We’ve all heard of Wikipedia – for a whole load of students, it has been the go-to site for project work and reference material. It’s great strength lies in the multitude of collaborators – writers, proofreaders et al associated with the site doing what they do out of a general sense of altruism and trying to spread knowledge. Of course, Wikipedia is available in a number of languages, so it isn’t restricted to English although that is by far the most developed section of the site. For users on mobile phone, there’s also a mobile version of Wikipedia. A related…

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It’s Christmas today and if you still haven’t gotten into the Christmas mood, then here’s somethings to do today and for the rest of this week. 1. Download the Official Microsoft Christmas Theme for XP Way back in 2004, Microsoft released a Christmas theme. Microsoft ChristmasTheme 2004 is an official Christmas desktop theme with new wallpaper, animated cursors, new icons, new sounds and a 3D screensaver. [Download] (requires Windows Genuine validation) | [Alternate Download] 2. Softpedia Christmas Wallpaper Packs Decked the halls with balls of holly? How about your desktop? If you’re not satisfied with the theme above, then Softpedia…

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With a change that is bound to effect millions of sites, all links on en.wikipedia.org articles will contain the rel=”nofollow”. This was stated in an email from Brion Vibber to the Wikipedia mailing list. rel=”nofollow” is used to tell search engines to not follow the link. This was an attempt to thwart link spam. However, this has been pretty much a failure. I don’t believe in using nofollow either. WordPress has this inbuilt unfortunately and I will be implementing removing the nofollow from comments. Hey, I want my commenters to benefit. The same is already implemented over at ajaydsouza.com. I’m…

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