WordPress vs Blogger?

WordPress and Blogger are huge rivals in blogging platforms and if you can’t make a choice, this post might help you. Here are facts about both of those platforms that might help you to choose one of them. Both platforms are free and both are very good to make free blogs which could be used for various purposes, but yet it give to your blog a professional look and a lot of other features.
Design – WordPress wins!

If you prefer design over SEO (Search Engine Optimization) then WordPress is right choice for you.
Let me explain why is WordPress better.
WordPress offers a lot of great themes and much more than Blogger. Blogger offers a couple of free templates but I think that’s incomparable to a huge number of free templates which WordPress free blogging platform offers.
Let me be clear. Here is screenshot of all free templates Blogger offers to its users:

…and this is list of themes WordPress offers for free:

As you can see, WordPress have displayed only 187 themes to me while a probably thousand of themes available to other users.

SEO – Blogger (Blogspot) wins!
Blogger is better for SEO because it’s owned by Google. It’s a fact that Google gives more attention to blogs hosted at Blogger.com and you probably noticed how many blogspot blogs are actually ranking for some really quality and highly competing keywords.
If you love traffic and especially traffic from search engines, then pick up Blogger’s blogspot.
Widgets – WordPress and Blogger are equal in this battle!
WordPress offers some widgets but bloggers does so too. They are quite same when widgets comes to widgets and accessories.
Connectivity with readers
I think Blogger give more attention to connectivity and making connections with readers. If you want to build audience with whole spectar of readers and users, then you might choose blogspot since they have in-build widgets for Google plus, Google followers and such social network sites.
Customization
Both types of blogging platforms offers customization, manual editing of code, HTML and CSS editing and adjustment. However, Blogger offers more controls to adjust and tune blog’s design, look and columns.
Blogger also offers Layout control which can be used to sort the elements, move them around and determine location of each element.


WordPress don’t have such option and they rely on user’s manual editing of code.
“Mobility”
Popularity
Blogger offers some kind of pre-made version of your blog ready for your mobile visitors so it’s really great if you are planning to promote your blog to mobile users.
Popularity
Blogger is a way more popular than WordPress. Most people already heard about blogspot domain so if you are targeting audience with low knowledge about technology, then you might choose Blogger.
The bottom line
Both blogging platforms are very good but here is summary:

• If you enjoy manually customizing your blog, if you want to have more control over design your blog and if you don’t care about audience and traffic (especially traffic from search engines) – pick up WordPress blog.
• If you don’t have much time, you don’t know how to customize your blog or you simply don’t want to spend time customizing your blog – pick up Blogger (blogspot). In minutes you will have customized blog ready for writing but you will be a bit limited to design. Also, if you like connecting with your readers – Blogger is great platform to connect with your readers.

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Is Blackberry love justified?!

Blackberry Love?!

Note: This post is not intended to hurt anybody's faith or feelings! :P


"Lots of Apples & Blackberries a day, keeps you healthy & smart!" - Android


So you are here.. With a question in mind.. That's quiet obvious.. Well yeah in terms of mobile OS or smartphone platform, it is a common query of masses.. Go with plenty of features in Android, iOS, Windows or go for a Blackberry? Well, you are welcome! ;)


Before we proceed, Here is an incident that happened somewhere in Memorial Rose Garden, Missoula, US around two years back..

Android, apple & blackberry were chatting in the garden..

Apple: I am the greatest! I have all the great apps & largest App-store. I am the leader to innovate the latest features & newest hardware. I give the best OS integration. I am always the first, I rule the smartphone world!

Android: Easy big boy! I am the one who follows all your smartness and implement your features better than you! I am from Google, and Google never leaves any game without winning! And hey! I am 'open source' hence I am free!

Blackberry: (Suddenly got distracted by the argument, takes out his earphones) Hey! whats wrong? can't you let me enjoy my music?

Appy & Andy: We are better than you!

BB: Relax boys I got RIM servers! ;) That you can never have...

Well well lets come back to my post in here. (Yeah you too dear, close your mouth and stop admiring your Blackberry! )
The Blackberry love will always exist & so will the camp of Blackberry Boys (As the brand coined it).
Personally I feel people are just making RIM folks richer and all this BBM stuff is quiet unnecessary and very much over-priced! Why spending such bucks for a BBM when you can get that for a drastically smaller price, or may be free?! Yeah I heard you! Secure... Un-hackable... private... bla-bla... @$*%^@&*
well we will see all that, in a few moments! ;) :D
First let me share this hilarious comic strip with you all-

 
Certainly in the coming future I wouldn't be surprised to see people distinguished not on the bases of caste or religion but Smartphone Type!


