TechRaga

The most popular blogging software and open source CMS, WordPress, is going to celebrate its seventh birthday on 27 May, 2010.

Lifehacker.com recently asked readers about their favourite web hosting service, and around 26% voted for the DreamHost.

A new kind of hack is affecting many website running on popular blog hosting platform WordPress. Hackers somehow manage to manipulate the title of web pages, which is visible only to search engines.

Micro-blogging and lifestreaming service, Storytlr.com, has stopped hosting websites for users. Storytlr has been released as Open Source project, which permits users to download and install Storytlr on their own servers.

Now, self hosted WordPress blogs can use wp.me URL shortening service. This feature was available only to WordPress.com users in past.

Clicky offers a WordPress plugin for self-hosted blogs.

You can read your favorite blogs (hosted with WordPress.com) in Jabber supported IM clients like Gtalk and Pidgin.

Some great add-ons for Firefox — which enhance offline browsing with Firefox. Browse websites, Access Gmail, Google Docs and other web based applications in offline mode.

Want to create your own Twitter client?

Here are four easy way to create your own service like TinyURL and bitly.

There are several ways to create your own social networking site like Orkut, Facebook or MySpace. I am listing few ways here.

Are you sure about the security of your WordPress blog? May be. But, as a WordPress novice, I was very clueless over this issue. Thanks to Amit Banerjee who has written a wonderful post on WordPress security.

Attending WordCamp India (organised at Noida) was a great experience for me.  Meeting Matt Mullenweg – the developer of WordPress, has given me a new insight.

The Delhi Bloggers Bloc is organising India’s first WordCamp in Delhi. The WordCamp is a conference which brings together stakeholders and audiences of social media and blogging, centred around WordPress. Fortunately, Matt Mullenweg (the father of WordPress) and Om Malik (GigaOm) are also joining the event.

Today, this blog is moved to WordPress.  I am very excited about using WordPress on this blog. Though, WordPress is not new for me and after this migration I have no active blog with Blogger.