I use few popular cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Amazon S3, etc. for storing files and important data. I store frequently accessed files on Google Drive and highly important and archived data on Amazon S3. I also use Dropbox to serve static files of my websites. I replicate Dropbox files to Box(…)
This is a follow-up post to my previous Part-I post where I told about the theme I am using for this blog. This post describes various plugins I use to give additional features to the core WordPress script. 1. Akismet: This spam-prevention plugin comes default with every WordPress installation. Comment spam is a huge problem(…)
“What plugins and theme you use?” is the frequent question I get from the visitors and fellow bloggers, so here is a detailed post about all things that power my blog. Theme: My blog was started in 2007 and since then I used a free WordPress theme called “iTheme” from N.Design Studio, which is a(…)
I just started testing out AWS Glacier, which is an extremely low-cost data storage service by Amazon with a durability of 99.999999999%. It just costs one cent per gigabyte per month. Unlike S3, you cannot retrieve the data on demand. You need to initiate a request for download, which will be processed in 3-5 hours(…)
Found this tiny (600KB) piece of software that can convert TXT files to RTF and HTML files. It is called Docfrac. It is an Open Source, free software. It can converter a single or a batch of files at a go. It also has the ability to converter vice versa too. Conversion Formats RTF to(…)
I have been noticing that one of my systems’ volume is very low compared to the other. I have checked all the settings to increase it, but in vain. Then, done a search for the freeware tools to increase the volume and found this little software, which found that I am using only half of(…)
As I had lot of printing and scanning work for my B.Ed. instructional material, I decided to purchase a printer with scanner. Our first printer was HP with scanner, which I purchased in the year 2005 and it lasted for four years. Cartridges were very costly, but the printing and scanning quality was good. These(…)
I was scanning a book and wanted to make a PDF from all the scanned images. I searched the SourceForge and found this tiny software, which worked perfectly. I was able to turn all the images into a nice PDF. This tool is called “Image2PDF,” a project on SourceForge. It is a free software. It(…)
I started this blog in March 2007 after I acquired this domain name at SnapNames. I hosted this blog on DreamHost until November 2010. I then moved to HostGator to get rid of problems I was experiencing there. It has been a year since I moved to HostGator, so decided to write a review of(…)
Shampoo, toothpaste, and soap are made of chemicals and they are harmful in long term. Just google the words “personal care products harmful ingredients” and read. We know about it, but we still use them as we don’t know the better harmless alternatives, don’t have the access to them, or just simply they are easy(…)