Let's see what this fuzz is all about. Basically RIM is facing a serious competition in west, that is dominated by Apple and Android and small market share held by Windows as well. RIM is running good business in Asian markets specially Indonesia. Revenue of RIM is getting down each year, thanks to Apple and Android! Given that the security of its devices and BES messaging infrastructure is one of the few competitive advantages RIM has left over its rivals in the crowded smartphone space, any compromise would be disastrous for the firm.


When you go out and compare the smartphones in terms of their smartness! Their hardware specification as well as the power of operating system such as Android or Apple with all the variety of Apps available at App stores, BB is clearly missing on many points.
It really don't even stand in same lines to be compared when we talk of iPhone or latest Android Jelly-Bean! (I am not sure if Jelly bean is out on mobiles yet) , still going for a BB just for the divine RIM servers?! :P


Moreover OS like Android offer a lot to tweak & customize in contrast to others, you can Root (Google this!) your phone and make it a Rocket-Launcher! xD


Whats the definition of safe? After all RIM servers are also hard-disks, platters and magnetic heads at the end! :D How can they guarantee you safety? Material things can all fail, they are not eternal!
Moreover all the bbm replacement  apps available for cross platform OS users like whatsapp, kik (Kik, the hot new messaging app that racked up a million users in a couple of weeks and then got called out for covertly harvesting users' contacts, has now been completely banned from RIM's BlackBerry App World. RIM announced it was booting Kik over "breached contractual obligations," and that it has terminated all agreements with Kik and stopped supporting the service. ), pingchat, chatplus etc are also available so you don't die without bbm! :D In-fact talking realistic, in true sense even using a software like Whatsapp that is fairly cheaper than bbm and is also quiet secure, instant, cross-platform (for Apple, Android, Windows, Nokia & even Blackberry!) and private, instead of using a bbm, your chances of getting hacked or your private data being stolen are quiet the same and that too is almost certainly never going to happen!! So whats the practicality in using a bbm (or I must say spending huge bucks for bbm & making RIM folks rich! xD  ) !? 
Not any intention to hurt the faith of all Blackberry-boys! :P Here is a link I would share that proves clearly that nothing is 'private', 'hack-proof', or out of reach from other's hands. Not even RIM servers!
=> Read here

I believe technology has advanced a lot till date and instead of paying heavily or even pirating, another world of 'open source' software has emerged greatly, we can follow that, and personally, I am a big supporter for 'open-source'. People can donate in such projects as much and whatever they want to, and these open-source guys are still surviving nicely! (See Wikipedia) then why make these MNC like RIM richer unnecessarily? You got money? Do charity! :D


Now to keep my post interesting and not being too informative, I am omitting too many references and news-articles about RIM getting hacked or RIM being down on service! :P You can Google yourself many! :P I must state here, by mentioning all this I am not going against RIM (so please don't grab my neck RIM! :P) or Blackberry, I am just sharing my opinion that for the right of being in touch and messaging services, RIM is charging large amount, and it is quiet unnecessary in today's world of 'open source' and other fairly cheaper options available. Also this BBM service is a flagship of Blackberry and can not be used beyond their OS, where as Apple and Android have really much better to offer in terms of features and hardware as compared to BB and thus restricting BBM to Blackberry is a serious disadvantage or may be the only hope left for Blackberry to keep selling there phones, ie RIM servers! ;)


Thus in my opinion not only slashing down RIM's subscription charges & making BBM cross-platform compatible, but also focusing on improving OS features to match with those of Android & iOS and providing a better  feature-rich hardware can save BlackBerry from its deathbed !! :P

* Inspiration :P


Keep coming for more fun posts!  =))

[UPDATE:]
Apple's iOS has it's own version of BBM or a personal messaging service for other iOS users its called- "iMessage".. It is far sophisticated from a BBM (iMessage is actually integrated into the iOS messages app, meaning it will automatically switch to SMS mode, which looks and feels identical, if the recipient doesn’t have iMessage active) 
And Google is working on a similar 'BBM kin' for Android!
What say  Blackberry Boys! ;)

After a looong while I took the pen again! (Well not literally :P )

Thanks for being an avid reader of my blog. And apologies for keeping you all waiting, it's been a long while that i have written, created or shared any new or interesting post! Here I go to sum up in short what was happening in my life for the past months. :)

At last after a long and patient waiting, I got my joining date at Tata consultancy services as 29th of March, 2011. I did not even realized the transition from job searching phase to the employed phase as this all happened so soo fast!! There was a time after college I was involved in giving interviews and getting selected in various companies and now finally I am all set to join my preferred one! I say preferred one as in those days I was high on luck and time was with me.. whatever interview I gave I just cracked it in a go.. I got selected in 5 companies.. worked for about 1-2 days in 2 of em and then left as I didn't liked.. :D.. this includes my selection in Infosys...

