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Domain Name 99INDY – $0.99 for any .COM domain names BUY2010 – $0.99 for any .COM, .US, .MOBI, .BIZ, .NET, .ORG, .CA, .CO.UK and .IN domain names (only works for the first year of new or transfer registration) OYH7 – $7.49 for any .COM domain names ($3.20 off) chill7 – $7.49 for any .COM domain [...]

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FireFTP is a browser plugin for Mozilla Firefox that lets you connect to a FTP server. By default, it doesn’t show any hidden files on the server, but you can change this via Options. 1. Connect to a FTP server using FireFTP 2. Click on Tools -> Options from the top right menu 3. From [...]

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So you don’t like ads. If you have a website that has ads, you are probably no stranger to people commenting that you have too many ads on your website. Usually, I just smile and nod when I receive such comment but today, I thought I’d write my thoughts here. You don’t have to agree [...]

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As you can see in the table below, Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection and Buffer overflows are three most common and serious programming errors that result in vulnerabilities. This list was published recently on 17 February 2010. Rank Name [1] Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') [2] Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in [...]

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Here is how to create a custom archive page in WordPress just like the one you see on our blog. 1. Go to the current theme folder of your WordPress installation (wp-content/themes/*current theme*) and make sure you don’t already have archives.php in the folder 2. Create a new file called archives.php (or whatever file name [...]

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Development The future of software development. Are you ready? 15 years ago, Microsoft released its first version of Internet Explorer. In 8 years, the mobile devices are going to take over television, computer, phone, gps, internet, console… Everything will be integrated in a single device. Internet connectivity will be universal and inexpensive. The 80% of [...]

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Email signatures are not new and they have been around for as long as email itself has. Almost every organisation has an email signature template that all the employees are asked to use. Why? Because email signatures are a source of marketing, advertising and branding. They are a must-have accessory for any business email. So [...]

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Development To hell with web standards W3C, I owe you my career. Your work made the web a better place. I can’t possible express the depth of my gratitude. Today, though, you’re irrelevant. I just don’t care anymore. I’m done with validation, done with changing doctypes every year to follow the latest fads, done with [...]

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So our 7 Days Traffic Building Exercise has been completed successfully. And now, it’s time to review our statistics and find out how we did. How we did As you can see in the graph above, the overview traffic for February 4, 2010 – February 10, 2010 (Current) and January 21, 2010 – January 27, [...]

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7 Days Traffic Building Exercise has come to an end. Was the exercise a success? Did we manage to increase any traffic? What did we learn from the exercise? All these questions will be answered in our next post. We are currently compiling the statistics and will be publishing the result in the next few [...]

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