Many of you sent me email as this blog was down for couple of days. This was because I was using shared hosting and the large amount of visitor this blog and my other blogs and forum were attracting was far more than the shared server can handle so the server came down.

As soon as the loyal readers of this and my other blogs started complaining about the slow loading speed or complete stoppage of services I worked quickly and moved this blog to a VPS ( Virtual Private Server).

Selecting a nice server provider requires doing some deep studies or you can end up purchasing a server that can lead to more headache. Doing the study took few more hours but we are Up and Running again and you can also see the huge improvement  in the page loading speed.

You may want to know what server provider I am using now. This blog is on ServInt.com VPS.

As I was doing the study I stressed a lot on the the quality of support the server provider is offering and I noticed all of the users of Servint gave them thumbs up. After purchasing the server I have few email conversation with support and I always got their replies within minutes of creating a ticked. Looks good till now.

For a long period I have been on facebook and I have forgotten how I first reached facebook. I dont remember who invited me to facebook or I myself typed the web address.

Like me most of you might also have forgotten but now facebook has started giving some detail description about the invites.

• If you would like to know who all have joined Facebook because of you, go here.
• If you would like to see a list of all people whom you have invited to join Facebook but they are yet to accept your invitation, go here.
• If you like to know who in your friends circle has brought the maximum number of people to Facebook so far, go to facebook.com/impact.

You can also send invites to friends to whom you have previously invited but the invitation was not accepted or stayed unnoticed.

Most of the people use a single web browser for their all online activities but as a webmaster I need to check my websites in all the major browsers available for compatibility testing. Not just for compatibility testing these browser also help in some way or other so I can work more efficiently.

At present I have following browsers:

1. Google Chrome
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. Microsoft Internet Explorer
4. Apple Safari
5. Avant Web Browser
6. Flock Browser
7. Opera Web Browser

In these I like Google Chrome the most because it is much faster than other browsers. I don’t have to wait for it to start as it starts in a flash and also page rendering is speed is also far better than other browsers.

I use Mozilla Firefox as my second browser to browse my second google  account and also because it has so much cool plugins that helps a lot.

Third Browser I use is Apple safari as it is most used browser on Mac computers and it cannot be overlooked.

Opera Browser is other browser I use because it sync with opera mini browser that I use on my mobile phone. If I find any site that I feel useful when browsing the web on my mobile phone then I bookmark it to see it later on my laptop.

Microsoft Internet explorer is rarely used by me as I don’t like it at all.

Flock Browser is for my social networking needs. It is a special browser built to manage all social networks you use with lesser work.

Other browsers are just for testing purpose.

So which is your favourite web browser and why?

I wrote here about making a  to do list. I use google notepad to take notes whenever I am online but when I was offline I was using my nokia phone to make to do entries as it has a nice built in To do application but the problem with making to do entries in mobile phone is that I just forget about these entries because I am too much habitual of taking mobile everywhere and it doesn’t triggers any thought as I am trying to do something new.

So I decided to do it the old fashioned way by keeping a small pocked diary with me all the time and taking notes whenever I get some new idea. As the diary is new it provokes the feeling of doing new thing and its human nature that we are too much interested in new things.

Lets see how it turns out to be.

Happy deepawali to all Rajeev Verma’s notebook reader..

Whenever I see successful persons, I always wonder what it takes to become one of them. Most of the time we think it is extraordinary talent that makes someone successful. Just look at the video below and you will find talent is not the most important thing that makes great people great. In this video US president Barack Obama is posing with delegates from all over the world. These are 135 photos used to make this video and you will find the same "killer smile" on Obama’s face. That’s a great example of patience. Yes patience is the quality that decides whether we are going to stand in the pool of successful people or not.

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In my previous post I wrote about using windows livewriter to write to and update blogs. Setting up livewriter to post to blogger blogs is somewhat easy but whet it comes to wordpress blogs when we try to give all the details and try to  set it up sadly it fails. You don’t have to worry about it. You just have to enable posting you have enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols. This will  make your blog accept connection from windows live writer and you will be able to update your blog using it.

Here are the steps you have to follow to do this:

1. Login to your wordpress dashboard.

2. Click on the “Writing" option under “settings”.

3. You will the option “XML-RPC” under “Remote publishing” section. Enable the check box  in front of it.

4. Click on the “Save Changes”

5. Its Done!!

Now go to Windows livewriter and try to setup your blog again. You wont face any problem.

Happy Blogging..

I have been using windows livewriter to post to this blog and my other blogs for a short time and actually I am loving it. The Best thing I like about using livewriter as blog editing tool is how quickly we can start working on the blog post idea.

Big bloggers always give an advice that as soon as you conceive an idea in your brain you should start working on it. You should first write an idea as a draft after which you can do all your research and later you can turn that draft post into a master copy by editing it and putting all the useful information in it to publish on your blog. With livewriter following this advice of masters become so easy.

If you use wordpress inbuilt blog editing tool you will have to wait to complete the following steps to start working on your idea:

1. Open your web browser.

2. Enter the URL of your blog’s login page.

3. Fill the login details.

4. Enter blog dashboard.

5. Click on the “New Post” link

6. Wait for the editing window to load fully.

7. Start writing blog post.

Only after completing all these steps you will be able to start putting your blog post idea into action. Like most of the bloggers you may be a part time or hobby blogger and if you are tired enough you wont feel comfortable doing all these steps and let the idea go without putting it into action or keep the idea for acting on later ( and later forget).

If you are using windows live writer here is what you have to do to start writing your blog post:

1. Start the livewriter.

2. Start writing.

that’s it.  See how easy it is to put your idea into action with livewriter.

Another useful feature of livewriter is it downloads all the theme files from your blog and store them locally and present to you a look that gives you a feeling as you are writing post directly on your home page or your blog post page. It relieves the tension a bit that we have about the blog that how is the blog post going to look on the blog. Repetitive previewing and editing is not required so it saves your valuable time too.

Windows live writers have a lots of plugins that you can download and install for free and use them to give more life to your posts.

If you want to use windows live writer here is the link where you can download windows livewriter free.

I always have a hard time resizing images to post in my blog. I am no professional web designer I don’t find myself comfortable knowing the perfect size every time.

I was just checking out my blog and I came across this fine plugin, nCode Image Resizer, that resizes the images using the javascript without changing the actual properties of the images. It only resizes the images if they are larger than  the value you have put in the setting of the plugin.

This plugin also give the visitors a option to see images in full size buy showing a bar above the images, clicking on which image shoes up in actual size.

I am not giving a link to download page. If you want to install plugin go to “add plugin” option in your blog and search for “nCode image resizer” (without the quotes) and you will find it. Click install and done.