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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
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
Loans that change lives
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
PHP 5 on IIS 6 giving 404 error and how to fix it
2007-08-29 08:37:00 How hard can installing PHP on IIS on a Windows 2003 server be? It turns out that it can be very hard even if you follow every step-by-step in the world. I have spent the last two hours trying to get it to work, but despite my best efforts I kept getting a 404 error whenever ... More About: Tips and Tricks , Giving , Error
PHP 5 on IIS 6 giving 404 error and how to fix it
2007-08-29 08:37:00 How hard can installing PHP on IIS on a Windows 2003 server be? It turns out that it can be very hard even if you follow every step-by-step in the world. I have spent the last two hours trying to get it to work, but despite my best efforts I kept getting a 404 error whenever ... More About: Tips and Tricks , Giving , Error
Worth Any Developer?s Time
2007-08-24 06:20:00 If you don’t already read Scott Hanselman’s blog, you should. But even if you aren’t a big blog reader, Scott has just updated his utility list; and this list is a gold mine of tried and tested tools and utilities which make everyday tasks a bit easier and faster. So, without further ado, go the Ultimate ... More About: Developer , Time , Worth , Develop , Wort
Blog to save the environment
2007-08-21 08:00:00 They say that the pen is mightier than the sword. Well it’s time to put the saying to a test. And if you have a blog you can help. Blog Action Day is calling out to all bloggers for joining hands on October 15: “On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a ... More About: Environment , Social responsibility , Save , The Environment
9 surefire tips to get traffic to your site for new bloggers
2007-08-17 12:06:00 There are literally thousands of posts around this topic; and they all offer splendid advice. However, a lot of such advice only makes sense after you have crossed a certain threshold in terms of readership and content. Even then, it is pretty hard to get people to visit you on a regular basis. Here is a ... More About: Traffic , Tips , Blogging , Tips and Tricks , Site
Slips of Tongues
2007-08-14 08:48:00 Well, I did come across (thanks to Wikipedia) some really funny examples of Spoonerisms from the original Spooner himself. For those of you who didn’t know: “Spoonerism is a play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched. It is named after William Spooner, who was notorious for this tendency”. Here are some really ... More About: Funny , Tongue , Slip , Tongues , Tong
Gmail marking Google Emails as Spam
2007-08-13 13:08:00 I use Googl e Alerts a lot. I also have always been very happy with the spam filtering that I get with Gmail . However, as a matter of habit, every once in a while (once a week), I take a quick look at what Gmail has marked as spam. While taking one of these quick peeks today, ... More About: Spam , Emails
3 Reasons for why RSSBandit is not worth it
2007-08-12 07:18:00 I have been using RSSBandit for 5-6 months now. And there always have been problems, but I was sticking out with it. Today, however I finally found the time to look for another reader. But before I tell you what I have switched over to, let me tell you why: RSSBandit uses too much memory. I ... More About: Reasons , Worth , Wort
More versions of SyncMyCal for 30Boxes
2007-08-10 08:14:00 Within days of releasing Sync MyCal30Boxes, the SyncMyCal team has now released Outlook 2007 support. They have also added support for 64bit versions for both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 in case you are running a 64bit OS. Read more here. SyncMyCal, Tools and Utilities More About: Version
Never seen anything like this in my life
2007-08-09 21:57:00 I have been to Kruger National Park in South Africa, and it has been the best experience of my life. I saw many animals and I saw 4 out of the big 5 up close. However, this one guy (along with some others) is probably the luckiest person on the planet. I haven’t even seen ... More About: Life , Animals , My Life
Technorati advancement yet again
2007-08-09 05:21:00 This must be routine for most bloggers, but for me, every time this happens it brings me joy. I have again gained rank in Technorati ratings. The reason I guess is that I got a number of new incoming links from other bloggers. (? this makes me think that there must be something in all ... More About: Blogging , Vance
Smorty for Blog Advertising
2007-08-08 21:44:00 I have been spending quite some time on analyzing the different way people earn money on the web (and yes, I am a Noob in this field). One of the fastest growing mechanisms for monetizing one’s blog is to get sponsors for what you post. Obviously, there is some skepticism there because people tend to ... More About: Advertising , Internet Marketing , Blogging , Blog , Vert
Technorati rank
2007-08-07 06:04:00 So, a few days after Technorati went crazy (during maintenance), my ranking has been revised; and about time too. I used to have a rank which was above 1 million, and now it has been revised to a better ranking and Authority. It feels nice, but of course, there is a long way to go. For ... More About: Blogging , Rank
How to gain an extra day per year
More articles from this author:2007-08-06 23:14:00 If you own a laptop, then you need to be aware of the Hibernate and Sleep functions on your laptop. I have seen a lot of people who never get around to using these functions and actually shut down their laptops when they are done for the day? what a waste of time. I reboot my ... More About: Tips and Tricks , Extra , Year , Xtra 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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