Block Spammers from Visiting your Site/Blog

Whether you are using WordPress, Joomla or any other CMSes (Content Management Systems) that involve comment system, you are prone to spam comments. For a spammer to post a spam comment, he/she should obviously visit your site first. This blog post will help you learn to block spammers from visiting your site based on their IP. This doesn’t mean that you’ll have no spam comments, but this could reduce the amount of spam comments, as spammers have the habit of re-posting the same comment. (more…)

Optimize your WordPress Database

WordPress, to give you a safe and a hassle-free environment, stores a lot of temporary information to its MySQL Database. Primary example would be Post Revisions. WordPress creates Post Revisions every time you edit a post (after publishing), even when a post is auto-saved! This appends the whole post content to the database, thus filling your database with temporary stuffs. You won’t be able to delete them either. But here’s WP-Optimize, a plugin by Ruhani Rabin that works like a charm. (more…)

Creating an ISO Disc Image

Though there are many Disc Image Creators available, MagicDisc from MagicISO is used here. MagicDisc is a free, small (1.28MB) and a simple application that supports creating disc images in multiple formats (standard ISO, BIN, CUE, NRG and UIF). (more…)

Find out Broken Links in your WordPress Blog

For Blogs with a high quantity of articles, finding out broken links in posts require more man power. Obviously, no one has patience to do it too. A plugin by Janis Elsts named Broken Link Checker helps you automatically find broken links. The plugin also

• checks for broken links and 301/302 redirects
• checks your posts and pages for broken links (both internal and outbound links)
• checks for broken images
• strikes out broken links (editable via CSS)
• notifies you in the dashboard

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TATA DOCOMO’s Unlimited EDGE, with limits?

TATA DOCOMO, a network that’s well known for its per-second pulse, rolled out its ‘Unlimited’ GPRS/EDGE packs a week back. Notice I’ve stressed the word ‘Unlimited’. The service was limited to only Prepaid users. The packs were

• Rs. 15 top up – Unlimited for 3 days
• Rs. 95 top up – Unlimited for 30 days

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Google Turns 11

It’s September 27, and California-based Google celebrates its 11 birthday today, though, according to Google Wikipedia article, the founded date is said to be September 4th 1998 and the domain’s WhoIs says that it was registered on the 15th of September 1997. Google expresses this by its new logo (Goog11e) that you can find on the search page. The new logo is in effect in most part of the world, and it was available early today in India (IST – +0530 from GMT). (more…)

Share Media Files with Bit.ly

A well-known and the largest URL Shortening Service, Bit.ly, has added support for uploading and sharing Media Files.

To share files on Bit.ly, you’ll just have to visit it’s homepage(bit.ly) and click the ‘Link to File’ hyperlink. Click ‘Browse’ and point the file you want to share. Supported file types are Images(jpg, png, gif, bmp, tiff), Flash Content(swf, flv), Movies(mp4, mov, avi) and PDFs. (more…)

CMS Awards ‘09 – Vote for the best CMS

PACKT Publishing Ltd is back with CMS (Content Management Systems) awards for the year 2009. This year, the awards are available in the following categories

• Hall of Fame
• Best Overall Open Source CMS
• Most Promising Open Source CMS
• Best Open Source PHP CMS
• Best Other Open Source CMS

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Convert and Download YouTube Videos

Basically, YouTube doesn’t allow you to download its videos. Download managers like IDM (Internet Download Manager) help you download the video in FLV (normal) or MP4 (high) format. But what if you don’t have those download managers? Here are few sites with which you can download YouTube videos. (more…)

Safely Migrating Permalinks [WordPress]

Changing Permalink Structure is not as easy as it looks. Simply changing the value in Settings->Permalinks will leave your Search Engine indexed pages/links with a 404/Not-Found error. Thus you may risk losing your valuable visitors, and your posts with the new permalink structure will not have the old Page Rank (PR). Here’s a tutorial that will help migrating permalinks without losing traffic nor Page Rank. (more…)

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