I was all set and googled out about the place and hangout zones of Coimbatore, my proposed training location. Initially I was in an impression that being a small city it would not be a much fun experience there, but clearly I was just anticipating. Coimbatore despite of not having a proper TCS campus for training, was the best ILP city, I believe! Many groups were made at facebook and me myself created a few to gather up all the TCS joinees for the same place ie Coimbatore. We began chatting and got to know each other.. many friends were found over Facebook only months before we were actually gonna meet up! Then the day came, preparing for documents and online preparation, what TCS made us do, finally the day has come! I was at airport in Delhi where my flight was to leave for Coimbatore... In the airport itself many of us recognized each other by the Display-Pics of FB ;)... and also noticed the best gals accompanying our flight.. ;) the journey has begun...

I had a blast at Coimbatore.. beyond the learning at ILP (Initial learning Process @TCS), found many sweet memories.. many new life's experiences.. many new friends and explored many new places too!..

It was just a beginning to experience life's love, hate, anguish, competition, struggle, hardships, adventure, fun, exploration and yes the corporate world!...

At ILP it was just like a paid vacations that we were having, far away from life's all the hard sides.. only fun and 3 months in heaven...

I never expected to not to get my preferred place of joining, infact I was so sure and confident to get Delhi, that I was least bothered.. My preferences that I filled up were: 1. Delhi 2. Bangalore 3. Mumbai... and guess what.. I got Mumbai! :D It was a clear shock at the beginning...

Still I was not aware of .. what was gonna happen.. the real suspense! All the days of work and massti @ ILP passsed out... all the TRs (Technical reviews), ECs & Case studies passed over... mixed with fear, anxiety, and adventure... the last day of ILP came as well.. with mixed emotions and sad feelings we have to left the place... that surprisingly we started to love a lot! Many things left at Coimbatore to miss.. many sweet memories.. many sweet people... many lovely places.. to name a few.. Glacier's park, Bombay trombay, That's why food, The Delhi wala, Brookfield Mall, Gandhinagar, Cross cut road, Sri sabri towers (Girls accommodation hotel! ;) :D ) Also I was sad of not getting my base location as Delhi, my home.. But still I was quiet excited to explore Mumbai.

The day has come on 1st July, 2011 was my flight from Coimbatore to Mumbai. I was accompanied by my roommate of ILP and we were so excited about Mumbai!...
Then the days of struggle, the hard days began... Reaching Mumbai I realized how a busy and big city life is... Delhi don't even stands in comparison... so much crowd.. so much traffic.... highly populous, overcrowded local train compartments... Gosh! I would never complain about crowd in Delhi metro again, it was not even half of what Mumbai locals have, you can't even turn 180 degree it is so much packed!! :D Above this Mumbai's crowd the city was too expensive, to get a proper meal you have to shed 200 bucks a minimum.. Eating out and living in Hotels in the first 10 days I spent around 10,000 bucks or more... Those were quiet a bad days I can say, till we looked out for an apartment and got settled in the city.. there were many issues even for small things... one can not get a local SIM card even without a "Local" Mumbai's document! :D Even passport was not working... later on we managed to get from the direct Reliance shop and Vodafone stores..

Office life was not a piece of cake as the ILP was!.. I faced the shit of corporate world and the bloody politics in the project teams and work culture.. I got a best project in Java so soon... but the atmosphere and team members were so bad... or I was just new to getting used to what usually happens in IT world! ;)... I switched one project... got another... that too core Java developement, considered too good... then unfortunately or fortunately (only time will tell)... I am released from that project too... right now I am enjoying the "sitting on bench" phase and getting salary without regularly requiring to go to office... :D
Waiting for my next allocation lets see what and when I get it... But one thing I have realised that in TCS your job is safe... it is thats why truely called ... "a sarkari company!"... :D

P.S: To accompany the above article with interesting images (that I chose to omit here :P), go visit my FB albums, Ofcourse you gotta be my friend for that! :D ToodleZ.


Update (15th July, 2012):

- Well only about 40% images are still available on Facebook, so I will append some good images here in the post itself soon, sad part is my hard disk is locked I need to get the data recovered from an expert to access those lovely images, so kindly bear with me! :P


- I have successfully completed an year in TCS with a good performance rating. :-)

Who is the BEST - Infosys, Wipro or TCS?

