I have been receiving a lot of spam lately so I decided to activate Akismet. Akismet is a plugin for WordPress that checks our comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service.
The page file (virtual memory) is the part of your hard drive that the Operating System uses as though it were main memory. The OS uses virtual memory when the physical memory cannot hold the data that the application requires it to. Since hard drives are much slower as compared to RAM, accessing data from [...]
coComment is a simple Web 2.0 online tool made using Ajax, PHP and other languages. It lets you track your comments and lets your users to see the comments that you have made on other blogs.
You no longer have to load a post about 20 times to see whether another user has commented on it.
To [...]
A new Gmail feature just announced allows you to chat with your friends from right inside Gmail. There’s no need to load a separate program or look up new addresses. It’s just one click to chat with the people you already email, as well as anyone on the Google Talk network. And now you can [...]
WordPress 2.0.1 has been released and has fixed a lot of bugs.
According to their page, they have closed 114 bugs since version 2.0.
To summarize:
We can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use
date-based storage or not.
Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments.
Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as well.
XML-RPC uploading works.
Compatibility [...]
I am still searching for some cool Wordpress 2.0 skins for my new Technology news site.
I prefer a wordpress skin with 3 columns. Know any good skins?
Currently I am searching in http://blogging.typepad.com/how_to_blog/2005/03/comprehensive_l.html
I have tried many Desktop Enhancing Softwares but I liked WindowBlinds the most.
When you install it, you will find that it already has a few cool skins like Simple Alpha,Airframe,Aura,Blackcomb and Dogmax4.
You can also download free skins from http://www.windowblinds.net/
If you have less than 256 MB RAM, I suggest that you don’t use WindowBlinds as it [...]
The tweaks mentioned below are for speeding up Windows XP.
Disable boot virus detection:This feature is available for some motherboards. If enabled it will scan your boot sector for virus infection every time you start your system. As boot sector viruses are rare now, it is safe to disable it. Disabling it will also speed up [...]
Live Comment Preview is a cool plugin for Wordpress. It supplies users with a live preview of the comment there are typing on a blog.
Comment on this post to see the plugin on action.
Download Live Comment Preview
I just received 12 spam comments completely from different ip addresses. I receive atleast two in a week.
The spam comments keep coming even after marking them as spam. I hate SPAM!
