Microsoft recently started the Scroogled campaign which mentions why Outlook is non-invasive compared to Gmail in terms of privacy because Gmail scans the content of every email and then displays targeted ads. While this isn’t exactly new because Gmail is a free service and many free email providers display ads to make up for their …
Pingdom is a popular online website monitoring web service that can alert you to your blog/website outages. It can notify you either through email or SMS. Signing up is free and the free account includes a basic http check and limited SMS credits. The dashboard for monitoring website/websites is simple to use and easy to …
Microsoft has introduced an online toolkit for testing compatibility of webpages with Internet Explorer. This set of tools is named “modern.IE” Testing if a webpage is correctly rendered in Internet Explorer involves clicking on “Scan a webpage” and entering the URL. The results are then displayed along with possible issues and suggestions on how to …
Here is a quick way to get the physical/geo location of any IP address : Go to iplocation.nmonitoring.com and enter either the domain name or an IP address. The results for that will display the geographical location and can be handy when trying to identify spam IP addresses or any potential malicious activity. Cheers.
Last year, I moved this blog from Blogger to WordPress. Last week, I moved this blog from shared hosting to VPS. It was a fun experience and interesting too. Why I chose VPS (Virtual Private Server) : To have better control and ownership of blog (a VPS server is fully accessible through root/admin compared to a …
After upgrading WordPress to the latest version 3.5, it can happen that images or any other media can’t be uploaded or inserted into posts. (Clicking on the “Add Media” button does nothing and no images can be inserted into posts.) To fix this issue, open the wp-config.php file that is present in the WordPress installation …
Following security updates will be released by Microsoft on 11 December 2012 : Additional details can be obtained from the Microsoft Security Bulletin page here. Happy patching.
Following security updates are released by Microsoft for October 2012 : Additional details can be obtained from the Microsoft Security Bulletin page here.
Heads up – Microsoft security updates that are to be released on 14th August 2012 are as follows : Further details can be found here. Happy patching.
July security updates as follows : These will be released on 10th July, happy patching and stay safe. More info can be found here