Microsoft says that the first public release of Vista SP1 will be out by the end of 2007 but won’t confirm the status of SP1. Now they do not need to! Microsoft has shipped SP1 to a select pool of testers and that is confirmed by the secret images release by winbeta.

According to the information that can be extracted from the screenshots, Vista SP1 is now at build 6001.16549. In the About Windows image for example the version of the operating system is 6.0, however, the build is 6001 and Service pack 1 is reverenced with v.165. Additional information about the first beta builds of Vista SP1 reveal the fact that Microsoft is not releasing the refresh as an update but as an ISO image. In July Microsoft served SP1 ISO files weighing in at 3.07GB for Vista 32-bit edition and 4.3GB for Vista 64-Bit edition. Vista SP1 beta was delivered in both 6,000 RTM and 6,001 Windows Server 2008 kernel versions.

Still the Microsoft and beta participants are denying the program’s existence, as expected. We’ll have to suffer with our malfunctioning Windows Vista installs for just a tad longer.

Many might have said this and many of you are using this trick too, but for those who still did not gave it a try and think that Google AdSense does not pay well, read on and DO TRY IT!

The publishers bid in Google AdWords to get to the top in your blog pages where Ad Units are displayed. The theory is simple. The one who pays out more has more chances to be displayed at the top in the pages running ads. So the first Ad unit in your blog page will display the advertisers which pay the highest for clicks, the second Ad unit pays out lesser than the first and so on.

So what I want to suggest you here is to “use only one ad unit” in your blog page. Yes! I used to have two ad units in my pages. One below the header (728×15) and other below the heading of the article (300×200). Now all the Ads which were relevant to the article I published were displayed in the 728×15 Ad unit and other Ad units would publish non-relevant Ads. I removed the 728×15 Ad unit and “for the same number of clicks and visits” my AdSense earnings were raised by 6 times than the initial earnings!

So do this experiment right away. Use just one Ad unit in your page and I can assure you that you will be payed more for clicks than what you are being payed.

And if you are not using AdSense then do me a favor and click on the referral link below this article and register for AdSense and start earning dollars.

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Ever wondered why your “branded” printers ink cartridge costs so much? The policy is simple. Big names in this industry sell printers at cheap rates and then go on to earn there profits from selling the accessories without which the customer wont be able to move on. The cost of branded cartridges is said to cost more per ounce than some high quality champagnes. They are sometimes even costlier than imported Russian caviar!

The first and foremost target of such printer developing companies is to sell printers to consumers after huge amount of luring advertisements and then force them to drain out there pockets to costly ink cartridges. These were the reasons which made the consumers drift to third party ink cartridges and hence led to birth of huge number of third-party franchisees selling ink cartridges with rates cut down by about 75%!

InkShop.co.uk is one of those similar third party providers who trust the “word of mouth” method of advertisements instead of spending heavily on celebrities endorsing items for them. InkShop boasts of a huge stock of printer cartridges and ink cartridges under there belt. And when I happened to visit there web portal there promises seemed to have lived up to my expectations but still I do have few words of caution for them else another good company may not make it to the charts just because it did not follow some set rules.

The best way for a consumer is to do the testing themselves. So I would request the readers to try using a third-party cartridge and know it himself that they provide you with same look and feel with reduced price. Just the brand name is missing. Even almost every friend of mine now uses non-branded cartridges for there branded printers. That is the way to go!

InkShop.co.uk provided you with a easy looking homepage which is soothing to the eyes. The moment you click on your favorite printer maker’s name you are send to the page which has almost all the printers listed and yes they do have cartridges in stock for every printer! That is awesome hardwork. The search feature makes your job of finding your favorite printer a much easier job. In short they have it all in one place in this portal InkShop.co.uk. But lets point out on some of the features which they overlooked!

Overall the web based company is nice start-up to offer you ink cartridges, at market prices, at your doorstep and that too with free delivery if you are in UK. What it now needs is buzz and that will come if it goes on to spend some money a lot more hard work. I would request my readers to please have a look at InkShop.co.uk and there visit might well take them into the cheaper world of cartridges and that too online!

The search results are same and the page also looks to be almost same. The author doest not seems to run any malicious script with this page. It just seems that he used some tricky programming to get data out of Google pages and let users do Google search from his website until he actually comes up with real content for the site. And you can understand what the real content will be with that name xxxdisc.net! Even the same Google Ads are being displayed in this website as displayed in Google.com.

The only thing which makes me curious is how come Google left a hole that anyone can easily create mirrors of there search engine in any domain. I would love to hear the explanations.

There are many websites related to Apple stuff but very few of them concentrate on content. Mostly all are busy gathering lots of viewers so as to get many ad clicks. And how they do that? By daily delivering new content even when that content should not have been on the top. Mac Games also focuses on same Mac/Apple stuff but its one of those few rare sites who let there content stay there on the homepage for 1 full week!

