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How to change your web hosting company

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:33:00 +0000

How to change your web hosting company?

Unfortunately, there are many people whom do not realize how easy it is to switch hosting companies.

All you have to do is re-publish your site to the new address for the new hosting company. Most hosting companies will give you your new IP address where you can publish your site in as little as 10-20 minutes !

Just publish your site, and don't forget to update your name servers. This just means that you will have to go to the company where you purchased your domain name, and put in the name servers that the new hosting company have.

Your domain name will point to your new hosting account in about 24 - 48 hours. Also, you will need to create your new email addresses at the new hosting company. That's it !

So, don't feel like you are stuck with a bad hosting company.

Because you're not.

About the Author

Dr Watson's passion is to guide, coach & mentor people from all walk of life, start their online business, create wealth and grow the business within the shortest possible time frame.To learn more about my recommendation, check out this website at http://www.besthostingplans.biz. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box.

Source

http://www.topwebhosts.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=hosting_articles&wr_id=6

How to choose web hosting company for your website

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 15:26:00 +0000

How to chose web hosting company?

What to see before you choose web hosting company for your website?

This is the one of the single most common and important question when you are chchoosing web hosting company.

The main reason is that web masters are comparing all the WRONG Specifications with different hosting companies as nearly two thirds of what is usually offered is totally not useful to webmaster.

The most common things to look for when you are hosting a small business or personal site are :

1. Email accounts

Try to give every employees you currently have within your office, including future personal explanation plans.

2. Easy & Quick Setup

Should be less than 5 hours, as some company take up to 48 hours to set up a new account.

3. Sufficient Data Transfer

This is the most misunderstood specifications of web hosting, technically speaking most sites just only need about 1 GB. Yes, I know what you are thinking, that's right !

4. Uptime Guarantee

This is very important. If they aren't offering it, they can't guarantee it which is a bad sign.

A 98% Uptime Guarantee or above is deem to be average.

5. Sufficient Disk Storage Space

Most sites only need up to 50 MB, so don't be greedy or are enticed by the seller providing over the top storage as you won't need it & are just paying for nothing !)

6. 24/7 Live Support

Source
http://www.topwebhosts.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=hosting_articles&wr_id=6 About Dr. Watson, the author. About the Author Dr Watson's passion is to guide, coach & mentor people from all walk of life, start their online business, create wealth and grow the business within the shortest possible time frame.To learn more about my recommendation, check out this website at http://www.besthostingplans.biz. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box.

how-to-use-facebook-safely

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 03:09:00 +0000

Day by day security, privacy on Internet has become very important.
It is easy to use Facebook safely. Some useful tips. Attend to these settings first. Settings decide who gets to see how much others get to see.

Have fun.
Search and add people you know or even people you would like to know to the list of friends.

Check your contents on Home page. Check your information on Profile page. List of your Friends.
MESSAGES AND CHAT ON FACEBOOK
Check Messages, which are private one- to-one, hence not seen by others. They are like email.
See Notifications.
Chat using Facebook.

Visit Data Use Policy for information about privacy on Facebook. Visit Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to read Facebook's terms. Learn more about your privacy on Facebook.
Control Privacy When You Post
You can manage the privacy of your status updates, photos and information using the inline audience selector — when you share or afterwards. Remember: the people you share with can always share your information with others, including apps. Learn more .
Control Your Default Privacy
This setting will apply to status updates and photos you post to your timeline from a Facebook app (short for application) that doesn't have the inline audience selector, like Facebook for Blackberry.
● Public
○ Friends
○ Custom
How You Connect
Control how you connect with people you know.
Edit Settings to -->

MANAGE WHAT YOU SHARE ON FACEBOOK
Sharing on Facebook
Manage how you share your basic info and contact info.
Edit Settings
Timeline and Tagging
Control what happens when friends tag you or your content, or post on your timeline.
Edit Settings
Apps and Websites
Manage your settings for apps, games and websites.
Edit Settings
Limit the Audience for Past Posts
Limit the audience for posts you shared with friends of friends or Public
Manage Past Post Visibility
Blocked People and Apps
Manage the people and apps you've blocked.
Manage Blocking
See how Facebook appears
Home page
Profile page
Build Friends List

See Help for Settings
See Privacy & Terms of Use of Facebook ·
Report a Problem

Remember to Logout.
(By Ashok Koparday)

how-to-use-facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:49:00 +0000

FACE THE FACEBOOK FACTS BE ALERT ABOUT WHO SEES WHAT INFORMATION, PICTURES, VIDEOS.

