Twitter is continously enhancing its web service by constantly adding new features like a new interface, inline previews for videos and photos, ability to upload photos, photo galleries, url shortener and now activity tab. For these very reasons I have stopped using a client to access twitter and rely totally on Twitter web as long…
Category: Internet
bbPress now as a WordPress plugin
bbPress was one of the first forum softwares developed keeping WordPress in mind. But it was available as a standalone project and therefore integrating it with WordPress needed some technical knowledge and you may not always have success at the first attempt plus it required a bit of learning curve. But not anymore because yesterday,…
WordPress.com Switches to 3.2, dumps IE 6
As the release of WordPress 3.2 is coming near, WordPress.com also switched its platform to 3.2 version yesterday. And this change means, WordPress.com has officially dropped support for IE 6. It means the dashboard will not work properly now on IE 6 and users will be prompted with a upgrade message asking them to switch…
Close your Twitter, Facebook and Orkut Accounts
Around 3 years back, I wrote a post on how to remove your Gmail, Yahoo and MSN accounts. I seriously think that removing your own junk is a good idea rather than depending on companies to do it. If you no longer need an account, delete it yourself and do some good. 😛 This post…
Kill IE6 Now
Yes, finally I have decided to Kill Internet Explorer 6 on my blog. If you are using IE 6 or a lower browser, you will now be asked to upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer. It’s not that my site does breaks in IE 6 but because IE6 time is up. I am…
Force File Downloads instead of opening
There are times when you want to host some files but want people to download them instead of getting them opened by the default browser defined action. This situation arises in cases when you are hosting pdf, image or music files. If you are using WordPress, you may use Download manager plugins for this effect…
100 Followers on Twitter
Wow…I finally broke the record of 100 Followers on Twitter. If you want to say what’s great about it, Wait then. Twitter is a essential tool for new bloggers to get connected and find like minded people. It can be a great networking tool. One of my friend has dumped all IM activities and jumped…
Adsense for feeds is buggy
Just for gaining some extra moolah, lots of publishers jumped from Feedburner to Google System for their feeds in order to test the new system. Though Everything remained same but seems Google has not been able to iron out the bugs even now. Almost Daily huge fluctuations occur in our feed counts. Imagine this that…