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Apr
14th

Wimpy – Simple and sufficient too!

Author: luq | Files under software, the internet

We all know that there are plenty of tools like DownloadHelper (to name the best) to download videos from sites like Youtube. With these tools downloading and storing a tutorial or a movie trailer or any video for that matter has never been easier. With the ability to download these videos as FLV files and [...]

Popularity: 18% [?]


Apr
6th

How to display recent posts in Blogger

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, software, the internet, tips, tutorials

Wordpress has a widget by default to display the most recent posts in your blog’s sidebar. Blogger doesn’t do things for you that easily but thanks to this post displaying recent posts in your Blogger blog is just as easy.
First of all you’ll need to be managing your feeds via Feedburner. If you are not [...]

Popularity: 28% [?]


Apr
3rd

DownloadHelper – The Ultimate Video Downloader

Author: luq | Files under reviews, software, the internet

Software portals are saturated with so called ‘Youtube downloaders’ which let you download videos off Youtube and other similar sites like DailyMotion, Metacafe and Spike (previously known as iFilm), so much that it is hard to pick which one does its job perfectly because they all do the same thing. Differentiating which one is better [...]

Popularity: 47% [?]


Mar
31st

Wordpress 2.5 - First Impressions

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, software, the internet

Well, I just upgraded my Wordpress to the latest stable release of Wordpress 2.5 and I must say I am loving it!

I guess the striking benefits it has over Wordpress 2.3 is its media library, the automatic plugin upgrades and the sleeker looks over the previous version. Blogger was known to be better than Wordpress [...]

Popularity: 17% [?]


Mar
27th

Six Applications to have on your portable storage device

Author: luq | Files under hardware, security, software, tips

Today, most applications are very ‘portable’ friendly unlike in the past where applications were as machine dependent as an OS. Well, here I’ve compiled a list of six applications you should have on your portable device. All these applications are non-machine dependant and do not require installation.

Mozilla Firefox

It’s always nice to have your favorite [...]

Popularity: 25% [?]


Mar
26th

CommentLuv, DoFollow, Post Ratings and Full Feeds!

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, Miscellaneous, software, the internet

I’ve added a lot more functionality to the blog to benefit our site visitors. Firstly the CommentLuv plugin which searches your last feed entry from the website you provide and displays it below your comment. So, the more you comment you now get more exposure to your blog or site!

The next thing I did was [...]

Popularity: 43% [?]


Mar
5th

Registry Tweak - Enabling/Disabling the Shutdown capability

Author: luq | Files under security, software, tips, tutorials

Here is a registry tweak which you could use to disable shutting down your computer. First of all read this post on how to backup the registry, it is always important to backup the registry before modifying it just in case.
I will describe how to perform this tweak in a few steps.

Open the registry [...]

Popularity: 11% [?]


Mar
3rd

Netscape says goodbye

Author: luq | Files under news, software, the internet

Formally dominant Web browser Netscape, now owned by AOL said goodbye to the Internet two days ago. Netscape which has gained countless amount of reputation over the years as an efficient and user-friendly browser is now longer supported to users.
With its initial hype in the mid 90’s it has since fallen with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer [...]

Popularity: 6% [?]


Feb
23rd

Blogger to Wordpress

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, software, the internet, tips, tutorials

The Blogger to Wordpress series consists of three posts.

1. Keeping it simple - This deals with what to expect, initial problem encounters, choosing a proper host and transferring posts.
2. Feeds, Re-directs and Permalinks – this takes care of initial things which you’ll probably have to do once your new Wordpress avvount is set up like [...]

Popularity: 8% [?]


Feb
23rd

Blogger to Wordpress Part 3 – Plug-ins to get you started

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, software, the internet, tips, tutorials

Well, in Part 2, I described how to handle Permalinks, Re-directs and Feeds. Here I will provide some plug-ins to get these things done automatically but I advise you to directly modify the htaccess file instead of use as well as some other plug-ins you might want to install when you get started:

Sitemap Generator

This is [...]

Popularity: 29% [?]