Any one in the world with internet access from mobile as well as home or office Computers can get information ABOUT YOU. You are no more a private person unless you select settings to privacy your family, friends, their family, their friends all/everybody's information data is available to anybody in the world.
Facebook has become addictive entertainment for billions of people.
Do you have pictures or videos of your family? Do you want any body in the world to see them or restrict who sees your pictures or videos. pictures on
Protect your data from bad people while you continue to share your information and exchange information, share pictures and comments with SELECTED people. People are classified as:
1.
Public: Any body in the world
2.
Friends
3.
Acquaintances
4.
Family
5.
None

Search on internet can reveal your personal valuable information. Are you being tracked? Make sure whom you add as "Friend" and what access to give them. Some people will be unknown, some fake, others true, intentions good or bad.
Home Profile Friends Messages
Notifications(3) Chat
Manage Your Facebook Account Settings

Visit Facebook's Data Use Policy for information about privacy on Facebook. Visit Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to read Facebook's terms. Learn more about your privacy on Facebook.
Control Privacy When You Post
You can manage the privacy of your status updates, photos and information using the inline audience selector — when you share or afterwards. Remember: the people you share with can always share your information with others, including apps. Learn more .
Control Your Default Privacy
This setting will apply to status updates and photos you post to your timeline from a Facebook app that doesn't have the inline audience selector, like Facebook for Blackberry.
● Public
○ Friends
○ Custom
How You Connect
Control how you connect with people you know.
Edit Settings
Sharing on Facebook
Manage how you share your basic info and contact info.
Edit Settings
Timeline and Tagging
Control what happens when friends tag you or your content, or post on your timeline.
Edit Settings
Apps and Websites
Manage your settings for apps, games and websites.
Edit Settings
Limit the Audience for Past Posts
Limit the audience for posts you shared with friends of friends or Public
Manage Past Post Visibility
Blocked People and Apps
Manage the people and apps you've blocked.
Manage Blocking
Home · Profile · Friends · Messages
Survey · Help · Settings · Privacy & Terms · Report a Problem

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danger-of-cheap-unlimited-web-hosting

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:23:00 +0000

"Unlimited" is not unlimited. It is an advertising gimmick most web hosting service providers use.
"Let me state clearly for any one that may be new to web hosting, there is no hosting company out there that can actually provide you with unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth."
See
http://webhostingw.com/unlimited-isnt-unlimited/

They do not clearly define limitations, which if told are placed in obscure way in their Terms And Conditions. Terms Of Service of shared hosting are not read and you are suddenly one day slapped by the message upgrade to VPS (which is very expensive). Your website has high CPU usage.

HIGH CPU USAGE CAN LEAD TO YOUR ACCOUNT BEING SUSPENDED.
It means you will no longer see your website on the internet even if you have paid all money in advance for several years ahead.

The website URL simply shows to everybody a disgusting shameful dreaded message:
"ACCOUNT SUSPENDED.
This account has been suspended."

IF YOU THINK YOU DON'T HAVE HIGH TRAFFIC (less than 1000 visitors per day),
YOU DON'T HAVE HUGE AUDIO VIDEO multimedia FILES,
YOU HAVE ONLY FEW ESSENTIAL PLUGINS
YOU DO HAVE CACHE PLUGIN
YET YOUR ACCOUNT CAN BE SUSPENDED.

Reason could be: Old server with too many web sites and the web host wanting you to pay HUGE FEE for VPS.

DO YOU READ ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND ASK SPECIFIC QUESTIONS TO SUPPORT TEAM OF WEB HOST.

Even if you do you will see that
"unlimited" resources is nothing but an advertising trick, in which all the important information that the client needs to know is hidden from him or is revealed in a specific way so you couldn't notice that apart of the story is missing at the beginning.

Source-Copyright-Thanks:

http://webhostingw.com/unlimited-isnt-unlimited/

By Ashok Koparday

how-to-avoid-high-cpu-usage-shared-hosting

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:03:00 +0000

Did you face this: Your website is using high CPU usage . Account Suspended - Upgrade to VPS?

WHY CPU USAGE IS IMPORTANT
High CPU usage can have your account suspended. You will no longer see your website on the internet even if you have paid all amount.
The website URL simply shows to everybody message:
"ACCOUNT SUSPENDED.
This account has been suspended."

CPU time is a finite resource shared by all websites hosted on a particular web server, if any one website uses the CPU excessively; other websites on the same server will be deprived the opportunity to serve their pages in a timely manner, and will often appear to be sluggish.

IMPORTANT
Whatever you do backup your site first.

HOW TO AVOID HIGH CPU USAGE
1.
Use plugin for cache. On wordpress 'W3 Total Cache' plugin is best and a must use plugin. See below article on how to configure W3 Total Cache plugin by Ajay Meher.
http://www.techiezone.net/tutorials/configure-w3-total-cache/
CDN - speedymirror
----

2.
Keep minimum pluggins. Lesser the better.
Upgrade plugins. Remove any unused web applications and/or plugins/add-ons that you have installed
See the list of not recommended plugins below and alternatives to those plugins.

3.
Optimize scripts databases. Jing Hong tells how to do that using mySQL queries.
See
http://www.allguru.net/database/8-useful-sql-to-clean-up-wordpress-database/
You can use PHP myAdmin. Select all mySQL database. On options click optimize.

4
Upgrade web platform. Example use updated version of wordpress or joomla.

5.
Use themes carefully. Wordpress Themes tht don't require SEO pluggin are
Genesis
Thesis
If there are graphics in your theme upload on blogspot or flickr and use from there.

WHAT EXACTLY IS CPU USAGE
CPU time (or CPU usage, processing time) is the amount of time for which a central processing unit (CPU) was used for processing instructions of a computer program, as opposed to, for example, waiting for input/output operations. [ 1 ]

High "resource usage" means CPU and memory usage, not disk space or bandwidth.