The homepage design is soothing to the eyes and it blends the Google Ads very well too. I want to point on blending of Google Ads in this site as there are many sites which have so many ads up there in there pages that one rarely goes on to read the content.

Mac Games And More mostly concentrates on Mac games and the shareware related to Mac. It is doing an awesome job of providing all the Mac shareware developers with a platform where they can feature there hard work. One such example is Mac solitaire.

Still few suggestions which I have for the author is to remove Google Ads from the about page, the contact page and the FAQ page. And do get a good contact form which helps you not to reveal your email address.

Go explore the archives of MacGamesAndMore and if you want you can easily be featured on the home page for one full weak! The site has all the potential to be a big hit and must continue working hard and hence will surely get success. After all hard work is the key to success!

99¢ Only Stores®, located in Westchester CA, plans to give out Apple iPhones for just 99 cents to there first 9 customers on 9th August as part of there 25th anniversary.

With this awesome iPhone give away comes an issue too. As iPhone’s retail exclusivity is with Apple and AT&T Wireless stores, how on earth will this plan be executed?

And if this turns out to be a success then one should expect more such iPhone give aways at other places, not only at Apple and AT&T Wireless stores!

What do you think? Has 99Only stores done there homework or they should be ready to face fights against Apple?

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Mike Grehan spotted a unique feature at Google where you can suggest Google of a better search result than what you received and the next time you search for same query you will get that link on top of search page (for you only of course) with a * marked to it.

Click on the image to see the experiment in action. SearchEngineLand has a reply from Google related to this stuff. It says that Google keeps testing new and innovative experiments daily and this one was no different. See the official Google blog post here.

Now I understand why I could not see the experiment in action. Looks like they brought it down with the same speed as they activated it!

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Bringing out this unique style of advertisement, CompuWorld gives you the chance to become the sponsor of all the articles to be published for one full month! The Ad Spot being offered is the “smallest” in size but the “most eye catchy” too. Its unique and it is different from the rest! (And yes it is colored red) Here goes the details.

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When you make a payment of $5/month then I will leave a link (anchor text of your choice) to your website/blog below the headings of all the posts to published on CompuWorld for next one month.

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Hackers who created this malware must have been very nasty else why would someone spend nights in order to create a malware which goes on to delete the computers mp3 files. Yes that is true!

A recent article on computerworld suggests that the creators of this malware are more likely to be teenage mischief-makers than the organized criminal gangs we typically see authoring financially motivated malware these days.

Symantec Corp., which calls the worm W32.Deletemusic, said in an advisory that the worm copies itself to all drives on a PC. It also creates an autorun file to start itself whenever a user accesses a drive.

The worm affects PCs running Windows 2000, 95, 98, Me, NT, Server 2003, XP and Vista, Symantec said. To block potential problems users could disable the autorun feature in Windows that automatically launches programs on CDs or USB drives.

Users could also exercise caution by holding down the SHIFT for a few seconds in order to deactivate the Autorun function when they plug in USB sticks or other removable media to their computers or when they insert a disk. Users should also make regular backups for their critical data by burning DVDs or using automated backup tools.

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Review:
Are you a mission solver? Do you love to rip of the enemy tanks, and get the juice out of the battle fields? Then this is not the game you should download (but the 1 hour demo version is worth a download for everyone). Now for all those puzzle solvers, this is the game to look at. It sharpens your brain and give you the same old stuff packed with all the new glitters to keep you intact.
Dropheads is similar to a game I used to play years back where you are provided with colored coins and x*x matrix and you are required to arrange them in group of four or more. The only drawback which that game used to have was its theme. It failed to attract kids as it had no “instant” fun involved. But with all the colors and soothing music, dropheads is the game to look after. It keeps you eyes glued to the funny falling faces, your mouse running, brain thinking the next move, plus the ears listening to the soothing music.

Dropheads provides you with 2 modes of play. Arcade mode is for the quick thinkers. And the strategy mode gives you the time to think, to feel, to get involved!

The amazing tutorial provides you with every help you could think of one would need and also provides you the option to turn of the tutorial and play the game right away. It installs with just few clicks but does take some time (might be even 3 minutes in some machines, it took 20 seconds in mine!) to start. But the wait is worth it, as the interface you get to see is very loving for the kids and the puzzle solvers. Here I do count kids and puzzle lovers together as the game is made for both kind of audiences. The glitters to keep the kids intact and the task to make quick new move keeps the puzzle lovers intact.
The sudden bonuses bring the game back to life just when you start feeling that you will be greeted with the “Game Over” banner soon!
Conclusion:
Overall the game is worth the money and has all the ingredients for a complete timepass. A must see for tetris, colored coin falling game, and puzzle lovers. And it could turn out to be a good game for those parents who want there kids to play games to sharpen his/her brain and not to get indulged in the shooting games which could make him/her violent.

But NOT for those who love violence. And fortunately they would never understand the reasons why others love such games.

Download the game here!