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All about blogging - tips, tools, and musings
2007-10-03 22:14:00 I thought I would do a nice round up of the posts that I have written over time on the blog on the topic of blogging. (as a side effect I get to build some nice internal links)Overall, my posts about blogging lie in the following categories: Tools Tips Making Money Let me round these up one by one. More About: Blogging , Musings , Sings
9 tips to keep your Outlook 2007 Kicking
2007-10-02 22:23:00 Everyone knows that Outlook 2007 is slow, it freezes, it hangs, and it basically sucks. Yet, there are a lot of people out there who use it on a daily basis. I am one of these people. There are a few tips to minimize the pain here. However, to make sure that the pain ... More About: Office , Tips , Outlook 2007 , Kick
Productivity Tip for those who use their desktops
2007-10-01 12:50:00 This I am a heavily desktop oriented guy. I put all my icons on my desktop. I like to be able to find everything quickly by using my desktop. To others my desktop is 1920×1200 sized garbage can. To me, it’s my life blood. Of course, when you look at it like this, you ... More About: Productivity , Desktops
Upgrading WordPress to 2.3
2007-09-30 01:16:00 Phew… after about 4 hours of grueling work, I have finally managed to upgrade my WordPress installation to the latest version: 2.3. Major steps followed: Find a 2.3 compliant theme for the site. Customize the theme to put in all the little changes that I had so painstakingly put into the last theme. Backup current WordPress Install: Database, Install ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging
Indian Government inspired by Orwell
2007-09-24 09:28:00 The powers that be in Mumbai must have recently been gifted copies of 1984. According to this article, the Mumbai police has made it a mandate for all cyber cafes operating in the city to install KeyLoggers. As soon as I read this, several alarm bells started ringing in my head. Primary question being ... More About: India , Government , Indian , Musings , Indian Government
Excluding certain categories from your blog main page
2007-09-23 17:15:00 This post only applies to people who are running a WordPress blog and have access to editing their template pages. A few days ago, I had a requirement where I wanted to prevent posts in certain categories from showing up on my blog’s main index page. There are a couple of ways mentioned on ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging , Page , Blog , Tips and Tricks
The Joys of Blogging
2007-09-20 12:32:00 A lot of people have asked me why I blog. I have tried to tell them why, and most of the time the answer is, “I blog, because I like to”; I blog, because I would like to help others with what I have learned through my experience. Well, recently there was a comment left on ... More About: Blogging , Musings
Writer?s block - what is that?
2007-09-17 15:34:00 Almost every blog about blogging that I have read till date talks about how to combat the Writer ?s block. Well, I thought that I really need to add my two bits. First of all, you need to answer this question: ?Why do you blog?? If your answer is something along the lines of ?I blog ... More About: Blogging , Musings , Block
My feed will be free of Sponsored Posts
2007-09-16 23:01:00 I would like everyone to know that I have finally made the changes to my RSS feed. As some of you might have realized that I take on sponsored posts from time to time. These posts are done with the best of my ability and I only take them on and make them part of ... More About: Free , Sponsored , Feed , Posts
Using Windows LiveWriter to Publish Blog Posts
2007-09-16 22:04:00 I have been using Word 2007 to blog to my WordPress blog for a long time now. However, today I finally decided to give Windows LiveWriter a try. This posts comes from Windows LiveWriter. There are many things that are immediately apparent as being better than Word 2007: Free: First up is the fact that it ... More About: Blogging , Blog , Publish , Posts
NYTimes - Double Click a word to get its meaning
2007-09-16 21:25:00 Here is something interesting that I didn’t know till I discovered it by accident. I was reading an article on the New York Times website and I double clicked a word (I sometimes do that to highlight words while reading). The moment I did that, a new window opened with the definition of this highlighted ... More About: Word , Musings , Double , Click , Meaning
Leading Payment Gateway disallows strong passwords
2007-09-14 09:16:00 I was recently looking to create a merchant account at CCAvenue, which is a leading Payment Portal for online payments in India. Part of this process is a requirement where you have to provide a username and a password for accessing your merchant account. Below is a screenshot of an error that I encountered while ... More About: Musings , Gateway , Leading , Strong
Hiding icons on your desktop in Windows XP
2007-09-13 13:47:00 Sometimes things are so simple and yet you take forever to get them done. This post is probably more for helping me remember next time then to teach anyone for I am sure that everyone probably knows this already. I wanted to hide all the icons on my desktop and set about finding where I can do that from. I looked at the various properties and settings dialogs but couldn’t find it. Now I KNEW that there is a way to do it and it is a fairly standard way. Well the way is to right click the desktop, go to Arrange Icons and Uncheck “Show Desktop Icons”. Nice and simple (and of course to bring them back, do the same thing again): Tips and Tricks More About: Windows , Windows Xp
Hiding icons in your desktop on Windows XP
2007-09-13 13:47:00 Sometimes things are so simple and yet you take forever to get them done. This post is probably more for helping me remember next time then to teach anyone for I am sure that everyone probably knows this already. I wanted to hide all the icons on my desktop and set about finding where I can ... More About: Windows , Desktop , Icons , Tips and Tricks , Windows Xp
How to free 5 GB on your hard drive in 10 minutes