WHAT DOES (Central Processing Unit) CPU DO
The web server's CPU is used to obtain and serve your web pages to your visitors, whether these pages are static or dynamic is totally irrelevant. More CPU cycles or resources are used when your web pages are served dynamically from a database or script, since the database has to do some fair amount of processing to construct and serve these web pages to the visitors. It has to load the web template, obtain data for that particular page from the database, execute any plugins or modules that you have installed, and finally package the page to be served to your website visitors.

HOW TO FIND CAUSE OF HIGH CPU USAGE
1
BANDWIDTH STATS
The site high CPU using site generates the most traffic for the past day and for the current month.
2
TRAFFIC STATS
Look for the file(s) that have generated most traffic - look at the Top 10 apps, Total URLs by KBytes table. Look particularly for any PHP/CGI script files in this list that have generated unusually high amounts of traffic.

3
VISITOR STATS
look for the visitor/host that has generated most traffic this month. You will find the list under Top 10 of XX Total Sites by KBytes - look for any hosts that have generated unusually large amounts of traffic (when compared to others in the same period) - this will either be an IP address or a hostname of some sort, some domain.com

LIST OF WORDPRESS PLUGINS NOT RECOMMENDED
(Alternative plugin shownin brackets) [ 2 ]

1. All In One SEO (alternative WordPress SEO )

2. Broken Link Checker

3. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (alternative Better Related Posts )

4. NextGen Gallery (alternative WordPress gallery shortcode and WP FancyBox)

5.
Tracking traffic plugins (better alternative jetpack/google analytics)

Sources- Thanks -
Copyright owners:

Thanks to Patricia B.

1.
https://secure.vexxhost.com/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/24/0/what-is-high-cpu-usage-and-how-can-i-reduce-my-usage/
Date published 2011
Retrieved October 30, 2012

2.
http://support.ecenica.com/wordpress/fix-high-cpu-load-wordpress/
Title
How to fix high-CPU load in WordPress

Date
Published: 27th March, 2012
Modified: 24th July, 2012
Retrieved 30 October, 2012
Article ID: 7599

3.
Thanks to Jing Hong.
Ask Jing Hong SOL queries that clean your data base.

http://www.allguru.net/database/8-useful-sql-to-clean-up-wordpress-database/
Retrieved October 30, 2012

4,
From phpMyAdmin select database my SQL options and click on optimize.
Iconcube.com
Retrieved October, 2012

5.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cpu-usage-limit-problem
Retrieved October 30, 2012

6.
Thanks to
Yann Stettler
www.cohprog.com
Received October, 2012

7.
Jijo Sunny
http://kisswebmaster.com/optimizing-wordpress/
Retrieved October 30, 2012

8.
Ajay Meher
http://www.techiezone.net/tutorials/configure-w3-total-cache/
CDN - speedymirror
Retrieved October 30, 2012

9.
http://webhostingw.com/unlimited-isnt-unlimited/
Retrieved October 30, 2012

By Ashok Koparday

Research, lot of study and personal experience has made these articles valuable. Before you click copy & paste please take a moment to thank the author.

The other reason for high CPU usage is old inefficient server,
[ 9 ] Review of 10 webhosts makes interesting reading. Don't be fooled by "unlimited" offers given at "cheap" price.

Linus.Torvalds

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:22:00 +0000

Creator of Linux and git

Work:
Linux Foundation
OS DL
Transmeta Corp

Education:
University of Helsinki

where to meet Linus Torvalds

https://plus.google.com/app/plus/

website-optimization-free-by-google

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:02:00 +0000

Page Speed Service is an online service that automatically speeds up
loading of your web pages. To use the service, you need to sign up and
point your site's DNS entry to Google. Page Speed Service fetches
content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web
performance best practices, and serves them to end users via Google's
servers across the globe. Your users will continue to access your site
just as they did before, only with faster load times. Now you don't
have to worry about concatenating CSS, compressing images, caching,
gzipping resources or other web performance best practices.
http://www.ghacks.net/2011/07/28/google-page-speed-service-website-optimization-service/

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2011/07/page-speed-service-web-performance.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/amDG+(Official+Google+Webmaster+Central+Blog)

website-visitors-analysis

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 03:19:00 +0000

HOW TO FIND WEBSITE TRAFFIC

VISITORS FROM - KEY WORDS - POPULAR POSTS ON YOUR WEBSITE

HOW TO TRACK BEHAVIOR OF PARTICULAR VISTITOR
Logaholic Click Trail allows you to select a visitor and view the entire history of that visitor on your site (also referred to as Clickstream).

cPanel Gives website visitors details. This is available free with the website hosting service. Summary Overview Visitor Details Popular Content Incoming Traffic Client System Various

WHAT LOGS GIVE WEB SITE VISITORS DETAILS

The following documents describe the features in the cPanel Logs area. • Latest Visitors — This feature that displays information about the last 300 people to visit your site. • Bandwidth — This feature allows you to see how your bandwidth is being used. • Logaholic — You can learn more about the Logaholic feature here. Logaholic is a web analytics program that delivers information about your website's traffic, keywords, and content. • Webalizer — Here, you can learn more about the Webalizer feature. Webalizer compiles and analyzes information about your web traffic. • Webalizer FTP — Here, you can learn more about the Webalizer FTP feature. Webalizer FTPcompiles and analyzes information about your FTP server. • AWStats — You can learn about AWStats here. This feature allows you to access web statistics processed by AWStats. • Raw Access Logs — This feature allows you to see what content has been accessed on your website. • Analog Stats — Here, you can learn about the Analog Stats feature. This feature allows you to analyze website traffic. • Error Log — This feature displays the last 300 errors encountered by your website. • Choose Log Programs — This feature allows you to choose what statistical analysis programs you wish to use.

