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Making sure you choose the right web host is very important. However, with so many options available, making the right choice can be a challenge. Fortunately, by doing a little research and knowing what to look for, you can make this task far easier on yourself. It is important to assess your needs before you…
WordPress is an incredibly powerful publishing tool which is used by bloggers and webmaster world-wide. What makes it powerful is the ability to extend its functionality via plugins. If you are using WordPress as a CMS, then there is a high chance that you would want to add Categories and Tags to WordPress pages. You…
Today, we review the Gamdias Hermes 7 Color GKB3000 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard. A relatively new brand in the market, Gamdias builds products focussed at gamers. We have been using this keyboard for 2 months now and here is our verdict on this product. Design The Hermes 7 Color is a big and sturdy keyboard which comes…
iPage has a great balance between price and performance. Their shared web hosting is quite good and competitive with other top hosting companies. With a starting plan of around $2/month and very few limits, it is best for newbies. This iPage hosting review will help you decide whether iPage hosting is best for you or…
One of the toughest parts of creating a new website is finding a good domain name which is also available. While I use these tips for choosing domain names, trying to find out available domain names for my desired keywords is challenging. Most registrars like Godaddy and Name.com will offer you suggestions if your chosen…
As computer gaming moves from a pastime to a serious hobby, the need for dedicated hardware has increased. Today, we review one such product created specially for gamers – GAMDIAS Optical Gaming Mouse (ZEUS P1). The main USP of this mouse is its accuracy with a humongous 12000 DPI Sensor. What I liked about it is…
WordPress is one of the best possible tools at the disposal of bloggers today. However, there are some default settings which are still non-ideal and need to be fixed manually. Duplicate content is one of these. This is fairly important, because, in new blogs which primarily have only internal links, category and tag pages have…
Google recently updated its AdSense policy to remove the 3 ads per page limit for its publishers. Until recently, since most bloggers used AdSense, this was the default limit of the number of ads they could place on their blog. However, after this AdSense policy change, you may be wondering as to what is the optimum…
As a new blogger, when you are at your wit’s end looking for content ideas for a blog post, this guide will immensely help you to quickly generate a list of blog post topics in your niche. 1. Write a Post that Answers Questions One of the best ways to find a topic to write on…
You are new to the world of blogging and need to choose a host for your first blog. You hear that WordPress is the best blogging software around (which it really is), and are now looking for a host for your first blog. After doing some research, you see that most web hosting providers offer two…
If you are in a country where Pokemon Go hasn’t officially released and are waiting to try out the new Internet craze Pokemon, go, then here are some simple instructions on how to download and install Pokemon Go. These instructions are different from the standard ones asking you to download unverified APKs. These enable you…
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If you need to install a custom ROM image, you will need to replace the stock recovery mode which comes in Android devices with a more powerful custom recovery image. The most popular custom recovery image for Android is CWM Recovery (ClockWorkMod) developed by Koushik Dutta. This post explains how to install CWM recovery on your phone. The…
A WordPress installation contains a lot of files and can clutter up your website’s root directory. This is especially painful if you are using shared hosting and you would like to keep the root directory of your primary domain clean. This guide shows you how to install WordPress in a separate directory instead of installing…
This is a simple guide for setting up a local apache web server on your Mac OSX machine. You can use this to develop and test your sites locally before uploading to your web host and also for learning web programming. Step 1: Create the Sites folder in your home directory Lion and later versions…
Many sites being developed in WordPress need to make multi-level menus also called nested menus. A key requirement in making this nested navigation menu is that the top level menu items should be non-clickable. Nested Menus can be build using the Menu Builder in WordPress. Navigate to the Menu Builder using : Appearance -> Menus…
Many WordPress users who are using a dedicated or VPS server or are setting up WordPress manually on your hosting provider in Linux or OSX get stuck with plugin installs. WordPress plugin and theme upgrades fail with the error “Unpacking the package… Could not create directory.”. This is mostly due to incorrect permissions and can…
Here is a nifty little tool to help developers test GCM notifications. While developing GCM or Google Cloud Messaging Notifications in Android applications, it is important to have a simple server to test if client code is working correctly. This free GCM notifications test tool below does exactly that – allows you to easily…
While doing research on my mobile apps, I noticed that there isn’t too much guidance on mobile eCPMs compiled at a single place. Hence I thought of making a simple chart for others looking for indicative mobile eCPMs for India and US. eCPM in USD 300×250 320×50 India $0.18-$0.30 $0.08-$0.14 United States $0.45-$0.70 $0.25-$0.45 These…
Most Android Studio users have complaints that the tool is a memory hog and consumes a huge amount of RAM on their computer. Here are some tips on reducing Android Studio memory usage compiled from various sources on the Internet. Edit: Versions of Android Studio beyond 2.0 have removed some of these settings. They still…