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// October 31st, 2010 // Comments // Wordpress

Facebook Trick : Play Pranks with your Facebook Friends

// July 17th, 2010 // Comments // Fun, Web

I just found a interesting facebook trick over the internet and sharing the same with you. This trick helps you to play pranks with your facebook friends just by updating your status. All that matters is a link, which make people fool

Post your Status with this link :

http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363

Just try it out Yourself. Whenever a person is Logged into his facebook account, when this link is accessed, this will redirect the person to his Own Profile Page.

So you could add your Status Message like this ,

“I just love this person so much. http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363″

Upon reading the status message your friends will be obviously curious to know who that person is ! Some times they don’t even realize they have been fooled and start asking questions

Note :

• While sharing the link on your wall, don’t forget to remove the Thumbnail linked with it.
• Post the status with a plain text and the link.

I have personally tried out this trick and simply love it. Hope you people will also have fun with this trick . Share your Comments

Credits : Siddharth Raman

Web 3.0 – Adding meaning to the web

// June 27th, 2010 // Comments // Web

WordPress 3.0 Released !

// June 25th, 2010 // Comments // Wordpress

Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video

Lockerz – An Innovative Rewards Portal

// April 14th, 2010 // Comments // Cool Sites, Freebies, Making Money, Web

I recently signed up for an innovative rewards portal named as Lockerz.com I really loved this site, and the concept behind the site. Before I signed up I have almost ensured that it is not yet another scam. Here I go with the details about Lockerz :

Lockerz is an invitation-only website created to connect members through commerce, content and social networking. Once invited, you’ll be able to watch exclusive video, buy great products, discover new music, play games, and connect with friends. You’ll be able to do this all in one place, AND you’ll get rewarded for just doing the things you love. When you watch a video, play a game, or even log in, you’ll earn Pointz (or “PTZ”) Lockerz own form of currency. Turn around and redeem your PTZ for incredible merchandise, unique experiences and exclusive deals and sales.

Lockerz has partnered with thousands of the best brands and stores. Lockerz is offering you the latest and greatest in every category – electronics, designer gear, stylish accessories, sports equipment, and more. Members will soon be able to purchase digital assets such as music, videos, art, and decals.

How it works

You can earn Lockerz points in three ways:

1. Logging in each day.

2. Answering the question of the day.

3. Referring new members.

For example, in the four days only, I watched some 15 videos which yielded 2 points each.  All this for a grand total of 30pts!  What does this all mean? Well, I can already redeem many videos games such as GTA4, which is priced at 25pts!

Does Lockerz ship Internationally?

Yes. Keep in mind that you will be responsible for any incoming taxes or duties into your country if your country does not deem a free prize as a gift.

Is Lockerz.com a legitimate website?

As a testament to the legitimacy of Lockerz.com, its CEO, Kathy Savitt, used to be Vice President at Amazon.com and the CMO at American Eagle. Lockerz.com major financial contributors is Liberty Media, which owns a major part of Time Warner, which is the firm that supports Bodybuilding.com and QVC.

Currently, Lockerz is in beta and access is invitation only.

To get an invite:

1) Please subscribe to my blog!
I only get a certain number of invites per day, and want to focus on rewarding my loyal readers.

2) Follow me on Twitter.com/sandeephegde

3) Please send me an twit @sandeephegde. I’ll make sure to double check with my email subscription list to insure that you’ve subscribed to my blog.

IMPORTANT: If you submitted your email on the Official Lockerz.com website, you need to enter in a different email address here. Why? Because Lockerz will not let people invite you on the email you submitted to them.

IMPORTANT: Please check your Spam/Junk Folder because sometimes the Lockerz Invite is mistakenly put there.

As I have said Before I signed up I have almost ensured that it is not yet another scam. I believe this system will workout of many of you too. Let me know your views/comments on Lockerz.com

Saffron – Simple Buddypress Theme

// March 26th, 2010 // Comments // Web, Wordpress

My BuddyPress child theme series continuous after my first BuddyPress theme Gradient.

Safrron is an simple Buddypress theme. Saffron Buddypress themes makes your site cooler to the eyes of your visitors!  Sharing Saffron theme with the  community by releasing it with open source license. The theme is officially approved by WordPress and available for download at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/saffron

Minimum Requirements  :

* WordPress 2.92

* Buddypress 1.2

(If the requirements are not met, you may get errors)

Installing the Theme:

Method 1:

* Login into your wordpress backend.

