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Wordpress 2.6 out with some awesome new features

Posted 15 July 2008 § Wordpress ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Google Mobile Tricks

Google’s YouTube got a dedicated channel to share tips and tricks on using their Mobile Phones — Mobile Tricks.

Posted 11 July 2008 § Gadgets § Google § Mobile § Tips & Tricks ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Geeks bookmarks with tlbox

There are good bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia, but the geeks at tlbox have come up with a more developer, programmer, networking people friendly bookmarking system that works as an add-on for Firefox.

tlbox saves links and organizes them by category so it will be easier to find. You might bookmark with del.icio.us but as [...]

Posted 26 April 2008 § Browsers § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

9 must-have Windows Freeware

I’m a Mac user and use a Mac for almost all my computing purposes. However, most of my friends, family and relatives have Windows boxes and I tend to their computing shortcoming and play the “computer-guy” most of the times. I’ve always been fascinated by the nice articles of Windows Secrets and today, let me [...]

Posted 24 April 2008 § Freeware § OpenSource § Software § Windows ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

What’s with the new SECRET_KEY in Wordpress 2.5

The new Wordpress 2.5, besides many other updates, comes along with a new SECRET_KEY in the config file. I’m sure like many other people, most of you might have missed that. Because, we were told not to change the config file.

define(’SECRET_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);

can help you with better encryption for user passwords in [...]

Posted 03 April 2008 § Wordpress ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Super Spam Me

UK’s Metro news have an article about testing a Super Spam Me test spearheaded by Internet Security Firm McAfee. This marks the celebration of the 30 years of Spam mails and accepting them, in-turn fighting them.

50 people will be given unprotected Laptops, new email addressees and 250 UK sterling on a credit card to claim [...]

Posted 03 April 2008 § Internet ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Are your emails un-answered, un-noticed and ignored?

I was reading a post from a friend on why some emails are never answered? It ignited a bunch of itches that have plagued my conscience long back on how can some people never care about their email etiquette.

I’m not even talking about Spam, but those emails that are irritatingly awkward, utterly kiddish –

SMS-fied text.
All [...]

Posted 01 April 2008 § Email ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Is there anything left you can’t do with a computer?

I start this without knowing where this is going or what my conclusion will be from this, much like normal really. First things first could a computer think like I do and write stuff like this. Alternatively would a computer want to write like this but that’s beside the point. The theory is that the [...]

Posted 01 April 2008 § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Unauthentic Online-Date profiles galore

Photo from AnonymousComputer Generated GirlWell, even the girl in this picture is not real!

To almost quote the great philosopher Forrest gump, “Mama always said on line dating was like a box a chocolates, never know what you’re gonna get.” This can be true even if you have a persons picture in front of you and [...]

Posted 26 March 2008 § Internet ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Time Machine Kinda Backup utility for Windows

Freeware Genius is a resourceful website and a must-subscribe blog specially for those on Windows OS. There is a new article detailing about DocShield — a program that runs in the background and monitors files and folders that you specify for changes, creating compressed snapshots of your files whenever it detects any changes, enabling you [...]

Posted 24 March 2008 § Paidware § Software § Windows ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,