April Fool from Google and Forkpress

Damn! They did it again. Woke up this morning and was told by my friend that Google are now offering free broadband connection for their BETA testers. Sounds great, but the system does use your toilet! And it is called TISP, toilet internet service provider. Google’s prank is well planned as they also featuring Press Release, FAQs, and TiSP help group.

And if you installed TiSP at your home, you will get a benefit when purchasing things via Google Checkout. The things will be delivered directly to you through the sewage network into your bathroom. Don’t worry, the package is sealed with waterproof bag.

In-Commode Package Delivery
With professional installation service, you can also have your Google Checkout purchases delivered directly through the sewage network into your bathroom. Each package comes pre-sealed in a watertight and nanobot-resistant bag made of biodegradable corn-based plastic. For a limited time, TiSP subscribers who sign up for a Checkout account will receive free bathroom delivery on their first ten Checkout purchases.

And this part is funnier. Google are taking a step forward leaving their competitors in contextual ads. They now can display ads after reading your DNA, so that the ads are related to you. Damn again.

How can Google offer this service for free?
We believe that all users deserve free, fast and sanitary online access. To offset the cost of providing the TiSP service, we use information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily output to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your culinary preferences, current health status and likelihood of developing particular medical conditions going forward. Google also offers premium levels of service for a monthly fee (see below).
Note: We take your privacy very seriously. So we treat all TiSP users’ waste-related personal information with tremendous discretion, in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

And for Wordpress, last year, they came up with Wordpattern (and changed to Wordpattrn, after being acquired by Yahoo! and Flickr). This year, it is almost the same story. And the name is Forkpress. Owen of asymptomatic.net is tired with Habari and Wordpress. So, he comes up with great blogging tools, Forkpress. By the way, Forkpress has K3, while Wordpress still having K2.

To my surprise, Forkpress has been downloaded 20,070,401 times, almost 20x than Wordpress 2.1 (1,047,562 times). No wonder that the download section is facing some problems.

Happy April Fool!

How to redirect your subdomain to your new domain

Before this, I run this blog on free subdomain hosting from eizil.com under the address korokmu.eizil.com. After I had enough money, I bought a domain, Techlogs.net and asked the owner of eizil.com to use my domain with the hosting. Thanks to him because allowing me to still using his free service with my own domain. He had setup the add-on domain for me and everything worked smoothly.

After few days, I realized that my blog still can be accessed using the subdomain. Moreover, my blog is listed on Google and Yahoo with the address http://korokmu.eizil.com. And the fact that Google does not like duplicate content make me worry a little bit. I need to redirect the subdomain to my new domain. Before this, I've writen about redirecting a webpage using PHP. But this trick cannot be done because the index of korokmu.eizil.com and techlogs.net is the same. Therefore, I searched for other solution.

Luckily, I've found the .htaccess trick. It is just simple. What you need to do is, copy the code below in your .htaccess file and replace the domain.com with your domain.

And the most important part is, this redirection is search engine friendly. You can use this tool to check whether your redirection is friendly or not.

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Marki – Ingenious and nice Wordpress theme

Ikram Zidane expands his collection of free Wordpress theme by publishing his brand new theme, Makri. Actually, this theme was designed for TheCicak.com. But, TheCicak.com's side has agreed to make this theme public. This three-column theme with fixed width looks good in the dark colors combination. By the way, the theme differs a little bit compared to the theme at TheCicak.com, but both look great. This theme is also valid XHTML and CSS, just like other designs from ikram zidane.

P.S: The action from TheCicak.com to make this theme public is actually a brilliant idea. This is because, at the bottom of the theme, there are links back to ikram zidane's blog and TheCicak.com. With this great design, I am pretty sure that many Wordpress users will make this theme as their default theme. This will lead to the increase of links to TheCicak.com, which is very important in SEO. And now, what you can do is, hire a designer to design a Wordpress theme for your blog, and then publicize it. And don't forget the link back to your blog.

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Marki Wordpress Theme

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