Jun 20
TinyURL has been in the game since the very beginning; it was probably the first service which kickstarted the whole URL shortening trend. It offers no extra features, just the basics – enter a long URL and get a TinyURL. You can also specify a custom URL like http://www.tinyurl.com/pathik
Bit.Ly is another popular URL shortening service. It offers much shorter URLs than TinyURL as well as custom URLs. It also offers URL tracking and statistics. You can track the number of clicks, referrers etc. To view the stats of your shortened URL – http://www.bit.ly/pathik, visit http://www.bit.ly/info/pathik
Is.Gd is a good alternative to the above two services, but it has no frills, just basic URL shortening. It doesn’t offer custom URLs, tracking etc, but is shorter than both Bit.Ly and TinyURL. http://is.gd/16vUZ
There are many more URL shortening services like Cli.gs, SnURL.com, zURL.ws etc, it doesn’t matter which you choose to use. I prefer to use Bit.Ly for the tracking features it provides. Plus, it is also the default Twitter URL shortener.
Nov 28
Suppose that you have downloaded a file but you suspect that it may be infected with a virus, but you don’t want to install an antivirus that could possibly bog down your system, as in most cases. What do you do? You use a Online Virus Scanner. There are many free services that allow you to scan your files online for viruses. The most popular of them are:
http://www.virustotal.com
It is the best online virus scanner. You just need to upload your file and it will do the rest. It scans the file using 37 popular antivirus engines to minimize detection errors.
http://virusscan.jotti.org
This is another nice service which allows you to scan your files for viruses online. It scans your uploaded files with 20 antivirus engines. Fast and sweet.
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Nov 24
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Here is a list of the Top Private and Public Torrent Trackers / Sites I know.
Private Torrent Trackers:
A private tracker is a tracker which allows only registered users to download torrents. The registered users are required to maintain a certain upload-to-download ratio and are banned if the ratio is too low. This ensures that the users don’t just leech the files but also seed them after downloading it completely, which in turn ensures that you get very fast download speeds.
1. Demonoid.com
2. BitMe.org
3. TorrentLeech.org
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Nov 18
Whenever you install WordPress for your blog, you get only two plugins – Akismet (Anti Spam) and Hello Dolly. You can however install more plugins to extend functionality, you can find a complete list of plugins here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins
Here is a list of the best WP plugins which I use on my blog. Most of them are very useful and functional and are light- they won’t bog down your WP site / blog.
To install them, just extract the folders to /blog/wp-content/plugins and then log in to your WP Admin Dashboard and select the Plugins tab to select and enable them.
1. All In One SEO Pack
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
This is the most popular WP Plugin ever. It is just a simple plugin using which you can optimize your posts for search engines by adding the title, description and keywords etc when drafting the post.
2. Google XML Sitemaps
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
This plugin creats a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. The sitemap gets updated automatically everytime you create a new post. You can submit this sitemap to Google and other search engines for better SEO.
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