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Adding search engines to firefox

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:43:00 -0700

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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Ornate serendipity template

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:10:09 -0700

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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Nightwatch serendipity theme

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:48:00 -0800

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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Squid reverse proxy Apache on centos 4.5

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:33:00 -0800

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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Receiving Paypal payments in Pakistan

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:23:25 -0800

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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Review of Google Adsense payments via Western Union

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:25:00 -0800

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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Geo.tv in a state of emergency

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:52:00 -0800

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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Why a website's domain name is so valuable

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0700

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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PKNIC's archaic procedures

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:37:00 -0700

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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Computers and paper consumption

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 05:28:00 -0700

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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Smarty in your s9y sidebar

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:14:08 -0700

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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InFormEnter Firefox extension

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:05:09 -0700

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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A few things I have learned about Adsense

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:20:00 -0700

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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Keeping a window always on top

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:45:00 -0700

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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Header image selection via media manager in Serendipity themes

nospam@example.com (Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq) — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:23:00 -0700

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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