Blogging tips, browsing tricks, and computing hacks

Recently, I discussed how you might boost your blog using an expiring domain name. The crucial word is “expiring”. I don’t think it’s a good idea to go for an expired domain name.

The reasons for not going for an expired domain and instead finding an unused or expiring domain are that pagerank may not be carried over and even if it is, it could take weeks or months …

If, like me, you’ve upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress for your blog, then you will no doubt have used the spiffy new image uploader. Unless you don’t have a Wordpres blog or post images, of course. Anyway, in the current version of WP, the uploader allows one to upload images to the appropriate folder, but sometimes it won’t let you actually insert the code into the …

Want more newsfeed readers for your blog? Of course, you do! Everyone does, despite the Feedburner myth and proclamations from Copyblogger that feedcounts are bogus.

So how do you get more feed subscribers?

Friend of the blog William Gunn tells us the basics: “If your desire is to increase the number of feed subscribers, you need to get greater exposure to people who use feed readers. …

There are few laws that cross national boundaries particularly when it comes to cyberspace. Indeed, there probably never will be an all-encompassing international system of rules and regulations that can cope with the net.

There are, of course, national laws aimed at blocking certain activities, and rightly so in some specific cases. Take email spam laws, they need to be in place, but at the …

A lot of Sciencetext visitors are searching for the phrase “GTalk Cannot Open Websense”. Well, GTalk is Google’s instant messenger application, in case you didn’t know already, but you may not have heard of Websense. Websense is a web security and internet filtering company, and a not particularly savvy one at that it seems.

When I visited their website to check them out on behalf of Sciencetext readers, I …