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Disqus Comment System for Wordpress

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This blog is now using an interesting new comment system called DISQUS. I like Disqus for the following reasons: 1. It allows users to log in via multiple sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Open Id, Yahoo and Disqus itself 2. It allows users to track all their comments made across multiple sites, at a single place 3. When users manage their comments through Disqus and / or log into Disqus via ...

bbPress: Installation and Deep Integration with Wordpress

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Hello friends. It's been a long time since I have posted any new articles here. This is because I have been keeping very busy with my work life and find no time to research and explore blogger/wordpress code. Recently I learnt about a forum software by name bbpress which can integrate well with wordpress blogs. I decided to squeeze time out of my schedule to try this software and ...

Contest Suggestion: 31 Days of the Dragon

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'lo. After a long time I am posting some thing here for you guys. I hope until now you have enjoyed the existing set of Blogger mods that I had published. While this is not related to blogger mods, I am sure those of you who were unaware, will definitely love it. The other day I came across a big contest while browsing some of sites I read ...

Google page creator: headache

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Google's Page Creator software is seriously pissing me off:I hope I don't end up breaking my monitor, keyboard or mouse the next time I see this:BTW Google should hire someone who has written error messages for Microsoft :)) Coz: "oops! I don't like your error messages". Better still don't give me the donuts, just get the page working. Just a thought (pun intended)Update: Page creator behaves much better ...

A Firefox extension and PurpleMoggy’s hacks

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Hello readers,I have been using a Firefox extension by name fasterfox. If slow browsing speed has been a problem for you, I recommend that you give it a shot.Coming to beta hack, this blog now uses two hacks which I picked up from PurpleMoggy's blog. It appears that a tutorial has been put up for the search box. Please find the tutorial on implementing a 4-in-1 search box ...

Google Docs & Spreadsheets (updated)

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You might have come to know by now that Google has released a service called Google Docs & Spreadsheets . In this service, one can use an online text editor (similar to Microsoft Word and others) to create posts and publish it to their blog.With this service, you can:- Have your documents published online (as a webpage) to share it with others (dedicated URL to each document, ...

Listen to your blog and blog podcasting

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I have recently added a “Listen to this article” link in my post footer and a link to my podcast feed in my blog’s sidebar. Using the link in my post footer, you can listen to my articles by way of streaming mp3 audio. Isn’t that cool?Yes. But how did you do that?I was never into podcasting and had no clue about it. However, while browsing instabloke, I ...

Google Sketchup

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Google does not stop fascinating me! Was checking out Google labs the other day, when I came across this software called Google Sketchup. It is a 3D-design software which is fairly powerful yet very simple and easy to use. And as usual (with Google) there is one version which is available for free.I downloaded the software and the tutorials were easy to follow. I finished them in a ...

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