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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…
Macs are loaded with awesome hidden features, so many that even Apple itself hasn’t made all of them obvious. Even better, most of the features are built into the computer’s functionality and are convenient and easy to use. Following are 5 important things that your MAC won’t tell you that will boost productivity and are…
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…
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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…
If you want to take a trip to a place where you will not have a data connection and need to use Google Maps offline, then you can use the following tip from Google to save maps offline on your mobile device: Make sure you’re connected to the Internet and signed in to your Google…
You can view changes you have made in your local repository which haven’t been pushed to the origin (remote) repository using the following command: git log origin/<yourbranchname> In case your local branch has been configured with an upstream branch, then you can use the below shorthand: git log @{u}.. or git log @{upstream}.. If you…
I recently changed hosts and moved my blogs using the standard procedure to move WordPress across hosts. The text content displayed properly but the images were displaying as broken links even though the images were present on my server. This is how I fixed it after spending 30 minutes googling for the solution: Ensure that…
Most applications provide sharing to Twitter using the generic ‘Share’ intent. Some others may want to use the Twitter SDK but that increases the application install size. Most developers may want to make the user directly share the content to Twitter without showing the App Chooser. Here’s a quick code snippet for Android developers who want to directly…
