I generally count on Gmail’s virus scanner to scan the emails and report any potential problems and have taken it for granted. That is why I was surprised the other day to get this message:

Gmail virus scanner just failed to scan it.

I always have my desktop antivirus running so it was not an issue for me but if you do not have it you should. Check out the free alternatives here.

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There had been plenty of cases of content being stolen by blogs but most of them gave a link back to the source. In this particular case, somebody was stealing my content from article sites onto his blog the very day they got published on the article sites. The worse part was, his pages were getting indexed with the content on search engines (must be pinging the search engines after posting the blog). But on looking deeper I found that the person had copied not only mine but several other author’s articles as well without any credit. I had a strong case.

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When you go to register with yahoo mail for a new email account, yahoo detects your location based on the IP address and gives you the option of email id only for that country e.g.

• Europe (UK)

Your choice is limited to yahoo.co.uk

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If you are looking for a way to show live scores on your blog and/or website then try this Cricket Live Score Widget at widgetbox.

The widget shows all IPL Live Scores and is very easy to use.

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Windows Live Writer is my prefered blog authoring and publishing tool, same for lot of people out there.

It is quiet easy to compose and post using Windows Live Writer and I have been doing that for sometime for my WordPress blogs. But for one new site I am using Drupal for the first time and I wanted to configure Windows Live Writer to post “stories”, “pages”, “forum topics” and “blog posts” but there are several small little details which made it a trial and error exercise to configure Drupal to allow me to post all the above mentioned items.

In this post I will document step by step process to go about configuring Windows Live Writer (WLW) to post to Drupal.

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Loads of widgets, integration with third party tools using JavaScript APIs, high performance AJAX. All this is causing sites to slow down. Staff which nobody cared about, now need to be looked into to ensure that the site loads faster.

Optimization Techniques

I will present some optimization techniques  in several easy to use and understand categories. This will allow you to pick and choose one category and focus on it at any one time.

1. General Optimization Tips
2. Optimization Techniques for Images
3. Optimize HTML on the page
4. Optimize JavaScript and CSS Files
5. Optimization tips for Documents on Websites
6. Tools to help with Optimization

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There are several ways to combine multiple feeds into one and publish the aggregated feed.

In this post I am going to discuss two ways to do that and list out advantages and disadvantages associated with each.

The two very popular tools which allow you to aggregate feeds are:

• Yahoo Pipes 
• Feedburner Network

Here is a video which demonstrates how to combine multiple RSS feeds into one using Yahoo Pipes and then subscribe to the combined feed:

Feedburner Network allows you to create a network of blogs using the RSS feeds for those blogs. It is a very effective tool to create a blog group based on certain themes. This blog is part of two Feedburner networks: India Technology Bloggers and Blogaloreans. If you have a Feedburner account (if you don’t you can create it free), you can create a network or search for a network and join it:

Here is the FAQ page on Feedburner Networks for those interested.

Yahoo Pipes are useful if you have multiple feeds of your own and you just want to combine them and publish a single feed. Yahoo pipes allows you to make your feed available for various feed readers, subscribe by phone and email. The thing which is lacking is the lack of support for monetization and marketing tools to support you leverage your aggregated feed. These are standard with any Feedburner network.

Feedburner Network is best used when it bring together multiple bloggers around a central theme. It allows you to easily market/publicize your network feed using host of tools like Feedflare, chicklets, member badge etc.

You can always combine multiple feeds into one using Yahoo pipes and then create a feed or join a Feedburner network using that Yahoo pipes aggregated feed!

Let me know of other ways you have combined your feeds.

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I installed Wordpress 2.2 version on a new blog of mine on Indian Real Estate sometime back and was trying to add a Sitemap page to it today.

I added the Sitemap page and it gave a 404 error (page not found). My permalink structure was set to “Date and name based”. I switched to “Default” permalink structure and the page would come up. I needed the “Date and name based” option (useful from SEO point of view) to work for me though.

I was looking at the page options (from the admin interface) and tweaked around the “Page Slug” option and named sitemap-propertysamachar instead of sitemap.

Viola! the page started coming up.

I hope this helps people who ran into this issue. If anyone knows why this would happen, then please leave a comment here.

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