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Good Reads in the Blogosphere

August 8th, 2008

I have compiled a list of good links in the blogosphere for this past week. These are from other tech blogs that I read regularly. Do give them a read if they look interesting to you.

Roll Your Own Custom Google Search Engine from Shankrila
How to Surf Websites in Office from Madhur
7 Beautiful Themes (Visual Styles) to Customize Windows Vista from Nimal
Photoshop Tutorial: Make Old Artistic Image In Less Than 2 Minutes! from Nazjam
Easily Generate RapidPoints to Covert or Extend RapidShare Premium Account from Raymond.cc
Download And Use Wikipedia Offline With Firefox from gHacks
Monitor Your Adsense earnings from your windows taskbar from Geekish Blog
Browse and Download your Fav iPhone Wallpapers from Technobuzz

Enjoy reading these great articles. I will post a couple of new articles later on today.

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Posted in Interesting Stuff

Tags: link love links

The world of Orkut has been very busy in recent months. Many new features and addons have been added periodically. I recently made some orkut themes which can liven up the boring plain orkut design. You should give it a try. For now, I will be talking about a new feature that has just been released by orkut which will give orkut users the ability to receive and send scraps through SMS. This was only possible before if you had a data enabled mobile device but now users of orkut can avail this facility by using any ordinary mobile phone with the supported carriers.

» Read more: Orkut SMS Service

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Posted in Internet

Tags: orkut orkut sms

Details of New Features in WordPress 2.7

August 4th, 2008

Its hardly been over three weeks since WordPress 2.6 was released and we already have development underway for WordPress 2.7. The previous two wordpress releases(WP 2.5 and 2.6) have both been feature packed releases that every wordpress blogger can testify to. And this trend of new features looks to be continued with WordPress 2.7. Here are some of the new features planned for WordPress 2.7:

Comments API – This will enable plugin developers to really handle comments in any way that they desire. Developers should love this new addition
Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation – aims to fasten the process of comment moderation through keyboard shortcuts. » Read more: Details of New Features in WordPress 2.7

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Posted in Wordpress

Recover WordPress Password

August 4th, 2008

These last couple of days I was working extensively with the local wordpress installation on my computer. I had been tweaking the theme and several other things. Between all this tweaking, I had to install different versions of wordpress. I had been running wordpress 2.6 by default and had to downgrade to 2.3 to check something out. I went upon doing this downgrade as you would normally upgrade an installation of wordpress. I first deleted all wordpress files and copied over files from wordpress 2.3. I then ran the website and upgraded database, and tried to log in to my admin account. To my surprise, my password didn’t work no matter how many times and how many variations I tried. I was locked out of my own account on my own computer! » Read more: Recover WordPress Password

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Tags: recover wordpress password

Check Pagerank of Internal Pages

August 4th, 2008

Check Pagerank of Internal Pages

Checking Pagerank of your site after a pagerank update is critical to see how your site has fared. I have already written about Visual Pagerank in this post. Visual Pagerank doesn’t work anymore though but fortunately for us, there is an even better method to check pagerank of internal pages using a firefox extension called Seoquake. You may have heard of it before as it is one of the most common SEO plugin available for firefox. With this little tool, we can easily see pagerank of internal pages for a site in a matter of seconds! » Read more: Check Pagerank of Internal Pages