One day, three consultants, one from Wipro, one from Infosys and one from TCS, went out for a walk.

Wipro guy: "Why don`t we prove who is the best among ourselves?"

Why not, said the other two.

The Infosian said "Let`s have a test. Whoever makes this monkey laugh, works for the best firm".
Being a pure logical strategist, the person from Infosys tried to make the monkey Laugh by telling jokes. The monkey stayed still.

As a more practical consultant, the Wipro guy tried to make funny gestures... No good, the monkey stayed put...

Now, comes the TCSer. Being the practical guy he was always trained to be, he whispered something into the monkey`s ear, and it burst out laughing at him..

The other two were astonished. So the Wipro guy said "OK, let`s take another test. Let`s make this monkey cry!!"

So there they went again, applying the same methods as before. The Infosian guy narrated sad stories, the Wipro guy made sad gestures, and they failed again...

Then, the TCSer again whispered something into the monkey`s ear and oh! It started crying, patting the TCSer shoulder!

The other two just could not believe their eyes! So the Infosian guy said "OK, you`ve won twice. If you can win just this one, we will bow to you. Let`s make this monkey run".


And he barked at the monkey and ordered him to run. Of course, it stayed where it was.. The Wipro guy, true to his type, pushed and prodded the monkey- still No go.


So...here comes TCSer, again, and whispers into the monkey`s ear. The Monkey just takes off! It runs and runs as fast as it can

The other two surrendered.

They Said: "OK, we give up.

You`re the best among us, and you work for the Best firm of the three. But please, please tell us your secret," they begged him.

"Well", said the TCSer , "The first time I made it laugh, I told I work for TCS . The next time, I told the monkey how much I get paid ...so it started crying.

And then I told that I was here for recruitment !!!

Mail sent by Narayan Murthy to all Infosys staff:

It's half past 8 in the office but the lights are still on...
PCs still running, coffee machines still buzzing...
And who's at work? Most of them ??? Take a closer look...

All or most specimens are ??
Something male species of the human race...

Look closer... again all or most of them are bachelors...

And why are they sitting late? Working hard? No way!!!
Any guesses???
Let's ask one of them...
Here's what he says... 'What's there 2 do after going home...Here we get to surf, AC, phone, food, coffee that is why I am working late...Importantly no bossssssss!!!!!!!!!!!'

This is the scene in most research centers and software companies and other off-shore offices.

Bachelors 'Time-passing' during late hours in the office just bcoz they say they've nothing else to do...
Now what r the consequences...

'Working' (for the record only) late hours soon becomes part of the institute or company culture.

With bosses more than eager to provide support to those 'working' late in the form of taxi vouchers, food vouchers and of course good feedback, (oh, he's a hard worker... goes home only to change..!!).
They aren't helping things too...

To hell with bosses who don't understand the difference between 'sitting' late and 'working' late!!!

Very soon, the boss start expecting all employees to put in extra working hours.

So, My dear Bachelors let me tell you, life changes when u get married and start having a family... office is no longer a priority, family is... and
That's when the problem starts... b'coz u start having commitments at home too.

For your boss, the earlier 'hardworking' guy suddenly seems to become a 'early leaver' even if u leave an hour after regular time... after doing the same amount of work.

People leaving on time after doing their tasks for the day are labelled as work-shirkers...

Girls who thankfully always (its changing nowadays... though) leave on time are labelled as 'not up to it'. All the while, the bachelors pat their own backs and carry on 'working' not realizing that they r spoiling the work culture at their own place and never realize that they would have to regret at one point of time.

So what's the moral of the story??
* Very clear, LEAVE ON TIME!!!
* Never put in extra time ' unless really needed '
* Don't stay back unnecessarily and spoil your company work culture which will in turn cause inconvenience to you and your colleagues.

There are hundred other things to do in the evening..

Learn music....

Learn a foreign language...

Try a sport... TT, cricket..........

Importantly,get a girl friend or boy friend, take him/her around town...

* And for heaven's sake, net cafe rates have dropped to an all-time low (plus, no fire-walls) and try cooking for a change.

Take a tip from the Smirnoff ad: *'Life's calling, where are you??'*

Please pass on this message to all those colleagues and please do it before leaving time, don't stay back till midnight to forward this!!!

IT'S A TYPICAL INDIAN MENTALITY THAT WORKING FOR LONG HOURS MEANS VERY HARD WORKING & 100% COMMITMENT ETC..

PEOPLE WHO REGULARLY SIT LATE IN THE OFFICE DON'T KNOW TO MANAGE THEIR TIME. SIMPLE !

Regards,
NARAYAN MURTHY.