* Go to Appearance -–> Add New Themes

* Select Search by “Author” and type “sandeephegde”

* Choose “Saffron” theme and click on Install

* Activate the theme and you are done !

Method 2:

* Upload “Saffron” theme to your wp-content/themes/ directory

* Login into your wordpress backend.

*  Go to SiteAdmin –>Themes and Enable this theme

*Go to Appearance –> Themes –> Activate Saffron theme.

Customizing Header:

Once you have installed the Saffron theme you may require to change the default buddypress header. To change the header image follow this instructions:

* Download the theme

* Edit header.png (included in theme) as per to your requirement.

* Login to you wordpress backend

* Go to Appearance –> Custom Header

* Upload the header.png file. Also choose to “HIDE TEXT”

* You are done !

For further customization of the theme you may need to digg into the css codes !

Download Theme Now !

Gradient – A Beautiful Buddypress Theme

// March 23rd, 2010 // Comments // Web, Wordpress

Finally I’m into development of WordPress / Buddypress themes ! It is said that necessity is the mother of all inventions. Nevertheless there are rarely few themes available for Buddypress driven WordPress sites. I’m with buddypress right from its initial stages of development. The recent version of Buddypress 1.2 changed hell lot of things. All these things forced me to build a own child themes for the sites I was developing.

Gradient ! My first Buddypress child theme. As the name says it has an gradient type design. The gradient looks simply awesome with bluish color. I built this theme for one of the site I was developing. Sharing the same with community by release it with open source license. the themes is officially approved by wordpress and available for download at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/gradient

Minimum Requirements  :

* WordPress 2.92

* Buddypress 1.2

(If the requirements are not met, you may get errors)

Installing the Theme:

Method 1:

* Login into your wordpress backend.

* Go to Appearance -–> Add New Themes

* Select Search by “Author” and type “sandeephegde”

* Choose “Gradient” theme and click on Install

* Activate the theme and you are done !

Method 2:

* Upload “Gradient” theme to your wp-content/themes/ directory

* Login into your wordpress backend.

*  Go to SiteAdmin –>Themes and Enable this theme

*Go to Appearance –> Themes –> Activate Gradient theme.

Customizing Header:

Once you have installed the Gradient theme you may require to change the default buddypress header. To change the header image follow this instructions:

* Download the theme

* Edit header.png (included in theme) as per to your requirement.

* Login to you wordpress backend

* Go to Appearance –> Custom Header

* Upload the header.png file. Also choose to “HIDE TEXT”

* You are done !

For further customization of the theme you may need to digg into the css codes !

Download Theme Now !

Please provide your feedback on this theme by commenting below

Cheapest Domain Name Registration Service

// March 8th, 2010 // Comments // Web

IT is a world of computers and internet. World Wide Web has become common and reachable to everyone. The internet user can avail information on any subject desired. While you are sitting on your computer, you get connected to the rest of the world in fraction of seconds. You can order or shop anything online. So, you can say that the whole world has come to the screen of your computer on the click of a mouse.

A domain name is like a brand name for your site. Domain name registration is a necessary, easy & important first step in establishing an web site. When registering a domain name, we can choose from a lot of registrars. Registrars is the middlemen who interact with registries on behalf of registrants. The domain name will usually cost you around $10 (Rs.500). The prices vary from registrar to registrar.

My company dotCORD also provides domain name registration and web hosting services at dotcord.net. As an special promo we shall provide the cheapest domain name registration service available online. We are providing .com domains for just Rs.299 and .in domains for just Rs. 199 ! our domain registration  prices are the cheapest on the internet.

The Cheapest domain name pricing offered by dotCORD:

.COM – Rs.299

.IN – Rs.199

.CO.IN – Rs.199

.MOBI – Rs. 399

.INFO – Rs. 299

For more details about pricing visit www.dotcord.net

Top 10 reasons to buy domain names with dotCORD !

1. Cheapest Domain Name Registration

Save more than 40% of the actual cost. No hidden charges ! No commitments to buy other products !

2. Various tlds available

We offer domain name registration in various tlds of your choice. You could buy .com, .in, .mobi etc.We also provide an name suggestion tool to simplify your task of finding a good domain name.

To get the complete list of tlds visit : www.dotcord.net

3. Multiple Payment Options

We understand different people wish to choose different payment methods. Don’t worry if you don’t have credit card, you could pay us offline too. You can choose one of the following options to pay:

• PayPal
• Online Banking
• DD
• Cheque
• Direct deposit into our bank account
• Western Union Money Transfer
• Cash !