WHAT ARE THE DETAILS OF WEBSITE VISITORS YOU GET

Conversion Rate • Today Overview • Workspace • Visitors per Day • Visitors per Month • Visitors per Hour • Days of the Week • Top Countries / Cities Visitor Details • Most Active Users • Recent Visitors • Authenticated Visitors • Visitors and Visits • Visit Duration • Total Duration Popular Content • Top Pages • Top Pages - Details • Top Feeds • FeedBurner Stats • Top Entry Pages • Top Exit Pages • Top Click Paths • Internal Site Search Incoming Traffic • Traffic Breakdown • Top Referrers • Top Referrers - Details • Top Keywords • Top Keywords - Details • Search Engines • Google Rankings • Most Active Crawlers • Most Crawled Pages Client System • Browsers • Operating Systems • Screen Resolution • Color Palette • Mobile User Agents Various • All Traffic by Day • All Traffic by Month • All Traffic by Hour • Error Report Conversion Rate • Overall Performance • Page Conversion • Referrer Conversion • Keyword Conversion • Time to Conversion • The Road To Sales

Sources:

http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/CpanelLogs http://www.logaholic.com/ http://www.webalizer.org. http://www.cohprog.com/test BANDWIDTH TESH http://www.cohprog.com/mod_bandwidth

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Consultant in Sexual Medicine and Marriage Counselor
Medical Director
SAMADHAN INDIA SEXUAL HEALTH CENTER SAMADHAN INDIA Address: 90 Feet Road, Ghatkopar (East),Mumbai 400077 INDIA. Mobile: +91 9867788877
Telephone: 022 25060061
Email: ask [at] mydoctortells [dot] com
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post-to-blog-wordpress-from-mobile-mofire

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:34:00 +0000

QUICK SEND POST TO YOUR WEBSITE ON WORDPRESS BLOG

Project begins
moFire0.3jar 2008 gets installed on your mobile. FIRSTFill 4
particulars by editing sample testClick OK and go to next page NEXT1.
give Title of your post2. Enter category nameClick OKTHIRD Write your
post,In moFire0.3 2008 you get limited number of words-like-small
paragraph to post. Yeah, you are on the run and you may be wanted only
the important details posted. FIVEClick SUBMITYour mobile will ask
permission to connect to internet. Say YES and in short while you get
message posted. Buy a coffee for the developer of this simple beauty -
a function born out of his need to post to his site from mobile. If
you like send a note of appreciation. Spread the good. Happiness
Doctor
.

free-mobile-internet-connectivity

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:44:00 +0000

HOW TO DO MANUAL SETTINGS IN YOUR PHONE BROWSER FOR FREE INTERNET SURFING DOWNLOAD USING GPRS MMS

myGlobe INET APN Settings: Connection Name: myGlobeInet APN: http.globe.com.ph PSA: 203.177.91.131 or no PSA Port: 80 or no Port MyGlobeConnect APN Settings: Connectio Name: myGlobeConnect APN: www.globe.com.ph PSA: 203.177.042.214 or no PSA Port: 8080 Port MyGlobeMMS APN Settings: Connectio Name: myGlobeMMS APN: mms.globe.com.ph PSA: 192.040.100.020 or no PSA Port: 8080 Port Homepage: http://192.40.100.22:10021/mmsc see www.globe.com.ph/globe.asp%40

HOW TO GET FREE SETTINGS BY SENDING SMS FOR INTERNET USE ON YOUR MOBILE

Just type GO (your phone model),,1234 and send to 2951 or Just text SURF4FREE and send it to 8888 and wait for the confirmation from them. http://globe.com visit this site and confirm that they are still providing free internet gprs mms connectivity before actually using it. I just confirmed it using Uc browser (you can also use opera mini) on NOKIA 5233 phone.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER AND MORAL CRAP

I take no responsibility for damage or legal complication. I am sharing the information in good faith and I believe the internet browsing functionality is legal and officially allowed. So I do so. This is not a hacking trick. If for any reason you feel like suing me, go to hell (because you belong there). If you feel grateful visit this site and help me collect free freeware, free apps, for PC, mobile, Internet, Graphics Designing, Office and other Utility applications.

Free Stuff is Good. Good free stuff is great

. Belong to the great. Like Source: Google Search and http://howtoquick.blogspot.com/2012/09/free-internet-using-opera-mini-on-your-mobile.html On Fast Track with Dr. Ashok Koparday  

linux-instead-of-microsoft-easy-smooth

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:14:00 +0000

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Daily Build

Desktop CD

The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 256MB of RAM to install from this CD.

There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:

PC (Intel x86) desktop CD: For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop CD: Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead.

A full list of available files can be found below.

VLC MEDIA PLAYER

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:53:00 +0000

VLC MEDIA PLAYER

Best media player on the internet - yes it is free.

