Abdussamad's blogspace Website development and serendipity templates http://abdussamad.com/templates/default/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://abdussamad.com/ 2008-04-15T14:05:40Z Serendipity 1.2.1 - http://www.s9y.org/ en Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2008-04-15T13:43:00Z 2008-04-15T14:05:40Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=127 1 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=127 http://abdussamad.com/archives/127-guid.html Adding search engines to firefox
Firefox web browser has this really useful search bar integrated into its interface: If you click on the arrow next to the google icon you'll get a list of other search engines that you can use: ...

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Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2008-03-20T06:10:09Z 2008-03-20T06:33:49Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=126 0 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=126 http://abdussamad.com/archives/126-guid.html Ornate serendipity template
Ornate is an open source template by freecsstemplates.org that I recently ported to serendipity . Its got a nicely decorated left sidebar. Red and white are the primary colours of this theme. ...

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Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2008-02-08T04:48:00Z 2008-04-18T23:20:25Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=125 3 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=125 http://abdussamad.com/archives/125-guid.html Nightwatch serendipity theme
I am releasing the Nightwatch serendipity theme for free. I call it that because the theme looks good if you set a night time cityscape as the header image. You can see a preview of it below: Click to see a larger version ...

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serendipity themes Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-12-20T22:33:00Z 2008-01-25T14:42:44Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=121 1 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=121 http://abdussamad.com/archives/121-guid.html Squid reverse proxy Apache on centos 4.5
I have a centos 4.5 powered VPS that was running out of memory at peak times and so I decided to take a look at using squid to reverse proxy apache. When squid is used as a reverse proxy all http requests are proxied through squid to apache. The...

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website administration website hosting Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-12-08T03:23:25Z 2008-04-02T00:52:09Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=119 11 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=119 http://abdussamad.com/archives/119-guid.html Receiving Paypal payments in Pakistan
Paypal is the most widely used payment system on the Internet. Unfortunately Paypal does not support Pakistan but now it is possible to accept paypal payments via third party payment processors. This means that talented Pakistani freelancers are no...

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making money pakistan Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-11-08T12:25:00Z 2008-04-02T00:52:59Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=118 2 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=118 http://abdussamad.com/archives/118-guid.html Review of Google Adsense payments via Western Union
Back in late September Google announced that they would give publishers in Pakistan and other mostly south and south east Asian countries the option to receive adsense payments via Western Union (WU). This announcement created a lot of buzz in the...

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adsense Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-11-04T14:52:00Z 2008-04-02T00:54:32Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=117 1 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=117 http://abdussamad.com/archives/117-guid.html Geo.tv in a state of emergency
Click on thumbnail for larger image As you may already be aware Pakistan is now in a state or emergency. I won't go into the details of this as you can get much more information from the hundred and one blogs and forums covering this....

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tech news Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-10-31T16:00:00Z 2008-04-02T00:55:25Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=116 0 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=116 http://abdussamad.com/archives/116-guid.html Why a website's domain name is so valuable
Recently I had to resurrect some of my high traffic sites after they were down for a few weeks due to hosting trouble. I was pleasantly surprised to find that they still had some traffic coming to them and I started earning immediately. This made me...

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Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-08-20T14:37:00Z 2008-04-02T00:56:31Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=104 0 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=104 http://abdussamad.com/archives/104-guid.html PKNIC's archaic procedures
PKNIC is the registry responsible for the .pk country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for Pakistan. .pk domains are very popular in Pakistan and with good reason. There are lots of premium word .pk domains still available and companies that purchase...

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domain names pakistan Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-07-07T12:28:00Z 2008-04-02T00:57:30Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=112 0 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=112 http://abdussamad.com/archives/112-guid.html Computers and paper consumption
Paper consumption is increasing. Shirazi of chowrangi.com has an interesting article about computers and paper consumption . He argues that increasing use of computers and web publishing will result in the reduction of paper consumption and...

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Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-06-29T01:14:08Z 2008-04-02T00:58:09Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=111 0 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=111 http://abdussamad.com/archives/111-guid.html Smarty in your s9y sidebar
I recently discovered the "markup: smarty" event plugin in spartacus ! It allows you to add smarty tags in your entries and sidebar html nuggets. I installed it and am using smarty tags within an HTML nugget sidebar plugin to selectively...

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serendipity serendipity tips Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-06-13T04:05:09Z 2007-06-19T14:40:07Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=110 0 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=110 http://abdussamad.com/archives/110-guid.html InFormEnter Firefox extension
InFormEnter is a firefox extension that allows you to quickly enter text into a form field. Once installed it shows an icon against every form field. Clicking on that icon displays a menu containing previously saved text snippets that you can...

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computer tips freeware Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-06-11T12:20:00Z 2007-06-11T12:23:55Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=109 1 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=109 http://abdussamad.com/archives/109-guid.html A few things I have learned about Adsense
I am using google adsense on a few of my sites and I have learned a thing or two about how to make a decent amount from it: Blending in is key : This is a widely cited tip but it is worth repeating. It is important that your adsense ads blend...

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adsense making money Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-05-17T02:45:00Z 2007-05-17T01:15:06Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=108 3 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=108 http://abdussamad.com/archives/108-guid.html Keeping a window always on top
A simple free program that I often use is ontop. On top makes a window always stay on top of other windows. This is useful if you want to copy things from one window to another or if you want to look at two documents simultaneously. Ontop...

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computer tips freeware windows tips Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq nospam@example.com 2007-05-15T04:23:00Z 2007-05-18T05:02:01Z http://abdussamad.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=107 0 http://abdussamad.com/rss.php?version=atom1.0&type=comments&cid=107 http://abdussamad.com/archives/107-guid.html Header image selection via media manager in Serendipity themes
This article shows you how to implement header image selection via the media manager in your serendipity templates configuration. I first introduced this feature in the beautiful day theme and it proved to be quite popular. ...

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