Agnivo Roy

Hard disks crash often…nothing new and today it was my turn. Backup is what every educated IT professional, business and computer users should make a habit…but what if your backup hard disk crashes? Weird isn’t it? It happened to me and this explains why one should opt for off-site secondary online backup apart from offline or on-site backup. Online backup adds an extra layer of data protection and recovery.

Well, I had a 6 year old Seagate 20GB ATA33 hard drive which was connected as a backup drive. I knew it would fail anytime…but the drive was lying around and I thought why not put it to use? I did so and …

They say “content is king” when it comes to search engine optimization and internet marketing. So what is content? Well, we can say that everything we see on the internet is content, but in this context, we stress on the textual content that we put to use on web pages, sales letters, landing pages, blogs, auto-responder messages, etc. in the realm of online business and internet marketing. Everything we write for the above can be said an article or content in general language.

You may not believe that e-commerce, websites and internet marketing stand on the base of articles and content, but it’s true. It’s the words that makes a product sell well or …

The first release from the new WordPress development branch 2.2 was just released about a month ago and now comes a recommended bugfix release v2.2.1 from the WP stables.

The WP team claims to have improved and fixed some small little bugs since 2.2, resulting in a “finely polished” v2.2.1 released just an hour ago. The Wordpress 2.2.1 version is available for immediate download from WP site.

Quite a few bugs were fixed as listed on this page. The highlights of fixes are the following :

Atom feed validation fixes.
XML-RPC fixes.
Widget backward compatibility fixes.
Widget layout fixes for IE7.
Page and Text Widget improvements.
Some internal admin and default template fixes.

Oh yes, and …

“Umm…Spyware…? What is it? ” is the most common remark I hear from people around when they hear about the term. But do they know that the same thing may exist on their computers and cause privacy issues and losses to themselves? Yes, most people are unaware what a spyware is and how much harm they can do. I know it’s not justified to expect common people to have knowledge who aren’t computer geeks and just want to be concerned the things they use daily on their PC and nothing else. But yes, experienced computer techies like us have the responsibility to educate them and discuss with them regarding stuff such as spyware …

I’m sure webmasters have faced situations where they need a fast, affordable and working solution to block less converting or spam traffic to their websites or pages from certain countries, but either they had to implement slow, inefficient methods or costly professional solutions for their Geo targeting needs.

One of the most popular, free, open-source and hot web programming languages today is PHP. Today, I’m going to share a little trick which efficiently solves the geo-targeting issue; or making your website appear only to a certain demographic you’re targeting and block non-converting or spammy traffic from other countries. Perhaps you know that the IP of the visitors can be translated into country …