Life with Technology

Ever wanted to get rid of that default WordPress logo each time you see when logging in to your WordPress dashboard? If you did, then you’re at the right place to get the job done within less than five minutes, without even messing up with codes. So, let’s begin!

Google did not fail to buzz the technology world with its latest service called “Buzz” integrated into its existing email service Gmail. Apparently, it’s a combination of twitter and facebook, enabling users to share their updates, include links and photos from picasa or flickr and fetch updates from twitter. This is so far the biggest and the most relevant move by Google to actually compete with Facebook and twitter.

Google Buzz also comes with Google’s RSS reading service, Google Reader. Here you won’t see anything called Buzz, but you will be following those Google Reader users who you follow on Buzz. It’s like sharing a link to a post or an article with all to your followers. Not to mention you can make updates private, too.

Under certain conditions, WordPress.com (the free hosted blog) now lets its bloggers place adsense in their wordpress.com blogs. Recently, while exploring through the WordPress support page, I’ve found the update which was not announced in public. This is a short post to let my readers know about it.

One of the most successful adsense tips that works is put your ad in a place so that visitors can see them, but make it completely same as your other contents on the same page. That means, if you make your adsense unit no different than other contents at your blog, readers are more likely to click on them. This is even recommended by the Google Adsense team. But sometimes you just fail to found out the exact color reading that your theme is using.

Let me show you the easiest way how you can match your adsense unit color with that being used in your theme, or wherever you are about to insert adsense.

I have a few other blogs hosted on WordPress.com’s free platform. To be honest I use the free storage of WP.com to host my pictures. But I don’t forget to write new posts pretty often on WordPress.com so that it doesn’t count me as a storage-only user and ban me.
Since I’m a user or WP.com, [...]

A long time ago, when I first entered into the blogging world with a serious motivation of doing business, I was thinking how to place adsense ads inside wordpress posts. I knew there are a number of plugins available out there. I used some of them but unfortunately I didn’t find them that much useful. [...]

An RSS feed is the easiest syndication system for your blog which lets its subscribers know whenever a new post is published. The blog owner can choose whether the feed will show the entire post or an excerpt of it. Nowadays, each blog has its RSS feed. Most of the bloggers take advantage from feedburner [...]

It was too soon when WordPress released 2.8.1 urgently and advised all users to upgrade due to security reasons. Now WordPress has released another version, 2.8.2. It is also recommended that you upgrade your WordPress version to the latest one.
As the reason behind releasing WordPress 2.8.2 so early, WordPress described that,
WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS [...]

There is a new version of WordPress. WordPress 2.8.2 has been released. This article may no longer be useful. Receiving comments has been closed.
Today WordPress has released another bug-fixed version of WordPress 2.8. It is strongly advised to upgrade to 2.8.1 beta from 2.8 for some security reasons.
Though WordPress tried hard to giveaway a bug-free [...]

Last update: 15th September 2009 at 12:35 AM [GMT+7]
Blogging might be just a hobby. But, when you come to know that a huge number of people from different countries around the world are making their living by writing blogs, you obviously decide to give it a try. 99% newbies jump to blogger.com to start their [...]