Wordpress is one of the most flexible content management systems available today, making it a highly attractive solution for just about any web-based need. Notwithstanding its price tag of FREE, Wordpress is an exceptional framework, capable of powering just about any site imaginable. But because of...

Tumblr has long been a site that promotes outside-of-the-box blogging with inside-of-the-box restrictions. Originally just a short-form way to tumble across the web and quickly post photos, videos, audio, text, and quotes, Tumblrs everywhere now appear in all shapes and sizes. One very popular niche...

While Tumblr tends to keep things minimal, sometimes you’re just dying to post a widget on your site that relates to what you discuss, or maybe you just want to share something with your readers. The 20 widgets we’ve gathered below are not meant to be used en masse on Tumblr blogs, but o...

When I logged into typepad last night, I noticed that I had written 4,423 posts here on AVC since starting this blog in September of 2003. That got me thinking about how many posts I'd written on Twitter and Tumblr since starting on those "microblogging" platforms in 2007. And then I start...

There’s been a lot of chat recently about whether blogging is dead, sparked by this article in Wired by Paul Boutin. It’s easy to scoff at the article, and the idea that blogging is dead is obviously nonsense. But I doubt the claim would have got so much attention if there wasn’t a...

Microsoft recently released a patch for Windows Vista (kb 955020) that updates the English and German language dictionary of Windows Vista to include these five words: Obama, Nazr, Friendster, Klum and Racicot. That’s all it does - add five new words to the English and German dictionaries in V...

The background of my Twitter page is done using profile images of all my Facebook friends captured via the picture collage trick. As Shripriya pointed out, Facebook has made some changes in their layout so you now need to follow a slightly different route to create that grid of friends. Open Faceboo...

If blogs, personal emails, social networks and other time wasting websites  are banned at your workplace, show this to your boss. A study of office workers in UK has found that banning access to websites at work actually decreases staff productivity. Tea breaks and fag breaks have long been the...

The next time you download a file from RapidShare, you may be asked to solve a tough CAPTCHA image.   Each of the letters in the RapidShare CAPTCHA include a sketch of a cat or a dog and you need to figure out the letters that just have a cat image. It may be hard for spammers to break this com...

Dubai Port Trust authorities have held two ships suspected for cutting the undersea fibre optic cables that disrupted Internet services across Middle East, Asia and North Africa. The ships, MT Ann and MV Hounslow, were caught after Reliance Flag, which owns the cables, passed along satellite images ...