Google Adsense has rolled out “Simplified ad management“. It’s actually your adsense code, simplified. Look below at the new adsense ads code.

It’s shorter than the previous adsense code. Another thing is that you get to name your adsense code. According to the Official Adsense Blog,  all your new ad code will have a name and an unique ad slot ID. This is so that you can remember which code is where on your blog/website.

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Once you generate your new adsense code, you can click on Manage Ads in your Adsense account and edit settings for any of your adsense code.

I have changed all my adsense ads code on my blog. It’s really “simplified” and because of the name, I know which ads is where on my blog template. Pretty “simplified” right? Have you updated your adsense ad code?

Microsoft has launched Windows Live Apps. You can get the whole suite  here.

Always wanting to try new stuff out, I went and install the whole Windows Live Suite. You need to be online to download the Windows Live Apps (Live Messenger, Sign-in Assistant, Live Mail, Live Photo Gallery, Live Writer and Live Toolbar.)

Installing depends on how fast your connection to the internet is.

Google Toolbar shouts a warning when you are installing Windows Live Apps.

Pretty cool eh? How these two powerhouse are fighting for supremacy! lol.

Windows Live Mail. Nothing special here, honestly.

Live Toolbar for IE. Again, nothing to shout about.

This is just like Picasa 2. Nothing much to shout about either.

And I can’t seem to configure Windows Live Writer to access my Wordpress blog here. Darn.

Setup FAILS big time. Even after I gave it the correct username and password! WTH??? After several attempts, I gave up. It’s just unable to log into my wordpress blog at all.

Apparently, the equation above is also right. Just that it’s different from what we are expecting. According to the Official Google Blog, Google is not going to announce a GPhone, but they are going to announce the Open Handset Alliance and Android, which is more than just a single handset.

What is Android? Well, click here to know more about Android. Quoting from the Official Google Blog, Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications — all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation.

Looks like Google’s plan is more like turning everyone’s phone into a GPhone, rather than making a GPhone. A kinda cool plan to take over the world! hahahaha. What do you think about your phone becoming a GPhone?

Last week was a nightmare for lots of people when bloggers start to notice their pagerank dipping. Some significantly, some slightly, some increasing, some unchanged. Well, not only bloggers, websites like Forbes.com, WashintonPost.com, SFGate.com, SunTimes.com and Engadget.com all dropped significantly from a PR7 to PR5. According to this eWeek article ‘Google’s Reputation System Roils Web World‘. It would seem Google probably tweaked it’s algorithm or changed requirements on how it’s gives out pagerank to the web community.

Who knows what really Google did, but the effect is that lots of people are angry. Some blog that I visit are ranting raving mad about their potential lost of adsense income, due to the fact their blogs losing pagerank. Some even hit rock bottom  by getting a pagerank of zero.

However, some people did not get a drop and remained unchanged. My blog here got updated to PR2 from PR0 and my previous blog hosted by blogger.com remains at PR4, even though I have switched to this blog. Which is weird, as I have informed everyone who has linked back to previous blog to change it to this blog. And yet, it only dipped to PR2 for like 2 days, then goes back to PR4. To make sure it isn’t my browser cache isn’t caching the PR rank, I use both IE7 Google toolbar and Firefox Google toolbar to make sure after clearing the cache and cookies and checking via a few pagerank checker websites.  And the results are :

IE 7 google toolbar for http://kljs.blogspot.com/ : 4/10
IE 7 google toolbar for http://kennyljs.com/ : 2/10
Same results from Firefox google toolbar.

http://kennyljs.com/ has PageRank 2/10.
http://kljs.blogspot.com/ has PageRank 4/10.
Results taken from Pagerank.net

prchecker.info also reports the same results.

So, it’s weird when my previous defunct blog at blogger.com did not get a drop, while many bloggers out there got a PR drop. However, many bloggers are speculating that their PR dropped was due to selling text link or paid posts. Possible, but we can’t be sure at this stage. However, as most PR dropped blogs have either are selling text link or doing some pay per post, the possibilities are there, but it’s still just speculation.

Maybe after getting lots of complains, Google might be reviewing it pagerank again. Or maybe not. Cross as many fingers as you can and pray for a miracle that Google re-review this pagerank thingy as it effects a lot people on the net.

Gmail will be adding IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) to it’s already vast arsenal of email features. According to the official Gmail blog, the next couple of days, you will be able to use Gmail at work, in your car, or just about anywhere on any device, and actions you take will be automatically synced with Gmail on the web (and remember it works the other way too: anything you do on the Web will be seen on your phone or in your mail client).

Silly me or laugh at me, but I didn’t really bothered about what is IMAP until now. Definitely will checked it out now. However, since I am already using Gmail Mobile application on my k700i, I wonder if there will be an updated version of it with the rolling out because of this IMAP thingy?

The rumours are going wild with this article here. Just like other Google rumours, will this one take flight? or will it be grounded just like Google OS and GBrowser.

Google will be Google. When they launch something, it is going to be a surprise. They even do it on a day when people think everything is a joke (ala 1st of April). So, it is very hard to know what is truth and what is false when it comes to Google. There could be a Gphone somewhere in the works, or there could be not. We really don’t know. Given Google’s history and track record, the possibility is there.

