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[17 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
15 Good Firefox Browser Addons for Writers

Are you a professional writer or a blogger – or do you do a lot of research on the Internet and want to save things to writes notes on or be able to refer back later? Today’s browsers have a lot of tools that can make work easier for you. Of course it will take a while to search, find and use them and get used to them, but it’s worth a look.
For now, we’ll look at some cool browser addons which Firefox can provide you.
1) Screengrab – Screengrab is …

Blogging and Hosting, internet »

[11 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
IMDB blocked in China

IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase), the popular movie and actor database is now added to the list of websites blocked by China.

Software »

[18 Apr 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

What is .htaccess by the way?

Wikipedia explains this pretty nicely – “.htaccess (hypertext access) is the default name of directory-level configuration files that allow for decentralized management of configuration when placed inside the web tree”.

Ok, if that was confusing – if you look into the folder structure of your blog through cPanel or your favourite FTP program, you must have seen this file called .htaccess. This is a file which defines the configuration of different sections of your blog. For example, you can modify this file to restrict access to certain sections of your blog, such as your wp-config.php file where you have to set the password information of your blog; or you can modify it to hide the actual URL of your blog as displayed to the end user, or change the structure of your permalink (what you call URL Rewriting), etc.

For the sake of this post, I’m writing here about 5 different ways in which you can work with your .htaccess file.

Business »

[14 Mar 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Spice up your job profile with a blog

During these grim times of layoffs and increasing unemployment, what are you doing to keep yourself a step ahead of people who are in your own profile – other than increasing the number of qualifying certificates that you have?

Why not blog?

Security »

[11 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]

According to an extensive study undertaken by Panda Security, about 10 million PCs all over the world are infected with ID theft malware, designed to steal secure information such as passwords, bank account information, etc.
Panda Security runs a free online scanner which helps users to check their PCs online for viruses and malware. The report come as a result of scanning about 67 million PCs all over the world. Considering that there are about a billion or so and growing number of computers around, the numbers could be much worse.
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