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Catch up !

August 28, 2007

I haven’t written a post in the past 10 days and many of my friends including some readers started pinging me to check on my status I am very much alive, only that I was caught up with a little work and also decided to take some time off FeedDemon, the RSS reader that I [...]

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How To: Make your blog mobile browser compatible

July 26, 2007

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 [...]

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Preventing Comment Spam

July 13, 2007

The recent problem of spam comments bypassing the Akismet filter made me realize that its too bad to rely completely on one service. For one I spent considerable amount of valuable time deleting comments. The other problem was created when these spam comments made their way as “subscription comments” and I got many mails from [...]

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Theme update for the site

July 11, 2007

There are thousands of WordPress themes available out there;every now and then I stumble on amazing themes which I would love to use for my site. The only thing keeping me off from doing this regularly is the effort required in modifying/customizing the theme. I have made another theme change (4th) and this time I [...]

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What’s with Akismet ?

July 10, 2007

Akismet, one of the best anti-spam webservice has helped lot of websites including mine in identifying and blocking spam comments and trackbacks. However from the past few days, I am spending more time deleting spam comments and these comments are also making way as comment subscription notifications. The comment text is generally the same: “Nice“, [...]

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June 2007 Roundup

July 5, 2007

I started the “Roundup” from April and somehow missed it in May. The roundup gives readers a second chance to have a look at some of the popular posts and also helps new readers to catchup on some of the interesting posts. So why just do roundup for the previous month ? Since this site [...]

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Showing Top Commentators

June 16, 2007

The sidebar now displays the list of Top commentators for this blog. This has been overdue from some time now. Nate Sanden’s Top commentator plugin eased the task of showing the top commentators. It is currently shown only on the home page. In order to accommodate this list on my 2 column theme, I have [...]

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Windows Live Writer Reloaded

June 1, 2007

Microsoft‘s Windows Live Writer is a powerful desktop based weblog client and is currently the only product I like from Microsoft’s stable. The initial beta had lot of interesting features which made it a must have for any blogger. Review of Windows Live Writer Beta 1 There are lot of free and licensed desktop weblog [...]

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Blog Layout Tweaks

May 4, 2007

The blog now has a new look and feel ! There is no major change and only the header layout is re-designed. I always wanted to move the “Page” links on the sidebar and now it has a new place at the bottom of the header. However I almost spent hours together for the right [...]

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Gravatar – Private Beta

February 7, 2007

Gravatar, the service which lets weblogs display user provided pictures is now in private Beta. Gravatar was taken down few weeks back for various reasons. Just when many people thought that the service was dead Gravatar 2.0 was announced. If you are interested in joining the private beta leave a comment on this post. If [...]

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