Wordpress 2.1.1 and 2.0.9 Released

Posted by admin in Blogging Tips, Inter... | 02.21.2007 - 4:20 am

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Wordpress guys has released Wordpress 2.1.1. The latest version includes 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code.

Files changed in 2.1.1 from 2.1 are:

  • wp-includes/post-template.php
  • wp-includes/cache.php
  • wp-includes/formatting.php
  • wp-includes/category.php
  • wp-includes/post.php
  • wp-includes/version.php
  • wp-includes/js/scriptaculous/wp-scriptaculous.js
  • wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php
  • wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-mce-help.php
  • wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_gzip.php
  • wp-includes/capabilities.php
  • wp-includes/cron.php
  • wp-includes/functions.php
  • wp-includes/bookmark-template.php
  • xmlrpc.php
  • wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
  • wp-admin/admin-functions.php
  • wp-admin/custom-header.php
  • wp-admin/options-general.php
  • wp-admin/edit.php
  • wp-admin/index-extra.php
  • wp-admin/options-reading.php

For those who have not yet upgraded to Wordpress 2.1, Wordpress version 2.0.9 has also been released which includes a security update.

Wordpress team is committed to provide security updates for 2.0 till 2010.

You can download Wordpress 2.1.1 from here and Wordpress 2.0.9 from here.

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ReviewMe - Set Your Own Review Price

Posted by admin in Blogging Tips, Inter... | 02.21.2007 - 12:13 am

Reviewme blog today announced the facility for bloggers to set their own price for reviews.

Follow these steps to change your default blog price:

  1. Login to your account
  2. Select the “Manage my sites” link.
  3. Click on the current price set for your blog where you will be taken to a page where you can edit the price.

Hope this change will help advertisers to get reviews for the right price and bloggers to get more review offers.

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MyBlogLog Anti-Spam Policy

Posted by admin in Blogging Tips, Inter... | 02.20.2007 - 1:15 am

Yesterday Mybloglog guys made a post on their blog highlighting their future antispam policies and changes that they are going to introduce to patch existing exploits.

  1. They going to post an official Terms of Service (ToS)
  2. Only message from your own contacts will be shown by default. You will have to click a radio button to see messages from everyone else.
  3. The text of the comment and associated controls (delete,reply, etc) will be included in the comment notification email.
  4. Fix to limit users to send only five requests for co-authors a day.
  5. Fix to limit users to join 15 communities and add 15 contacts during any day.

They will also deploy a comment approval system that will be introduced after these are five changes are successfully implemented.

You can read more here.

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SEO Extension for Firefox

Posted by admin in Blogging Tips, Inter... | 02.20.2007 - 12:29 am

seo-firefox-logoSEO Firefox Extension is very useful tool for webmasters and SEO enthusiasts.

After installing the extension you can access the SEO firefox lookup tool from the tools>>Seo firefox menu. The small popup window will instantly grab and show the following info related to the current webpage.

  • Yahoo Backlinks
  • Pages in Yahoo Index
  • Google Backlinks
  • Google Cache
  • Pages in Google index
  • Google Pagerank
  • MSN Backlinks
  • Alexa Traffic
  • Alexa Backlinks
  • DMOZ Links
  • Blogline Subscribers
  • Wikipedia Backlinks

You can also check page size, keyword density, Whois info for webpage.

The extension also have an option to integrate the data automatically with google search results page. Everytime you conduct search with google. You see a lots of extra information next to each result including: Site’s age, Yahoo! Links, del.icio.us bookmarks, technorati ranking, alexa ranking, dmoz listing, bloglines subscriptions, whois data, etc.

You can download the extension from here.

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Google’s Study on Harddrive Reliability Released

Posted by admin in Blogging Tips, Inter... | 02.19.2007 - 5:06 am

harddrive-imageA few days ago google released a study showing the rate of failure for harddisks. The study conduncted in google’s huge data centers yielded some very surprising facts related to the health and failure trends of hard drives.

Some interesting conclusions:

  1. Harddrive failure rates are definitely correlated to drive manufacturer, model, and age
  2. Higher temperatures do not mean more failures.
  3. If you’re hard drive didn’t fail in the first year, it’ll possibly survive for the next few years.

You can download the research paper here (PDF).

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Extension List Dumper: Firefox Extension

Posted by admin in Blogging Tips, Inter... | 02.18.2007 - 1:32 am

Extension list dumper is a very useful firefox extension to get list of firefox extension or themes currently installed on your system. The extension can output the addon list in plain text or html to clipboard.

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Other options include having the date when the extensions were installed, their descriptions, Mozilla ID number and the url of the extension.

Sample List generated with Extension List Dumper.

Application: Firefox 2.0.0.1 (2006120418)

- Adblock Plus 0.7.2.4
Ads were yesterday!
- Download Statusbar 0.9.4.5
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
- Extension List Dumper 1.8.0
Dumps a list of the installed extensions.
- Fastererfox 1.0.3
Hard Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
- FireFTP 0.94.6
FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox.
- Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer 0.84
Synchronizes your bookmarks across machines.
- SEO For Firefox 2.2.1
SEO information inline with Google and Yahoo! search results
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5
Tab browsing with an added boost.
- Talkback 2.0.0.1
Sends information about program crashes to Mozilla.

This extension is useful to keep a list of your extensions and themes.

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