Many of wordpresss plugins requires you to edit the theme files and ask you to add lines like these -

<?php wp_related_posts(); ?>

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I uses ad blocker hence I never sees what ads are being shown on the website (I only uses firefox as a browser) so just for change, when I checked the site and some of its post, it seems google adsense is showing highly unrelated ads on the blog ! Here is one example -

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I am fairly sure google has introduced this some time back as techcrunch had reported this in October but this is the first time I am seeing google ads in image search. probably because I don’t uses google images much and because I have not put too many keywords which will trigger ads and probably because I uses ad blocker :p

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No, I am not talking about the filler techcrunch posts or the hundreds of regular flame comments on Techcrunch but it seems once when a post gets old and stops getting attention, the spammers start spamming such posts to get their comments posted unnoticed. One example of such comment is this one.

Well the surprising thing is that it got approved on a blog like techcrunch as I thought they read all the comments before approving and also close the comment form after a period. Anyway a good thing what techcrunch can do is to have digg like comment up/down option so people can vote on good and bad comments and spam comments can be auto removed. Ofcourse techcrunch don’t have to show the results of votes, the voting is just to get rid of spam, socially.

Well this is going on for a very long time where I am getting web 2.0 spam from many newly launched social networks. The spam starts with the line - “Some XYZ has invited you to join some network ABC, if you don’t join, he/she may feel bad” and you starts wondering who is this person XYZ.

This one of the mail I just got few minutes back from Indyarocks, which is a pretty big social network of India. Continue Reading “Indyarocks Spam - What is wrong with these Social Networks” »

This happens with so many of us, we tries to code something in php and to do some debugging, you need to know the version of php. Now there are many ways to know this but when you are on shared server, you won’t have access to command line, so the quickest way to find which php version you are having, create a file phpinfo.php on your server with content as and upload it on server and open the file in your browser, you should see all the php related info like this

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If you download a rar file either through an email attachment or through some file sharing service and are not able to open it because it is password protected, you can still open it with few softwares. Internet is full of winrar password recovery program though unfortunately a very good number of them are not that effective as they work on dictionary based attacks and most of the rar files don’t have dictionary based passwords, either thy will have website names who uploaded them on file sharing websites like rapidshare/megaupload or the uploader’s name or forum id.

Anyway Here is the list of popular softwares which can open password protected rar files -

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Many times this happens to us when a file gets associated with a program in windows (XP or Vista) and we want to remove that association. So say if the is .htaccess.default and it gets linked with wordpad program so now whenever you click on all files with .default extension they will open in wordpad, which we always dont want. Also by default, windows hide the file extension and sometimes we need to see the extension of files, so how to remove the association of a file (and file extension) with a program so it don’t get opened when you click on it in any program ?

Here is the solution - To Remove filetype association with a file with all programs in windows XP or Vista, download this small utility from winhelponline.com. Don’t worry, its safe and well tested. Download the file, its an executable file and you don’t have to install it. If you double click on it, it will show a screen like this -

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Mahalo Answers is a part of mahalo, a human powered search engine. For those who don’t know what is Mahalo, well, it has thousands of pages built for search engines on popular topics which are regularly updated. So say if the page is /London_Olympics_2012 then it will have all the information about london olympics, mostly through links to news websites and information resources of London Olympics. Critics of Mahalo says the quality of mahalo pages are not that good and the pages contains just links to various news sources. Anyway that’s the other issue, we will not talk about it right now.

What we are going to talk about is Mahalo Answers which has been introduced few months back. Mahalo answers is hybrid of Yahoo answers and now dead, google answers. People ask questions and the best answers get Mahalo money which you can redeem for real money (Mahalo do take 15% cut though!)

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Google Translation tool is available since ages but still i felt to cover it since its a very good tool for online translation and understanding foreign text. When we see some forum in spanish, Portuguese or some eastern European languages and wonders what does this mean, this is where Google Translate comes really handy.

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