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Top 5 Popular Torrent Sites of 2007
Dec 28th
Have you ever wondered about what would be the most 5 popular torrent site of 2007? Guess what, here we have the list of torrents that made into top five position based on popularity this year. Last year I compiled the list of popular torrents based on the few selection parameters. This year I have decided to put most top 5 list based on popularity.
The selections criteria are based on following parameter. The main factor of popularity was based on the traffic site receives (Alexa Ranking has been used to determine it). The second factor for popularity was number of sites that More >
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4 tools to integrate Flickr photos into your website
Aug 23rd
Flickr is a great and best photo-sharing site, no second thoughts about it. But the inability Flickr to allow their users to brand their own photoset is notable. Flickr API’s comes in handy for the rescue. Flickr tools built over Flickr API allow the user to brand their photo into their own site.
I have been using Gallery2 till now, since I wanted to brand my photos under my banner. But when you have bunch of photos trust me managing it with a self-hosted solution is a pain. That why I decided to move to hosted photo-sharing solution. Flickr sounded like the More >
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Top 5 open source Wiki engines
Aug 15th
A Wiki is a website which visitors can modify. Wikis are composed of web pages you can write on, enabling fast and easy collaboration Why Wiki?
This is very commonly asked and answered question. But here is the few uses which I feel about a Wiki.
Educational: It can be used as instrumental tool for building knowledge management system. Wiki is also been used as Text books in few educational institutions.
Collaboration: It allows the project team to collaborate on any specific task / idea.
Documentation: It can be used for the documentation purpose of any project. Draft version of document can be developed greatly using Wiki features.
Personal: It More >
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Web log analysis software and top 5
Jul 30th
Every blogger or site owners would be aware of advantage and importance of Web Analytics. Which tool to use? It is one of the important decisions everyone should take before starting up a blog or a site. Web Analytics widely has two approaches log file analysis and page tagging. The later is more popular these days and huge number of people tends to ignore the former. Tagging approach would add some JavaScript snippet into your blog/ site to collect the visitor data. There are several 3-rd party tools available today to facilitate tagging methodology, like Google Analytics, StatsCounter, etc.
Log file analysis More >
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Top 5 Free Notepad replacements
Jun 30th
Notepad is one of the few tools that is been a part of Windows operating system and which have not been evolved since its initial release. Notepad is simple to use and lacks many features / enhancement. So it is always better to look for a replacement, which will overcome all known issues of Notepad.
Why Replacement?
Notepad has some disadvantages, which is known to everyone who uses it frequently. Here is a quick list of them.
- Doesn’t have support for multiple document interface
- Doesn’t display line number (this is harder part for programmer / debugger)
- Doesn’t support syntax highlighting
- Doesn’t support larger files
- It is after More >
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Quick overview of available Blogging Platforms
Jun 14th
Blogging has become a passion to lot of people these days (I can include myself). Technorati says a new blog appears every 2 seconds. And there are lot many novice blogger behind it. They will come across this question before they start a blog “which blogging platform to use?”
The options are wide open and choice is yours!
This article might not answer the question directly. However, I’d try to provide least information about most of blogging platforms that are available today either as a service or download.
WordPress.org WordPress.org is the best and well-known open source Blogging platform. It is widely used More >
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