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"Head Office" of a Professional Blogger

Office of a Blogger :)

Today we are not changing the world and neither claim to revolutionize the web but yes we have changed our mini world and revolutionized our workspace and changing the perception of all parents that our motto of "Transforming Bloggers Into Entrepreneurs" was never just a sugar coated slogan, we meant it and we are proving it today! STCnetwork has transformed from a simple Home ran business to a Commercial Open Market Business. We are officially launching the first Head Office of STCnetwork in Karachi, which is the First Registered Company in subcontinent of Professional Bloggers, which aims at promoting Online Entrepreneurship across the country and globe. This office is Alhamdulillah a successful execution of Phase I of our Mega Plan and with God as the Mentor and our readers as a source of motivation, we are very close to Phase II. Our employees work virtually from different countries and cities and we do make up a good family.

What is the Office all about?

We have been educating over thousands of students, house wives, retirees and jobless on daily basis since consecutive 5 years across the globe and have fortunately transformed several students into Content Writers, SEO geeks, Pro Bloggers, Web developers and Programmers. Today this office is a clear evidence of how correct online earning strategies and hard work can guarantee you a substantial and lucrative income online.

From this month onwards we will be offering web services and web solutions to local clients too and have expanded our development scope to Mobile applications also. Our services and area of interest include:

  • Web development
  • App Development
  • Graphics and Animation
  • SEO Auditing & Consultancy
  • Web marketing Campaigns and SEM
  • Online Business Strategies and ideas
  • *Preaching Entrepreneurship through Public Speaking

With this Office we hope to better help our clients and students who are eager to learn more about content writing and online earning mechanisms. Loyal clients and readers would be able to meet us face to face and have a cup of Green Tea with us!

For The Record

Professional bloggers have mostly Home Offices but we needed to step ahead of all and become amongst the pioneers to step into open market as Bloggers and web developers.  To our best knowledge STCnetwork is currently the First Registered Company of Professional Bloggers with a Commercial Office in South Asia and we pay regular income tax and have our company NTN (National TAX Number).

What made it Possible?

I never forget the old days because they keep me reminded of who am I and what have I become and what I need to do next. My parents belonged to a middle class family and they worked day and night so that I could be an educated gentlemen. It is hard explaining every detail of how a small school going guy turned into an entrepreneur today in a field of blogging which was rarely practiced in my country and rarely do anyone knew about it but if there is anything that helped me reach this stage is certainly trust in God, helping people, respect of readers, remaining humble to mentors and consistent hard work despite several ups and downs. Maintaining an online business is tough when you have a bully like Google around =d but it is only patience and dedication that enables you to face it all and still be happy and contended with life.

A saying of the Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali is enough to describe why I always emphasize so much on hard work:

I hated every minute of training, but I said "Don't quit, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion"

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out;
it's the pebble in your shoe

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it, impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion,
impossible is not a declaration, it's a dare, impossible is
potential, impossible is temporary,

impossible is nothing.

Surely no success is possible without hard work. Hard work is the only requirement that pleases God irrespective of which religion or belief you follow, whether you are a Muslim, Hindu, Christian or Jew, God blesses almost anyone who steps ahead to bring about a positive change. Striving day and night is the necessity to live for a strong purpose in life, without hard work you have no purpose.

Why was there a need for an Office?

Working from home is really difficult if you are married because the surrounding around you is full of distraction. After my marriage I found it quite difficult to manage work and family responsibilities. You need some peace of mind where you could explore your creativity and be more productive. Therefore I decided to step out and establish an Office which would be a great source of meet up place for Local bloggers and also a source of motivation for newbies.

I also have a Plan B in mind which is sort of a bigger picture and so far this Head Office was the fundamental requirement and Phase I of the Phase II

Office Interior Design

It took me around 20 days to design the interior of Office Space, decorate it with Office accessories like furniture, tool kit, Computer system, Wi-Fi Internet connection and furnish the environment the best I could with soft and pleasing colors, tiling and paint. I hope you like it. See it for yourselves!

Old Home Office and the Distraction!

A 3 years Old Pic of our home office.

STCnetwork Home Office

Can anyone work in this environment? These little cute monsters would snatch away my Mobile phone, Flash Disks and what not! They would conquer the computer system and would rarely let me touch it unless they have qualified the Game level! ;(

My Little nieces

New Head Office

STCnetwork Visiting Cards

Pens and Markers Kit

Photo showcase

Notice Papers

Showcase

I blog for living!

