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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
2nd

Paid Blogging – The Bad, The Good, The Ugly and The Rest

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, Making Money Online, the internet, tips

Paid Blogging is a comparatively new form of blog monetization. It has become popular over time as a monetization method for blog for its relatively high ‘payouts’. Bloggers (and bloggers only) post ‘sponsored’ post for a price. Typically over $5 per post, and high payouts which are generally offered to high traffic and high Page [...]

Popularity: 15% [?]


Feb
27th

How to Update your Alexa Thumbnail

Author: luq | Files under the internet, tips

I was looking for how to update your Alexa screenshot thumbnail because some services (like Adtoll) and I actually found it quite easily by myself in the end. Another thing I noticed is there are quite a few out there who want to update their thumbnail too so I thought I’ll let you know here.

If [...]

Popularity: 10% [?]


Feb
26th

How to change your Wordpress Favicon

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

I recently wrote a post on how to change your Blogger Favicon so it’s only fair that I write a post on how to do the same on the Wordpress platform.
I have to mention it is a bit easier than changing your Blogger Favicon. If you were wondering, a favicon is your site’s ‘icon’ which [...]

Popularity: 82% [?]


Feb
25th

Looking for a contact form?

Author: luq | Files under the internet, tips

A contact form is providing a form-based interface in your site or blog to contact you (the webmaster), it is much more user-friendly than just providing an email address and encourages conversation so you should probably be looking to use one on your site.
Finding a good contact form is not an easy task. While in [...]

Popularity: 16% [?]


Feb
25th

About to spend $XX for ‘Premium’ Mail for your domain?…STOP!

Author: luq | Files under the internet, tips, web hosting

Most cheap domain hosts like GoDaddy are not actually cheap (there always has to be a catch huh!), the other ‘average’ priced hosts ($60 – $90) provide free domain transfer if required, free mail boxes with sufficient web space and more. GoDaddy for instance provides 10MB mailboxes with the package and requests an upgrade to [...]

Popularity: 9% [?]


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% [?]


Feb
23rd

Blogger to Wordpress Part 2 - Feeds, Re-directs & Permalinks

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

This part of the Blogger to Wordpress post deals with some of the things you generally have to take care of just after you have moved to Wordpress from Blogger.
Generally all three of the things mentioned in the title (Feeds, Re-directs and Permalinks) should be done by modifying the htaccess file. It can also be [...]

Popularity: 10% [?]


Feb
22nd

Blogger To Wordpress Part 1 – Keeping it simple

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

Well, since I’ve just moved from Blogger to Wordpress I guess it’s fitting to post about how to actually change platforms without much hassle.
First of all…
Firstly if you are on a custom domain on Blogger and want to move to Self-hosted Wordpress on the same domain, I advice you first create a Wordpress hosted blog [...]

Popularity: 13% [?]