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‘You have 3,465 friends!’ Really?

Aziz — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:42:17 +0000

There could be one in a million chance you haven’t heard of MySpace, Facebook and Orkut. You probably have your own profile on one or more of these and other social networking sites. As though it weren’t enough, more such sites spring up every day promising a different dimension to social networking. However, have you ever thought about the risk of identity theft and stalking. You ought to take these basic precautions (more…)

Advanced WordPress Page-List Widget Plugin

Aziz — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:31:42 +0000

Just a quick note to let you know about this plugin if you had missed out on it earlier.

I developed this widget plugin to power the Downloads widget that you see on the sidebar. (more…)

How to include WordPress Pages in your main RSS feed

Aziz — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:49:21 +0000

For some good logic of the WordPress developers (thanks to them in the first place for authoring such a wonderful piece of work) the poor little thing called “Pages”, which fall out of the chronological order, have been left out of the blog’s main posts feed. However, on this blog I felt that there was a need to include certain pages (or subpages of a particular page) on the main feed. For example, I wanted to feature all my WordPress Plugins downloads on the RSS feed. (more…)

WordPress Plugin to integrate Chitika RPU

Aziz — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:35:50 +0000

If you have subscribed to the RSS feed, you would have already noticed the Plugin download page in the feed. If you are wondering how I got that download page on the feed, just wait, I’ll tell you about it later in another post. (more…)

Gmail style Orkut loading screen

Aziz — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:55:57 +0000

Have you noticed this Gmail style loading screen on Orkut? I was trying to sign in to my orkut account from Internet Explorer (IE 6.0) and was greeted with this message. Interestingly it got stuck on this screen for a very long time and I didn’t have the patience to further put on with it. I then tried logging in using Firefox but again the same problem. (more…)

How I use Subdomains with WordPress MU on Bluehost

Aziz — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:54:40 +0000

For those who don’t know:

WordPress MU is a multi-user version of WordPress Blogging Software that allows to create multiple blogs using a single WordPress installation.
WordPress.com runs WordPress MU
WordPress MU provides the option to have a subdomain or a subdirectory for each blog.

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