Computer Engineering Degree

STCnetwork frosted on Glass!

Cheff Looney!  Our Avatar!

Shields and Awards

Tech Gadgets

A Blogger's Office in One Look!

Tissue Box!

Office Exterior - STCnetwork

On The Time Always!

Sneak Peek!

Era of Mobile Responsiveness

 

Photo Credits goes to one of my dearest buddies Asjad Azeem (Photographer and Software Engineer at Techlogix). I am extremely thankful to him for taking out time and capturing the office snapshots.

5 years old pic with Asjad :)

Company Website!

STCnetwork.org has been completely redesigned and equipped with all details. It is build on HTML5 and PHP with parallax effect. We will release it within few days. See a glimpse of it below:

STCnetwork Landing Page

STCnetwork team

The team list also includes our senior most Content Writer and Marketing Queen Nida Zaidi.

Head Office Location - Come Have Tea with us!

We don't drink coffee nor beverages but yes we are a big fan of Green Tea (our cultural drink =p ) and we would love to have a cup of it with you when you visit us!

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Main Shaheed -e- Millat Road,
Near Dubai Islamic Bank,
Silk Mall, 1st Floor, F-17
STCnetwork
Karachi, Pakistan
Email: mohammad@mybloggertricks.com

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Visitor Reviews

I invited some of my best mates to the office on the opening ceremony and here is what they have to say when I asked them for a review:

wassay khan

@Wassay Khan ~ iOS Developer at netspace

A great achievement in his career, never thought that he would achieve such kind of greatness so early in life.
Hope and Pray that you achieve your desired goal as always. =d

 

Ahmed Nasir


 @Ahmed Nasir ~ The Best Programmer ever

As I stepped in I felt I was inside a judge's chamber! MashAllah everything was professionally setup and well decorated. I wish you all the best and may Allah succeed you even more!  =)


Umair Ahmed khan

@Umair Ahmed Khan ~ Software Engineer at VentureDive

It was truly an awesome experience... Everything was perfect on its place. This is just the start of the journey, you will be having your own empire named STC Network inshAllah. I know you will also remember me then as well. Best of luck buddy for your Soon To Come Future :-)


Muhammad Haris

 @Muhammad Haris ~ Software Engineer at VentureDive

The first thing that came to my eyes when I entered the office is the frosted logo on Glass of STC, MashAllah. Everything was so well decorated, loved the theme a lot. Everything from dustbin to Office table was theme aligned. I see this roller coaster is moving to its peak inshAllah. May you have many more success in your business and life. Ameen :)

Ramesh Kumar Khatri

 @Ramesh Kumar Khatri ~ Mobile App Develop at NextGeni

STC's baby Office is so cute, it smiles at you with attractive color combination and embraces you with that wooden frame fixed on wall. At first I found it good but when I stepped in and spend some time, I found it amazing! Hope this baby Office (as you named it) grows well and healthy! :>

 

Muhammad Ahsan Marfani

@Muhammad Ahsan Marfani ~ Management Executive at National Refinery Ltd.

A Space of approx. 80 square feet. Equipped with every essential item increasing your efficiency manifold as compared to work from home. Exclusively styled giving a touch of executives class. In a nutshell a nest every blogger can only dream.

Your views and Reviews!

I can barely sleep peacefully unless I have shared everything with my family online and I could have rarely even dreamt of all that we achieved so far if we were not supported and motivated by the kind online community of blogosphere and MBT readers. I hope this story of a small man may motivate youngsters to step into Online entrepreneurship and give as much importance to Creativity and self development as they give to Higher education. May you guys have the best of life and be far better entrepreneurs and ambassadors of your life. The future is all about you guys, you just need to keep your trust in God and yourself. Laziness pays off now but hard work has a future payoff so keep working harder and wait for the pleasant hidden surprises that awaits you!

Do not forget to post your reviews and share your precious feedback. Your every word means a lot!Peace and blessings buddies! =>

Launching The First User Powered "Blogger Help Forum"

Blogger Help Forum

For the past one year we were busy in giving the biggest surprise to the web and exclusively the Blogger users. We were busy in building the first ever 24/7 Help Forum for Blogger users with a Cloud hosted system introduced first time to Blogspot community. We are now premium customers of Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc and Alhamdulillah bringing you the most advanced Forum technology called Discourse to Blogger users, developed by the founders of Stackoverflow, and maintained by its co-founder Jeff Atwood aka codinghorror.

