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How to Minimize Incoming Spam Mails

In today's wired life everyone has an email id. And every one having an email id is prone to SPAM emails. Sometimes its frustrating to search one genuine email out of hundreds junk mail. Though each and every service provider, be it Hotmail or Yahoo! or Gmail or your ISP or your website host, tries to keep spam level to ...

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Client not paying Money after getting work Done, How to get my dues?

This is one problem area which most of the small designers / design companies face one time or the other. First of all you, as a designer, have to analyze as why the client didn't pay?? The project was delayed?? Finished Project was not as discussed earlier?? If yes, then what caused this? Client not approving designs timely or Client not providing material ...

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How to solve Avast freezing computer problem?

I was working on my computer when all of sudden it stopped working. Ctrl+Alt+Del won't help. Power off button won't do anything. At last I had to switch off the power supply to restart it. Again after few minutes of working same thing happened and in a span of 2 hours I had to restart my computer for more than ...

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Web designers, Clients and their Domain Names

What the Problem is? Mostly in India and moreover all over the world, it's a rampant practice followed by so called web designers to register their client's domain names with their own (web designers and not clients') details. This is a complete lose-lose situation for clients. So called web designers' first motive is to ensure that they take control of their clients’ domain ...

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[24 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]

Afilias, the registry operator for the .INFO domain, had lanched .INFO Awards 2007 . For initial two years (2007 and 2008) awards were conducted in Germany only. However, increasing popularity and success made Afilias expand the program internationally in 2009. Now in 2010, .Info awards program is open to all .INFO site owners, anywhere around the world.
2010 .INFO Awards
The call for entry ends on September 10, 2010. A panel of experts in the fields of website design and media will review submitted sites and …

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[29 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

As per an announcement received from IndiaBlogger team, all the Indian Bloggers stand a chance to Win Rs 30,000/- and a chance to fly to Mumbai (and back) on August 15th for the Mumbai IndiBlogger Meet! All you have to do is:

Take a quick pledge to fight heart disease at the Billion Hearts Beating website.
Blog about your pledge and encourage your readers to take a pledge themselves. That’s right, you only need to submit one post, not five as in early contests organized by IndiBlogger!

Check out the rules, other …

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[24 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]

In a recent announcement WordPress team has announced that version 3.2 of WordPress will not support PHP 4 and MySQL 4. WordPress 3.1, which is due in late 2010, will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4.
WordPress 3.2, due in the first half of 2011, the minimum required PHP version will be raised to 5.2. The new required MySQL version for WordPress 3.2 will be 5.0.15.
Since the vast majority of WordPress users are using PHP 5.2 and it offers substantial improvements over earlier PHP 5 releases. It …

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[24 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]

I was working on my computer when all of sudden it stopped working. Ctrl+Alt+Del won’t help. Power off button won’t do anything. At last I had to switch off the power supply to restart it. Again after few minutes of working same thing happened and in a span of 2 hours I had to restart my computer for more than 15 times. I was going crazy as I had replaced my hard disk few weeks back and switching off power too frequently could cause damage to it.
My first doubt went …

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[18 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]

WordPress 3.0, codenamed “Thelonious”, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download. Major new features in this release include a new sexy default theme called Twenty Ten (2010). Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off for ease of use. Developers and network admins …

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[9 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]

Come July 1st, and after an increase in domain name prices in 2008, Verisign will again exercise its contractual right to raise domain name prices. The base registration price for .com domain names will be hiked by at least 7% and that of .net will be hiked by 10% for all registrars. This price hike is being made under VeriSign’s contract (which runs through 2012) with ICANN. No doubt that like always, registrars will pass the price increase on to customers.
It helps to note that the ICANN has given VeriSign …

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[6 May 2010 | No Comment | ]

An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Hindi, Chinese, Russian or the Latin-based languages with diacritics, such as French. These writing systems are encoded by computers in multi-byte Unicode. Few domain registrar companies worldwide have started offering IDN registration. Recently I purchased (read Registered) my own IDN अजय.com from one such registrar.  Now, the question comes is that how IDNs can be hosted or accessed? How do one type the internationalized domain name in browser …