Archive for March, 2008

Blog Hacked - Paying the price for not upgrading WordPress

I don’t remember which version I installed first when I started this blog back in Nov’06 but I followed the upgrade cycle with every release till 2.1.1. I became a bit lazy and did not follow the security exploits news that kept circulating on net about WordPress security exploits with version 2.1.1 and few other [...]

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It’s time for DoFollow comments to GO

Way back in August 2007 I had removed the nofollow attribute from the comments section of this blog to show some link love for my readers who post comments. That did not show up any problems for quite sometime but now it has turned into a problem that I need to immediately take care of. [...]

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Download FREE apps, games, videos, ringtones and widgets for Nokia mobile phones from MOSH

Are you a Nokia mobile phone user? You will find this interesting. Nokia has a user driven community portal called MOSH (still in beta) where users from around the world contribute downloadable content that you can download for free. Mosh has almost every type of a digital file such as games, applications, themes, ringtones, audio, [...]

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How To: Remove all hyperlinks on a sheet in Excel 97/2000/2003/XP

Are you doing a copy/paste of content from web to your excel sheet and hyperlinks also get copied along but would you want to avoid or remove the links from the excel sheet without editing each and every cell? Here is a mini tutorial on creating a macro in excel that will help you accomplish [...]

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iPhone + Email = iPhone 2.0 for the business

In a recent news released by Apple, the company plans to incorporate features in iPhone to attract the business users. The key feature that will be of interest to the business users is the addition of support for Microsoft Exchange server. But will that move really entice business users who are already used to Blackberry [...]

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Review: Full Hard Drive Encryption from AlertBoot

Millions of laptops gets stolen every year and information worth millions of dollars is lost. Many organizations throughout the world keep losing confidential data from their office computers and some of them don’t even know about it. What if your laptop gets stolen - what kind of data resides on your system - what could [...]

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