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The usual computer drama, this time, was not very usual. My dad punched my laptop because of my “computer madness” (as they call it). Next moment, this thing was sitting before me saying “Hi dude, you’re screwed!”. 🙂 Anyways, I called up Toshiba service centre, that guy lied that it would cost Rs. 10,000 – 15,000 (Thats around $200-$300!). Then, Mr. Google told me that it would just [...]

Migrating from Blogger to WordPress was fun! Getting the thumnails working was one problem though. Thanks to TimThumb Beta script, this problem is s-o-l-v-e-d. You ask me what what’s new with TimThumb beta? By, default wordpress doesn’t make thumbnails of offsite images. This script can make thumbnails (server side resizing) of offsite images. And…don’t worry, no one can misuse [...]

Some of you might know that I’m in 12th Standard now. People who know this will also know that it makes little difference to me (My mum will kill me for this!). But well, my folks are all hyper about it. My mum favourite dialogue now is “Moor hotthu computer munde kootirtane” Translation – “He’s always before the computer and never studies”. Anyways, I’ll [...]

This is useless. Meta tags are deprecated. Off you go, now. Ah, I’m here to break my drought of posts. This time, its a little special. I’ve made a small program which will help you add META tags to individual blogger pages. With this program, you can avoid the hassles of retrieving every URL, pasting it into the code etc. You just enter your Blogspot Address, the number of posts and are good [...]

I like to keep my home page clean. The homepage Widgets like recent posts, LinkWithin, etc are some unwanted clutter. You can see here that both recent pages widget and body has the same content. Related posts widget is just unwanted. You can just remove this this easily using conditional tags. It’s basically an if:else parser. Sort of like PHP but you can’t use Boolean expression (AND, OR, and [...]

To stop spam, Google and many other search engines impose a Duplicate content penalty. This might pull down search engine rankings. Blogger archive pages can pose a little problem . You can see on this image below that both archive page and post pages have the same content. You need to block it. This is very simple actually. Just go to Blogger Dashboard –> Layout –> Edit HTML Add this just [...]

Every blogger these days is starting a “2009 stats and 2010 goals post. I thought I would start one too. Am I late? As always yes. But common 2010 has just begun. By the way, Happy new year to all my readers. 2009 was a very eventful year. I got out of high school, joined college (but my college life hasn’t taken off yet) and started blogging. I was fascinated by computers ever since I was 8-9 [...]

Xbox LIVE – A place where gamers like us can meet. I have seen that many of my readers are Xbox 360 fans. What better giveaway than a free Xbox LIVE subscription. I have some one month trial accounts to giveaway. I don’t believe in frying your brains with long procedures. I’ve made it as simple as possible. So, to enter the contest just type in your name and email address and click on send. [...]

Sometimes, we can be mad about our webhost (due to shitty downtimes etc) and would want to move on to a better host. You would even want to change your domain name. Here’s a complete tutorial on how to make the move and still retain ALL your blog posts, comments and settings. I have made this tutorial, as noob friendly as possible. PS: You can skip some the third part if you just want to move to [...]

I recent got myself a .com domain but I am using a .co.cc domain. Both are “custom domains” so making the move was a little tricky. If you just change the domain in the publishing tab, you’ll lose all the traffic from your old domain. The solution: You can host the old domain on a server and add .htaccess with the 301 redirection code. You can use a free webhost for this (I recommend 000webhost). [...]