10 Software I found useful in 2008

By Luqmaan | Dec 31, 2008

A typical December 31st post well, lets get to it. 2008 was a year to remember in general, including software. The software below aren’t necessarily new software released in 2008 but software that i found over the year and found to come in very handy.
The following products include Addons and mobile applications as well.

Format Factory [...]

End of the road for Adtoll?

By Luqmaan | Dec 30, 2008

I’ve only touched lightly on Adtoll before in my Affiliate marketing post. Adtoll is (or maybe was) a great advertising solution offering pay-per-click and time based advertising on websites of advertiser’s choice via their marketplace. They also offer plenty of innovative forms of ads like PicText and Peel-away ads.The transparency for advertisers is phenomenal with [...]

Try a Different Way of Surfing, Use Gestures

By Luqmaan | Dec 29, 2008

Shortcuts make things a lot more productive while you surf, keyboard shortcuts that is, and to the tech-lovers it would be ‘cool’, but what if you could make a shortcut even shorter?
With mouse gestures you can do just that, the concept is popular among web browsers, all major web browsers now support it in terms [...]

Have you tried Chrome yet?

By Luqmaan | Dec 26, 2008

It’s kind of strange that a blog in the ‘Computers and The Internet’ niche is making its first mention on Google Chrome, since I failed to write a post atleast an hour after it was officially announced, Ii thought it would be a better idea to talk about Chrome once the whole buzz about ‘Google [...]

How to disable the ‘Run’ Dialog

By Luqmaan | Dec 25, 2008

The Run dialog allows access to virtually any application and command in your computer. If your computer is shared with other users or if you do not use the ‘Run’ command it is a good idea to turn it off. Below is a simple procedure on how to disable the ‘Run’ dialog.

Setting this preference requires [...]

Computer Realm goes Mobile

By Luqmaan | Dec 22, 2008

There are millions of mobile users and this number is only getting bigger with new mobile devices being released every day that caters better to internet usage. And of course, having the whole internet on a handheld device than an entire computer or laptop is probably more convenient.

While Computer Realm is still young in terms [...]

bbPress – Simple yet highly Customizable

By Luqmaan | Dec 20, 2008

A few days back, before I made the decision that it would be better to halt the Computer Realm Community for now and start it once and for all which in my opinion is the best forum software ( or to be more precise best forum software and plugin, which would be vBulletin & vBSEO), [...]

Spam Karma – Impressive so far

By Luqmaan | Dec 16, 2008

This is somewhat a follow up of my last post when I first installed Spam Karma. As you can ‘probably’ say with the title, i’m quite glad on how spam is being handled with the Spam Karma plugin.

Based on my previous solution for comment spam, Akismet,  I no longer have to sieve through hundreds of [...]

Have an ‘Intense Debate’ now on Computer Realm

By Luqmaan | Dec 13, 2008

A while ago I installed a plugin to reply to comments which served its purpose pretty well. But as always, there is room for improvement, after the new 2.7 release, i was on the wordpress parent company Automattic’s website where i took a look at their projects where I found IntenseDebate, which is basically an [...]

Wordpress 2.7 – I like it!

By Luqmaan | Dec 13, 2008

If you have a blog on wordpress, you will probably be aware that a couple of days ago Wordpress released an ‘all new’ version of wordpress. Version 2.7 is virtually a revamp since version 2.5 in terms of appearance and I must say I like the update.
The theme has shifted from a blue and orange [...]

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