Etiquette

This is not a review on Randy Pausch’s last lecture, honestly I don’t feel myself skilled enough to give a review on his speech. All that I can say if you need more motivation/inspiration in your life to prove something then watch this video, I swear he won’t waste your 1 hour 16 minutes 27 seconds. A Carnegie Mellon computer science dying professor teaches how to live your life. I wish I could give him 6 out of 5 stars as a rating for this video.

Here is another video on time management suggested by Rinku, I think this video is also worth watching for once at least. Let us know here what you think about these videos.

“Content is the King”, the most common phrase is in danger. Are you also suffering to keep your content away from being copied? Do you have issues in crosschecking the content you buy from writers? This is something I have seen many webmasters suffering from and something which I am always asked by my friends.

Here are some of the websites where you can check your content and make sure that you are safe & not plagiarized.

Paid Websites for Validating Content Copyrights
1. copyscape.com - The website which I know that gives the best service for the money it charges and I also use them for validating my content. This site charges only 5 cents for one search. This search can be a webpage or 2000 word content. If you want to save your each penny then search once after merging your content from various articles that you want to post to your website and make sure that it is less than 2000 words in order to get the best result. I have seen this working fine down to 5 words only, this means if you have just 5 words common to any other indexed web pages on the internet then this is going to find that for you. They also have an API to make life simpler for you.

List of Free Sites that Checks for Content Plagiarism
1. articlechecker.com - They don’t describe anything in details but i guess if the searched phrases are more than 1 then you are colliding some other website content.
2. plagiarismdetect.com - Needs a signup, if you wish to check them out then let us know here how they perform.
3. plagiarismchecker.com - free but I guess not the best one. This leads to google with the content in a search query and leaves to you for deciding if it is copied.
4. www.google.ie/advanced_search?hl=en – The most trivial way of validating and this works the best as long as you can break your content and search in limited words.

More tips on Saving your Content from Digital Theft

You can always find an unique sentence from your web page and trigger the google alert. The day google finds the same sentence somewhere else is going to send you one email.

If you are using popular blogging software like Wordpress then use Maxpower’s Digital Fingerprint Plugin so that it will insert customized unique fingerprints to you posts and later you can set up one google alert for that.

I doubt if we all follow the basics of passenger bus regulations. Here is a short story on how people don’t follow the rules and other suffers for it.

Today I was about to break my bones due to someone’s irresponsible move. I got on to my usual bus to office and couldn’t see anything clearly as it was very dark for me, this normally happens when you try to get into a lesser light area from a brighter place then you almost can’t see objects for a while. I was looking here and there to find a seat so that I can enjoy my ride to office but it was my bad, I couldn’t see someone kept his travel bag on the way. It came on my way and I was almost on my knees for that. The person even didn’t realize it was his fault and he shouldn’t have done that.

How to keep your belongings while traveling

• Try to keep your luggage very small by packing only the necessary stuffs.
• Try to check-in your bags whenever you get that opportunity.
• If you carry-in then place it safely at your overhead shelf.
• If you have a bigger bag and that doesn’t fit into the overhead rack then place it under the seat.
• Still if that doesn’t get in there then there is a huge space behind the driver’s seat, you should try to fit it there or take the driver’s help to keep it in a safe place.