Google recently acquired reCAPTCHA which had an unique approach to fighting spam. Captcha is that squiggly words/numbers that some sites ask you to enter to confirm you are indeed a human and not some bot trying to spam a website comment system or registration system. reCAPTCHA was a free captcha service that had a dual [...]
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Happy New Year 2010!
I wish all my readers a Happy New Year! 2009 was a great year for this blog and in turn me. I am humbled that you have stuck around and supported this blog. I hope to share all kinds of useful and fun information that I learn with you throughout this year. 2010 New Year [...]
Free Lifetime Backup for Gmail, Flickr & Twitter
Backupify – No that is not an actual word. It is the name of a lifestream cloud backup service we are going to look at today. We use a lot of cloud services, social networking websites, share pictures, save interesting links online and they are all scattered everywhere in the Internet. It is not that [...]
WordPress 2.9 Is Available for Download
WordPress 2.9 has been in development for a few months and is now available for download. You can read about WordPress 2.9 new features here. Some of the cool new features I am excited about are Global undo/trash feature – no more accidental deleting of post, comments, etc. Built-in image editor – this is huge [...]
Free Open Source Screencasting Software – CamStudio
If you have been looking for a screencasting tool, look no further. CamStudio is a free and open source screencasting tool. CamStudio can record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create an AVI video files. Also, it comes with a built-in SWF producer that can convert the AVI files into bandwidth friendly [...]
HootSuite Updates With Facebook LinkedIn Integration
HootSuite is a professional web based Twitter management tool. You can read my HootSuite review here. Hootsuite has now updated with a few more features Facebook Integration Once you link your HootSuite account with your Facebook account, you can update your Facebook status, etc right from within Hootsuite. The cool thing is that if you [...]
WordPress Wins Best Overall Open Source CMS Award
PacktPub awards Open Source CMS Awards every year. To my delight, WordPress has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award for the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. In the last 4 years, this is the first time WordPress has won this award. Plus, it was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP [...]
Troubleshoot RSS Issues with Feedburner Status Blog
Most of us who use Feedburner to publish our feeds have been seeing issues for the past week to 10 days. The feed count here dropped from over 900+ to around 600. And I didn’t even write something to piss you of. It was same story around the blog world and Twitter was buzzing with [...]
Make the Most out of FeedBurner’s Feeds-by-Email Service
Feedburner has offered feeds by email for a long time and it is one of the things every blogger using Feedburner could utilize. If you don’t offer a way to subscribe by email, consider how many readers who don’t use a RSS feed reader but like your content. You could be missing out on dozens [...]
Blogging Tip: Turn off FeedBurner Redirect in RSS Feeds
As a voracious RSS feed consumer, I have always been irked by the fact that a lot of FeedBurner enabled blog feeds have the title URL point to a FeedBurner URL instead of a link to the actual post. If I wanted to bookmark the post or save the link to blog about it, I [...]
Google makes FeedBurner PRO free
More news about Google. If you use FeedBurner, you’d know that Google acquired them and here is a positive fallout from that acquisition. If you have been paying for FeedBurner PRO, you won’t be billed for June 2007 and after. For everyone else, it is free and you can activate the FeedBurner Stats PRO right [...]
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