4. Local & Global Support

All our services are available globally. We are based in Belgaum, India. Indian’s have an advantage of getting local support. No more international call and wait times ! You could reach us on our number with minimal expenditures. We are also there to help you even in Hindi!

We are also provide support through social media sites. Yes now you can chat with us right from your Facebook account

Twitter : http://twitter.com/dotcord

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dotcord

5.Privacy protection

Protect the information that you display in the WHOIS details of your Domain Name with Privacy Protection. Although most providers charge anywhere between $6 – $14 for this service, we offer you Privacy Protection absolutely FREE of cost! You can safeguard your personal information from spammers, data harvesters, etc. ensuring that your WHOIS information is never misused.

6. Domain Theft Protection

Domain Theft Protection is a security service offered to provide an additional layer of security to Domains. This FREE service allows you to lock your Domain Names, guarding them against unauthorized Transfers.

7. Free DNS service

Any product you buy from us, comes with complete control to manage the DNS records for the associated domain, absolutely FREE of cost! Plus, our FREE DNS service is hosted on globally distributed and highly redundant infrastructure making it one of the most reliable in the industry. Manage SOA, A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, SRV and NS records – with all updates reflecting instantaneously.

8. Free Domain forwarding

• Blazing fast performance – Nothing beats the request serving speed of our domain forwarding service.
• Hide the destination URL – You can hide the destination URL in any domain forwarding order by enabling URL Masking. That way any long destination URLs remain hidden from the surfer and your brand identity remains consistent.
• Wild carded Sub-domain Forwarding and Path Forwarding – You can setup wild carded forwarding such that each sub domain (eg http://jobs.yourdomain.com) forwards to independent destinations automatically. Also you can enable path information to be replicated in the destination URL such that http://www.yourdomain.com/path1/path2 gets forwarded to http://destinationURL/path1/path2
• Search Engine Optimization and backward compatibility – You can set the <HEAD> tag content, in order to provide <META> tags and <TITLES> for search engine optimization. You can also set the <NOFRAMES> tag content for compatibility with browsers that do not support frames.

9. Free Mail Forwarding

Make your Email Addresses look professional with [email protected]  Accept and forward mails sent to your Domain Name to a free email service like gmail/hotmail using this handy Free Service.

• Unlimited Mail Forwards: You can add unlimited mail forwards each forwarding to a different address
• Catch-All Accounts: Create a catch-all account and forward all mails sent to your Domain Name to a single email address

10. Easy-to-use Control Panel

Any Domain owner knows that Domain Names need to be managed on a continuous basis, which makes a simple and effective Control Panel absolutely essential. The Control Panel that we offer Free of cost, make changing contact information, modifying name servers, renewing the Domain Name, etc. extremely easy.

This offer will be available only upto 30th March. So hurry up and register your domain names now !

Buzz, Buzz – Google Buzz

// February 12th, 2010 // Comments // Web

The latest Buzz around the internet is all about Google’s latest product “ Google Buzz”

“Google Buzz is easily the company’s boldest attempt yet to build a social network. Imagine taking elements of facebook, Twitter, Yammer, Foursquare, Yelp, and other social services, and shoving them together into one package. Now imagine covering that package in a layer that looks a lot like FriendFeed. Now imagine shoving that package inside of Gmail. That’s Buzz. If Google Wave is the future, Google Buzz is the present.”

Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It’s built right into Gmail, so you don’t have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works. If you think about it, there’s always been a big social network underlying Gmail. Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most. Google focused on building an easy-to-use sharing experience that richly integrates photos, videos and links, and makes it easy to share publicly or privately (so you don’t have to use different tools to share with different audiences). Plus, Buzz integrates tightly with your existing Gmail inbox, so you’re sure to see the stuff that matters most as it happens in real time.

Google Buzz will also be available to businesses and schools using Google Apps, with added features for sharing within organizations.

On your phone, Google Buzz is much more than just a small screen version of the desktop experience. Mobile devices add an important component to sharing: location. Posts tagged with geographical information have an extra dimension of context — the answer to the question “where were you when you shared this?” can communicate so much. And when viewed in aggregate, the posts about a particular location can paint an extremely rich picture of that place.

If you like this article do follow me Google Buzz at http://www.google.com/profiles/sandeephegde88. Also don’t forget to Buzz this article

Build social networks with Tuiyo

// February 2nd, 2010 // Comments // Joomla

Tuiyo is  a powerful Joomla!™ component, combining a set of useful applications, for ultimate Social interaction.