We are officially launching and releasing the first version of "Blogger Help Forum" V1.3.0 today. This is probably the biggest contribution by STCnetwork to BlogSpot Community and the happiest news for all users who were badly in need of quick help and support. It will be the only place where you will get replies within 24 hours and where you will find real bloggers and developers helping you out for free!

This marks our 5th Project Online Alhamdulillah.

*No Registration required! Login with Google, Facebook, Twitter or your Yahoo account!

Is it Just another Traditional Forum?

Of course not!

"Blogger Help Forum" is the first Discussion Forum of its type that is hosted on an extremely fast Cloud Server and uses the latest Discourse Technology which is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Discourse is the new big name for Forum software just like WordPress is for blogs.. This application is powered by JavaScript, AJAX, HTML5, Ruby on Rails and Ember.js. 

Blogger Help Forum's huge Database, enhanced  Mailing and Chatting environment will  let Blogger users to help each other in Template Customization, Monetization and SEO and offer 24/7 Free Help and Support without waiting for hours. It will do what Official Blogger Help Forum failed to do inshAllah.

Blogger Help Forum Interface

The Forum has extremely strict TOS and Policy and is built with sole purpose of keeping spammers away. Unlike Blogger's weak Comment Spam Filtering system, the forum has a strong community Flagging system that suspends users and deletes policy abusers within seconds. We surely believe in civilized community behavior at all times. Users achieve credibility and respect through an automatic mechanism of Trust Levels which differentiates a ninja from a newbie.

User Profiles

The Forum works as a:

  • Mailing List!                      powered by MailChimp
  • Discussion Forum!          powered by Discourse
  • Long-Form Chat Room! You will forget whatsapp!

Joining it would be to discover a modern, sustainable, fully open-source Internet discussion platform, where you will not talk to walls, anonymous users or spam bots but you will actually interact with real people and expert pro Bloggers.

notification system

Read below the story which personally forced us to build this new environment for all of you and read also who actually owns this Forum!

Forum Access Points

There are a total of 4 access points using which you can visit the forum to post your questions and ask for instant help.

Forum latest topics can be viewed live from the wooden drop down menu towards the right of secondary navigation menu as shown in the screenshot below:

latest forum topics

It can also be accessed from a link in the Header and footer menu and also through a button at the bottom of every post.

Humble Request

Our dream of a user powered Blogger Community has finally come true. Together we can make it the biggest Blogger Online Library inshAllah and It will be our self-built Encyclopedia for Blogspot blogs.

We created this forum to help people like you for free with no service charges and no advertisements on the site. The site maintenance and hosting charges per month are extremely expensive and we are bearing them all so that people like you and we may contribute comfortably to the forum and help one another. Lets help the generation ahead with this new Blogger Encyclopedia and never abuse it. At Blogger Help Forum you can document your knowledge so that you could be remembered forever. It is as much yours as it is ours. We don't claim to own it as we have mentioned several times, all that we expect is to thank you for all your love and motivation that has been the sole driving force that keeps us alive.

I accept the truth that I could not provide honest support through the commenting system of this blog but I promise to answer personally each query posted on the forum within 24 hours inshAllah. This is what I expect from those of my readers who have excelled in designing and developing blogger templates and widgets, to share their skills with new comers and never reserve skills learnt to themselves alone. Knowledge is good only if shared with humanity, else what good it is if reserved to oneself. 

Thank you for being a strong source of inspiration, we certainly could not have built it without your feedback and help from God Almighty Who is always with us through good Times and Bad.

Join it now and also invite your good friends and family to the Forum! Peace and blessings buddies! =>

Exams Over! Celebrating Over 58,000 Readers

hurray Exams are over!Its tough being a final year B.E student and yet running blogs. Exams for some may sound horrible but it means a complete two months deadlock to my online activities. I just can't express how great I am feeling at this moment, talking to you after several weeks. It felt more like missing my great family and friends. Internet and technology waits for no one, during my absence I observed tremendous developments across major platforms from Blogger till social Media. I was shocked today when I saw the new layout of Google+ Profiles. Changes are going fast at Google side. Amazingly they have even integrated their comment Plugin with BlogSpot blogs. But what amazed me more was looking at STC Network's two months traffic Analytics and Ranking Details. Unfortunately Alexa for MBT has dropped from 4K to 6K but the good news is that readership has taken a whole new turn out. We are now a big community Alhamdulillah with a loyal readership of over 58,800 Readers  which is indeed a great news for all MBT readers and the team.

