Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Calvin
For the bloggers, I’m asking this question because my blog became unavailable for hours and I was wondering how attached are you with your blog. Are you thinking how many visitors will you lose while your site is down? Will you panic, freak out and feel frustrated?
When I visited my site earlier, I get [...]
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Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Calvin
To all my blogger friends, was 2008 a good year for your blog? Were you able to sustain writing for it? Would you agree that blogging is not for everyone? I know a handful of people whose posts dwindled down or even came to a halt due to not having time for blogging.
I am fortunate [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2008 by Calvin
Just spent an hour backing up my site and upgrading to Wordpress 2.7. I was expecting the manual upgrade will give me headaches but surprisingly it went pretty smoothly with only a couple of minor hitches.
I followed this Upgrading Wordpress Extended guide which was pretty detailed and I was able to upgrade quite easily. [...]
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Posted on December 26th, 2008 by Calvin
Windows Live Writer is hands down the best blogging tool out there. If you don’t know what Live Writer is, it’s a way for you to compose your posts offline before you publish it without the need to log in manually to your site.
What separates it to other publishing tools out there is that [...]
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Posted on December 21st, 2008 by Calvin
Did you know that you could automatically show Yahoo Messenger 9.0 users your most recent post as your YM status? This is pretty neat if you want to promote your site to your YM friends without manually entering it as your status message.
Here’s what it looks like:
To achieve this, simply sign up to MyBlogLog using [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2008 by Calvin
Woot! Here’s a nice promo from GoDaddy that you shouldn’t miss. I bought another domain (pinoywebsurfer.com) for only $1.19 for the first year. That’s less than a hundred pesos for the whole year!
I think this one’s a Thanksgiving Day promo and is the lowest price for a 1-year domain name that I’ve seen. Don’t choose [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2008 by Calvin
If your site is located on a paid hosting, I would like know how much bandwidth per month your site is consuming. Most hosting services offer 3-5GB for its basic plan (mine is only 3GB) and I thought that was enough for a small blog such as mine.
But last month, I almost reached my 3GB [...]
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