Tuiyo™ is a social networking component for Joomla!, comprising of all the main features you’d expect of a social network, including extensive user management tools, user profiles, user relationship management and idea sharing. All these and lots more, provide your site members useful tools for better interaction

1. Tuiyo™ is built on PHP5 and MySQL, and primarily as a component for Joomla!™ CMS. Tuiyo team hopes to integrate other content management systems in the nearest future.
2. Joomla!™ is a free open source framework and content publishing system designed for quickly creating highly interactive multi-language Web sites, online communities, media portals, blogs and e Commerce applications.

More about Tuiyo™

As described, Tuiyo™ is a complete social networking solution! The name Tu-i-yo is a mix of traditional Spanish, Catalan and cool-ness, i.e “Tu i jo”, in Catalan meaning “you and me”, However for many obvious reasons(including phonetics) Tu-i-yo was selected as final. As per its name, Tuiyo™ is not just another component for Joomla! but written from the ground up to ensure, the complete benefits of the Joomla! 1.5 framework, including adjustments for a complete search engine optimization, localization, and powerful user management features.

Feature Overview

1. Requires Joomla!™ 1.5.10+
2. Built with PHP5 and MySQL 4 (or any other DBMS supported by Joomla). There are no specific added requirements of your Joomla site to allow you run Tuiyo. However the most important requirements are listed below
   1. Joomla as well as Tuiyo, are built and tested primarily on Apache servers configured as described below. As such we cannot guarantee the behavior of your install on other server configurations.
   2. Preferentially, your server should be running PHP versions greater than 5.2.0, together with specific modules that are required by PHP for MySQL, XML, ZLib, JSON functionality.
3. User Resource/Files/Uploads management. With Tuiyo there is a centralized user resource management for all user uploads to the site

   

   

4. Photos gallery

   

   

5. Comprehensive user management. Tuiyo provides additional set of tools to allow for a comprehensive, yet simplified approach to user management from both the back-end and front-end of your community site.

   

   1. Back-end user management tools, include the ability to import user data, including profiles, from other Joomla sites running Tuiyo, or any other component, capable of generating a compatible comma separated values file.

      

   2. Tuiyo, unlike its predecessors, now handles a simplified user registration and authentication system, and provides for a straight forward user moderation, including blocking, suspension, and deletion of profiles.

      

   3. Tuiyo also extends its flexibility to the front-end, providing secured user profile, allowing your site users to share a little bit more about themselves. Unlike most user and community management systems, Tuiyo aims at captivating the creativity of your users, from their profile design to the ideas and social content they share on your site, hence an ultimate experience, that will surely increase your sites activity rate

   

6. User Activity stream (Timeline). Love Twitter? Plurk, or Friendfeed? Now you could take your love for these social networks a little further by hosting your own. With Tuiyo, user activity is aggregated into a central, though ‘digestible’ feed, allowing your site users to subscribe to specific elements of the feed, such as friends status update, profile activity, group activity and activity from third party profile applications.

   

7. Robust privacy settings

   

8. User Groups and Relationship management

   

   

9. Intergrated Joomla search
10. Multiple Languanges.

Building Communities with Tuiyo

Building a unique website with tuiyo combines your creativity with the inbuilt versatility of tuiyo, to give your site users an unforgettable experience. This application repository provides you with not only Tuiyo applications, but everything from Joomla! templates, to plugins, widgets, styles and languages to make your community truly unique!

• Profile Applications

The Tuiyo ™ component for Joomla!™ is highly extensible by the use of applications. Applications ranging from simple profile extenders, external profile integration, music players, and even more social ones for sending and receiving gifts, kisses and hugs. Browse through the available applications developed by the Tuiyo team, or external developers.

• Profile Styles

Profile styles are a unique way to guarantee the uniqueness of your user profiles. Though Tuiyo™ provides a highly customizable interface for users to style their profile, You could simplify this task by using pre-sets.

Widgets, Plug-ins and back-end ‘auto-run’ scripts

Plug-ins range from profile enhancers, external mail collectors, to stream commands for sending direct messages, setting reminds, creating groups and events right from the status update box. For information on building your own extensions, please visit the documentation site. This repository, list the available extension from which you could build yours

So how much does all this cost?

Tuiyo™ is released under the terms of the GNU/GPL v2.1. It is free to use , modify and distribute under the open source ideology.

For more Information visit Official Tuiyo Website http://www.tuiyo.co.uk