We have started getting great public  exposure and have been invited by several renown local universities this year for conducting sessions on "Internet Marketing, SEO and Blogging". Buddies all this was only a dream without your kind support and continuous feedback. I am whole heartedly thankful for your consistent motivation through emails, comments, Home visits and telephone calls. Love you always! :)

Increase in Readership

Readership has always remain one of the fundamental ingredient of a successful blogging career. It's the following that helps you to reach your goals and work hard even better. People track blogs using different sources thanks to growing development in Web technology. They are no more limited to RSS subscription or atom feeds.

Following are some ways you can keep track of our delicious tutorials, plugins, updates and creative piece of resources coming this month.

18,900 Subscribers: Subscribe Now! Email | RSS
25,164 Facebook Fans: Like Us to join the club »
4,320  Twitter Followers: Follow our tweets »
2,348   Google+ Followers: Follow us on Google+ »
5,707    Google+ Profile: Follow my personal Profile!
1,400  Friend connect followers

What are the things I will do first?

The blogs were under mild management for over two months and they have gathered enough dust that needs some serious cleanup. Following are things I often do whenever I get back to work after a long time:

  • Blog backup: I periodically make a backup of Wordpress and Blogger blogs on daily and weekly basis respectively. Read:Backup Wordpress Database and Files 
  • Checking Email Accounts: I am really lazy at checking emails during exams so this is one of the first things I do. Since I maintain three email accounts so it becomes necessary to keep a close look at all of them.
  • HD backup: I backup all files on my Hard Drive into a safe portable Storage Device to ensure I have a safe backup of client resources, blog resources and personal data incase of Hard disk failure. For this I use a 500GB PassPort USB Disk
  • Traffic Strategy:  I discuss monthly list of trending topics with my co-authors and guide them on how to make proper use of Keywords and optimize their posts well. Great focus is given on basic SEO and SMO 
  • Fight spam: Both at blogs and Inbox. Spamming blogs have increased so much that we were force to start coding a plugin for this and I will release it this week inshAllah.
  • Read my Favorite list! To recharge myself with all the latest developments happening at social media and blogosphere, I visit and read my favorite blogs. 
  • Schedule Orders: To server readers and clients parallelly I have to maintain a close relationship with both. for the past three months, I unfortunately failed to serve my lovely readers due to Engagement and Exams. Forgive me buddies :)
  • Prepare Resources: I love to code, Design and craft for my readers. This month my head is popping with a lot of ideas! :p
  • Buy domains: During every vocations I start experimenting with different domains in order to understand the fluctuating behavior of I-Market and search engines. I rarely sell them but keep them secret before they are grownup enough to be shared with you all. So it's a hint buddies that few surprises are on its way again :)
  • Pay bills: Normally I pay on annual basis for Web hosting, Themes and some software tools but Ad campaigns require a monthly checkup to ensure I have paid for solo Ads, contextual Ads and Search ads on time. I often do it for clients who are using our lifetime PPC/CPM service Package.

What were the exams all about?

Time wasn't easy for me this time. Engineering is tough and demands both time and effort. The papers I attempted this semester (7th semester) for my Computer and Information System Engineering Program were:

  1. Artificial Intelligence
  2. Parallel Processing
  3. Computer System Modeling
  4. Operating systems
  5. VLSI

I am a back bencher and spend most of the time online and attend classes rarely, so for a lazy student like me, preparing for papers during the 11th Hour is surely no less than a nightmare :p

What were you guys up to?

I haven't talked or seen you guys for months so I would really appreciate getting to know your whereabouts. Share all your online experiences, achievements, and even exciting nightmares! I am free for a month now and would reactivate the kitchen Recipes soon. I have some tasty and delicious recipes along with resources this time so make sure you don't miss any! Peace and blessings buddies always :)

The Terrible Exams are Finally Over!

Exams are over!It feels like someone has dragged me out of a big mountain. I feel like I am literally breathing again! I called it terrible because they really were terrible! :p I am pursuing B.E in Computer and Information System Engineering and just attended exams of 6th semester, 2 more semesters to go after which (Graduation) I would have enough time to groom STC Network. As a student its tough to look after an online business which demands both time and care. Working online today with an increasing competition and rapidly changing moods of online traffic, you can not let your blogs run on auto-pilot mode even if it is managed by your employees. Exams for me mean a complete 40 days ban on all online activities. No clients, no engagement with readers (through blog, fan pages, phone calls or email), no product promotion, no posting, no technical learning, no innovation and no implementation of developed skills. It does not only effect the revenue but also skill productivity.

