Huzzah! After a few months of waiting, the next feature-packed WordPress is out! WordPress 2.5 codenamed Brecker is now available for download. As of now, I’m trying it our with my offline WordPress installation test site before I fully deploy it for my websites. But if what the release notes really deliver then I’d […]

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Amit over at Digital Inspiration wrote this great article on the modus operandi of the AdSense click fraud scheme in India. India ranks among the highest in click fraud (as shown in the map above, via Click Forensics). So basically what they do is:
You basically create a website and then write a few articles […]

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This is yet another development in the tag-board technology.
In my early days of blogging, adding a tag-board for getting quick and easy replies from visitors was a must. Though over the years, people have cautioned people from placing tag-boards to encourage people to read posts and place relevant comments. I personally agree with this though […]

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Months ago, we posted a neat way of getting to log-in to two different Gmail accounts at once using a IE Tab workaround. The principle behind this is to utilize the two browsers to use different cookie information that allows you to have two separate sessions with a site.
Now here’s a new update on […]

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By now, you should be loving all the great WordPress themes that Bloggy Network and Design Disease has been giving us - for free. If you loved Illacrimo, then you might want to head over to our sister blog Celebrific for our new free theme - Gossip City.
Just take a look at this starry […]

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Okay, a while ago, I upgraded my personal blog from WordPress 2.2.3 to WordPress 2.3. One of my biggest concerns was how would I switch from using the Ultimate Tag Warrior plug-in to WP 2.3’s tagging system. Good thing it didn’t involve too much of a fuss and I’d like to share how I […]

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WordPress users, rejoice. The much awaited WordPress 2.3 release is now here. Dubbed “Dexter” (as a tribute to saxophonist Dexter Gordon). It now features goodies like tagging support, plug-in update notification, and URL handling improvements for starters. Anyway here are the highlights of the latest release:

Native tagging support - Tags! Finally! And best of […]

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We’ve been featuring a few driving and car tips here and there since LifeSpy pretty covers everything under the sun. Personally, I’ve been a closeted gearhead for a long while now, content on just sneaking in a thing or two about cars here. But gearheads would not be denied!
Small talk with the boss […]

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All hail, The Geek.
Let’s face it. One of the banes of a blogger is comment spam and even with the different spam guards that you can apply to WordPress (our blogging platform of choice), you just can’t beat them all. Here at LifeSpy, we have set comment moderation on to effectively weed out spam comments […]

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I’m not a big fan of WordPress’ Visual editor so I usually gun for the Code. Unfortunately you may not have the keyboard shortcuts that you’ve been just too familiar with in the Code editor unlike in Visual where you can use Ctrl + B to use boldface.
However, the Code editor does have its […]

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For all of you that have been wanting a Widget Ready version of the Illacrimo theme, it is finally here. It took some doing, and there are some limitations, but hopefully this will make most of you happy.
The limitations are only that the search box, and RSS links cannot be moved from their […]

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Bloggers on Blogger rejoice! Here’s one thing that can help you with your backup woes. If you’ve been happily blogging for quite sometime, you may have amassed so much material that you probably want to keep offline copies (you know, just in case something goes horribly wrong with Google).
In any case, Blogger Backup, is […]

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Update: And we are back with Illacrimo. Our intrepid designer just wasn’t happy enough with the way things looked, and had to go back and make it perfect.
I didn’t know that it wasn’t already, but then again, that’s why I am not a designer.
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We have a great three column theme for you called […]

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It seems that made-for-Adsense (MFA) blacklisting is affecting the rest of us earning from Adsense. Digital Inspiration reports of a seemingly across-the-board drop in Adsense earnings by publishers. Coincidentally this is happening during the time when Google cracks down on MFA sites.
Adsense publishers report that earnings per click (EPCs) are down. Clickthrough rates (CTRs) […]

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I have a confession to make. I don’t really go visiting websites anymore. For the past month, I’ve just been using my RSS feed reader (Google Reader) for most of my daily reads and research.
Why not? It’s a very streamlined process to get the low-down on what’s new and fresh without the fuss of […]

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