In the age of blogs, the feedback mechanism which goes hand in hand with blogging is on the brink. It is a sorry state of affair and reasons are far too many.
For starters, we have over a million blogs and users find a new blog for the unique information they may need. So, the question [...]
Beware! If you are running a self hosted Wordpress blog that is not upgraded to version 2.8.4, chances are that your blog has already been hacked or will be hacked very soon. So, if you haven’t already, buck up and do the necessities.
More often than not, the open source CMS turn out to be your best bets, though some people can’t give up the age old orthodox feeling of superiority of custom built CMS. So let’s take a look at their advantages.
Google limits us to display 3 ad units and 1 link unit on any given page. In Wordpress, if we would like to add adsense on the homepage, we would be limited to header, sidebar and the footer. If we add ads at the end of an article, the loop repeats the ad at least [...]
The title of this post could be misleading. Tech Pedia is not moving to Joomla. However, I am pondering upon moving another blog of mine from Wordpress to Joomla. The main deterrent is the database tables and the syncing of structures. I checked the web and there is no easy one click script to get [...]
If you are a regular reader on this website, you probably know that my articles originate from absolute necessities. Recently I was looking around for a wordpress theme for one of my blogs and found one that I really liked. Unfortunately, it had an encrypted footer with ads embedded on it. I respect the template’s [...]
Akismet is probably the leading Wordpress plugin for filtering spam comments. There is no doubt with the ability of the plugin to capture most of the spam comments that gets posted onto our blogs. But, there is a weakness that can go against all the goods done by the plugin; Akismet plugin does not learn. [...]
WordPress for iPhone is here. I just tested it and there appears to be some bugs still. When I setup my blog on the iPhone app, it auto inserted a couple of blank posts that did not have anything in them. Hopefully we’ll see an update soon ;-)
One bigger issue is that the iPhone still [...]
An upgrade to the latest Wordpress 2.6 almost put Tech Pedia out of action. To my utmost shock, all the categories residing on my site went missing after the upgrade.
Google has come out with a beta of a list of all the books that are either banned or challenged. Some of the books in the list are classics that would be missed in the next generation. Presently google has listed 42 books in its banned section and they include classics like The Great Gatsby, [...]
I’m a hopeful writer. Now I don’t mean that I write articles which are rosy in their outlook – I mean that I hope to be published one day :p So this means that I have to constantly send out manuscripts (or partials of manuscripts) to various publishers and agents so [...]
Everybody and their grandmother today knows that two of the key players to watch out for new stuff (I hesitate to say innovations since some might disagree :p) are Google and Microsoft. But the question usually is, how do you know what theyve each got brewing at their respective camps? Sure, you know about the [...]
One more theme from Technopedia. This time something other than white. I made this theme for a friend and thought to myself “Why not put it out for download?”. So here it is. First things first, let me give out a little secret about myself, I am color blind. I tried my best to mix [...]
White is the New Red is a professionally designed theme for websites that may wanna look more professional. This is the theme TECH BLOG is currently using. The whole object of this theme is to take the bloggish look out of the theme. The whole theme is whitish as some researchers have pointed out that [...]
