No this is just not other post about WordPress Plugins I am using or others are using for that matter. I will try to list in this post 5 essential WordPress plugins which everybody must use on their WordPress blogs irrespective of whether you have a low traffic or a high traffic blog. 1. WordPress...

Users of Google Analytics have often complained that Google Analytics is too cumbersome to navigate and use than other metrics packages such as Statcounter and Sitemeter. But this may change now. Google Analytics has gone in for a completely new user interface with the launch of its next version (v2). The Google Analytics blog sums...

To all Ubuntu users out there, time to flaunt “Powered By Ubuntu” stickers on your system. System 76 has started a service to send free Ubuntu stickers to Ubuntu fans who want to show off the power of Ubuntu on their computers. All you need to do to get these free “Powered By Ubuntu” stickers...

Are you stuck with a buggy software on your computer that just won’t uninstall using the “Add or Remove Programs” (referred to as AORP hereafter) in the Control Panel ? A reinstall of the software won’t work either. Then stop worrying and download the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. With the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you...

I have seen many bloggers searching for their own names on different search engines to find at what position their blog is in the search engines results for their name as the query. You may or may not want that but you may be more interested in finding out what your blog’s position is in...

I saw this coming after its huge success at WordPress.com. The Automattic guys have released the Automattic stats plugin for self hosted WordPress users. The plugin is an implementation of the inbuilt stats system you find at WordPress.com blogs. For those of you looking for a good, simple, light on server stats system you need...

WordPress Plugins are a great way to increase the functionality of your WordPress blog. And the good news is that in WordPress, there is a plugin available for almost everything thus making manual editing of template files minimal. But using too may plugins also is not advised as it increases the load on the server....

WordPress blogs come with feeds for posts, comments and even for individual categories. But it is always a good idea to use FeedBurner feeds for your posts as it gives you a host of excellent features for free(like feed count and e-mail subscriptions for your feed). So if you want to replace your default WordPress...

This is hilarious. What if there were airlines, which ran the way different operating systems do ? A good theory on how each OS airline would be running its business. This is the excerpt for Windows XP Airlines. You turn up at the airport,which is under contract to only allow XP Air planes. All the...

Yet another reason why Ubuntu rocks. Dell has announced a strategic partnership with Canonical (the developers of Ubuntu) to sell computers with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed on them. In February when Dell launched IdeaStorm as forum for customers to contribute ideas for product offerings, we received overwhelming feedback that customers wanted Linux on desktops and notebooks....