I noticed that Google likes to surprise people when everyone starts to believe the rumours is nothing more than hot air, then comes the bomb shell and everyone becomes speechless.

So, it might be a rumour now, but when it is a Google Rumour, then there might be a possibility of a surprise at the end of it. What do you think?

I own a Sony Ericsson k700i. For a normal mobile phone user like me, this model has all the features I want. Bluetooth, camera, color screen, mp3 player..etc. It doesn’t have that cutting-edge factor, but it’s good enough. Now, the problem with this that it is not supported to run Gmail mobile application because it lacks the Verisign Class 3 public certificate with the serial no : 70:BA:E4:1D:10:D9:29:34:B6:38:CA:7B:03:CC:BA:BF.

Well, after looking for a solution, found one at the Google Mobile Help Group.

In order for you to run Gmail Mobile application on your Sony Ericsson k700i,

1. You need to download the roots certificate from Verisign. Click here to download the zip file. Fill up the form and download the roots.zip file. Unzip it and in the folder ‘VeriSign_Roots‘, find the file ‘PCA3ss_v4.509‘. Rename it to ‘PCA3ss_v4.509.cer‘

2. Use your bluetooth or infrared or any other methods to upload ‘PCA3ss_v4.509.cer‘ into your phone. For me, I use bluetooth. Once you upload the file, your phone will ask you if it is a certificate. Press Yes and it will be installed.

3. Now you need to get the Gmail mobile application file, since you probably won’t be able to download it via your phone’s WAP or GPRS as it is an unsupported phone. Instead, download it from Gmail by clicking here.  After you download the file, upload the file ‘gmail-g.jar‘ to your phone and put it in your phone’s application folder and start it. Type in your user name and password and you are done.

And now I can access my Gmail account anywhere! Woo hoo… finally!

Google who owns Youtube, has launch a beta version of Youtube Video Identification tool. This is to detect people who uploads copyrighted videos into Youtube. According to Official Googleblog,  the new tool will allow copyright holders to identify their works on Youtube, and choose what they want done with their videos: whether to block, promote, or even—if a copyright holder chooses to license their content to appear on the site—monetize their videos.

Looks like the days of watching animes on Youtube are numbered. Fortunately though, there is always other video sharing service out there like crunchyroll.com for all your anime needs.

My opinion is that these entertainment industry people just want more money. They don’t care about quality of movies/tv drama..etc. All they care is how much money they can pocket. Even overzealous suing. However, people are still pirating, people are still sharing videos and people are able to watch even after all that. Wake up you entertainment industry people. Stop trying to make a profit and concentrate on getting more QUALITY storylines. Grab the heart, get the dough. Understand?

If you have been using Gmail mobile application on your mobile phone, then you might be interested to know that Gmail has updated it’s Gmail mobile application. According to the Official Gmail Blog, the new application will have a few new features and updates to it.

Changelog (of somesort) :

• more than 30 percent faster overall, and 80 percent faster for some tasks
• a contacts viewer to view your all Gmail contacts and addresses
• an outgoing mail footer to let your recipients know you’ve sent an email from a mobile device
• click-to-call phone numbers which you can call without retyping the number
• emails are saved for later re-editing if connection drops or if you want to perform another task before sending out the message
• Gmail keyboard shortcuts to perform tasks faster (on phones with full keyboards).

So, if your have a gmail account and a supported mobile phone that can use the Gmail mobile application, then open your mobile phone web browser and surf to http://gmail.com/app and update it! If you don’t have a gmail account, why don’t you sign up for one? Gmail is one of the world best free email service on the internet. Try it, you won’t regret it! Pity my Sony Ericsson’s k700i mobile phone can’t install this application, because it doesn’t have the Verisign class 3 certification.

You think one search engine is enough? How about searching all of the major search engine at once? Dogpile.com does that by combining all searches from Google, Yahoo search, Live Search and many more into one combined search results.

For example : I key in my name or short form of my name ‘kljs’

The results is like this :

Another search using ‘malaysiabloggers’

The result is like this :

Quoted from Dogpile.com

Metasearch searches multiple engines - this means that instead of getting the best results one search engine has to offer, you’ll be getting the best combined results from a variety of engines, and not just any engines, but industry leading engines like Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart and more.

I find that there is one bad thing about this, is that you have a chance of not getting what you want. Like for example the ‘malaysiabloggers’ key word. The first results goes to a post from Liewcf.com instead of malaysiabloggers.com. It only appears at no. 2.

See?

Although one good thing is that you get the combined results from all the search engines, as there will be no overlapping of results. You might find what you wanted to find. What do you think about dogpile?

Those who have a Gmail account knows that their email storage space is ever increasing day by day. However, according to a blog post from the Official Gmail Blog, Google plans to increase Gmail storage capacity by increasing the rate in which the storage counter will increase. Currently the counter is at around 2.9GB increasing little by little.

I guess this is because Hotmail increased their storage to 5GB of free space, while Yahoo Mail virtually gave limitless storage space.

I wonder how to use all those storage? So far, my Gmail account is only using up to 7% of 2.9GB.