Spam is a thing which every high-traffic (even some medium or low-traffic) blogs, forums, websites etc. have to face. In this post, we will discuss some of the best plugins for WordPress which can deal with spam. No, not those based on Captchas or making your users solve math problems, rather we will discuss on some of the new and innovative plugins which work differently, but do the same thing, that of taking out the spam from your blog.

On Wednesday, Google added a new feature to its search results called “Quick View” that would enable the users to view formatted PDF files in Google Docs. Earlier, the PDF files could only be viewed in HTML format and also, they lost much of the formatting, but now the users can view the formatted PDF files with graphics, tables, fonts, etc with the help of Google Docs. This feature has…

Microsoft had a bad weekend as around 20,000 hotmail accounts were hacked and their passwords were posted on October 1 by an anonymous user on pastebin, a website used by programmers to share code snippets. The page was removed soon after (even the cached page by Google).
How were the accounts hacked?
The most probable reason for the accounts getting hacked is phishing. Wikipedia defines phishing as:
In the field of computer security,…

Some months back Google had launched its Google translator toolkit and yesterday, Google unveiled its new translate widget for blogs and websites on the day of International Translation Day (30 September 2009). This translation widget can be easily added to any website and provides translation into 51 languages.
Old Widget vs. New Widget
You might be wondering what is the difference between the old and the new translator bar widget, so…

Most of you must be fans of the Vodafone ZooZoo ads which are aired in the IPL season 2 breaks. Here’s good news for the ZooZoos fans. Vodafone has won the first Glitter Box award which was given by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) India. This award is given to those businesses that take the advantage of humane alternatives to the use of real animals in their advertisements.

It is the time when the navigation software is being used in mobiles, cars and a variety of other gadgets. But the question that is now arising is – Is the GPS close to its end or is it going to breakdown? Some experts have said that the system maybe close to breakdown or even fail as early as 2010!

Gmail Labs has released a new feature called Message Translation which helps you translate e-mails written in foreign languages into your own language. This feature is very handy for those who receive e-mails from others in various languages.
Enabling Message Translation Feature
To enable this feature, simple follow these instructions:

Login into Gmail
Go to Settings
Go to Labs
Look for Message translation and enable it

Click on Save changes button at the bottom

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Gmail tries to auto-detect…

Now you would never have any hassles in making collages for your daily use! Picture Collage Maker will handle it for you! It is a very simple to use program which can turn your ordinary photos into stunning keepsakes. You can also share them with your family and friends! With some few clicks, you can create digital collages, scrapbooks, posters, invitations, calendars, and greeting cards. Amazing, isn’t it?
Features

Build collages quickly…

In the last post, we learnt about the first kind of control structures which are, if statements which allowed us to run a block of code if a condition is true or not. But what about writing a code which would run a block of code again and again? That’s where we will need loops for. Loops allow us to execute a block of code again and again if a…

As we have already learnt about data types, we will now study about logical expressions and also about switch. Logical expressions are basically if else statements. You might have given orders to somebody like if jam is available then apply that on bread else if butter is available, then apply that else don’t apply anything. We can also write such commands in PHP. It is a very important and useful…