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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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 [...]
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Two weeks back I took you through the different types of hosting.
Over the next few articles I’ll cover Control Panels, Hosting Basics, Choosing your host and try to explain the various concepts that surround this industry.
To recap the earlier article, hosting can be divided according to price, by domain or size.
Considering size, hosting [...]
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Whether you’re starting to blog or if you are beginning your own website, one thing that you will need is a host. Hosting can be either free or paid. Hosting comes in different forms or services from thousands of hosts all over. Over the next few Tutorial Thursday articles we will look at various aspects [...]
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Normally to shutdown Windows, you need to go to you Start Menu » Turn Off Computer » Turn Off
I use my keyboard for this purpose by hitting in the shortcut keys, Windows Key followed by U and U.
Carol has a tutorial on getting the same thing done by creating a Windows shortcut.
You can create a [...]
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I have one Gmail account and two Google Apps for Domain accounts. I’ve been using the former a lot and really liked having Google Talk running for the latter two.
This tip finally helps me achieve this.
In order to run multiple instances of Google Talk, all you need to do is pass the parameter nomutex to [...]
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FeedBurner provides an excellent feed service that lets you track how many users are subscribed to your feed. You also get a shorter name especially if you are working with Category feeds.
Users can still bypass your FeedBurner feed and continue to subscribe to your original blog feed.
While this is not a problem, your stats may [...]
Am not going to write anything special about working with WordPress this week, as I’m really tied down by things right now.
However, let me take this opportunity to point you to an article I wrote a while back on my personal blog, on a topic that frustrates a lot of us, viz. SPAM!
Titled A Comprehensive [...]
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Feedburner recently added support for SpringWidgets.
When trying to add the widget to my site, I realized that SpringWidgets is using the embed tag. e.g. my widget
Now, the embed tag is obsolete in XHTML, i.e. if you use it, then the W3C Validator will throw errors.
Here is what you can do to solve that…
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Google has been busy integrating a lot of its services in the past few months and Orkut has been one of them.
For those who don’t know, Orkut is a social networking community run by Google and Google Talk is their messenger software that runs on the Jabber protocol.
There has been talking of the two being [...]