I am extremely thankful to our co-author Qasim who managed both the blogs on my behalf because both Nida and I were having exams so could not work effectively. I would also thank all our readers who maintained visiting the blog and kept motivating the authors. Since I am free now, I will be sharing what I have planned for this winter and would also suggest some tasks to those of you who are also on their academic vocations.

Do Exams cause Business loss?

Of course they do too badly!

This month, one of the biggest opportunity that I lost was utilizing the benefits of the Black Friday Discount Tsunami everywhere starting from web hosting companies, eBook marketing, social media services, merchandise and what not.  Sales this year were as much as 50%, which is the best concession one could get in order to buy a new webhosting and share some great benefits of the sales with friends and readers. This one day of Discount Tsunami was an excellent period for web Marketers to invest and multiply the coins. I wish all the best for those who acted quickly on it and made good use of the sales both for themselves and their following.

Another great loss were the product reviews, web services and SEO consultancy. Providing SEO advises and technical help via Skype is something that I frequently do and we started this service 7 months ago as a separate package and it feels great to help most of our readers this way.  Due to tough Exam schedule I had to abandon it temporarily for 40 days but fortunately I am back on duty now.

In short a business gets effected in every aspect during exams unless you have prepared for it with careful planning. To understand how to manage a blog during exams do check the following post which has some great tips and recipes:

For a complete list of the services we offer please visit: MBT Services

What are the plans?

Since I am free for a month with no studies, I will be working on some new scripts and would try to improve my skills of PHP and Jquery development. I will be sharing more plugins and widgets to help you customize your blogs as much as possible. My main focus would be readers this time with no intention of taking new projects. I will try to receive as much queries as possible and help you with your problems the best I can. I will make sure to design some new templates, icons and buttons and avail them on free download. We hope to have great time working together as usual inshAllah.

How can you Turn your Vocations into Income?

For those of you who wish to start an online career. I think vocations are a great advantage in turning this wish into a golden future. You may utilize this time by learning and implementing. The more creative you become, the richer you become as a recourse to the online community. Internet is an open and generous space for all those who wish to contribute by working hard. The only requirement for a lucrative income online is quality skills. The better you work on your skills the better you contribute and higher you get paid.

For starters and even those who are following us for long we would suggest the followings:

1#  Learn every bit of SEO

Understand how search engines index and crawl web pages. Without traffic no business online can survive and neither do bloggers like us may breath. It's the key to Making Money Online without any doubts!

I personally follow the web sources below to keep myself updated about Search Algorithms, Search Engines tips and updates:

  1. Google Webmaster Blog -
  2. Videos by Google - From the famous web spam head : The Funny Matt Cutts
  3. Google Help Forum
  4. SearchEngineLand - For News and updates
  5. SEOMOZ 
  6. You don't need to look anywhere else other than the ones mentioned above! :)

Don't forget to read:

2#  Build web designing skills

It has now become a must for every website owner to have some basic skills of photo editing, HTML and CSS. Things look good and attract customers only when they are presented well.  Online traffic today doesn't only look for quality content but also for a well presented content. You must know how to customize your webpages and make them appealing so that the first visitors to your page may turn out into a Fan or customer.

There are few resources that I would like to recommend:

  1. You Must Read: SIX FIGURE EARNING
  2. w3schools.com - the best website to learn CSS & HTML or almost any script or language

3#  Keep Reading

Understand how websites generate traffic - Get familiar with all sources like Search engines, Social Media Networks, Article Directories, Forums, Blogs etc.

Also read how you can work from home by joining freelancing sites. You may read about all such stuff on our blogs both at MBT and SEM

I want to hear about you all!

Follow these three things sincerely buddies just during this month and trust me you will find tons of opportunities next year waiting for you. Do not worry about earning, earning will follow you itself once you develop your skills. Earning looks good with a Geek but never with a Noob, so realize this thing buddies and always value learning over your natural lust for bucks. I just hope I have not left out anything and have shared all that I know to the best of my ability. It feels great when I see MBT readers running their own blogs successfully and acting as a rich resource to everyone. This makes me feel really happy because that is what I always aimed for. I want everyone of you to go far ahead of anyone you may know in your niche and let me feel proud always. My job is guiding you as a friend and brother how to swim but you will have to dive yourself.

