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Wordpress

Moved to WebFaction

May 3, 2009 Tech

Moving from one web hosting to another has become one of the annual activities. However this time around, I had totally forgot about the hosting renewal; this post after 4 months would explain why I forgot about the hosting renewal
An automatic renewal (which I had not subscribed for) was tried by Media Temple [...]

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Woopra Web Analytics

June 10, 2008 Tech

Web Analytic tools are must have for anybody running a website since they give interesting insight into your site’s traffic patterns.
Woopra Web Analytics was mentioned/reviewed by so many sites that I had to give it a try.
After signing up for Woopra, I immediately proceeded towards the downloads page. I installed the Desktop Client (for [...]

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Moving WordPress to a different domain

May 5, 2008 Tools

This site is powered by WordPress and when it came online 2 years back for some odd reason I opted to install WordPress on the "blog" sub-domain. I guess it was popular then to have the blog installed on its own domain.
And even though I knew the kind of content I would write, I still [...]

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Pagerank updated and the site is downgraded !

May 2, 2008 Google

There has been another round of pagerank update and I see that many sites have got a higher pagerank and few of them have even managed to get a PR of 4 within few months !
This site had a PR of 4 from quite some time and even during the last update where few sites [...]

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Moving from Dreamhost to Media Temple

April 8, 2008 Tech

Exactly an year back I wrote about moving this blog from GoDaddy to Dreamhost. The story continues and this year I have moved to Media Temple (referral link).
I had considered Media Temple last year, however the site revenues weren’t enough to match the rates quoted by Media Temple. Even this time around I thought a [...]

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Fluency – Best Admin Theme for WordPress

April 3, 2008 Browsers

WordPress 2.5 was released some days back and I upgraded to the same with some minor hiccups. There were high expectations from me and everybody with respect to the Admin user interface.
I for one was totally disappointed when I found out that the menu items in the interface were taking almost 50% on my 15″ [...]

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

March 30, 2008 Wordpress

WordPress, the publishing platform used for this site just got upgraded to version 2.5. As usual I used the Dreamhost “one click upgrade” and the upgrade to 2.5 was done within minutes. (I love this feature in Dreamhost )
However it took more than a few minutes to actually get the site going after [...]

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Theme update

January 9, 2008 Personal Blogs

The new year has bought in a new look to my weblog. Here is a snapshot of the site opened in Safari.

The last update was done in July 2007. After checking lot of themes, I finally settled on the Freicurv theme. I still have to work on the ad placements and some of the page [...]

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Windows Live Writer Beta 3

September 10, 2007 Browsers

Windows Live Writer Beta 3 was released a few days back and this is one tool from Microsoft that deserves a lot of praise. It definitely simplifies the task of writing posts for your blog.
Beta 3 has the following new features:

Insert videos using new ‘Insert Video’ dialog

Upload images to Picasaweb when publishing to your [...]

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How To: Make your blog mobile browser compatible

July 26, 2007 Browsers

After launching the Internet browser on my HTC Touch, the first site I opened was of my own blog. The browser almost came to halt while loading the home page.
When I loaded other sites such as GMail, Flickr, Google Search one thing I noticed was that all these sites had a page compatible with the [...]

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