This post will tell you, why Instant Messaging can be a lot more productive than just chatting for fun; and then, WHY it becomes so important to save or archive chats for future reference. For me, because I discuss so many issues which are important to me (regarding my blog, programming, college, friends, life, etc.) archiving chats becomes as important as backing up my databases!

I am using Microsoft Office 2007 myself because I really like the improved, user-friendly Word 2007. The new default format in which the documents are saved - .docX, files take up less than half the disk-space as the .doc files with the same content. Thus, for personal use I save all my word documents as .docX files. But when I am to send these files over IM or through email - I can’t be certain that the person on the receiving end also has Word 2007 on his system.

In that case, I create a duplicate copy (Save As) of my .docX file in the .doc format and send this one out so that anyone with the previous versions of Microsoft Word might be able to use it. To save valuable disk space, I delete these doc files then, and keep the docX only.

As I and a bunch of other bloggers in the region have founded Chandigarh Bloggers Alliance - I am working my level best to educate more and more people in and around Chandigarh about blogs, bloggers and blogging. When I introduce my friends at college to the word blogging, the first question that they ask me (even before I tell them how setting up and maintaining a blog is so easy) is that Do they need to be hardcore programmers, or web developers to be good bloggers?

Programming and Blogging are related to each other and there are certain factors that decide the extent to which one should know programming to be a better blogger. Read to know.

Most of you use services like Project Wonderful and Entrecard to bring in some extra traffic to your blog, but complain about it being quick and unproductive traffic (or the hit-and-run traffic). Have you ever tried to think about why you failed with any particular service when many others have used the same services so [...]