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FeedBurner FeedSmith is the newest weapon in FeedBurner’s arsenal of weapons(no, not the destructive type).

Probably the most popular feed-related plugin for WordPress users, FeedSmith is just the old Feed Redirection Plugin by Steve Smith, rechristened and rebranded as FeedSmith. From now on, FeedSmith will be maintained and updated by FeedBurner.

Feed Redirection plugin works by some PHP stuff and user-agent detection, to redirect all feed requests to the FeedBurner feed. It can even redirect your existing subscribers. Amazing, eh?

Apple has received scathing criticism in the past from environmental groups. Now, in a response to criticism, Apple has unveiled plans to make it greener than its competitors. Atleast that’s what Steve Jobs has in mind.

Steve Jobs gave out details for the company’s efforts to remove toxic substances from its products. Also in the offing is agressive recycling of its own products.

Apple’s plans include total elimination of arsenic, polyvinyl chloride and bromine-based flame retardants in its products.

Some days back, Dell had been conducting user surveys on Dell’s popular customer forum IdeaStorm. One opinion that vehemently overpowered(more than 70%) every other opinions was pre-installation of Linux OSes on Dell Desktops and Notebooks. Participants even said that they are willing to use Linux if it is pre-installed. Dell received more than 100,000 responses in the survey that ended on March 23.

“Silence can say more than a thousand words”

Thus begins the site OneDayBlogSilence. It proposes complete silence on May 30 in the blogosphere, in memory of those ~30 unfortunate souls who were shot dead by Cho Seung Hui at the Viriginia Tech college.

A creative idea by the site, no doubt. But many bloggers think differently. They voice their concerns that this incident alone should not be brought into focus. Some even say that honouring them alone is a disrespect towards their families.

Yep, the condition is not really that good….I have some positives, though. I uploaded tons of plugins(whether they will bog down the server is another matter.

I have taken out the links page, since they are already down in the sidebar.

In the next few days, I will get on with posting, and themes Yeah, I want to prove that it can be done at the same time by even a kid like me.