TheAnand

Category: Techie

  • StumbleCult: Get your Seed Stumbles

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    StumbleUpon, every blogger loves this one! Its a great source of traffic for every blogger, big and small. The best part of StumbleUpon is that it gives you free traffic and is not really into the crowd mentality like Digg or the other media sites. Though hard to monetize, it builds a brand by putting…

  • Cool WordPress Plugins to Rock Thy Blog!

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    I never get fed up of searching for new snazzy plugins to make my blog more beautiful. 🙂 A beautiful blog makes you want to blog more effectively or so I believe. You might want to check out my other wordpress plugin posts like this one. My New WordPress Plugins Another 7 Useful WordPress plugins…

  • Yahoo Online/Offline Status Indicator

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    I am trying to redesign my homepage at the moment and in the process applying my new found skills with PHP. 🙂 One thing I put in on all the versions of my homepage is a online status indicator with Yahoo! so that people can contact me directly and have their bricks on my face.…

  • BarCamp Kerala 2

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    Each time I decide I should be posting more frequently on this blog, something or the other keeps coming up. Yea, Fricking excuses. I know. 😀 February was a great month of sorts with the first weekend spent at the Barcamp. It was a great event with great participation and even greater people. I have…

  • RadioEZ: Free Web-Based Radio

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    I always wanted to move out of WordPress content related sites to something more fun and interesting to work on. RADIOez is the site that started off as a personal venture on my localhost containing all the stations I listen to on the internet. Then the idea bulb struck and I finally got the site…

  • Update WordPress leaving your hair intact

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    Update WordPress leaving your hair intact. Seriously! I have WordPress on majority of my sites and I have a bad headache each time I do a upgrade. I find it tiresome hair-pulling to have all the file backups and database backups and deactivate the plugins, upload new files and all that. Takes me about 30…

  • BarCamp Time for Kerala

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    One of my resolutions for the New Year was to connect with more techies and webbies offline and hence have a pool of contacts I can always count on to have a drink or a watch a movie together or maybe simply ask about their adsense earnings for the week ;). Orkut was my first…

  • Orkut now safe for Girls! More New Privacy Features

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    Since the facelift, Google’s Orkut has been silently adding new features to the Indian/ Brazillian MySpace (is calling them that justified?). Along with better spam management in communities, choosing what you want to show to the world and other numerous features tell us that Google is dead serious about making it big in the US…

  • Orkut Applications, Open Social and other Weekend News

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    Today the much awaited Google led Open Social went live and there is a large buzz in it since a lot of social communities are a part of it including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING. Though MySpace was not on the list,…

  • Privacy: How safe is the Alexa Toolbar

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    My Alexa rankings were dropping like anything for the last few weeks without any kind of explanations or reasons. In a bid to increase my rankings, I decided to try the recently released Alexa Plugin for firefox. I was using the Search Status plugin earlier which was pretty nifty giving me a lot of informations…