Poshd is a site dedicated to showcasing best of the real estate sites. The sites which break the mold and make the for an exciting real estate experience for everyone are the ones which qualify.

The main page features snippets of pages from the sites which are short listed and every month there is one site which is a featured site of the month (gets a banner at the top).

The users visiting the site can vote for the sites they like (voting uses AJAX, making it easy for anyone to vote)

If you feel you have a good site you can submit your site here. If your site is featured you can use the poshd badges on your site.

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I apologize for my mistake which resulted in the loss of entire Technacular web files. The blog was down for around 48 hours.

The culprit was force remove command which I thought I was running under a sub directory but instead it was in the main root directory. The result, all my domains’ web content just disappeared. Unfortunately, UNIX does not have a recycle bin which gives you a second change to recover things.

One thing you should do to avoid such issues is set an alias in your .bashrc file:

alias rm=’rm-i’

Thanks to 1&1 support team, they were able to recover it from the backup.

I look forward to your continued support.

Please share with me any such experience you have had and how you dealt with it.

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Bloggers of Bangalore are actively building a blogging community aptly named Blogalorean.

I have created a Feedburner network called Blogalorean and an writing this post as an open invitation to all Bloggers (blogging on any topic) who are in Bangalore to join this network. 

If you are interested in knowing more about Feedburner Network then please have a peak at this their FAQ.  

If you wish to join the network and you satisfy the requirement of staying in Bangalore then please leave a comment with you email id and I will send you an invitation.

You can find more details about the Bangalore Bloggers community and events here: http://bangalorebloggersmeet.pbwiki.com/

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Above is the snapshot of Google Trends for Bangalore, Delhi, Calcutta, Mumbai and Chennai

As you can see, Delhi dominates the search volumes with Mumbai and Bangalore fighting it out for the second place. Chennai is fourth and Calcutta finishes last.

In news reference volume, Delhi is a clear winner, followed by Mumbai and then rest of the cities. Delhi being the political center is it understandable that it will have high news references.

You can use Google Trends page to discover hottest search terms for any day and do interesting comparisons like the one above.

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Robert Alan Soloway, one of the world’s most prolific spammer, who was once on the Spamhaus Project list of top 10 spammers, has been arrested (More about Robert Alan Soloway)

This does not mean the end of spam. According to IronPort, the spam volume has been unchanged since his arrest and is around 70 billion messages per 24 hours, up from 36 billion a day last year.

Spamhaus project says:

Up to 80% of spam targeted at Internet users in North America and Europe is generated by a hard-core group of around 200 known professional spam gangs whose names, aliases and operations are documented in Spamhaus’ Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database.

The Spamhaus maintains a real time block list of IP addresses of known spam-sources, including known spammers, spam gangs, spam operations and spam support services. The list is called SBL (Spamhaus Block List).

The Spamhaus Block List (”SBL”) can be used by almost all modern mail servers, by setting your mail server’s anti-spam “Blacklist DNS Servers” to query sbl.spamhaus.org (there might be some license restrictions on this service)

Daily Spam Outbreak (12 months view)

Top 10 Spam-Sending Domains (I was surprised to see Gmail at the second spot but then I get so many spam emails on my Gmail)

Top Spam-Sending Countries

Commtouch from where I got the above charts has a tool to tell you how much the spam costs your organization. You need to feed in: number of employees, average annual salary, average annual daily email per recipient, average % of spam from total email. you will get the total annual cost in dollars with a detailed breakup.

About Robert Alan Soloway  | The 10 Worst Spammers | The 10 Worst Spam Service ISPs | The 10 Worst Spam Origin Countries | Tool to Calculate Spam Cost To An Organization

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Web site stats tracking tool StatCounter now allows free users to increase their log size from 100 to 500!

To increase your log size,

• Log into StatCounter
• Click the wrench icon beside your project
• Click ‘Adjust Log Size’, and enter 500 in the box.
• Click ‘Adjust Project Log’ and you’re done!

This will enable you to see the last 500 pageloads for your sites.

If you are new to StatCounter, try it out, it is free and very easy to configure.

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It is always frustrating to call the railways enquiry number to get information about train arrival as no one picks the phone. After having similar experience yesterday, I started looking for any websites which provided an updated status information on trains in India.

The quest led me to this page: http://www.trainenquiry.com

The site asks you some basic information about your train number or you can even enter the train name and soon you know the upto date information about that train.

Here is a snapshot of the application:

the site has been developed and is maintained by CENTRE FOR RAILWAY INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CRIS). Besides this they have several other project running:

• Passenger Reservation System (PRS)

• Alpha Migration

• Internet Enquiries

• Booking of Tickets on Internet

• Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS)

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I was experimenting with my Windows Vista based Ferrari 5000 laptop when I ran across this site: Windows Marketplace

They have a huge archive of games for download, some paid but lot of them are free! you can sort by price to get the free ones come up on the top.

I downloaded my childhood favorite game: Mario Bros and am enjoying it on my laptop.

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