Move your Blog from WordPress.com to a Personal Domain

Move your Blog from WordPress.com to a Personal Domain

This guide is for bloggers who plan to move their site from wordpress.com to a personal web domain using the self-hosted version of WordPress blogging software (wordpress.org). After the migration in complete, all your older blog links will continue to work and visitors will be redirected to t

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Run DOS Games Classic on your Computer

Run DOS Games Classic on your Computer

If your computer is running a fairly new operating systems, such as Windows XP, Vista or even Mac OS X, chances are that it won’t be able to play any of the old DOS games that were originally designed for 16-bit systems. There are however simple workarounds that will help you play your fa

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Use Windows 7 Themes on XP and Vista Computers

Use Windows 7 Themes on XP and Vista Computers

Microsoft paid close attention to personalization in Windows 7, and shipped it with a gorgeous collection of desktop backgrounds and themes. Windows 7 also makes it easy for users to create their own personalized themes and then share it with other Windows 7 users. If you are still using an older

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Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly in Two Minutes

Four easy steps Outlined below are the four steps to get this done in a matter of minutes, provided you are in an Apache environment and can run PHP. If you’re not, these steps can easily be adaptable to other technologies. Step 1: Set up a domain mirror If your site lives at www.myawes

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Get Access to Web-based Microsoft Office Apps Now!

Get Access to Web-based Microsoft Office Apps Now!

In the coming months, Microsoft will unveil a Google Docs like product that will let users create and edit Office documents in the browser itself without requiring a copy of Microsoft Office software. The product, known as "Office Web Apps", will include online versions of Microsoft

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Install Joomla in localhost

Install Joomla in localhost

1. go to http://www.joomla.org/ and download joomla installer [ choose the download button on the left (under Joomla 1.5) ] ok, go and download Joomla_1.5.4-Stable-Full_Package.zip save it to c:/ and extract (use winRaR) 2. Ok, now go to http://www.appservnetwork.com/ and download AppS

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Banned AdSense Publisher Gets His Money Back from Google

It’s not uncommon to hear stories of disgruntled AdSense publishers whose accounts have been permanently banned by Google either due to "non-compliance with AdSense policies" or for "posing a significant risk to AdWords advertisers." The compliance issue is almost always

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Install WordPress on your own Computer In 5 Minutes

Install WordPress on your own Computer In 5 Minutes

You don’t have to be a geek to install WordPress on your own computer because the process is as simple as installing any other native Windows Application (e.g. Microsoft Office). Before we get into the actual installation process, let’s look at some reasons why you may want to install a copy

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What is OpenDNS and Why You Absolutely Need It ?

What is OpenDNS and Why You Absolutely Need It ?

When you type an address like www.yahoo.com in your browser address bar, the computer doesn’t know where yahoo.com points to and it will therefore ask the DNS server. The job of a DNS server is to translate this human-readable web address (like www.yahoo.com) into a computer-readable number als

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Increasing Alexa Ranking

Increasing Alexa Ranking

AlexaRank is a measure of website popularity by comparing a site with all sites on the Internet. The calculation of Alexa rank is done by combining the visitor average of a site per day and number of pages a website opened by the visitor. Alexa Rank 1 is the highest level of alexa, meaning that the

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