just closed Google Directory. It was introduced way back in 2000 and was second Google service after Google search. Now if you go to the homepage link you will see something like: [...]