That usually happens if you changed the WordPress Address (URL) of your self hosted WordPress site using General Setting. Once you changed it and saved, now you will be redirected to the WordPress.com admin panel.
The solution for this is to change the WordPress Address (URL) from database itself. For this you are required to have access to you self hosted site’s Cpanel. Please follow these steps:
1. Login to self hosted site’s CPanel.
2. Go to phpMyAdmin
3. Select your database
4. Select a table named PREFIX_option and browse it. (PREFIX depends on what you had used while creating your database during WordPress installation)
5. The first row of this table contains the siteurl information which, for now, is the address of the site that you are getting redirected to. To change it, click edit.
6. Change the siteurl to your self hosted blog address and click OK.
7. Now you should be able to find your admin login page.
Enjoy WordPress.

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Daily, people from around the world are doing hard work to secure the computer system. In this run, thousands of new websites with amazing features have been developing. Among those websites, a new website named MouseLock.co came up with simple solution to identify the intruder trying to intrude into your computer. This site will send you an email alert along with a picture (picture will be sent only if there is a camera in the computer system) of the intruder as soon as someone tries to use your computer.

So you are wondering how mouselock.co works, right?

First you sign-in with your Google Account (they’ll send the alert to your Gmail address) and then select a secret pin no (1-10) on the screen. Next, put your mouse cursor in a designated area on the Mouse Lock website and leave the machine.

Now when someone moves the mouse, they will also have to enter the original pin which you have entered before leaving the machine. If they fail to do that in the first few seconds, Mouse Lock will send you an email and, if the computer has a webcam, it will use that to take  a picture of the intruder.

Mouse Lock won’t prevent the intrusion but will at least notify you the minute it happens. And the beauty of this site is that no installation is required because this is a web application.

This web site has used  JQuery mouseLeaveEvent in order to detect the movements of the mouse while the webcam photographs are captured using the getUserMedia() API. These event handlers are currently supported only in Chrome and Firefox. The alerts, possibly due to a bug, are triggered even when any of the keys are pressed and that makes it a little less useful since there’s no way to lock the computer after setting up the monitor.

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​Today, there are thousands of web hosting companies available in the market with different types of selling plans, facilities and prices. It is very difficult to choose a hosting plan from thousands of web hosting plans in the market, especially if you are new to web hosting.

In the process of preparing this article, I GOOGLED many ti​mes to search criteria for the selection of good hosting plan with different search terms. And most of the time, I got comparative charts (comparative rating) of different web hosting companies. The interesting thing is that, these comparative studies on web hosting companies have considered many common features which I have listed down for your reference.

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By Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin, and Jessie C. Stricchiola

Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc.

“Search engine optimization” is a marketing function, and it needs to be treated like one. SEO practitioners need to understand the services, products, overall business strategy, competitive landscape, branding, future site development, and related business components just as much as members of other marketing divisions, whether online or offline.

Like any other marketing function, it is important to set specific goals and objectives—and if the goal is not measurable, it is not useful. Setting up such objectives is the only way you can determine whether you are getting your money’s worth from your SEO effort. And although SEO can be viewed as a project, the best investment, in our opinion, is to treat it as more of a process—one which is iterative, is ongoing, and requires steady commitment from the stakeholders of an organization.

Viewing SEO like PPC (like something you decidedly turn on and off) is like viewing a healthy diet as something you do only when you are overweight, as opposed to eating a healthy diet as a lifestyle choice. Too heavy? Crash diet.  PPC too expensive? Pause the campaigns. The tactic may work in the right application, but with SEO, those with the most success are those who view site optimization as a lifestyle choice. The results may not appear instantly, but they will handsomely reward a business after patient and prudent commitment.

2.The New Rules of Marketing and PR

By David Meerman Scott

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

“Search engine optimization” (SEO) is the art and science of ensuring that the words and phrases on your site, blog, and other online content are found by the search engines and that, once found, your site is given the highest ranking possible in the natural search results (i.e., what the search engine algorithm deems important for the phrase entered).

3.Search Engine Optimization An Hour a Day 2rd Edition

By Jennifer Grappone, Gradiva Couzin.

Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc.

The term “Search Engine Optimization” describes a diverse set of activities that you can perform to increase the number of desirable visitors who come to your website via search engines (you may also have heard these activities called Search Engine Marketing or Search Marketing). This includes things you do to your site itself, such as making changes to your text and HTML code. It also includes communicating directly with the search engines, or pursuing other sources of traffic by making requests for listings or links. Tracking, research, and competitive review are also part of the SEO package. 

