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Step-by-Step Guide To Setting Up A WordPress Blog

1 July 2009
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At the request of several readers, here’s how to set-up a WordPress blog and migrate your old entries from LiveJournal. 1) Decide On A Hosting Plan You’ll need to decide where you want to host your blog. Key thing to do is to read reviews and what others have to say about the various providers [...]

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Satisfying the Inner Geek

27 June 2009

Been fiddling with the admin panel of my WordPress blog and I can’t decide what theme to choose!! If you know basic code, you can further customise down to the smallest details rather easily. And the widgets!! You can add all kinds of things to your blog like “live” Twitter updates, forms, search tools, visitor [...]

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Preparing To Move To My Own Domain Using WordPress

16 June 2009

After considering this for a few years, I’ve finally decided to set-up my own domain with my blog running on WordPress. WordPress has a new import facility that allows LJ users to import all their entries + replies. Its been a stressful time searching for hosting providers and reading various reviews to make a decision. [...]

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Evolving Role Of Social Media’s Importance In Information Dissemination

14 June 2009
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Social media’s role in the world moves to new levels when governments like China and Iran block site like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube and SMS services during recent events to curb communications between dissidents and prevent too much information from leaking out. These pictures below which appeared on Twitter hours before maintstream media covered events [...]

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iPhone Rumor Round-up: Cheap iPhone, Shutter Button, the Return of Steve?

6 June 2009

Article from Fast Company about possible new iPhone launching very shortly. Cheap iPhone version possibly at under US$99 and an iPhone video version. ARGH …. how am i gonna deal with the overwhelming want to upgrade to the iPhone video if these rumours are true!!! http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/iphone-rumor-round-steve-jobs-returns-99-iphone-shutter-button?# Related Posts Shall We Dance … The Old Version!? [...]

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