My system has been giving problems lately with the hardware and at anytime, it can crash. So, I have purchased a WD Elements Portable 160GB USB hard drive and uploaded all the data onto it. Whenever I download a software, I keep a copy on my hard disk, so now I am having all the… Read More: Backup and sync Firefox environment with one click »
I have tried a lot of free web hosts when I was learning WordPress and other open source CMS applications. From year 2005 to till date I have tested more than 15 free web hosts. Free web hosts normally put their advertisements on top of the site to cover the costs they incur on free… Read More: Free and reliable PHP and MySQL web hosting »
If you are downloading cracked versions of software or pirated music from torrents, be careful. You might be installing adware and spyware with the cracked/patched software. Recently while going through the webmaster forums, I have noticed a black hat method to make money from torrents, binding pay-per-install software with the cracked software or pirated music… Read More: You might be downloading adware and spyware with torrents ! »
Google SMS Channels is a new product out from the Google India Labs available to only Indians. It lets you create SMS-based communities for free. SMS Channels allows you to create your own channel(s) to publish content that other users can subscribe to. You can also create groups over SMS to communicate with your friends,… Read More: Google SMS Channels – Create free SMS-based communities »
Today is Google’s 10th birthday. Google has grown to the point where without using a Google app, our Internet browsing is not complete. Everybody knowingly or unknowingly will be using a Google product. We may be using Gmail for our mail needs, Blogger for a blog, Picasa for editing and sharing photos, SketchUp for building… Read More: Happy birthday Google! »
In the last few days, I got lot of mails from greetingcard.org that I received a greeting card. But, Gmail has marked them spam and thrown into spam folder. Usually, I check only few spam messages that I think Gmail has wrongly marked as spam to see whether they are actually spam or not. So,… Read More: How to report an abusive website? »
Yesterday, Google released it’s own open source browser called Google Chrome. As today is holiday and got free-time, I have installed the Google Chrome and tested all the features. So, here is my review with screenshots. Google Chrome’s simple and minimalistic design is really good. It has features same as Firefox along with some other… Read More: My first look at Google’s open source browser – Google… »
Today, I had to update one of my customer’s WordPress blog from 2.5 to the latest version, 2.6.1. As it was hosted on a free hosting server, I had to manually upgrade. It was also first time for me to upgrade a WordPress installation manually because my hosting provider, DreamHost, offers a one click upgrade… Read More: Automatically upgrade your WordPress installation »