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US$ 15500 as cash prize in 2010 .INFO awards

Rita — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:17:35 +0000

Afilias, the registry operator for the .INFO domain, had lanched .INFO Awards 2007 . For initial two years (2007 and 2008) awards were conducted in Germany only. However, increasing popularity and success made Afilias expand the program internationally in 2009. Now in 2010, .Info awards program is open to all .INFO site owners, anywhere around the world. 2010 .INFO Awards The call for entry ends on September 10, 2010. A panel of experts in the fields of website design and media will review submitted sites and ...

Win Rs.30,000 and a trip to the Mumbai IndiBlogger Meet!

Rita — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:54:50 +0000

As per an announcement received from IndiaBlogger team, all the Indian Bloggers stand a chance to Win Rs 30,000/- and a chance to fly to Mumbai (and back) on August 15th for the Mumbai IndiBlogger Meet! All you have to do is: Take a quick pledge to fight heart disease at the Billion Hearts Beating website. Blog about your pledge and encourage your readers to take a pledge themselves. That’s right, you only need to submit one post, not five as in early contests organized by IndiBlogger! Check out the rules, other ...

Install health check plugin to see if you are ready for WordPress 3.2

Ajay — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:37:24 +0000

In a recent announcement WordPress team has announced that version 3.2 of WordPress will not support PHP 4 and MySQL 4. WordPress 3.1, which is due in late 2010, will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4. WordPress 3.2, due in the first half of 2011, the minimum required PHP version will be raised to 5.2. The new required MySQL version for WordPress 3.2 will be 5.0.15. Since the vast majority of WordPress users are using PHP 5.2 and it offers substantial improvements over earlier PHP 5 releases. It ...

How to solve Avast freezing computer problem?

Ajay — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:28:38 +0000

I was working on my computer when all of sudden it stopped working. Ctrl+Alt+Del won’t help. Power off button won’t do anything. At last I had to switch off the power supply to restart it. Again after few minutes of working same thing happened and in a span of 2 hours I had to restart my computer for more than 15 times. I was going crazy as I had replaced my hard disk few weeks back and switching off power too frequently could cause damage to it. My first doubt went ...

“Thelonious” (WordPress 3.0) released

Rita — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:27:55 +0000

WordPress 3.0, codenamed “Thelonious”, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download. Major new features in this release include a new sexy default theme called Twenty Ten (2010). 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 for ease of use. Developers and network admins ...

Renew your domain (.COM and .NET) now!!!

Ajay — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:40:29 +0000

Come July 1st, and after an increase in domain name prices in 2008, Verisign will again exercise its contractual right to raise domain name prices. The base registration price for .com domain names will be hiked by at least 7% and that of .net will be hiked by 10% for all registrars. This price hike is being made under VeriSign’s contract (which runs through 2012) with ICANN. No doubt that like always, registrars will pass the price increase on to customers. It helps to note that the ICANN has given VeriSign ...

Internet testing regional flavour with Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)

Ajay — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:27:03 +0000

An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Hindi, Chinese, Russian or the Latin-based languages with diacritics, such as French. These writing systems are encoded by computers in multi-byte Unicode. Few domain registrar companies worldwide have started offering IDN registration. Recently I purchased (read Registered) my own IDN अजय.com from one such registrar. Now, the question comes is that how IDNs can be hosted or accessed? How do one type the internationalized domain name in browser ...

Upgrade to WordPress 2.8 Now!

Ajay — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:54:21 +0000

The latest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker” (named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker), has been released on Wednesday, 10 June, 2009 as scheduled. It has several improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed along with over 790 bugs fixed. Visually 2.8 doesn’t look much different from 2.7, however once you start digging dip, you’ll notice and begin to appreciate the changes. Following are few major improvements in WP 2.8: 1. It’s was faster to use because of changes in the way WordPress does style and scripting. 2. ...

Many more domain name extensions pricing takes a nose diving

Rita — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:37:44 +0000

Seems economic recession has affected Domain registration business too. And, to attract more customers, more and more domain name extensions pricing is being discounted. Recent addition to the list are .TV, .ORG, .MOBI and .US domain names. For a update on promotion pricing for all these domain extensions, visit Anubhooti Ineternet’s domain registration page. Besides these new promotional schemes, all variants of .IN domains are already being offered at a discounted price. However, like always, there is a catch with these promo offers. The promotional pricing is applicable for first year of ...

Pricing for all New .IN domain names goes under knife once again

Rita — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:29:56 +0000

updated: Starting 24th March, Anubhooti Internet is offering all new .IN registrations at Rs. 250/= (US$ 5) per year including .co.in, .net.in, .org.in etc. After a promotional price cut in 2007 for all .IN registrations, today once again many registrars announced a dip in pricing for all second and third level .IN domain names. As the .IN promotion goes on, pricing for any new .IN domain name has come down to Rs. 500/= (plus / minus Rs. 50 depending on the Registrar). Earlier second level .IN domain names were being sold at Rs. 800/=. ...