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Here is the weekly roundup of posts generated by “Instant Weekly Roundup” wordpress plugin. This week, I posted an unboxing of Reliance Netconnect Broadband and also covered some firefox tips. Hope to provide you more tech coverage in this week as well.
Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ (plus) Unboxing, Package Details and Review
Internet users are increasing day by day in India and other parts of world, so companies are now being prepared to provide best wireless Internet experience to its users. In recent past, India has got lot many wireless service providers and initially they were providing an internet connection at speed of around 144 Kbps which was better than dialup but much lower than the broadband services. But now Reliance, Tata Indicom, Virgin Mobile etc. have launched wireless broadband services with much better speed.
Yesterday I purchased Reliance Netconnect Broadband+, a wireless broadband service data card from Reliance outlet. And I thought to share the unboxing experience with you all.
Amazon S3 Offer – Data Upload Free till 30’th June 2010
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is one of the most trusted and used web clouding platform. If you are enrolling yourself today on S3, you will be eligible for the current offer going on over there. On normal days, Amazon charges $0.100 per GB for Data Upload i.e. Data In but right now they are running special offer where your Data In charges would be waived that means Data Uploading is free until 30’th June 2010. After that, the charges for Data In will be same as the previous one i.e. 0.100 per GB.
BuddyPress 1.2 Released – Now Install Social Networking Plugin on Standard Wordpress Too
BuddyPress 1.2 has been released with some awesome features and options. The most important one is that now you don’t need to have Wordpress MU to install BuddyPress. You can install this social networking plugin on standard i.e. normal Wordpress setup as well. Buddypress 1.2 is having lot many other features as well.
Buddypress is a social networking plugin which can be easily install on Wordpress setup and then your blog can become a social networking platform like Ning. Now Buddypress 1.2 is out and there are lot many features in it. Here is the list of new features included in BuddyPress 1.2.
Adobe AIR based Desktop Application for Google Buzz
Google Buzz is really cool social media platform and lot many people has already started using it. In fact, we created a wordpress plugin for Buzz button to make it easier for visitors to share posts from different sites. If you are using Google Buzz and want to make your life bit easier by not always logging into your gmail account then you can use Google Buzz desktop client (application). Thru this application, you can update your Google Buzz and receive updates from others to whom you are following thru your account.
Change Default Search Engine In Firefox Browser
If you are getting bored of your current default search engine in Firefox browser and want to change that to some other then read the following details to do the same. Google Chrome is having a dropdown on options page to change the default search engine but that kind of simple dropdown is not available in Firefox. But you can customize and change the options of Firefox with simple hack.
Upgrade To Wordpress 2.9.2 If Having Untrusted Authors on Sharing Blog
Wordpress has released version 2.9.2 with a simple update for those who has open their blog registration for everyone and having untrusted users. If your blog is having untrusted logged in users then they can play with he “Trash” posts written by other authors as well. FYI, Trash feature came in Wordpress 2.9 to keep the deleted posts for time being and then you can permanently delete them from your blog. But as reported by some Wordpress developers, every logged in user is having unwanted access to trash posts even written by other authors.
Monday Morning Readership 02/15/2010
Monday Morning Readership is a weekly roundup of posts published in previous week. This time we have included posts published in last two weeks as on last Monday we didn’t publish this roundup. So this time you are getting the posts published between 1’st Feb 2010 to 14′th Feb 2010.
How To Download Full Background Image of a Twitter Profile
As you are aware that you can put a custom image as a background picture on your twitter profile. In past few months, lot many celebrities joined twitter and they are showing off their latest pictures as their twitter background. For example, recently joined Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan added his picture showing six-pack abs or the very familiar blue background used on Barack Obama’s twitter profile. If you want to download the picture to use that as your desktop wallpaper then you can do this by using very simple trick.