2007-09-12 14:17:00 I know there are tons of articles out there on this subject, but here is a list of things that I did to reclaim 4-5 GB of space from my hard disk. I also understand that this article is useless for most desktop users where Hard Disk space is no longer a consideration; but I ... More About: Drive , Free , Tips and Tricks , Hard Drive
Problems in verifying your PayPal account
2007-09-12 08:09:00 I signed up with PayPal a long time ago. It allows me to make secure payments online. Recently, it has allowed me to receive payments online as well. When you sign-up with PayPal, you are by default an “Unverified” user. This carries certain limitations for you (there is a cap on the amount you can ... More About: Paypal , Musings , Problems , Account
Popfly, Digg, and LifeHacker
2007-09-10 15:02:00 A post over at LifeHacker inspired me to put together this little mashup which shows the best LifeHacker stories on Digg in the past 30 days. Here’s the link: http://blog.gadodia.net/best-lifehacker-s tories/ Since it’s Pop fly, it is a SilverLight app, so wait for it to load. PopFly More About: Popfly , Lifehack
Monitoring your home when you are away
2007-09-10 09:58:00 I have been planning on installing a system in place which allows me to monitor my home when I am at office. There are several reasons to do this: I have a dog and I would like to check on her from time to time, especially if we are running late. During the rainy season, there is ... More About: Home , Tips and Tricks , Monitoring
Google AdSense Payout
2007-09-09 18:12:00 Yay and celebrations: I received my first cheque from Googl e today as a payout for my AdSense earnings. With this, I HAVE to say that please don’t click on any ads on my site after reading this post. Only click on them, if you are interested in the product. I have been using AdSense for ... More About: Adsense , Musings , Google Adsense
Carbon Offset in India
2007-09-09 17:37:00 Have you heard about Global Warming? Of course you have. Who hasn’t? Do you know your environmental impact? Basically, do you know how much contribution your household and lifestyle make to the global CO2 emissions? Are you doing something about it? What can you do? Well there are many things you can do of course: change ... More About: India , Environment , Carbon offset , Carbon , Social responsibility
My new digital picture frame
2007-09-09 16:20:00 I remember the old days when we used to take pictures, get them developed, and then put them in picture frames and hang them on the walls. Well, that was because in those days, once you had shot a roll of film, there was little else you could do other than get them developed. But ... More About: Picture , Digital , Frame , Picture Frame
Why do I use Technorati
2007-09-06 08:02:00 I keep talking about Technorati on my blog. So what is Technorati? Why do I use it? Here goes: Technorati is THE authority for what’s happening on the dynamic internet. This is the part of the internet which is frequently updates as compared to static sites which do not update on a regular basis. A majority ... More About: Musings
Akismet is not perfect after all
2007-09-05 14:17:00 I have blogged before about using Akismet and how good it is for preventing comment Spam. However, every so often the great plug-in misses. Now the idea is that it should learn whenever I mark a comment as Spam. I have a post which gets 1-2 comments which are spam every day. It’s the same ... More About: Musings , Perfect
Web Hosting Unleashed gives you the complete picture
2007-09-04 22:01:00 As I have blogged earlier, I recently changed my hosting provider. Now, I didn’t have a lot of help in choosing my current hosting provider, I just compared a few providers I knew and chose the one which ‘looked’ the best. Today at work, I was helping a colleague decide on a hosting provider to ... More About: Hosting , Web Hosting , Picture , Tips and Tricks , Complete
Using Wordpress as Knowledge Base repository
2007-09-04 10:15:00 Well, we all know what a great blogging engine Wordpress is. However, I think that Wordpress’s CMS abilities can be used for much more than just blogging. Recently, I discussed the possibility of using Wordpress for a Knowledge Base repository for where I work. There are many wonderful KB applications out there which could have ... More About: Musings , Posi , Tory
Online Backup with IDrive-E
2007-09-02 09:39:00 These days, backup is becoming more and more essential as our lives move more and more to the computer. I do my banking using my computer; I pay my bills from it; I maintain my address books in it; my financial information is on my computer; all the thousands of email that I send and ... More About: Backup , Online
Starting a new blog is not easy at all
2007-09-02 09:34:00 I have an idea. And I think it is a good idea. I have tried to Google for blogs/websites which cater to this idea and have not found many (it could be because I suck at Googling, but so do the majority of internet users over the world). So anyway, I would like to start a ... More About: Musings , Blog , Easy
Changing Your Wordpress Permalink Structure Without Breaking The Old One
2007-08-30 10:12:00 Wordpress and the open source community are just amazing. I had a long standing problem where I wanted to change the permalink structure on my blog from /index.php/archives/%postname%/ to /%postname%/ and the biggest concern that I was facing was that I didn’t want to break any of my existing Urls. To the rescue comes the absolutely ... More About: Wordpress , Tips and Tricks , Changing , Permalink , Breaking
Credit Card Woes
2007-08-30 09:57:00 How many Credit Card s do you have? I have one. I guess it’s hard to imagine Credit Card s being a source of stress in life, then again if you have all the problems that I do; maybe it’s not so hard. My credit card has always had a pitiful credit spending limit (until recently). The problem ... More About: Musings
Loans that change lives
More articles from this author:2007-08-30 06:27:00 The title has been lifted from Kiva website. Kiva is a place on the web which connects lenders from around the world to borrowers in the developing nations. What’s very good about the website is that it allows multiple lenders to lend to one borrower. So, you can begin lending with as little as $25. ... More About: Loans , Change , Social responsibility , Lives , Chang 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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