Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Facebook, Twitter, Google Status Check Hack


Recently a friend of mine asked me if there is any way to figure out to check if your website visitor is online on Facebook/ Twitter or Google. It can be quite useful if you are a website owner to figure out if your visitors are online in social sites so that you can show them appropriate popups or make them signup on your site accordingly. Wrote a small script and you can test it on following URL


http://saurabhsays.com/logincheck.html


It will popup windows based on whether you are logged into Facebook, Twitter, Google. You can download code on following URL:

Wednesday, 28 November 2012 by Saurabh Gupta · 0

My favorite best eleven plugins for wordpress

If you are using wordpress for your social blog, then you must know how important correct set of plugin is for your blog. Here are some of the plugins that I use frequently and can be very useful for your blog also. There are lot of options but I have selected first 11 in my list for you.

1) W3 Total Cache – A must must have plugin for your blog. It speeds up your blog 3-4 folds by doing caching, compressing pages using gzip before serving to browser. As you also may be aware that one part of search engine algorithm is that how fast your site is. 

Plugin page: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/w3-total-cache/

2) WP Socializer – If you are not having social links on your blog, you are missing it all. Each like on facebook and tweet on Twitter will bring in extra visitors for you. Ensure you have a good social bar next to your post. One of the many such plugins is WP Socializer.

Plugin Page: http://www.aakashweb.com/

3) AdSense Targeting – If you are planning to show ads on your blog, it is important you are showing right ads. Adsense targeting will insert keywords in your page so that right ads starts showing up.

Plugin page: http://wasistlos.waldemarstoffel.com/plugins-fur-wordpress/adsense-targeting

4) Akismet – It is important to get more and more comments and visitors and at the same time it is very very important to keep spammers away from your blog. Akismet will do just that for you. It keeps your comments neat and clean.

Plugin page: http://akismet.com/

5) All in One Webmaster – It lets you keep your webmaster keys at one single place. It also let you keep alexa, analytics and other keys at one single place. Very nice plugin

Plugin page: http://icrunched.co/all-in-one-webmaster/

6) AVH First Defense Against Spam – It protects your blogs from known attackers and gives you ability to block certain IPs based on spam and ham concept.

Plugin page: http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/

Read more…….

http://saurabhsays.com/best-wordpress-plugins/


by Saurabh Gupta · 0

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Cloud Storage Service Providers


Online storage for backup or storing your files online is in demand. Today there are multiple options and tools available to backup your office/personal data and move it to cloud. Though there are risks involved in uploading your data on cloud, there are ways to encrypt your files locally and then upload. However in this post, we will try to evaluate some of the many Cloud file storage options. The main focus is value for money and service to be most cost effective.
 

Box.net
Free Usage: 5GB
Pricing: 50GB for $19.99 per month
File Size Limit: 1 GB
Per GB Annual Price: $ 4.78
Features: Desktop sync, Secure storage, Secure transfer, Mobile app, File sharing links

Carbonite
Free Usage: NA
Plan: Business (Home plans are limited to one computer and cant be used on another computer)
Pricing: 250GB for $229 per year
Per GB Annual Price: $ 0.916
Features: Versioning, Encrypted storage, Automatic Backup

Dropbox
Free Usage: 2GB
Plan: PRO
Pricing: 250GB for $229 per year
Per GB Annual Price: $ 1.0
Features: Sync from multiple devices and Oss

Mozy
Plan: PRO
Pricing: 250GB for $1044.89 per year
Per GB Annual Price: $ 4.17
Features: Encryption, Local backup, Mobile app, SQL Support, Exchange Support, Automatic Backup

Google Drive
Free Usage: 5 GB
Pricing: 200GB for $120 per year
Per GB Annual Price: $ 0.6
Features: Reliability of google, online document edit, Not the backup features but file storage features.

GoDaddy
Pricing: 100GB for $29.88 per year
Per GB Annual Price: $ 0.2988
Features: ftp support, auto sync tool for PC and Mac,  browser upload and download options.

As you can see GoDaddy online cloud storage is a clear winner in this, both in terms of features as well as cost effectiveness. They provide ftp option and have windows sync clients. Its cheap, feature rich and reliable.
Thumbs up for GoDaddy cloud storage.


Tuesday, 27 November 2012 by Saurabh Gupta · 0

Sunday, 18 November 2012

Chota Bheem iPad3 Theme

My Son is crazy about Chota Bheem and wanted a theme for iPad3 so that he can be with his buddy all the time. Here is the theme I created for him. You can download it here. It works with iOS 6.0+  and you need to brick your OS before copying it


http://saurabhsays.com/chota-bheem-ipad3-theme/


Sunday, 18 November 2012 by Saurabh Gupta · 0

Checking Google Page Rank for Websites

Knowing your Google page rank is critical for your SEO success and your visibility in search engine. Google Page Rank means how valuable Google think your website is and is ranked between 0-10. For example, more important sites are ranked above score of 5. When google blocks your site from search engine that it can go down to status “N/A”.

http://saurabhsays.com/checking-google-page-rank-websites/

by Saurabh Gupta · 0

TCPIP Ports and services on those ports

It is important for any system administrator to know about services are running on the network. Some are desired and some are undesired services/servers. First step to secure your network is to figure out and stop such services. Compiled list of ports and services that are commonly related to server.
http://saurabhsays.com/tcpip-ports-and-services-on-those-ports/

by Saurabh Gupta · 0

Love Calculator – Check Love Quotient

If you love someone and you’d like to find out whether the two of you will be a compatible match, a love calculator is what you need. This Love calculator is a love compatibility meter to find the love percentage between you and your partner. To find out what the chances for you and your dream partner are, just fill in both names in the two text boxes below, and press Submit.

 http://saurabhsays.com/love-calculator-check-love-quotient-partner/

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