Archive | December, 2009

[How-To] Tracking your Blog Visitors

28 December 2009

18 Comments

[How-To] Tracking your Blog Visitors

So you have a blog with great content, optimized for search engines and ready to get exploding traffic? But how do you know which of your articles are most liked by your visitors, and how many unique visitors and impressions your blog gets daily? To track these, you’ll have to feed your blog with few [...]

Continue reading...

Pixie – Lightweight Portable Color Picker

26 December 2009

0 Comments

Pixie – Lightweight Portable Color Picker

Whether you are working with Photoshop, or altering your AdSense colors, or the HEX color codes in your CSS or simply playing with colors, you’ll always need a color picker that helps you find RGB / CYMK / HTML Hex color codes

Continue reading...

7 Free Christmas Templates [Joomla]

24 December 2009

0 Comments

Christmas, in few hours from now. If you are looking to dress up your site with Christmas/Holiday-season templates, here are free Christmas templates for your Joomla-based site(s), by SiteGround & DesignForJoomla. SiteGround regularly offers free themes for Joomla, WordPress, Mambo and many other CMSes, also provides hosting for your WordPress, Joomla powered site.

Continue reading...

Maintenance Splash Page [WordPress]

19 December 2009

0 Comments

Though WordPress is the best for Blogging, it lacks few features by default. For instance, Joomla helps you show a Maintenance page with just few clicks, but WordPress doesn’t. Similarly, you can’t set ‘unpublished’ status to categories in WordPress if you temporarily want hide a category. Luckily WordPress’ repository has got over thousands of plugins [...]

Continue reading...

SiteGround Holiday Hosting at $9.95/year

16 December 2009

0 Comments

Seems like Santa’s now at SiteGround. SiteGround, well-known for its Tutorials and Templates for CMSes like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, WP, is now giving away Web Hosting and Joomla-optimized hosting at a very discounted price – that’s $9.95 for one year. The $9.95 offer was sent to those who downloaded Joomla templates from SiteGround and opted [...]

Continue reading...

A free alternative to ZoneAlarm

9 December 2009

2 Comments

You should’ve already read my article on Basic Security for your PC where I recommended ZoneAlarm Free. But due to its incompatibility with Windows 7 when I tried a month back, I had to look for an alternative. The latest version (ZoneAlarm 9.1.007) released a few days back is compatible with Windows 7. After a [...]

Continue reading...

Update your Twitter via SMS at No Extra Cost

7 December 2009

6 Comments

A month back, Twitter and AirTel joined hands to offer Twitter via SMS, and the service was available exclusively to Bharti AirTel customers. Moreover, customers were charged premium rates for every SMS. SMSTweet, available at smstweet.in, is a free service, where you’ll send your tweets to a 10-digit Tata Indicom number, so you end up [...]

Continue reading...

Google Dictionary with Multiple Languages

5 December 2009

0 Comments

After Google Wave, Chrome OS and Public DNS service, Google is now up with its own Dictionary. Available at google.com/dictionary, this dictionary service can be a perfect and a worthy alternative to the old guys – Dictionary.com, thefreedictionary.com and Answers.

Continue reading...

Google’s Site Performance & Public DNS

4 December 2009

3 Comments

Google has today announced the start of its Public DNS (Domain Name System) that is expected to give you a faster web experience, linked to the recently announced Site Performance – a Google Labs feature and a part of Google Webmaster Tools. Site Performance, a Google Webmaster Labs tool helps webmasters know the performance of [...]

Continue reading...

RockBox Installation

2 December 2009

0 Comments

Before proceeding with RockBox installation, make sure you have all the following. Hardware: Sansa USB Cord Software: WinZip – Download Sansa Downloads: Firmware – Download Fonts – Direct Download Bootloader – Direct Download

Continue reading...