Update: My sincere apologies to all the plugin developers. I usually try to keep track of WordPress security. and buyacrop has been very good at finding exploits and providing patches. In my hurry to warn users I forgot to check if patches were available or if the developers were informed. I think its pretty irresponsible on buyacrop part.
The winners of the WordPress Plugin Competition has been announced. congratulation to all ...
While the the W3C seem to be taking forever to implement new web standards and seem happy sitting on their butts forever without moving forward. Here are a bunch of CSS 3.0 proposals that Web Designers would go nuts over if ever they are implemented. I give them time till 2999 to implement them, at the rate things are going in the W3C. I saw the original post here ...
Update: Looks like Opera also has inbuilt support for video in the upcoming release. Read the Comments below
While you might have heard of Flash, SilverLight etc which are proprietary application frameworks to create RIA(Rich Internet Application) and have been developed by Adobe and Microsoft respectively. But did you know that Firefox has inbuilt support for various frameworks such as SVG, Theora and OGG, which can be used to create and ...
Its been a while since I did my Best WordPress theme series. For this series I decided top focus on 3 Column themes I've been hunting around for the best 3 column themes in the past month. At the same time I came across a few more beautiful themes. So I Decided to combine them into a single post rather than review them separately.
So here are the list of some ...
Its been a busy week since the closing of the SandBox Competition. I have been overwhelmed with support emails and feature requests. One things People need to understand is that the SandBox is a Complex theme and you need good CSS skills if you want to tweak it. I have changed my mind and I don't want to mess around with the core files this would defeat the purpose of ...
When you blog do you blog for your readers or do you blog for Search Engines. I have noticed a lot of people who try to cram in as many keywords as possible into the title and content. Even I have done this when I first started blogging. We know that a number of people and sites have been penalised by Google for example JohnChow, text-link-ads etc for selling paid ...
I came across this post on quickonlinetips who got these tips from Matt Cutts. While some of them I have been following there a few tips that are new to me or can be done in a better way I am listing them all here.
1. Drop the WordPress Meta Tag
By default a large number of WordPress themes have the WordPress Meta Tag which show the version of WordPress that is ...
A Happy 60th Independence Day To all Indians.
First here are a a bunch of true Indians.
Vijay and a couple of his friends have taken an initiative to clean the potholes in the roads of Chennai today night, as a part of Independence celebration. They have planned it out and have access to tar, cement etc.
Yes! Fixing roads in the night on the eve of independence day is not exactly the ...
Ever seen the word Blog Spam being repeatedly used by a number of DIGG users. My last post "15 Crazy Cool Photo and Video Sites" almost made it to DIGG before it got buried even though I managed to get more than 40 DIGG Votes. I have been trying to figure out why it got buried. Here are a list of reasons why I think I/we suck most of the ...
Update: SandPress For Blogger Has been Released by zonacerebral You can see the demo here.
The SandPress WordPress theme has been updated to Version 0.71 its has a number of minor css fixes, and a few other fixes based on user feedback. I am thinking of moving to a better host soon. My current choices are Mediatemple.net and Bluehost. If anyone has any suggestions let me know.
Below is the ChangeLog. You ...
I came across a bunch of funny and cool sites. I been collecting these kind of sites for the past two months.
Cameroid Take pictures from your computer webcam and special effects like morphs world famous monkey suits.
fake photo Enter your text and choose from a large number of fake picture.
Not Celebrity Type in a name to see it in lights.
http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ You can use the Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer to change ...
Today's been a weird day. Just a few days back I was lamenting that nothing exciting seemed to be happening with my blog and was brainstorming various ways I could make SandPress better and post better content. Its one of those days when a number of things start happening at once, lots of emails, messages and Phone Calls. What the heck one friend called all the ...
Update I Wrote this in a hurry, Corrected some Typos and added list of other winners
When I logged in to my computer this morning, I had completely forgotten that today at 5:30 AM (Indian Time) the results for the SandBox Design Competition would be announced. I opened FireFox and my Gmail Manager Extension showed that I had received more than 25-30 mails and Comments.
I found out that ...
Here's a list of Future Features that you can expect in WordPress in the next year, Or maybe 2009.
WordPress is evolving into a content management system.
WordPress Plugins updates will be shown in your WordPress Administration Panels and will be linked to the database in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
BackPress a library which will create an API that will expose core functions of WordPress (user system, login system, formatting, sanitization, script building).
WordPress ...
So we have another WordPress Release 2.2.2 in such a short time, I've helped a few of my friends to set up WordPress blogs. They still aren't very confident when upgrading or updating WordPress. I usually update as soon as the WordPress developers release a security fix. While there are Plugins that you can use to automatically download and update WordPress, but I prefer the manual route.
A list of Plugins ...