Microsoft And The Scroogled Concept

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 …

Easily Monitor Your Blog Uptime Using Pingdom

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 Releases modern.IE : A ToolKit For Testing Internet Explorer Compatibility

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 …

How To Quickly Find Out IP Address’s Geolocation

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.

How I Moved From Shared Hosting To VPS

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 …