I never had the need for a screen recording software to date, however, this is one of the best ways to put up some video tutorials. Wink is a good free software, however Camtasia Studio is feature rich paid software, that has been out of my budget until now. As part of a promotion drive for Camtasia Studio 5, TechSmith is offering Camtasia Studio 3 for free. Firstly download the software [~28.28MB] and then register yourself on the promotion page. You will receive the key via email. If you like the software, you can upgrade to v5 for half the […]
WordPress 2.3 Dexter has been released. Facing the dreaded database upgrade error? Check out this forum thread. And if you have shell access, read my tutorial on Upgrading WordPress via Shell. And, do remember to deactivate all plugins before you […]
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 to memory and to your hard disk. What is the difference between sleep and hybrid sleep? Says Windows Help: Sleep saves any open documents and programs to memory, and then puts your computer into a low-power state. Hybrid sleep saves any open documents […]
If you’re looking to secure your WordPress wp-admin folder, then adding an additional layer of password protection goes a long way in helping this. You can either manually code the .htaccess file or get hold of the AskApache Password Protect Plugin to automate the […]
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This blog got hacked yesterday. Being stuck with my MBA, I wasn’t able to react as quickly as I hoped to. Rishi was kind enough to message me and let me know about the same and I got down to working on this ASAP. Got my host to restore a backup. Unfortunately, had to restore from last weeks backup which meant losing out on two posts that I made two days back. Their gone for good. Serves me right for not upgrading my WordPress install. No one’s taken credit for the hack, but I spent the past two hours upgrading […]
I wish I could say I was in this state right now, considering the lack of updates out here. But, the reason is that I am busy with MBA. Anyone like to write for […]
TechCrunch reports that Google has acquired Feedburner for $100 million dollars. This is indeed a great achievement for Feedburner. For us publishers, I see a lot of good things in […]
One week after WordPress 2.2 RC1 was released, we have 2.2 Getz available for download. Getz comes with a few good feature additions. Code has been optimized for speed. We now have full Atom support and you have a new Blogger importer. WordPress Widgets has been included into the core. I’m not sure if this is a good addition or not. And Matt has asked interested users to start contributing to […]
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 […]
