I am a command line junkie as it helps me stay productive and move around faster than using a mouse. I try and use the keyboard quite often and familiarize myself with shortcuts that help me save time doing things. Since I began using Linux around 6 years ago I have always tried and made use of its rich set up commands. This post is about how you can use Linux commands to easily install and update plugins without making use of a visual uploading software like Filezilla or WinSCP.

I recently got my mp3 player which I am listening to right now. While surfing around I came across Bizarrearea which lists the 35 strangest mp3 players, here are a ...

Backing up data is a very critical part of your day to day computer life. To keep your files secure and safe from data crashes you should regulalry back up your data. But how long can you sustain buying expensive backup devices and medias to keep your data safe. Backing up data is a costly affair if you have a lot of data to backup.

Here are some good reads you can start your week with.

I found this video while going through my feeds. It's scary how much information Google has. It would be more scarier if Google decided to turn evil.

You may have come across colors as a part of your day to day life. Colors contribute towards a much better approach than than the usual black and white. ...

Yippee I am so excited that I am posting a off topic conversation here. It has been almost 2 months since I landed in the US and these are the first gadgets I got my hands on. I just got my latest MP3 player no not a iPod its hype not a player and my latest cool digital camera with 7.1 Mega pixels and a 6x Digital Zoom. Well to tell you more about the gadgets I am using my Canon Powershot and my Motorola V3i Razr to click the pics.

I get a few questions to help readers out for problems they are facing, so here is a new series where you can simply contact me about your problems and I will try and help you solve about it, all you have to do is send me a email using the contact form and I will try and find the solution and help you out as much as I can. The current query is from a reader Al who has recentely downloaded Flock and wants to get rid of the large address bars at the top, also he wants to know what Flock is all about.

I know the title is a little weird, but the competion between the top three in search advertising is such. Google and Microsoft have spent billions of dollars to buy new ad companies. Yahoo too is not far behind, but surprise of surprise how does Yahoo get some of its advertisers, any guesses. By advertising with Ad words, isn't it funny that Yahoo itself is using Google Ad Words as a platform to sell their advertising platform. I am not sure how the Yahoo guys agreed to do this but this is a total irony when they are competing against each other.

Web2.0 logos have become a fad now and I see many websites making use of Web2.0 logos. Even Techie Buzz spots one :). But were buttons far away. Well lets ...

Backups save you a great deal. Just suppose your entire database crashed and you do not have any backups of your data, or your hard drive crashed and you lose your entire data. The importance about backup has been well documented by numerous site and many people do religiously backup their data.

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Weblog Tools Collection is conducting its second plugin contest for wordpress plugins. I have created a plugin earlier called Better Comments Manager which allows you to reply to comments without having to visit the post and also allows you to sort all comments by post.

Search Engines. Feed Readers. Digg. Stumble Upon. Social Bookmarking sites. Start pages. Link Love. Referrals. Trackbacks. Pingbacks and more. Ok I am not talking gibberish :). What I was highlighting is that these are many of the ways readers land up on your site. But what about the age old method of typing in your URL into the address bar. It has almost been long forgotten and very rarely do users use this option.

I was doing about to search for avoiding duplicate content with wordpress when I saw the suggestions that Google gave. Check out the screen shot below The suggestions clearly indicate that ...