Month: May 2009

Image Ads introduced below Adsense Link Unit Pages

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Google Adsense, in a way to improve the revenue for publishers has introduced an image ad at the bottom of the page that one would get after clicking on any Adsense link unit topic.

Image ads below link units in Adsense
Image source:Adsense Official Blog

As in the above image, an image ad will appear on each page that users see after clicking on any link unit.These image ads are contextually targeted as well, and can be either CPC (Cost Per Click) or CPM (Cost Per Impressions).

P.S: Adsense publishers are strictly prohibited from clicking on their own ads, so never click on your own Ad link unit to see this new feature.[Of course, you always have other ways to test this 🙂 ]

Google PageRank Update May 2009: Techrena now has PR 2

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It’s been rather quiet journey here for us since we started this blog 2 months ago, and here comes our first milestone (really??), a Google PageRank 2 !! something that we can cheer about.

Yes, in the recent Google PageRank update which was underway in the last week of May 2009, Techrena Hompage was gifted with a PageRank of 2 by Google and our old techrena.blogspot.com blog still stays at PR 1. PageRank is just a way that Google measures the importance of any site, it doesn’t however effect Search Engine Ranking Positions(SERPs).

Techrena PR2 update may 2009

And how did we manage to get it? Well, we haven’t really participated in any link exchanges (which always never in our minds), but then we have been getting lot of good back links for our quality, content rich blog posts, that helped a lot to achieve this PR 2, now that we have reached this, it’s now all goes in how well we live up to it and reach probably even better PR.

Way to Go, Techrena !!

Expect more from us.

Gmail Adds Automatic Message Translation Feature

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Search Engine giant Google has just announced one more interesting feature (actually a Labs launch) which lets you instantly translate Gmail messages to language which you feel comfortable reading.

The new Automatic Message Translation is currently between 41 languages.This feature as Google says is mainly to woo the multi-national companies that use Gmail as their native email provider.

gmail auto translation screen shot

if your entire company uses Gmail, email communications between people in your company can take place in the language that’s most comfortable for them – each person can write messages in their native language and the recipients can translate the messages into their respective native languages.

This new Gmail feature is powered by Cloud Computing. To enable this feature in your Gmail, simply go to “Labs” tab under “Settings” within your Gmail and enable “Message Translation.”. And  for some reasons if you find the translation to be awkward,  you can quickly revert back to the original message just by clicking “View original message”.

How to Auto Refresh a Web Page in Firefox

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Refreshing a web page in  Mozilla Firefox has always been easy in the manual way, just press F5 or CTR+R will do it for you.Let’s  say you are viewing your favourite team scores in a web page which doesn’t automatically refresh its content,then you may have to manually refresh the page so many times to be updated with the score. But what if you want your browser to do automatically for you?

This wonderful Add-on “ReloadEvery” for Firefox does this for you.Just go to this add-on page and add the add-on to your Firefox[Just Click on Add to Firefox button] and restart Firefox.

ReloadEvery Firefox Add-on reloadevery from context menu in firefox

Now you can find a new function Reload Every being added to the options (a special context menu Reload Every) that you see when you right-click on the page.The same function can also be accessed from the main menu (see the second image).Through this fucntion web pages can be automatically refreshed every so many seconds or minutes.