Techie Buzz. Know Your Technology Head On.

I was going through my feed subscribers and was startled to see that around 50% of my email subscribers had not confirmed their subscriptions to the Techie Buzz feeds, then I saw how painful it was to send them a friendly message saying that hey I see you have not confirmed yet so why don’t you do that.

That is when the idea to develop this plugin came to my mind, it took two days of my time out of my other work but it was worth it, I can say so because it was never more easier than to have such a functionality inside my WordPress admin panel itself.

Welcome to Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers my 4th plugin yet but a long way from being my last one.

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Well that is the question which has a definite affirmative answer and inkShop ordered this review from me to tell the world more about it and also let you know about their own service where you can get the ink cartridges which are manufactured under stringent ISO 9001 / 9002 standards and available at a 30-75% discounted rate.

Well buying a printer is not a big deal with manufacturers allowing a hefty discount on the initial purchase. You may be quite happy with the money you saved but in months and years to come you may realize that the amount of money you spend on buying printer ink cartridges may easily overtake the cost of your initial printer purchase.

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I am releasing a new version of WPAU because lots of people who have their blog setup in a separate directory other than their blog URL cannot update their blog using the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. The new version 0.7 contains a bug fix for only the blogs who cannot upgrade because of the above mentioned bug.

A slight change in reporting bugs has to be followed, instead of adding a bug please use the support forum instead of adding your bugs in the comments, this will help me find and fix the bugs faster. Right now I have to go through all the comments and find the bugs and fix them.

It would be great if you use the support forum in future.

That’s it I am always ready to support all the plugins that I create, with your help I can do it better. Enjoy and download the latest version below.

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If you studied hard at school you may remember Algebra well lets do some algebra magic out here to crack the solution for yesterday’s post on how I can figure out your age without you telling me, if you have not read that yet read it first and come back to view the solution.

The Answer

Assume ‘x’ to be any number that you want it may be a single digit number or a double digit number or a triple digit number. The final outcome would depend on the number of digits you choose so if you choose single digit number the final outcome will be a 3 digit number, for a double digit number the outcome will be a 4 digit number and so on.

Of course a 0 will result in an output of 2 digit number.

Next Step: Multiply it by 2
Output: 2x

Next Step: Add 5 to it
Output: 2x + 5

Next Step: Multiply it by 50
Output: 100x + 250

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Just follow this cool little trick and I will be able to ascertain your actual age without you telling me

1. How many times do you eat your dinner in a restaurant in a week.
2. Now take this answer and multiply it with 2.
3. Add 5 to it.
4. Multiply the result with 50.
5. If this year your birthday has already passed this year add 1756 to the total, if it has already passed add 1757.
6. Now subtract the year you were born in from the total, so if you were born in 1960, subtract 1960 from the above total.

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This post is a part of group writing project organized by Vivien of Inspiration Bit. I first heard about it from my good friend Shankar. There is another reason why I am taking part in this project which is to let my readers know a little bit more about me and how I manage my time.

Well to start with I am a Software Engineer with a full time job working in the US. I also blog along with doing freelance projects and also do some open source work creating WordPress plugins in my spare time, also being away from my family and close ones in India I need to spend part of my day with them.

Lots of things to do in a single day isn’t it. Well but with a little bit of management I am able to pull of the day with some decent sleep :-).

I am not a early riser and wake up at 9.30 in the morning after which I do all my rituals and head to the office reaching there by 11. I catch up on emails and some other news and feeds within the first hour of me reaching the office starting work at around 12, but being a habitual to do freak before I startup work I write down notes on the things that have to be completed today prioritize them accordingly so that before the end of the day I am well aware of the things that require attention immediately the next day.

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Today is a great day for blogger’s who have been using the WordPress platform, WordPress 2.3 has finally shown its face to the world and with that lots of exciting new features including tagging, automatic notifications for plugins and much more.

Matt has proudly announce the release today so head there and check out the latest changes.

Here is a brief on the new release.

1. Native tagging system.
2. Update notifications for plugins.
3. Canonical URLs
4. Multi author support for guest authors
5. Advanced WYSIWYG editor features for TincyMCE

Read the other changes at WordPress Codex.