SEO is not advertising, although it may include an advertising component. It is not public relations (PR), although it includes communication tasks similar to PR. As a continually evolving area of online marketing, SEO may sound complicated, but it is very simple in its fundamental goal: gaining targeted 

4.Marketing in the Age of Google

By Vanessa Fox.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,

‘‘Search engine optimization’’ implies optimizing a site for search engines, but understanding how search fits into your business isn’t really about that at all. It’s about operating your business effectively within the current landscape.

5.The Beginners Guide To SEO

By www.seomoz.org

Published by www.seomoz.org, PDF version.

“Search Engine Optimization” is the process of taking a page built by humans and making it easily consumable for both other humans and for search engine robots.

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Are you really conscious about data security? If you are, then you must have locked your gadgets with pretty strong password. 

Every day, we see new gadgets with new technology in the market and we all love to have one. But unfortunately, these shiny gadgets also attract burglars, muggers and pickpockets. Thieves are generally looking to offload your gadgets for some quick cash, but the data they contain may be of far more value to you.

Typing in a password every time you want to use your gadgets is a hassle, but leaving them unlocked is clearly a risk. Our smartphones in particular are our gateway to the world and for the sake of convenience we tend to fill them with sensitive data and stay logged into a range of services. Often it’s a mix of personal and corporate data.

If someone stole your notebook, phone or tablet right now, what would they have access to? Are your gadgets locked down with a password, or would a thief have access to your contacts, calendar, email and social networking along with other services and sensitive data? What sort of havoc could they cause, especially if they’ve access to your calendar and know when you’ll be away from home or the office? How difficult would it be to regain control of your digital identity? What kinds of problems would it cause at work if corporate data fell into the wrong hands?

Now imagine if your gadgets went missing at a business conference rather than on the street. What would happen if an unscrupulous competitor got their hands on your phone or notebook?

While you’re thinking about the security of your mobile devices, it’s worth sparing a thought for the tech that sits around your house or office. What havoc could thieves cause if they grabbed the tablet on your coffee table, the computer on your desk and the USB or network storage drive on the shelf? Is this data locked down? Do you log out of everything? Do you have a backup of irreplaceable files such as family photos and business records?

Worrying about data security might seem overly paranoid when you consider most thieves are probably not that tech-savvy, but that will change over time. You don’t need to know much about technology to twig that the data on your devices is incredibly valuable, at least to you. A few years ago we saw a spate of trojans which encrypted your hard drive and held it to ransom. How long before someone realises that there’s money to be made in holding your gadgets to ransom?

What data security precautions do you take?

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For a person who is new to running websites, the web hosting concept can be very confusing at first. In this article, I have tried to describe the terminologies regarding web hosting in very simple way with hopefully lots of details in it.

What is Web Host/web hosting?

A web host is a service provider (or a web hosting company) who provides space for your website on their computer (A Web Server). Their computers are connected to the internet to provide access to your website to the people who surf the internet. 

The web hosting companies are hosting websites for thousands of customers on many servers. To serve the requests coming from millions of web surfers for these websites, the web host uses powerful servers and extremely fast internet connection speed. 

The web host is basically renting out some space on their server to allow you to place your website on the web.

What is Datacenter?

Most of the larger web hosting companies operates their own datacenters. 

According to Wikipedia, “A data center or data centre (also datacenter or datacentre) is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. It generally includes redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls (e.g., air conditioning, fire suppression) and security devices.”

The high speed, reliable (365/7/24) internet connection, HVAC (Heating, ventilation and Air conditioning), security and  backup power supplies facilities in the datacenters makes it very expensive to own and operate.

Only large web hosting companies have their own data centers. Smaller web hosting company rent a server from a larger web hosting company and then resell the web space under their own name. 

Webpage and Website

Webpage can be defined as basic building blocks of World Wide Web (WWW). These are documents written in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and are translated by Web browsers to show the actual contents to the web surfers. 

Web pages are either designed to show the same content each time they are viewed(Static web pages) or to show contents that changes each time they are accessed (Dynamic web pages) Dynamic web pages are written in scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, ASP, or JSP. 

Similarly, a website is a collection of related webpages containing texts, audio, video or images All websites include a beginning page known as homepage using which other pages are navigated A website is hosted on at least one web server.

Web pages on a website are accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet address known as a Uniform Resource Locator.(URL) Each website is owned by an individual, company or organization 

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Dedicated servers are most commonly used by those who have outgrown the shared hosting environment and now require the utmost in flexibility, reliability, security and control. The major advantage of a dedicated server is administrative authority it provides. In most cases, you have the option to install the software programs of your choice. This ranges from operating system and control panel to programming languages and security applications. A dedicated server is among the most flexible and scalable hosting solutions you will find on the market today. 

What to look when buying a dedicated server?

If you are planning to own a dedicated server, many factors should be considered. Following are some major points to remember when buying it.