So tell me what were you all up to and what exciting news would you like to share. Update me with your blog rankings, readership and learning goals.I wish you all the best in life and a great future ahead. Peace and blessings pals! :)

Blogger Dynamic Templates Now Customizable




blogger dynamic template

Previously you guys read, "Should you enable Blogger Dynamic Views" here at MBT. The Dynamic templates are new templates designs, that were made available to apply to Blogger blogs, recently. As oppose to normal templates (the default ones), these dynamic templates are quite advance aesthetically, but lacked quite a few features, that we are used to.



Many users felt that the templates were not customizable at all. As the new dynamic templates were a new feature that was introduced, it had a long way to go to meet user expectations. Blogger blogs are quite famous for their ability to be customized, by the feature, Edit HTML.






blogger dynamic template



Many people believed that the new dynamic templates lacked that too. So recently, Blogger announced a couple of good news for Blogger fans. Though we still don't have the Edit HTML option available with us, for the Dynamic templates but still, we can at least say they are customizable to some extent, after the addition of few more fruits from Developers at Blogger.



Now you can change the colors and stuff for the templates. The background image can also be replaced. Blogger dev team says that they would soon introduce the widgets part to the dynamic templates, that we presently miss a lot. Also by navigating to the Template section (from Blogger in draft version), we get to see an disabled 'Edit HTML' option. We hope that gets live soon too.



Blogger team says :




Using the Template Designer, you can now modify your background, fonts, or colors, and add a custom header image like we did on Blogger Buzz
(just make sure it’s 65 pixels high). If you don’t fancy yourself a web
designer, simply choose from one of the “suggested themes” that we
provide.




blogger dynamic template customization



So in an all, folks at Blogger are working hard to provide all those benefits, that we enjoy with custom templates for Blogger.



Will you switch to the Dynamic suites if Blogger introduces Widgets and Edit HTML feature? Lets us know through the comment section below.



Guest Post by Hassam Ahmad Awan. MBT's Gold Star Guest Author.

Facebook For iPad Launched World Wide—Get Your Copy Now







Facebook for iPad app



Does this sound weird. Like what? Facebook app was not on an iPad? Well..it was not until now. Facebook recently launched the new application that could be installed on the iPad easily. Due to the devices massive screen, the Facebook app really shines high as compared to on iPhone. There are few differences in the iPad version where we get to have a more wider work space.



As shown in the picture above, the notification menu lays over the page, as a separate window which was not possible in iPhone due to the screen size. Scrolling through pictures is really easy and fun in Facebook for iPad. Simply scroll (wipe) across the page to change the pictures.








Facebook for iPad












Navigate Anywhere, fast



With Facebook for iPad, now you dont need to look up for your notes, games, pages etc. Every thing is nicely lined up in the menu over left that is initiated with the blue button over top left of the app.



Other settings like friends requests, notifications and news feeds are right in front over the top blue tab. Every thing is accessable pretty easily with the new Facebook for iPad version.






 Facebook says:




The app comes with a bunch of other new features: You can chat with friends right from your iPad, for example, or play games and use apps in full-screen mode. You can also watch high-res videos inline, record HD video and stream to Airplay devices.



So what to wait for. Download Facebook for iPad now. Do you guys really use Facebook or other social media apps on your cellphones? Or you prefer the text based updates option?





Guest Post by Hassam Ahmad Awan. MBT's Gold Star Guest Author.

MBT is Now Amongst Top 5 Blogger Tutorials Blogs



I was browsing through DMOZ directory today and surprisingly found this little young blog added to the Major Blogger Publishers Category. Only five blogs could manage to hold this position. Two are official blogger blogs and the other three include Blogger Buster, Blogger Plugins and luckily your stupid brother's Blog i.e. My Blogger Tricks :»


All praise be due to Allah the Great and to all of you without whom reaching this stage would have been not possible.


Update: Since Blogger.com and BloggerBuzz are official sites of Google and not blogs driven by a non-Google employee therefore MBT now comes under Top3 Blogger Publishers that produces quality tutorials to blogspot community. 





Which Category Did MBT Fit into?



In 2010 our blog was added to the Blogger Templates category where around 19 blogs are listed but since free blogger tutorials and resources was our main focus so our blog was relisted in the main Blogger Publisher category as shown below,



blogger-publishers-DMOZ




Clicking this category will open this page:


Source: Publishers


Dmoz-listing


DMOZ is the largest human-edited directory of the web. With over 85,559 editors. DMOZ’s Open Directory Project (ODP) has listed more than 4.5 Million quality websites in 590,000 categories. To some extent a major portion of Google data base is based on DMOZ listings and information is often fetched from there. To find out What is DMOZ directory and how can you submit your blogs to it then kindly read this post: