If you are a WordPress plugin developer you would be interested in latest development and facilities provided by wordpress.org. There is some good news. As part of an experiment, all WordPress.org plugin developers are now able to customize their plugin page even more with customized banner image of specified size on top header section of their [...] Continue Reading

Privacy advocates have long sought for online privacy. This means that only you are entitled to know what your online behavior is. However there are a number of threats to your online privacy. In order to really conceal your online identity, you need to hide IP address of your computer. It is quite common to [...] Continue Reading

As you may have realized that the free Yahoo site explorer tool is gone for good. Now the search begins for free Yahoo site explorer alternatives to find backlinks for the domains. To be frank there are not many. Most of the online tools that you find are actually using another service under the covers. [...] Continue Reading

What is a SEO URL or a search engine friendly URL ? Before we learn how to create SEO URL or a search engine friendly URL we need to understand what it is and what is it’s purpose. A SEO or search engine friendly URL is the one that gives good information on what a [...] Continue Reading

Since the advent of multi-core technology such as dual-cores and quad-cores there is confusion regarding what a microprocessor consists of and what is the correct terminology. Here we analyze and compare  core vs cpu vs socket vs chip vs processor to define what each of these components or term represent. Cores Since standard microprocessors are [...] Continue Reading

What is  SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) In order to generate ad revenue, a site needs a lot of visitors. Visitors can be acquired via paid advertizing or they can be referred to a site for free by search engines. In order to get visitors by search engines, a site has to be ranked [...] Continue Reading

Before we look at the examples of htaccess 301 redirect let us understand overall use and purpose of 301 redirects. That should allow us to use it on correct contexts. What does htaccess 301 redirect mean ? htaccess 301 redirect is a mechanism to return the 301 status code as defined in RFC 2616. According [...] Continue Reading

WordPress contact form with captcha plugin is a easy to use WordPress plugin that allows you to add a contact form and any WordPress blog page. Features WordPress contact form with captcha plugin is easy to configure via regular WordPress plugin menu. Utilizes captcha technology to prevent any spam. It uses reCaptcha from Google. Allows [...] Continue Reading

Many computers have mechanisms in place to start the screensaver after certain amount if idle time. One of these mechanisms is to use a screensaver group policy. A screen save group policy could be used to make sure that a windows based workstations, for a group of users, locks after some amount of idle time. [...] Continue Reading

What is a Blog ? Nowadays almost everyone has it or has heard of the notion of it. Many individuals who are not tech savvy do not totally understand what it is or how to get one. First, let me explain what it really is. Blog is short for “Web log” which means a log [...] Continue Reading

Ads on many websites are quite annoying especially when they keep popping up every few seconds. Since they are an important source of income for most websites I would not recommend anyone to remove ads from websites. Sometimes however while searching for content online we tend to visit many new sites. There is an inherent [...] Continue Reading

All the WordPress breadcrumb code that I have seen deals with categories and dates only. However for better navigation and SEO, I believe tags should also be part of it too. WordPress Breadcrumb code vs Tag clouds If tags are a part, they can provide quick and easy access to all related articles for the [...] Continue Reading

Internet growth has been humongous and so have number of users addicted to it.  There has been a steady  increase in the average time a person spends on internet. In order to figure out if the time you spent is normal or are you addicted to internet try answering following questions: Questions to ask if you [...] Continue Reading

Before you upgrade software Whether it is a five minute browser upgrade or a five hour operating system upgrade, deciding on how to upgrade software or when to upgrade software requires careful planning. Before starting on an upgrade process look at the read me file or release notes that are part of the upgrade package. These files [...] Continue Reading

There is a huge list of social websites. Each social website provides its own social buttons. Since there are really no common standards for these social websites buttons, adding them on your website could be quite challenging. In order to add social media buttons to a website you need to understand how to align social [...] Continue Reading

Introduction to IPTV In order to explain what is IPTV, it is necessary to understand its features and the underlying technology used. This IPTV tutorial therefore touches on all these aspects of IPTV. IPTV is part of telecommunication marketing term “quadruple play” which consists of internet, Phone, wireless and TV. The TV service in quadruple [...] Continue Reading

Before listing how to change IP address for your computer let’s first understand that the IP address of your computer or router could be a static IP address (that would never change) or a dynamic IP address (that could change frequently) assigned by a DHCP server (See definition here). How to change dynamic IP address [...] Continue Reading

This is a very attractive and simple free PHP template that you can download and use for your dynamic websites.  Simple knowledge of PHP is required to modify and install this free PHP template. Free PHP template features 1. Support for three 728X90 and two 300X250 advertisements. The Ads have been strategically placed to provide [...] Continue Reading

Why place text on an Image ? If you place text on an image via Hyper Text Markup Language ( HTML ) or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS ) it can serve multiple purposes. It helps search engines to crawl the text and get an idea of what the image is all about leading to a [...] Continue Reading

If you are an Apache server administrator or a developer testing out your .htaccess file with rewrite rules in it then you should be aware of mechanisms on how to debug rewrite rule in Apache. Rewrite rules can be quite tricky and trying to debug rewrite rule in Apache requires access to Apache server directories. [...] Continue Reading