As free as air.

l Free Open-Source MultiMedia Player

VlC Media Player is a free and open source cross-platform media player that plays almost any imaginable format.

VLC Download - Screenshots - Skins - VLC Blog

VLC Player is 100% Free

VLC Media Player is a free Universal MultiMedia player that is released under the GNU General Public License, meaning its 100% free to download and use.

It Plays Anything

VLC plays absolutely anything. It supports an enormous number of multimedia formats, without the need for downloading additional codecs. It really does have the ability to play any type of Audio/Video file you throw at it.

Streaming Server Included

VLC features a complete streaming server, with extended features like video on demand, on-the-fly transcoding, granular speed controls, frame-by-frame advancement and more. It can also be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Powerful Features

VLC Media Player now features fully customizable toolbars, Customizable Skins, Supports playback for broken as well as zipped files and so much mo

What Is VLC Media Player?

VLC Media Player is a Multi-Platform Media player that supports most Audio & Video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, MP3, DVD, Ogg, AAC... and the list goes on) Its flexible, lightweight and best of all, VLC Media Player is 100% Free. Check out our VLC Player Blog for the latest news, tips and more.

About Our Technology

Unlike other softwares, VLC Media Player doesnt require you to download codecs to support extra formats making it very powerful and unique. You can even preview files that you are downloading with the preview feature. Find out more about some of the features and technology in VLC Media Player.

See more of VLC Media Player in action in our screenshots section.

Download VLC Player No

backup-website-how-to

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:54:00 +0000

Backing Up Your WordPress Site

There are two parts to backing up your WordPress site: Database and Files. You need to back up the entire site, and you need to back up your WordPress database. Below are instructions for backing up your WordPress database for various server programs. We will start with backing up the rest of your WordPress Site.

Your WordPress site consists of the following:

WordPress Core Installation
WordPress Plugins
WordPress Themes
Images and Files
Javascripts, PHP scripts, and other code files
Additional Files and Static Web Pages

All of these are used in various combinations to generate your website. The database contains your posts and a lot of data generated on your site, but it does not include the above elements that all come together to create the look and information on your site. These need to be saved.

Most hosts back up the entire server, including your site, but it takes time to request a copy of your site from their backups, and a speedy recovery is critical. You need to learn how to back up your own site files and restore them. Here are some methods.

sms-texting-free

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:14:00 +0000

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

WHY?

It's free.

WHAT'S GR8 ABOUT way2sms.com?

Way2SMS usage exploded during the change of the year. Between 31st dec and 1st Jan, 47 million SMS messages were sent via Way2SMS, representing a 1100 percent increase over the same period of last year

Also attracted a record number of 2.03 lakh new user registrations during these 2 special days, the number represents a 500 percent rise from the year before.

Source

http://blog.way2sms.com/?cat=6

fairlypopular

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:42:00 +0000

baby is growing

http://fairlypopular.com/

Abhinandan Joshi Family,

Accept my rich compliments.

good work
keep it up

Free stuff is good stuff.
Good free stuff is great stuff.

have a look at http://fairlypopular.com/ to see web site in the making.

Journey is on going.
Have fun,

On Fast Track with Dr. Ashok Koparday

5-essential-rules-web-designers2

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:32:00 +0000

5-essential-rules-web-designers

These rules are essential simply because web design has to be mobile friendly.

Essential tips for every web designer can be put in a single sentence. Here it is.

CHECK OUT YOUR CODE AT EVERY STEP WITH THE MAGIC WAND CALLED THE MOBILE VALIDATOR.

Now you may not read ahead and skip the text below unless you have time and love for code as I have.

SIMPLE IS BEAUTIFUL, SIMPLE IS EASY

Today designing a web site is a child's play. Literally a child's play if you love to play like a child, a child for whom words like mistake are not abominable. Designing a website is simple because mobile friendly website is best when it is simple. Complicated gymnastic s like java scripts, tables, frames is not supported by all mobile browsers today. Tomorrow this sentence may not be true.

Another magic wand for your xhtml W3. Markup Validator
http://validator.w3.org/

Reason:
Rapid advances in technology
The pooling of contributions of the computer wizards from all over the world.
Another powerful reason is that these advances in application of science and technology are rapidly reaching large number of common people, people who are your potential customers or end users of the website, who are now using their cell phones to access the internet.

HOW GOOD IS YOUR MARKUP?
XHTML Basic 1.1 is the markup language

PAGE STRUCTURE
PAGE LAYOUT
Do away with tables. Instead use

PAGE 1
PAGE 2
PAGE 3

markup in the page
or css style sheet
ul li { display: inline; } in the CSS style sheet
PAGE WEIGHT
Is it too heavy? Total size of the page 20 KB
This includes the page itself, the external style sheet(s), and the embedded images and objects.

Size of the Markup is to be under 10 KB

This is to ensure that the page can be retrieved and rendered by a mobile device in a reasonable amount of time.

SCRIPTING
No to Java. Do not rely on embedded objects for scripting
Use register an on click listener event

STYLE SHEETS
Do it in style. The style sheets must have semantically valid css.
The best tool to check semantically correct css is to use W3C CSS Validator
Result is no syntax errors.
Use floating and absolutely positioned elements with caution
Which style sheet grammar is best? the
CSS Level 1 grammar along with the @media attribute.

