Web Hosting Information

Are you planning to setup a website and searching for a good web host for your site? It is very important that you choose the right web hosting package for your site.

WebHostingInformation.net is a informative site on web hosting which will help you choose the right web host that is suitable for you. They also provide you with the news and views about the hosting industry.

Most important thing is that they provide you with the step by step guides for setting up the different services needed for your website.

You will get the up to date review on reseller accounts offered by various web hosting companies out in the market. You can even how this web host performs based on your own experience.

If you are thinking of appraising your domain name or future domain name, you can read their reviews on domain name appraisal services offered by major web hosting providers.

Putting this all together I found this site useful and recommend as one of the resources for the people who are planning to choose better web host.

OpenOffice Plugin for Microsoft Office

Good news to Microsoft Office & Open Office users. Sun has made ODF Plugin 1.0 for Microsoft Office available for download on their site.

The plug-in is an extension to Microsoft Office that allows it to read and write ISO standard ODF files. It supports Office 2000, XP, and 2003, and works on Windows XP and Vista. It adds to MS Office the ability to read and write ODF text, spreadsheet, and presentation files (.odt, .ods, and .odp) – the ISO standard editions of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Furthermore, ODF text files (.odt) can be made the default format for MS-Word thanks to this plug-in (and double-clicking on an ODF text file on the desktop would automatically open it in MS-Word).

[Via: Peter Korn]

Technorati Tags: Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, ODF, Plugin

Blog Contests

There is a new site which is blogging about various contests being held across several sites.

Bookmak this and check this regularly for the new contests.You may be interested in some of them.
http://www.blogcontestsite.com/

100 best companies to Work for

Yahoo finance listed out the 2006 list of 100 best companies to for based on different factors. Check if your company is in that list…:)

Interesting thing I have seen there is, many of them or not software companies.:)
http://biz.yahoo.com/special/bestco06.html

WordPress 2.0

WordPress 2.0 is out.

There is a change in look and feel of the WordPress.org site also.

Download the latest version here

IE Flaw Puts Google Desktop at Risk

Alert for Google Desktop users who are using Internet Explorer.

The security hole involves a problem with the way IE imports cascading style sheets (CSS) from other Web sites, a technique referred to as cross site scripting (XSS). IE will import any type of file with a bracket, regardless of whether or not it’s valid CSS.

<script language="javascript" src="http://ads.betanews.com/adserve.iframejscript/www.betanews.com/MPU@Top?2107402054"></script>

By combining the flaw with Google’s Desktop Search, a malicious Web site could read personal data off a visitor’s machine.More info here

IE Flaw Puts Google Desktop at Risk

Windows XP Run Commands

FixMyXP.com has listed a comprehensive list of Run commands that you can use with your Windows XP machine.

Please check the post for more details.
http://www.fixmyxp.com/content/view/20/42/

Changed Host

 I was trying the superfreeweb‘s hosting for the past few weeks and it is going down for days. enough pain with the downtimes.

I will never use free hosts from now onwards.

I have changed my host back to my paid host GoHindi.

Downtime

Sorry for the downtime last night.
Facing some problems with the Host. Will change the host if these problems keep coming again.

Moved back to Spam Karma 2

Facing some issues with Akismet. Disabled it and activated the Spam Karma 2 again.

Spam Karma gives lot more details than Akismet. Akismet needs lot moe improvement.