Is public WiFi security good enough ? Is HTTPS safe on public wireless hotspots ? What are the risks of using public WiFi ? If you have been asking all these questions to yourself every time you used a public internet connection then you must consider following points before latching onto your next free or [...] Continue Reading

Mastering Regex or regular expressions is not an easy task. It takes a lot of trial and error initially until you get a hang of it. However until one can achieve mastery over regex or regular expressions there are a number of online testers that can help you test your regular expressions. The list below [...] Continue Reading

If you have been looking for a nice tabbed interface for your terminal connection to unix servers, then you can download putty connection manager or Superputty or Poderosa and use them for free. Putty connection manager as well others listed below are excellent tools that integrates putty. These tools provide a multiple window tabbed interface [...] Continue Reading

Have you been recently blacklisted as a malware distributing website or a blog ? If you did not plan on being a malware website or blog then you must take action before Google removes your site from their searches completely. This could be a SEO disaster. Before understanding how to remove malware let us first [...] Continue Reading

For any web developer having efficient web development tools and debugging tools makes a lot of difference on how quickly the development can progress. If you are a new developer and are looking for various tools that are freely available and are quite efficient then take a look at the list below. This list provides [...] Continue Reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All WordPress posts and pages that are written using the built in WYSIWYG editor do not support JavaScript. If you are like me and want to add JavaScript to WordPress posts or pages without any plugins then there are a few points that you need to remember. Do not use visual editor to add JavaScript [...] Continue Reading

Why post to Social Bookmarking sites ? Social bookmarking sites provides a user a mechanism to not only store and manage their URLs but also to share them with other users. Over the years lot of social bookmarking sites have cropped up (For example twitter, digg, stumbleupon, reddit etc ). For any new content to [...] Continue Reading