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Finally, I’ve upgraded my wordpress installation to latest and greatest 2.8.4. I’m impressed with the latest version of wordpress. The admin section is sleek, intuitive and has several new features. I like the cool single-click auto upgrade feature.
For my RSS readers – wanted to let you know that Nirlog.com just got a facelift as [...]

Some of my friends have been asking me why aren’t any updates here. I don’t feel good about leaving this blog unattended for so long, but frankly didn’t have time and energy to keep up with it. Now I have decided not to feel guilty because this was just meant for fun anyway. So, this [...]

I love Firefox for the huge amount of extensions it offers. Lifehack has suggestion for bloggers — 17 Firefox Extensions That Make Blogging Easy.
Do you want to protect your pictures online? The short answer is: you cannot do it, but you can create technical roadblocks and aesthetic roadblocks. Of Zen and Computing has a nice [...]

Many smart people have figured out the importance of domain name quite early, and are now multi-millionaires. They came up with many different (smart and weird) business models with the domain name. Check this fascinating story about The man who owns the Internet. Ok that was for business, but how about the domain name for [...]

WordPress 2.2 is available for download and as always Technosailor has an article on 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.2 . I’m not going to upgrade my blog to 2.2 mainly because my web server is still using MySQL 3.x, but I’ve seen several users downgrading after hasty upgrade due to the widget [...]

WordPress is reporting that a cracker gained user-level access to one of the servers and modified the 2.1.1 download file. The hacker managed to modify two files in WP 2.1.1 to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution. The 2.1.1 package does not seem to have been compromised when it was initially released, [...]

If you’re reading this in your RSS reader, just wanted to let you know that I’ve changed the look at Nirlog.com. Now I’m using a new theme WP-Multiflex-3, by Ainslie Johnson. My previous theme called WP-Andreas09 was also by Ainslie. I like the new theme, and I think many blogs will be using it, [...]

When I recently launched my new blog, it all started with a concept, domain search, domain registrration, wordpress installation, themes, plugins, some php hacks and so on… I just did everything following my previous experience but later realized having a checklist would have been much more helpful. I think it would have saved me a [...]

Technosailor has an useful article about 10 Things You should Know About WordPress 2.1. This is a timely and useful post for those who’re planning to upgrade their Wordpress to 2.1. The new version will be released tomorrow and it is the major release since 2.0 branch was launched. This new version will have new [...]

After a marathon of php hacks, trial of different themes, plugins, research of online security sites and security tools… I’m delighted to announce my new blog Security Tools News & Tips to my readers here. As the name mentions, this blog is exclusively focused on Security Tools, News and Tips. The site will be a [...]