I have recently started experimenting with Amazon S3 to host the static content of my blog, like CSS, images, etc. Good news is that Amazon Web Services is giving one year of free usage for new S3 accounts (5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests). You will easily… Read More: Amazon S3 hotlink prevention with Bucket Policies »
Images of blog consume a significant portion of the bandwidth. Many shared hosting providers impose bandwidth and CPU usage limits, which may be reached quite easily if your site has significant amount of images in it. Some providers also kill the processes if they are CPU intensive causing your blog to throw errors. I heard… Read More: How to use Dropbox to host images of WordPress blog… »
I am happy to announce that today my blog reached 1k subscribers. Yesterday, it was at 999 (is it a lucky number 🙂 ). Just now came from office and seen that animated feed counter on my blog showing 1002. I know it is not an impressive number to lot of people, but still it… Read More: My Blog Reached 1k Subscribers 🙂 »
Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is going to be fully implemented from tomorrow, January 20, 2011 throughout India. Now, you can choose the mobile operator keeping your mobile number intact. From tomorrow onwards, no need to worry about the poor connectivity or less options to choose from your current provider. Change your service provider keeping your… Read More: Mobile Number Portability – How to change your Mobile Operator »
My post on Telugu Rendering and Writing in Windows XP has been attracting lot of people from Google as it is on top for that search term. After enabling Telugu language support in Windows, the next thing comes into mind is a dictionary that can show the meaning in Telugu for English words. People landing… Read More: Free English to Telugu Dictionaries »
Recently, I have started learning share trading on my own. I took an ICICI trading account and initially started with IPOs. If you know or not, recent Coal India IPO was a big hit making 40% profit for retail investors within days of listing. I already tried investing in mutual funds and made good returns… Read More: What is KYC and How to check your KYC status »
I already dumped Adobe Reader for Foxit Reader as it is tiny in size, runs fast, and consumes less system resources. Today, I was checking a mutual fund consolidated statement, which was not opening in Foxit as it was intended to be opened only in Adobe Reader. So, I went to Adobe Reader website to… Read More: Adobe Reader direct download »
I always wondered what those two letters added to the sender name of a bulk/junk SMS refers to, like TA-ICICIBANK, BA-FORTUNE, etc. These days, the junk SMS has become a pain and I get unsolicited spam SMSes from Vastu consultant, Astrologer, Real Estate agents, LIC agents, which I have not opted to receive. Today, an… Read More: How to know from where the junk SMS has come… »