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TimThumb and WordPress Blog Performance

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:42:22 +0000

There is no doubt that Timthumb is an awesome piece of PHP script to help with on-the-fly resizing of images for websites and blogs. Originally written for a WordPress theme, it’s been already exploited by 1000s of magazine style WordPress themes. However, many theme designers are using the timthumb script quite negligently that the blog [...]

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How Photography can Help Bloggers?

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:40:13 +0000

I finally decided to go for a DSLR (in fact bought one earlier this month) after realizing that I have been spending a lot of money on purchasing stock images for my content publishing purpose. The idea behind this investment is to check whether I get to take some good images that are worth publishing [...]

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What is VPS Hosting and When to move to VPS?

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:59:06 +0000

Last month this blog moved from shared hosting to VPS hosting by the same service provider (HostGator). It has been a long pending decision for me because the number of mini-blogs and sites that I manage has been increasing every month and the performance of my shared web server has been heading south. Basically, I [...]

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Yahoo Fails Again and Why?

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:20:47 +0000

I still clearly remember that Yahoo was the very first URL that I browsed in my Internet Explorer 1.0 (or beta release?) browser way back in 1995. I had just joined my first job and was all excited about the Internet access that was provided to us after 5PM every day through a single dedicated [...]

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PSD to WordPress Theme Conversion Software – Free Trial

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:15:06 +0000

I have read a lot about the PSD to WordPress services whereby web designers design Photoshop layouts, generate styles and then hand code WordPress themes in PHP. I had also seen some automation tools to generate code out of design but hadn’t really seen a complete theme generation tool with Photoshop until today. Today, I [...]

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MaxBlogPress Christmas Deal: $475 worth Premium WordPress Plugins for JUST $137

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:55:37 +0000

MaxBlogPress has come up with a fabulous Christmas offer for WordPress bloggers. A suite of highly successful premium WordPress plugins, eBooks and videos worth $475 is now available for JUST $137 or at a whopping 70% OFF! This offer is available only till December 14th. And the following 5 Plugins & eBooks that are covered [...]

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HostGator Black Friday Cyber Monday Offer – 50% to 80% OFF on all Hosting Packages

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 02:52:36 +0000

Update on 29-Nov-2010: Use HostGator Coupon code ‘CYBERMONDAY2010‘ to get 50% OFF on all HostGator packages! This offer valid till 29th Nov Midnight CST. Yes, you heard that right! Today – and only for today (Friday 26th of November 2010) – HostGator is offering a Flat 50% or 80% OFF on all their Hosting Packages [...]

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Google Support woes

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:08:44 +0000

In the past, like 1000s of other publishers, I too had tough time with Google AdSense support as in they never respond to the support requests. Since Google’s AdSense subscriber base is like an ocean, I could imagine their inability to respond ot all support requests. However, when I am a Google PPC advertising (AdWords) [...]

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How to use Google Alerts effectively to improve your blogging and Online business?

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:18:11 +0000

Google has got a wonderful collection of free tools. I have talked about some of these tools in the past and today I would like to focus on Google alerts which is one of my personal favorites that really helps me a great deal with respect to my online life. What is Google alerts? Just [...]

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What personality is that blog?

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:51:58 +0000

Today, I came across this interesting online tool that analyzes a blogger’s (or writer’s) personality based on what (s)he writes. This tool, namely the typealyzer, just needs the URL of your blog as input and it analyzes your way of writing, usage of words, emotions etc to come up with a report on your personality. [...]

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How HTML5 can change your Blog and Blogging?

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:01:12 +0000

As you probably know the W3C has more or less finalized the HTML5 specifications draft as the world is looking forward to embrace the 5th major revision of the Worldwide Web language. There will be definite changes in web browser technologies, rendering methodologies, media streaming, mobile applications etc. The HTML5 revolution will also change the [...]

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Should students blog?

Ajith Prasad — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:48:29 +0000

Well, the topic of discussion today is whether students should become bloggers or consider blogging as their primary career option. I thought of writing about this topic after reading a post on melvin’s blog (a blog by a student blogger) and also after observing the trend of more and more students focusing on blogging, of [...]

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Google Search Hacks

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:19:04 +0000

To begin with let me take a disclaimer that none of the tips listed below are my own discoveries. I read about these tips on various places and just thought of consolidating them here as this might help some of you as a search end user of the Google Search engine. The following are some [...]

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Spam Comments Fun!

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:20:07 +0000

After a week of inactivity on the blogging front, I tried to moderate the pending comments today. Unlike my previous reactions on the spam folder, this time around, I decided to give some respect to the spammers and actually read many of those comments. To be frank, I do not entirely blame them for their [...]

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Thesis Affliate Woes & Common Problems with Affiliate Schemes

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:46:11 +0000

There is no doubt that the Thesis from DIY Themes is an exceptional WordPress theme that is so easy to customize. As our blogger friend ZK rightly says “If god blogged, he would use the Thesis theme” which I agree to some extent assuming that the God is so bad at PHP that he could [...]

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Twitter on a decline?

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:48:16 +0000

Twitter had an amazing run ever since the hype picked momentum in late 2008. The first half of 2009 witnessed the twitter traffic growing five fold but the story seems to be reversing since August where it has started showing slow decline in terms of traffic. The compete profile of twitter.com shows a 2% decline [...]

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Bye bye Twitter!

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:02:37 +0000

It has been exactly one year since I started using twitter. I must say that I did sign up with twitter purely on an experimental basis to see if it can result in any significant traffic or conversion. However, the following twitter related numbers during the past one year somehow prompted me to rethink about [...]

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Amazing Google Tools that you probably didn’t use yet

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:13:47 +0000

For the layman, Google is only a Search Engine who also have a Web browser and a free email service (and of course it’s the Youtube and Picasa company). For bloggers and online entrepreneurs, it is an organization to help earn money online and market their products via tools such as AdSense and AdWords. And [...]

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Technorati’s New Ranking System

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:45:48 +0000

Earlier this month Technorati changed the algorithm for calculating the rank and authority of its aggregated blogs. Technorati rank was always considered to be one of the yardsticks to assess a blog’s authority but the older system had a lot of drawbacks. This time, it looks like, they have got their act together. If you [...]

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50% OFF on OIOPublisher, Upto 60% OFF on HostGator Hosting, 25% OFF on Thesis Theme – Festive Discounts from DollarShower!

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:23:32 +0000

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