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TechBanyan Goes Live With Email Subscription

Better late than never. This feature was long time in the coming but because of inputs from Sita, I was able to put it on fast track.

If you are a regular, you might want to subscribe through the emails.

Besides the fact that the articles are literally served to you in a platter, it helps you avoid the ads as well.

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Popular Website Designers

Although I am not a website designer but I have two favorite sites which I occasionally check to see the latest in web site designing or simply to read what’s keeping some of the best designers occupied on any given day.

Elliot Jay Stocks

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Fixing Potential Privacy Breach In Collaborative WordPress

wordpress logo Fixing Potential Privacy Breach In Collaborative Wordpress

If you are the only one to login into the dashboard of a WordPress run website, then its one less issue to worry about. But if you allow readers to register themselves as Contributors on the site and write posts, or have multiple users login into the admin panel, then there are chances of compromising a user’s privacy.

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WordPress Under Repeated DOS Attacks

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WordPress.com saw DOS attacks beginning Saturday, and the attacks were continuing till yesterday as some of the users still could not log on to their site.

Matt Mullenweg, the brains behind WordPress and its spokesman, also confirmed these attacks. There were spikes of about 6 GB of incoming traffic rendering the blogs inaccessible by some users for almost up to 15 minutes.

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Dummies Guide To Installing WordPress On Your Computer

halo wordpress Dummies Guide To Installing Wordpress On Your Computer

WORDPRESS is a fantastic blogging platform. This free open source application can be used not only for fulfilling your blogging needs over the Internet, but also as a full fledged Collaborative Content Management System (CMS).

You can either have it running on the Internet, to reach a wider audience, or you can simply install it on your personal computer and use it accordingly.

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Server Issues Today

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Had my first major outage since I started this blog.

The db connection is timing out. Have no clue whether it is because of WordPress related issues or something on the hosting company’s end.

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