After starting this blog, I have read a lot on how to promote your blog and how to increase your traffic. One of the most important tip I have seen on several places was to use a unique and eye catchy design for your blog. I think a unique logo is as important as a [...]
Are you an orkut addict? I have been one every since I joined orkut long back. Infact, I am an active member of orkut with a couple of thousand scraps and hundreds of friends. Thanks to orkut I could reconnect with many of my long lost friends. Every since I joined orkut, there was something [...]
Microsoft, one of the largest email service providers with their hotmail and live mail service, has introduced a new initiative called “CoolHotmail.com” to lure Indian internet users to use their hotmail service. The service, powered by their live mail service, presently offers users 193 unique domain names to choose from, in addition to their standard [...]
I found this new technique yesterday. Many of you might be knowing this already. But still I thought it is worth to write about it. So what the heck is Steganography? According to Wikipedia ”Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the intended [...]
I have a happy news to share today. You might be remembering my third post last month on “How to win and spend $500” over at JohnCowdotCom. I was talking over the phone today when my mail client reported a new mail. It was a report from my blog reporting a new pingback from JohnCowdotCom [...]
This is the third post on the series, “My List of recommended WordPress Pluginsâ€. In this post I wish to introduce the the four plugins that won the WordPress Plugin Competition hosted by Weblog Tools. The Grand Prize was won by the OneClick plugin by Anirudh Sanjeev. OneClick is a WordPress Plugin+Firefox Extension combo which [...]
A few days back, while browsing the net, I came across an ZNet article on StartForce, an online operating system. Though I have heard of such online desktops before, this time I decided to make a post on it. A quick search on Google led me to several such venture including Open Source versions too. Below are some of the services that I [...]
I am releasing a minor update of the TorPlus proxy solution. This update changes the way in which file paths are referenced within the Opera Settings files. Previous released used relative path names. This created minor problems with user stylesheets. Hence the built-in IRC chat and feed reader lost their CSS formatting. Now absolute path [...]
I started blogging because I wanted to make money online. But once I started blogging, I understood that making money online is not that easy. Wait a minute, did I say that online money making isn’t easy? Sorry, my mistake. If you are lucky, then earning 500 bucks is very simple. Yes, you read it right. [...]
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Sometimes you might want to view MySQL queries as and when they are being executed. This is possible with the MySQL General Query Log. In this post, I try to explain how to use query logging feature to view live running MySQL queries.
Every webmaster wants their websites to have 100% uptime. But the truth is that not even Google is able to ensure that. So the next best thing we can hope for is to be informed whenever a website goes down, so that the necessary actions can be initiated to bring it back online. Unfortunately, it [...]
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