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Tip Thursday: Activate Hybrid Sleep

I came across Vista’s new Hybrid Sleep feature yesterday when I was busy.
What is Hybrid sleep?
Hybrid sleep is a low-power sleep state that can help protect your open programs and documents while your computer sleeps.
If hybrid sleep is turned on when you put your computer to sleep, Windows saves your open documents and programs [...]

Posted by Ajay under Articles, Operating Systems, Techtites Daily, Thursday, Tips and Tutorials, Windows
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Yahoo! tells you how to fight SPAM

The Yahoo! Mail Blog tells you a few methods on fighting spam in Yahoo! Mail.
The points they have covered:

Report spam using the Spam Button
Give out your email address sparingly
Don’t post your email address in public places (message boards, chat rooms)
Customize your spam settings
Use a Disposable Email Address for shopping
Read the [...]

Posted by Ajay under Articles, Email, Yahoo!
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Finding Good Writers for Your Blog
Finding Good Writers for Your Blog guides you through picking a good writer for your blog. I’ve been toying with the idea of opening up Techtites.com to writers in return for a generous share of adsense revenue on all their posts. Any takers? (0)

Using the ROBOTS META tag
The Google Webmaster Central Blog has an indepth article on Using the Robots Meta tag to instruct Google and other search engines about your site. (0)

CSS 101: Handling multiple rules for the same element
In CSS 101: Handling multiple rules for the same element, Tony Patton explains how multiple CSS rules for the same element are handled. (0)

Upgrading WordPress via Shell

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The word is already out that WordPress 2.1.1 is severely vulnerable and you have to upgrade to WordPress 2.1.2 to keep your blog safe.

Since the release of 2.1 we have seen two upgrades in little over a month and upgrading WordPress can be a real pain in the neck. It becomes really bad [...]

Posted by Ajay under Articles, Tips and Tutorials, WordPress
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Digg Should Sue Wired?
Mike Arrington suggests that Digg Should Sue Wired over the “experiment” conducted by Wired Reporter. I disagree totally, because what she did was prove that Digg can still be gamed, despite Digg’s claims that it can’t. The argument continues… (0)

WordPress Wednesday: Checking out Ella

Except for the fact that upgrading this blog gave me problems, I have had absolutely no problems running WordPress 2.1, codenamed Ella.I promised a review of WordPress 2.1 a while back, but have been busy testing out the various features it has to offer.
The WordPress Blog Release Post listed a few of the new features, [...]

Posted by Ajay under Articles, Reviews, Techtites Daily, Wednesday, WordPress
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So you want to be a Problogger?

Just two days back, Duncan wrote an interesting article on how becoming a professional blogger is a lot more difficult today that it was a few years back.
I totally agree with his point of view. There are quite a few people making money through blogging, with some only through blogging.
I, for one, still a long [...]

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Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions!

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Update: I’ve posted an update on the events that surrounded this article.
If you’re a blogger and you haven’t heard of Digg.com before this post, then where have you been?
Digg.com was one of the social networking/blogging successes of 2006, but recently, the once sparkling star has begun to dim. People have started to question [...]

Posted by Ajay under Articles, Social Bookmarking, Tech News
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