Archive for March, 2008

March 19, 2008

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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 releases. Beginning first week of march, the traffic from Google started to dip in a big way. By second week the traffic was down by

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Posted in: Blogs

March 18, 2008

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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. And the problem is an increase in spam comments by almost 500% that results in significant amount of time that I now need to spend

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Posted in: Blogs

March 14, 2008

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

Nokia has a user driven community portal called MOSH where users from around the world contribute content that you can download for free. Mosh has almost every type of a digital file such as mobile games, applications for nokia phones, nokia themes, free ringtones, audio files, video content, wallpapers, widgets that works on a nokia mobile. All the content that’s available on Mosh is browsable. One can browse the content by most downloaded in a category, most recently uploaded and

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Posted in: Gadgets/Electronics

March 13, 2008

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

When you copy and paste website content from browser to Microsoft excel, the formatting of the text is retained to the extent that the unerlying hyperlinks also get pasted. If you have pasted a large portion of text, then it is a time consuming task to remove those hyperlinks from all the cells. Here is a short tutorial on creating a macro in excel to help you remove all the hyperlinks quickly. It’s very easy, just copy and paste few

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Posted in: Microsoft Office

March 7, 2008

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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 and other business mobile devices? iPhone was initially designed to be an excellent phone and also to be the best handheld audio and video player

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Posted in: Gadgets/Electronics | Industry News

March 6, 2008

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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 be the price of the data that you may lose? One of the best solution, to prevent access to important data in an event of

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