Ajay on March 15th, 2007

This tutorial is for those of you who have the cPanel as your hosting control panel. cPanel’s File Manager is a very powerful and versatile tool to use to upload your website. A very useful feature offered by it is the ability to extract zip, tar and gz archive files. This article with guide you [...]

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The only reason I haven’t been using Flickr so far has been the lack of ability to have subalbums or subsets. However, yesterday Flickr launched “Collections”.

You can now create your sets of photographs normally and you can create a main set (collection) which will include certain sets. You can create your hierarchy as deep as [...]

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Ajay on March 13th, 2007

Internet Explorer 7 is indeed one of the better releases of the browser. It corrected a lot of things and made is developer and userfriendly. The best addition to the browser was the Tab Browsing. I would have loved to have more features like adblocking and mouse gestures, but I guess that wasn’t meant to [...]

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Ajay on March 12th, 2007

The Adobe flash player very limited features. If you’re looking for something more feature rich to play those SWF files then Flash Movie Player is just the tool for the job.
Flash Movie Player is a free stand-alone player for ShockWave Flash (SWF) animations, based on the Macromedia Flash Player plugin. In addition to all Macromedia [...]

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Ajay on March 11th, 2007

I love Yahoo! Answers. It’s a great place to hangout when I am bored, but want to do some brain work as well.
For those still new to it, Yahoo! Answers can be considered as a kind of a discussion forum. Users post questions and other users answer them. There are a great number of categories [...]

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Ajay on March 11th, 2007

A while back I discontinued my self hosted Personal Album. It had become too much of a pain to maintain and I just gave up on it. I’m currently pondering on what option to take.
The Google Blog announced that Picasa Web Albums now gives you 1GB space for free.
Picasa is Google Image management software. You [...]

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Ajay on March 10th, 2007

Almost everyone who has SSH access to their accounts will be well aware of PuTTY which is a free Telnet and SSH Client.
PuTTY has saved tonnes of time because using shell is a definite time saver over most other methods.
If you have just one site to manage, then it isn’t a problem. However, if you [...]

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Ajay on March 9th, 2007

Online gaming is fun when you have a 24/7 connection. And its better when it is free. his week I present to you yet another gaming site: Sniff Games.

Sniff Games brings you a huge collection of flash games neatly arranged in categories as
Action, Adventure, Arcade, Card, Casino, Other, Puzzle, Racing, Role Playing, Shooting [...]

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cPanel (most control panels actually) provides you with phpMyAdmin which is what we will use to backup our mySQL database.
Though you can backup your complete database at one go, I recommend making two backup files, one containing the Structure and the other containing the Data.
Why? Simply because your structure will usually remains same (unless you [...]

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AuctionAds (aff) launched yesterday. AuctionAds lets you display live eBay auctions.
I was introduced to AuctionAds by Mark of WLTC. And John Chow has a great review of the entire system.
Unfortunately, AuctionAds is not contextual, which means you won’t get any targetted ads on your site. You do get to specify the keywords you want, [...]

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