8 Security Tips and Guidelines for your WordPress Blog
Posted on September 21, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging | 17 Comments
Here are a few Wordpress security tips I’ve learned over time. After reading a couple of horror stories about blogs being hacked, maimed and mutilated by crazy Russians or vindictive competitors, I’ve decided to it would be good idea to implement some security practices for my WordPress blog. After going through a bunch of sites and fixing things on my own blog, I thought it would be good to share these items with all of the other WordPress users out there.
Why you should stop worrying about avoiding the duplicate content penalty
Posted on September 21, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging | 5 Comments
Ok, so it seems like everyone and anyone starting a blog or "optimizing" their blog is concerned about duplicate content penalties from Google and so have devised a an entire slew of remedies from adding all kinds of disallow statements to their robots.txt files to installing SEO-optimized duplicate-content-curing plugins for WordPress, etc.
Share links and web sites with Google Shared Stuff
Posted on September 20, 2007 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 2 Comments
Google released a new web app called Google Shared Stuff that aims to do something very similar to del.icio.us, reddit and other link sharing sites. Basically, the service allows to your share links via a bookmarklet that you drag onto your toolbar.
IBM offers alternative to MS Office with Lotus Symphony
Posted on September 20, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | 2 Comments
Everyone thought that only Google was out to take on Microsoft’s dominant Office suite of products, but apparently IBM is now in the fight too! Yesterday they officially announced that the release of a new suite of free office productivity tools named Lotus Symphony. The suite consists of a word processor, spreadsheet application, and a presentation software. The new software is based on the Open Document Format (ODF), which is nice since it means you’re not locked into any kind of proprietary file format.
Lessons worth learning - How NOT to remain anonymous on the Internet
Posted on September 19, 2007 - Filed Under Blogging | 6 Comments
I’ve been blogging for about 5 months now and I’ve definitely been enjoying the whole process: talking with other bloggers, writing about stuff I like, creating my own unique mark on the world, having people contact me asking questions, etc. It’s the last part that I just mentioned about people contacting me that I’m going to focus on for this post.
If you were to have searched my name about a year ago, Aseem Kishore, you would have found a bunch of entries about Indian baby names, some Aseem Kishore from India doing something in computers (how shocking!), and mostly a bunch of sites with either “Aseem” or “Kishore” in there separately, but not together.
How-to video clips & lessons (Windows, Computers, Technology) - List #1
Posted on September 19, 2007 - Filed Under Fun Stuff | 2 Comments
Last week I decided to come up with a weekly list of cool new Web 2.0 sites and startups for all the sites I don’t get time to write about and today I’m going to add a weekly round-up of cool or useful computer-related how-to videos from around the web! Reading how to do something is great, but it can never really match up to watching a video of the same thing.
So here’s a list of 5 videos off the Internet that you can watch to learn things like "How to upgrade to Vista" or "How to create abstract backgrounds in Photoshop".