1. Annual cost: This is the most important factor which determines what kind of dedicated servers or services should be taken. You have to plan according to your budget.
2. Processing speed of the server
3. Memory used: Most of the hosting company have used 2-8 GB DDR3 Memory for their dedicated servers. Servers having 4 GB DDR3 memory are suitable for most of the customers.
4. Hard drive space: These days, most of the dedicated hosting service providers user 2 x 250 GB Hard Drive. It can be upgraded according to the need of the customers.
5. Allocated bandwidth: If you are having your own dedicated server, you should be aware of bandwidth allocated. Bandwidth is very important when you have to handle the huge amount of traffic.
6. Dedicated IPs : 
7. Operating Systems (For example Linux or Windows)
8. Rating of the Hosting Company 
9. Support : Support is one of the major thing you want if you are having any product and service.

Top 5 companies providing dedicated servers:

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Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet forum software, created running conversations with "threads." Threads are topical connections between messages on a virtual "corkboard."

Then why to blog?

Every day, Blogging is becoming more and more popular. There are thousands of blogger blogging on different genres.  People blog for various reasons.  Some bloggers blog to share knowledge, some blog as hobby and some blog to make some money. There are no concrete reason why people blog. Following points might help you make your decision about blogging.

1. To Express Thoughts and Opinions

Blog is one of the best places to share something and be heard. If you choose a www.blogspot.com or www.blog.com, you can speak your words for free. When you choose a hosting company, you have to pay to initialize your blogging platform.

2. To promote products or service

One of the cheapest form of promoting services, products and other things is a blog. So people choose blogs to promote their products or service.

3. To help People

Blog is also a place where people share something similar they experienced. These kinds of blog are very helpful to get and provide solution for a particular problem. Blogs related to health related and parenting are written for this purpose.

4. To introduce yourself as an Expert

Blogs are amazing tools to help bloggers recognize themselves as experts in a field or topic. If you're in search of a job or trying to build a career in a particular field, blogging can help legitimize your expertise and expand your online presence and platform.

5. To Connect with Similar people

Blogging helps to bring people of same thinking and opinion in a common place. When you start a blog, you can find people who want to share same opinion, knowledge, feelings and thoughts.

7. To Stay Updated in a Field or Topic

Success of any blog mostly depends on frequency of posts and freshness of information you provide. Blogs helps you to be updated in your field.

8. To Stay Connected with Friends and Family

Due to the invention of Internet, The world has become a small village. Blogs are the great ways to be connected to your friends and families from any part of the world by sharing photos, videos and things of interest.

9. To earn Money

Blogs are becoming more popular tool to generate money from online advertisement. Even though, most bloggers don't make a lot of money blogging, but there is a great potential. All you need is dedication, hard work, practice and patience. 

10. Finally, to Have Fun

Blogging can be a hobby for many people. They take it as a fun. People have hobby to share knowledge through a blog. 

Now, suggest me if you have any more reason to blog. Happy Blogging!!!!

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Many Android users want to unlock their phones to use them with local SIM cards when traveling or on domestic carriers that do not offer an Android phone for sale. To Unlock an Android Phone, you will need Android unlock code and SIM card. Follow the setps to unlock your Android phone

1. Get an unlock code. The users of T-Mobile must wait three months from the date their contract starts and they can request a free unlock code from T-Mobile. If you are not a T-Mobile customer or want to unlock your phone immediately, you can purchase an unlock code online.
2. Find International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number of your mobile phone that you can find by going to Settings > About Phone > Status.
3. Turn off your Android phone and remove the back cover and battery. 
4. Remove the SIM card from the phone if it is already in use.
5. Insert a new SIM card and replace the battery and back cover.
6. Turn on your mobile phone. Once it boots up, it will ask you for an unlock code for the new SIM.
7. Enter the unlock code and your phone will be unlocked.

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Now, Google has came up with a great solution for this. Google has added a new feature in Google Chrome Browser for Adsense publishers and officially launched it as 'Adsense Publisher Toolbar'.

Once you install this extension, the toolbar sits next to the omnibox on Google chrome browser  and fetch the data from the associated adsense account every time you want to check your adsense earnings using secure authentication. All you have to do is download the extention, enter your adsense username and password only once and the extension will remember it.  Then you are done.This is the screenshot.

The advantage of this toolbar is it makes easier for adsense publisher who maintain different accounts for different Google services. You don't need tolog out from your primary email address if you want to login to your adsense account, if it uses different email ID. To view your adsense earning, click on the toolbar and a pop-up box displays which shows the following information.

• Account earnings summary (today so far, yesterday, this month so far, last month)

• Top 5 custom channels

• Top 5 URL channels

• Lifetime revenue

All in all, it is a great news and great tool for adsense publisher. Thank you Google.

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