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Live on the Bleeding Edge of WordPress with SVN explains how to keep your WordPress Blog running the latest sub-version build of WordPress. It is highly recommended that you do not use the sub-version builds in a production environment. They are meant for testers.

In 6 Must Have Symbian S60 Mobile Applications I’ve reviewed six applications that I can’t live without on my Nokia N73.

I upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.3 when it released last week and had a great deal of trouble trying to get things to work out here.
This is one major release of WordPress, that really requires you to check all your plugins.
Anyway, one of my favorite plugins is Flickr Photo Album, which allows me to [...]

If you are, like me, one of the sole IT knowledgeable folks in your family and friends’ circle, then Lifehack’s How to Survive as the Family Tech Support Guy (or Gal) is meant for you!

Browsers are equipped to serve compressed pages. Most hosts too have mod_gzip or zlib extensions installed to ensure you can avail of these features.
Compression ensures that your browser receives a smaller packet and so you effectively save bandwidth.
WordPress by default also comes with this feature that enables you to compress the webpages and send them [...]

Mark introduced me to AuctionAds (aff) soon after it was launched. AuctionAds by default is not contextual, but my article guides you through establishing just that.

If you have been using Google Reader, you would have noticed that it doesn’t work with Opera as of now.
However, there is a fix available for the same which is very easy to apply.

Get hold of reader.js and save it to some location on your PC, e.g. C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\cache4\
In Opera, visit http://www.google.com/reader/ and then right [...]

WordPress 2.0 introduced a lot of additional features in the Write Post screen.
One was the Post Preview sceen which now loads the entire post as if it would look on your site and this is a major bandwidth hog.
Another addition was the Inline Uploading. I still use IImage Browser along with my Open Picture Window [...]

And once again I get into the great dilema of deciding what do I use to run my photo album. The last time I was in a similar dilema was when I had to choose between Gallery2 or Coppermine.
I’ve always been toying with the idea of integrating the photo gallery within this blog itself. Everybody [...]

While checking the Whois of my domains, a whois for this blog revealed a link from AboutUs.org.
I have mixed feelings about this one.
Here is why:

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