USER INPUTS
well-known inputmode values. keyboard use v/s numeric keypad

Use an input mode attribute to an input element or text area element

HTTP LEVEL
Correctly defining HTTP headers is essential for mobiles usually have low bandwidth and high latency. Cache control is important.

5. LINKS
The linked resource format may not be appropriate for mobile devices
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5-essential-rules-web-designers1

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:43:00 +0000

Go the the source

BEST FREE RESOURCE FOR WEB DESIGNER
This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets, MobileOK content, or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools

Mobile Web Best Practices July 29, 2008 (Tedious document)

http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#TABLES_LAYOUT
register an onclick event listener (Tedious document) Object Model Events November 13, 2000

http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#TABLES_LAYOUT
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/

http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/
w3 training courses for mobile
help on using the magic wand
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/help.html
How to on tableless layout

http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/
w3 css validator
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Floating Style Sheet Support http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#STYLE_SHEETS_SUPPORT

CSS style sheet grammer level 1 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1/ 11 Apr 2008

Best Input Mode

http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#DEFAULT_INPUT_MODE

How to cache control? Mark Nottingham's tutorial
http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/
Document on Link Target Format

http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#LINK_TARGET_FORMAT
Another magic wand for your xhtml W3. Markup Validator
http://validator.w3.org/

backup-website

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:35:00 +0000

What to back up?

Your web site consists of DATABASE + FILES

Backing Up Your WordPress Site

There are two parts to backing up your WordPress site: Database and Files. You need to back up the entire site, and you need to backup your WordPress database.

Your WordPress site consists of the following:

1. WordPress Core Installation
2. WordPress Plugins
3. WordPress Themes
4. Images and Files
5. Javascripts, PHP scripts, and other code files
6. Additional Files and Static Web Pages

All of these are used in various combinations to generate your website. The database contains your posts and a lot of data generated on your site, but it does not include the above elements that all come together to create the look and information on your site. These need to be saved.

Most hosts back up the entire server, including your site, but it takes time to request a copy of your site from their backups, and a speedy recovery is critical. You need to learn how to backup your own site files and restore them.
If the back up size becomes too large do not back up antispam and stats.
WordPress Backups from WordPress Codex

mobile-phone-browsers-free-download

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:09:00 +0000

BOLT

This is what the BOLT people have to say about their browser:
BOLT is a free downloadable browser that offers an uncompromised browsing experience on even lower-end mobile phones.

Rather than offering a simplified, mini version of the Internet, BOLT provides users with a fast, efficient, feature-rich way to enjoy full PC-style web pages and rich media applications on all levels of mobile devices.

Built on Bitstream's ThunderHawk browsing technology, BOLT is the result of 5+ years experience developing mobile browsers that optimize usability, speed and performance on resource-constrained systems with limited memory, processing power and screen space.

Now, if you are ready, experience lightning fast Internet browsing with streaming video on your mobile phone.

Boltbrowser

* Dual Signed Version
* VeriSign Signed Version
* Thawte Signed Version
* Unsigned Version
Not to forget the
Blackberry specific version

I am new to BOLT. I believe BOLT is also new. We wish them Luck.

What if you need support?
Support is available here.clickhttp://www.boltbrowser.com/support.html
Quick help is available at the http://www.boltbrowser.com/forums/
This is supposed to be the BOLT's physical address:
Bitstream
245 First St - 17FL
Cambridge, MA 02142
US
2
OPERA MINI 3.1

For those whose mobile device does not support OPERAMINI 4.2 try this version.
This is claimed to fast, tiny, powerful web browser
Best is to go to OPERAMINI.COM website and download either 4.2 or 3.1
If you choose to download it from GETJAR (my personal favorite) here is the link.
Download via Wap: Open m.GetJar.com with your mobile -> Quick Download -> enter
Quick Download Code 30827

ABOUT GETJAR

Founded by Ilja Laurs in 2004, GetJar (www.getjar.com/wap.getjar.com) is the world’s most popular mobile application distribution and developer community, with over 200,000 developer and beta-tester accounts.
Downloads in one Week (2009 Jun 15 - 2009 Jun 21): 7,902,528

Source:
1
http://boltbrowser.com/download.html

2
http://www.getjar.com/products/13444/OperaMini

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how-to-license-your-work

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:38:00 +0000

Anything that you post on the internet is your property and you are the copyright owner. How do you state your copyright ownership?

The Licenses

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1. Attribution

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution.

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2. Attribution Share Alike

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.

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3. Attribution No Derivatives

This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

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4. Attribution Non-Commercial

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

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5. Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Others can download and redistribute your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new stories based on your work. All new work based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial in nature.

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6. Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the “free advertising” license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

FAST OVERVIEW

[1] ATTRIBUTION

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.

[2] SHARE ALIKE

You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

[3] NON COMMERCIAL

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.

[4] NO DERIVATIVES

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Source:
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses

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what-feedburner-does-for-your-website

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:29:00 +0000

5 SMART USES OF FEEDBURNER (feeds)

Use feedburner to publicize your blog of website

1

Publicize

Here are a few fun, alternative ways to publicize your feed, other than the ways listed above.

