So, here is the second part of “Finding the Right Host for your Blog“.

Server Requirements : Wordpress server requirements are simple, ( as long as you are planning not to host wordpress MU,  or plugins that require additional features and resources ). Lets go straight to wordpress.org, and check out server requirements.

PHP 4.3 or greater
MySQL 4.0 or greater
The mod_rewrite Apache module

If you are too lazy to check this out, wordpress has an email template that you can send to your “would be” host, and then just wait for their answer. Okay, don’t get confused. Most of the webhosts support all these 3 on all of their linux based plans.

Additional features/offers : Now it’s time to check for some additional stuff !! . Do they give you something extra ? like, Google Apps ready ? A free premium theme  ? A collection of themes and plugins ? Free domain name ? contests ? Coupons ?  Competition in Webhosting industry is really HUGE. Make use of it, get more features addons and more  !!! Continue reading →

Here, in the World Wide Web, your IP is your identity . It shows where  you are from, which ISP you are using and a lot of other details.( Don’t worry it won’t show your name or address !! )

Whenever you say you are from India, on the web, someone can actually verify if you are really from India. This is useful when people do online transactions. Checking the IP address location, is one way to prevent online fraud.

I will tell you how we use it, at work. Lot of people try to purchase hosting accounts using stolen cards etc.
There are a few countries from where most of them operate. From Wikepedia,

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Update : Click On the Image and see whos there !!

“Yahoo! has launched Yahoo Buzz”. At first, this news did not impress me. The website also looked almost same as any other Yahoo! service. After sometime, I was able to figure out what this Buzz is all about. It sounds almost similar to digg.com. Publishers submit content to the site, users vote for it.

Did you like it ? Well, yes !! I do not know why, but I liked it and I am spending little more time on it. Why … if you ask that question again, I have no other choice but to think and think and give you some … Continue reading →

Couldn’t wait to post this one  … Straight to the news !

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan now wants to chronicle her biography. And the Bachchan bahu will be helped by none other than her mother and writer Vrinda Rai for the same.

“Aishwarya has been keen on writing a book for a long time. Now that she has streamlined her film projects.

Aishwarya feels it’s the right time for her,” says a close friend of the Bachchan family. On being contacted, Aishwarya’s business manager, Harii Singh says, “Aishwarya writes personal notes on the daily basis.

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……but what for ?

I am writing this post with a big question in my mind. It started as soon as I found this new on my RSS feed reader.

On Yahoo! Live, you can use your webcam to broadcast your own live video channel. Or just tune in to other people’s channels. The video and audio are in real time, and as you watch someone’s channel or br

oadcast your own, you can interact chat-room style with other viewers. On Yahoo! Live there are limitless channels and anyone can be a star

Is it really useful ? In someway or the other ? I am yet to find an answer. I don’t think Yahoo! will develop something like this putting a lot of energey effort and money without something in mind. I am unsure of what the real use of this feature is, and I am still trying to figure out if there is any chance for this to be popular ( unless it turns dirty .. you know what I mean, there are lots of chances to get this misused. ) Continue reading →

Ssssh !! this is a secret…. Ruhi, is in love !!! with our one and only Gmail !! Read her love story here What’s my role in this love story ? Somehow, me and Ish were messengers for these lovers, trying to meet and talk !! Read more…………. from her comment about our role !!

“You’ll find this really weird. Till a couple of hours back, I was all pro-Yahoo. But now, I’m all pro- Gmail. 6+ GB is anyway a lot of space, if you separate all your email accounts, right? And it’s only increasing every single day. There are also other forwarding options available that let you forward your email from one gmail account to another…anyway you must be knowing all this. I’ve never used all these features, until today. Dinsan will be very happy to know that finally I’ve converted to Gmail full time. Haha.”

So, welcome Ruhi………………….

….because they have pop up ads

Okay, I agree that I have ads on my site too. But, I hate pop up ads. So, I hate sites which put pop up ads too.  So the sites are aol.in tech2.com and Ibnlive.com

Aol is something that I started visiting quite recently. But tech.com and ibnlive.com, are sites I am visiting daily, for a long time. I love reviews in tech2.com and I am addicted to  “being” an interview series in ibnlive.com. But pop up ads make me feel bad … you will go “voww” if you see the amount of ads put on tech2.com these days !!

So, most probably, I will stop visiting them.. or I might think about giving them a second chance, and add those sites to my popup blocked in Firefox .. what you think ? Anyone who love pop up ads uh ?