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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 …

Intel introduced the RAMBus memory standard in their later Pentium 3 series and continued it in their Pentium P4 lineup. RAMBus Corporation was originally an independent company who developed RAMBus RAMs or RDRAMs. Though RDRAM technology didn’t show up good results initially, in the 1GHz+ CPU Pentium III platform, it did quite well on the then newer Pentium 4 platform which required more memory bandwidth the traditional PC133 SDRAMs could not provide.

Only dual channel RDRAM could feed a Pentium 4’s bandwidth needs. Unlike DDR, purchasing RDRAM is a little more tedious. Users of RDRAM must buy them in matching pairs in order to use them properly, this because of their 16 bit serial …

Computer and stand-alone copiers, printers and multifunction devices are now quite common at homes, SOHO, workplaces, organizations and offices. They have become an integral part of our digital life. Remember the golden days of typewriters… how tiresome and slow they were? Truly, these modern electronic printing devices have made our life easy and help get things printed and copied fast; often at blazing speeds of over 20 pages per minute!

As with every single appliance we can think of, printing devices have some recurring maintenance costs to be incurred if you want to use the devices to their full potential. Printing and copying supplies like inkjet cartridges, laser and copier …