1* Headline Animator:

Create and customize an animated banner that cycles through your feed's five most recent items. It's an easy way to promote your content anywhere you can place a snippet of HTML.

2* BuzzBoost:

Do you maintain more than one blog, site, or podcast? BuzzBoost helps you cross-promote your content by repurposing your feed as go-anywhere HTML.

2

Optimize

Enhance and extend your feed with FeedBurner's array of services.

* FeedFlare™: Build “interactivity” into the content you create, making it simple for subscribers to tag, email or share their content with others.

3

Analyze

FeedBurner Stats is our analytics offering for blogs, Web sites podcasts and feeds of all kinds. The service is free with every FeedBurner feed and provides publishers with a comprehensive view of their audience.

4

Monetize

Earn revenue by displaying relevant text and image ads using AdSense for feeds. Learn more.

5

“Troubleshootize”

It's true, some good feeds go bad. Learn how to diagnose and solve the most common problems FeedBurner encounters when working with your original feed. The best part? We also notify you about any issues we discover using our FeedMedic and PodMedic reporting services.

FEEDBURNER has been acquired by google.
You can use your goole id to login.
Source:
http://feedburner.google.com
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how-to-password-protect-best-security-10

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:27:00 +0000

What other than 'password' do you have as a lock - key function in the World Wild Web? How KeePass is useful for you and me?

Key Protection against Dictionary Attacks
FACT
You
can't really prevent dictionary and guessing attacks: nothing prevents
an attacker to just try all possible keys and look if the database
decrypts. But what we can do (and KeePass does) is to make it harder:
by adding a constant time factor to the key initialization, with KeePass we can make them as hard as we want.

To generate the final 256-bit key that
is used for the block cipher, KeePass first hashes the user's password
using SHA-256, encrypts the result N times using the Advanced
Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm (called key transformation rounds
from on now), and then hashes it again using SHA-256. For AES, a random
256-bit key is used, which is stored in the database file. As the AES
transformations aren't pre-computable (key is random), an attacker has
to perform all the encryptions, too, otherwise he cannot try and see if
the current key is correct.

An attacker now needs much more time
to try a key. If he can only try a few hundred keys per second, a
dictionary attack is not practical any more.

By default, KeePass
sets N to 6000 encryption rounds (full encryptions are meant; N has
nothing to do with the internal encryption rounds of AES). This has
been done in order to provide compatibility with the PocketPC version
(PocketPC processors are slower, therefore the key computation takes
longer).

What KeePass does?
KeePass supports protection against guessing and dictionary attacks.

Protect your Password.
If you are using KeePass on PC only, it is highly
recommended to increase the number of key transformation rounds. You
can change the number in the database options dialog. Right of the
field for the rounds, you'll find a button. When clicking this button,
KeePass computes the rounds number that leads to a 1-second delay.
Waiting 1 second at database opening isn't a problem, but for an
attacker of course it is. But, the number can be freely set to a number
of your choice. The button only should give you a rough idea how many
rounds can be computed in 1 second on your computer.

This
protection feature is only useful when using master passwords; key
files are random anyway, there's no need to transform the key file
contents (guessing the key file contents is equally hard to a
brute-force attack on the final key).

KeePass uses
multi-threading to compute these rounds (the master key is split up to
two parts of 128 bits, which is the AES block size). On dual/multi core
processors, the computation can be twice as fast as on a single core
processor. Note the 1-second button in the database settings dialog
always shows the single core rounds number (the dual/multi core
optimization only affects the "real" transformation code, not the
benchmark).

Detailed information about the security of KeePass.

* Database Encryption
* Hashing and Key Derivation
* Random Number Generation
* Protection against Dictionary Attacks
* Process Memory Protection
* Locking the Workspace
* Plugins
* Self-Tests
* References

Key Database Encryption

KeePass database files are encrypted. KeePass encrypts the whole database, i.e. not only your passwords. Your user names, notes, even the entry times and UUIDs, etc. are encrypted, too.

The databases are encrypted using one of the following block ciphers:
Cipher Block Size Key Size
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES / Rijndael) 128 bits 256 bits
Twofish 128 bits 256 bits

These algorithms are well-known, analyzed thoroughly and generally considered to be very secure by the cryptographic community.
KeePass 2.x Only
KeePass 2.x doesn't support Twofish, but additional encryption algorithms are available through plugins.

The block ciphers are used in the CBC (cipher-block chaining) block cipher mode. In CBC mode, plaintext patterns are concealed.

For both algorithms, a 128-bit initialization vector (IV) is generated randomly each time you save the database. This allows multiple databases to be saved using the same key without observable patterns being revealed.

Key Hashing and Key Derivation
In order to generate the 256-bit key for the block ciphers, the Secure Hash Algorithm SHA-256 is used. This algorithm compresses the user key provided by the user (consisting of password and/or key file) to a fixed-size key of 256 bits. This transformation is one-way, i.e. it is computationally infeasible to invert the hash or find a second message that compresses to the same hash.

Please note that the recently discovered attack against SHA-1 doesn't affect the security of SHA-256. SHA-256 is still considered as being secure.

Key Derivation:
If only a password is used (i.e. no key file), the password plus a 128-bit random salt are hashed using SHA-256 to form the final key (but note there is some preprocessing: Protection against Dictionary Attacks). This random salt prevents attacks that are based on pre-computed hashes.

