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Recently my friend Kanak’s website content was posted on a splog. Its really sad when people steal your content, which you took so much time and effort to sit and write down. I Introduced him to blogging a few months back and have been helping him out. I tried searching for some WordPress Plugins that […]

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Update: Corrected Typo thanks to Small Potato
In Two separate news articles.
Looks Like The Harry Potter Pirate Might be Caught.
The guy who took pictures of the stolen harry potter book and put them on the net forgot to remove the EXIF data which contains the serial number of his Canon camera which means he can be […]

Update: Looks like MS closed this again. better luck next time.
People always seem to be finding loops on Microsoft’s site to get themselves @live email address. This is like the 3rd or 4th time Url hacks have been discovered. I managed to get clazh[@]live.com last year.

Go to www.hotmail.com, click on Sign up, and choose a […]

Update: added, what are pillar posts.
Here are a few tips that I have learnt over the past few months that I been blogging. I think these steps are important for maintaining and keeping the momentum going new blogs.
1. Drafts.
Make drafts of your future posts, collect data and information related to the post and keep working […]

Looks like hackers and pirates are on a roll this week. First Windows Media DRM got cracked, this allowed people to remove DRM restrictions from their music and videos. Now TechCrunch is reporting that the latest book from J.K Rowling popular harry Potter series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows has been released by pirates […]

Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management System for music and video has been cracked, this allows people to strip their music and video free of the DRM restrictions and to allow unrestricted use of their music and video. This isn’t the first time it has been cracked (hacker have cracked it twice before). Just like how apple […]

Blogs are dead without comments, similarly the driving force for social networks and news are user interaction and discussions. Recently while chatting with roxzen she asked my advice on how to reply to a rude comment left on her blog.

Do you respond to each and every comment?
How do you respond to Trolls?
How do you respond […]

While moving from blogger to Wordpress is dead easy using the inbuilt blogger importer tool in Wordpress, there is one dilemma/problem that a lot of people face, after importing from blogger, Wordpress does not maintain the Permalinks(post slugs) i.e. the URL of the blog posts. I did a bit of hunting around and I […]

Alright I been sick of all the iPhone this iPhone that news. But now rumors are floating that there is a iPhone Nano in the works. I bet its Apple secret hype machine working overtime. I liked this quote from righton
The mainstream media is VERY easily duped in the past and basing speculation on patent […]

Flock has come out of beta and they just released version 0.9. It looks pretty neat. Blog editor still sucks (it spits out nasty html code) you can see whats new here http://www.flock.com/welcome and what’s new here http://www.flock.com/compare
Here is a brief list of new things in Flock.

MyWorld: a dynamic home base for all your […]

A number of unrelated news items made me come up with this unusual post. Blogger always blog about how, what etc to do with blogs. I haven’t seen any what not to do articles. On a unrelated not I wanted to write about each of the news items separately but I thought I would group […]

Update: it looks like parallels took down the videos and the blog post. I wonder why?
I admit I not a fan of Apple’s stupid Mac vs Pc Ads. I came across these cool Apple vs Mac ads that actually make sense without bashing each other. These ads have been made by Parallels which is virtulization […]

I found this great tool called bustaname for brainstorming Domain Names. I wish I had know of this tool when I registered my Website. Coming up with a cool and short domain name is very hard. This tool is useful since it does most of the work for like making combination of words automatically and […]

The Month of Search Engine Bugs has come to an end. It was a project in which a number of Top Hackers took par.
Main purpose of the project: to demonstrate the real state of security in search engines. There are vulnerabilities in the engines (that mean that their developers insufficiently attend to security) and the […]