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  • How to Customize Your Comment Icon

    Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 10:50 in blogging, the internet

    Ever left a comment on a blog? If you haven’t and you are reading this you are one undeserving freeloader, get off my blog! But seriously, leave comments on blogs, it shows appreciation to the blogger. Well, you might have noticed comments lef...

  • Give Your Blog a Voice

    Posted on Thursday August 27th, 2009 at 02:22 in Software, blogging, the internet

    Text can get boring, online, offline, anywhere you see, the main form of information representation is via text. While it’s one of those things that cannot be replaced and never runs out of style it can be hard to read an entire article without...

  • Bye Bye Top Commentators (Sorry Spammers)

    Posted on Wednesday August 19th, 2009 at 06:15 in blogging, computer realm news

    Well, a few months back I disabled DoFollow with the overwhelming comment spam. I still had the Top Commentators plugin to benefit from this site’s page rank, however disabling DoFollow apparently did not help, in fact it made things worse, now...

  • How to Add a Poll to Your Website

    Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 12:19 in Software, tips, blogging

    As I stated in the ‘Introducing Polls‘ post, polls are a great way to get to know what’s popular, what’s best and is the ’safest’ way to conclude something on a very heated topic. It’s also a great way to get...

  • Create Cleaner URL’s On Your Wordpress Blog

    Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 09:03 in tips, blogging

    Who cares if the URL is a million characters long right? Wrong. Venture Capitalists would fund $2 Million dollars for a service that would shorten URL’s and make it cleaner to present. Still, while it’s really no big deal, it’ alway...

  • Blogging 101

    Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 01:38 in blogging

    There are plenty of blogs related to blogging, there are big names like Problogger focusing on in depth aspects of blogging and here on Computer Realm too we share our tips on blogging bringing you useful plugins and also generally talk on popular bl...

  • Pimp your Wordpress Archives Page

    Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 04:18 in Software, blogging

    Ever visited the ‘Archives’ page of a site? It is probably the most boring link on a site, just a chronologically displayed list, and it isn’t exactly easy to navigate, with just around 10 posts displayed per page. Archives, however...

  • How to Display Excerpts on Wordpress Homepage

    Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 03:41 in Software, tips, blogging

    A visitor to your website is valuable, they may find your site and leave in a few seconds or go on to read your content, recommend it to people, share it on social bookmarking sites and become a loyal reader, one visitor who has the potential to give...

  • Make Your Wordpress Blog Recognize Your Visitors

    Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 06:00 in Software, tips, blogging, the internet

    Ever spoken to one of those chat bots? Impressive don’t you think? Well somehow it always makes us raise an eyebrow when we see something virtual respond correctly (at least to a certain extent) with an apparent mind of its own. It’s alwa...

  • Use Wordpress? Use This To Keep Track of Things

    Posted on Sunday June 21st, 2009 at 06:58 in Software, tips, blogging, the internet

    Lets face it, our lives are a lot more ‘faster’ than they were, this is mainly because of the continual developments in technology letting you multitask and make your time more productive, however things can get a little overwhelming some...

  • Maintenance on your Wordpress Blog? Let us Know!

    Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 05:01 in tips, blogging

    If you’ve been following Computer Realm over the last couple of days,  you might have noticed the changes I have been making, including very visible ones like the new theme. If your blog is reasonably popular there’s going to be a few us...

  • Wordpress Thinks Online TV Is a Good Idea Too!

    Posted on Saturday January 17th, 2009 at 03:12 in Software, news, tips, blogging, the internet

    A couple of days back I wrote on how you can turn your computer into a TV. Two days later, it Wordpress has launched Wordpress.TV. A place for all things Wordpress expressed in video. Wordpress.TV contains comprehensive tutorials (atleast for now) on...

  • Watch out for the Twitter Phishing Scam

    Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 05:18 in news, blogging, Security, the internet

    Yesterday, I wrote  a post on Twitter, while you might be all excited about trying this service after reading the post I suggest you proceed with caution. Currently, there’s a phishing scam in progress. for now it’s been only spreading v...

  • Computer Realm goes Mobile

    Posted on Monday December 22nd, 2008 at 02:01 in Software, news, blogging, the internet

    There are millions of mobile users and this number is only getting bigger with new mobile devices being released every day that caters better to internet usage. And of course, having the whole internet on a handheld device than an entire computer or ...

  • Spam Karma - Impressive so far

    Posted on Monday December 15th, 2008 at 12:57 in Software, tips, reviews, blogging, the internet

    This is somewhat a follow up of my last post when I first installed Spam Karma. As you can ‘probably’ say with the title, i’m quite glad on how spam is being handled with the Spam Karma plugin. Based on my previous solution for com...

  • Have an ‘Intense Debate’ now on Computer Realm

    Posted on Saturday December 13th, 2008 at 06:45 in Software, news, blogging

    A while ago I installed a plugin to reply to comments which served its purpose pretty well. But as always, there is room for improvement, after the new 2.7 release, i was on the wordpress parent company Automattic’s website where i took a look ...

  • Wordpress 2.7 - I like it!

    Posted on Saturday December 13th, 2008 at 05:08 in Software, news, reviews, blogging, the internet

    If you have a blog on wordpress, you will probably be aware that a couple of days ago Wordpress released an ‘all new’ version of wordpress. Version 2.7 is virtually a revamp since version 2.5 in terms of appearance and I must say I like t...

  • Giving Spam Karma a go

    Posted on Saturday November 29th, 2008 at 09:44 in Software, blogging, Security, the internet

    When it comes to blogs, one of the biggest hurdles to get over is dealing with spam. Thus making sure you have the best tools to fight spam could probably save you a lot of hassle. When you take ‘Wordpress‘ and ‘Spam’, the f...