When using both password and key file, the final key is derived as follows: SHA-256(SHA-256(password), key file contents), i.e. the hash of the master password is concatenated with the key file bytes and the resulting byte string is hashed with SHA-256 again. If the key file doesn't contain exactly 32 bytes (256 bits), they are hashed with SHA-256, too, to form a 256-bit key. The formula above then changes to: SHA-256(SHA-256(password), SHA-256(key file contents)).

Binary Random Number Generation

We need to generate several random bytes (for the IV, the master key salt, etc.). For this, several pseudo-random sources are used: current tick count, performance counter, system date/time, mouse cursor position, memory status (free virtual memory, etc.), active window, clipboard owner, various process and thread IDs, various window focus handles (active window, desktop, ...), window message stack, process heap status, process startup information and several system information structures. Additionally, KeePass uses random bytes provided by the system's default CSP RNG.

This pseudo-random data is collected in a random pool. To generate 16 random bytes, the pool is hashed (SHA-256) with a counter to form the final 16 random bytes. The counter is increased after 16 generated bytes. This way, we can efficiently produce as many secure random bytes as we need.

KeePass supports protection against guessing and dictionary attacks.
Source:
Security - KeePass
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best-secure-password-generator-9

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:33:00 +0000

Passwords Protection

While KeePass[1] is running, your passwords are stored encrypted [2] in process memory. For this, the ARC4 encryption algorithm is used, using a random, 12 bytes long key.

This means that even if you would dump the whole KeePass process memory to disk, you couldn't find the passwords (at least not in plain text). Note that this only applies to the password [3]field, not to the user names, etc. because of performance reasons.

When you are copying a password to the clipboard for example, KeePass first decrypts the password field, copies it to the clipboard and immediately re-encrypts it using the random key.

Additionally, KeePass erases all security-critical memory when it's not needed any more, i.e. it overwrites these memory areas before releasing them (this applies to all security-critical memory, not only the passwords field).

Key Locking the Workspace

Locking the workspace closes the database file, and remembers the last view settings (i.e. which group and entries you selected, list position, etc.).

This provides maximum security: unlocking the workspace is as hard as opening the database file the normal way. Also, it prevents data-loss (your computer can crash while KeePass is locked, without doing any damage to the database).

Plugins Security

Separate pages exist about the security of plugins: Plugin Security (KeePass 1.x), Plugin Security (KeePass 2.x).

Black Box[4] Self-Tests

Each time you start KeePass, the program will perform a quick self-test to see whether the block ciphers[5] and the hash are compiled correctly and pass their test-vectors. If one of the algorithms doesn't pass its test vectors, KeePass will show a security exception message box at startup.

References References and Further Reading
Security - KeePass
(1) National Institute of Standards and Technology: Report on the Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (PDF).

(2) Bruce Schneier's blog: SHA-1 broken.

[3] Bruce Schneier's blog: Cryptanalysis of SHA-1, with comments about the impact of that discovery and what to do now.

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[1]
[2]encrypted
password
[4]
[5]block ciphers

how-to-be-safe-from-password-stealing-software-latest-tip

noreply@blogger.com (Dr. Ashok Koparday) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:59:00 +0000

Recent Security Tip
Important:How to escape from password finding software called keylogger?

There are softwares that pick up your password? How to trick keylogger?
Virtual Keyboard – FAQs for Retail and Corporate Users

State Bank of India aims to provide you a safe and secure environment to perform online banking. In this direction, we have introduced the option of Virtual Keyboard.

1. What is Virtual Keyboard?

The Virtual Keyboard is an onscreen keyboard which provides a mouse based alternative, for keying in your username and password, instead of using the actual physical keyboard.
2. What are the advantages of logging into the Internet Banking site using a Virtual Keyboard?

The virtual keyboard is an additional precautionary measure and protects you against malicious key logger programs which might have infected your computer.

A key logger program can capture the keystrokes you enter in the physical keyboard to login. Such a program may be accessing your PC without your knowledge or permission.

A virtual keyboard prevents your username or password from being stolen, especially while using public computers, such as those available in Internet cafes. Also, the sequence in which the keys appear will change everytime the page is refreshed.
3. How can I use the Virtual Keyboard?

Use the mouse to enter the alphabets and numbers in your username and password by clicking on the keys of the Virtual Keyboard.

Caps Lock On : Use this button to change case when entering the lower and upper case letters in your username and password. You can "switch on" or "switch off" this button. Since Internet Banking usernames and passwords are case-sensitive, please ensure that you are aware of this "difference" when entering your password.

Clear : Use this button to clear a field if you have entered characters incorrectly .
4. Is it mandatory to use the Virtual Keyboard?

No. You can use the normal keyboard or the combination of both normal and virtual keyboard also.
5. Is it not secure to use the regular keyboard?

State Bank of India aims to provide you a safe and secure environment to perform online banking. The virtual keyboard is one such feature. Please ensure that no other person is glancing, peeping at your computer screen while you are keying in your username and password through the virtual keyboard.

Note:

If you are a retail user: As a security measure, access will be disabled for the day, after three unsuccessful login attempts.

However if you are a corporate user, the account lockout feature is not applicable.
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