We all use FeedBurner for our blog feeds to display and gather statistics about our RSS feed subscribers. The most common is the little chicklet that you see displaying the number of RSS readers. FeedBurner is no doubt the best RSS statistics tool available, but did you know that fooling readers with high subscriber count is very easy with FeedBurner? Although it’s not ethical!

One method is to display someone else’s chicklet, but over at the thenextweb, Joop has come up with another trick that is being used by many blogs to fool their readers by displaying a high susbcriber count. The video below shows how easy it is to manipulate your number of RSS readers.

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If you have ever wanted to hammer down a nail in your lappy (laptop), well, here’s your ultimate chance to do one! A nail-shaped falsh drive can fulfill that desire of yours.

Plankton, a Netherlands based design company, has come out with their first product - a nail-shaped USB drive that can store data up to 2GB.

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This is a guest post by Khaled from Talk To Gadgets. For more gizmos and gadgets tips and tricks please visit his blog.

Changing the boot screen (start up screen) is very easy but using the right tool to do so is very important. Many free tools offer boot screen replacement, but always mess up with your Windows files and the end result is that you have to re-install Windows all over again.

One of the easiest and safest method I found was by using Tuneup Utilities. It does not increase the computer boot time but it’s good to have a change.

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This month has been the best of best months ever for me! Well, that’s because I got on Digg’s front page for the first time and was a big achievement for me. Plus my traffic has gone up with better Search Engine Ranking Position and got me tons of link backs, and now I’m expecting a PR5 in the next PR update by Google. Even with a Digg effect, I still got more visitors from search engines. Here’s a mini-report of Sizzled Core’s statistics for the month of June.

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BitDefender Internet Security is one of the leading internet security providers. It provides all the security that your home, or work PCs need. It provides comprehensive proactive protection from viruses, hackers, spyware, spam and phishing emails, and it also protects children from inappropriate websites. Now BitDefender, in co-operation with BenQ, have set up a promotion that gives you a free version of BitDefender Internet Security which will receive free updates till 90 days.

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