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If you own and run a blog or a website of any kind, I’m sure there’d have been times when you wanted to find out the value of your website, if only to massage your ego a bit, or you were actually considering selling the site and wanted an accurate valuation for all the hard work that you’ve...

The iPad has been a roaring success. There are no two ways about it. It is an awesome device and the built-in web browser is the best in it’s class. Even though most websites work perfectly fine on an iPad, a lot of web publishers have optimized versions of their websites available for just the...

As a child, my parents used to present me with an encyclopedia every year on my birthday. It started around the time I was in the second grade or so and continued till I was around 14. I still remember the joy I used to get reading up those thick books crammed with information about this wonderful world...

Before I got the iPhone, I used to own a Nokia E50 that I was (at the time) absolutely in love with. It was the first phone I owned that could play real MP3 files without the need to convert them to some esoteric light weight format. The E50 could also use MP3 files as ringtones and that was arguably...

In the past couple of years, the Internet has taken over and changed a lot of our media consumption habits. From newspapers to magazines and even movies, everything is available online. With more and more publishers taking the online route, it would be safe to say that in a couple of years the Internet...

Almost all search engines support searching inside PDF files and almost all of them have special keywords that the user can pass if you want them to return only PDF related results, but by default the results that you see for any query are mixed with regular web links as well PDF files. If you’d...

Before the iPhone came, only the largest websites had a separate version exclusively for mobile visitors which was usually based on WAP. And since there weren’t too many mobile visitors anyway, a lot of site owners just didn’t bother with creating a lighter version of their websites. The...

Facebook is the social media giant that is showing no signs of stopping. Apart from being a regular social media website for people to interact with their friends (and strangers, in some cases), Facebook has also been trying to get into the instant messaging game which has till now been dominated by...

A couple of months back I wrote a post about how the iPod stores music internally and how you could use that knowledge to retrieve music stored on your iPod without using any external tools. This is made possible because of the fact that the iPod identifies itself as a USB connected external disk and...

Even though datacenter technologies have come a long way, downtimes are still a reality that most of us bloggers have to face at one point or another. Your web host may offer a 99.999 % uptime guarantee but the fact that no host gives a 100% uptime guarantee proves the point that as there is no such...