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Monthly Roundup October, 2008 : New Poll, Mobile Version Now Live, Increase In Feed Readers

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Hello AddictiveTips readers! Your continuous support and feedbacks has made this site a success in just 2 months and few days(was started by end of October). This post will cover everything that happened back in October, so you can have a quick glimpse one more time.

10 Most Viewed Posts

Grab a Coffee or a Coke and have a look while enjoying your drink, no need to rush.

  1. How To Share Files And Create VPN(Virtual Private Network) Between Two Computers Easily
  2. How To Recover Data From Scratched Or Damaged Dvds/Cds
  3. 16 Free Search Engines For Finding Music Online – Start Listening Now !
  4. How To Enable ‘Show Hidden Files And Folders Option’ When Disabled By a Virus
  5. Top 5 New Kickass Torrent Search Engines
  6. How To Recover Your Accidentally Deleted/Formatted Or Corrupted Pictures From Your Digital Camera
  7. How To Speed Up Your Torrents Easily
  8. How To Find The IP Address Of The Sender In Windows Live Mail, Gmail Or Yahoo! Mail
  9. How To Encrypt Your Data Easily
  10. How To Remove Unwanted Pre-Installed Software From Your Computer With PC Decrapifier 2

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By Nakodari 7 Comments

Blogging Tips: How To Keep Your Blog Secure By Hiding Your WordPress Version Number

Note: This tip is for those who wants to take extra precautions, otherwise if you keep your wordpress up-to-date, you will remain secure as far I know.

I know that the title of this post is a bit comprehensive, but it pretty much explains what I am talking about. Hiding your wordpress version is the first step in keeping your blog secure and I recommend that everyone should do this to keep themselves safe from amateur hackers. Forget Professional hackers, they can hack into anything(even Pentagon). Anyway this is how you can prevent your blog from small hacks.

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By Nakodari 1 Comment

How To Create Your Own Website Or Blog For Free Using Weebly

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Do you lack web designing skills or are you confused on how to design a website which looks professional, is attractive, search engine friendly, has columns, pictures, setup options, audio player features, setup to add photo galleries with instant uploading of pictures from your desktop directly without using a ftp software and lot more features?  Try Weebly, which is an online website creation tool helpful for designing a beautiful website or a blog within minutes and setting it up on your own domain name.

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By Nakodari 8 Comments

How To Compress and Optimize Images Online With Smush-it

Images can give decent look to your Blog or Website. An average Professional Blog theme/design uses some where around 5-10 images. If these images are not optimized and are heavy in size, then your blog might load too slowly. This is not just with blogs even website do face this problem. It has become extremely important for us to Optimize And Reduce Images Size before using it in blog theme or on website. However most of Bloggers might not be professional in using Photoshop or any image editor or they are clueless on how to optimize or reduce image size. Yahoo recently introduced a web based tool called Smush -it to help you optimize the size of web images without affecting visual quality.

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By Nakodari 3 Comments

Blog Statistics For The Month Of September, 2008

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Note: This Blog’s statistics will be posted on monthly basis, they might not seem useful right now, but they will  come handy from January when I will start writing about blogging tips. If you hate such posts, you can skip it.

Update : I forgot to mention that the pagerank of this blog reached from 0 to 3 in just a month.

AddictiveTips has been alive for a month and our stats prove how loyal our readers are becoming. More and more people are looking for useful tips and we are working hard to keep up to your expectations. Before I start, I would ask you to first welcome our new author Muzammil Younus to our solid AddictiveTips team. Soon you will also find a short biography (with a picture) of every author, so that people can understand the team better.

Here are the detailed statistics for the month of September.

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By Nakodari 6 Comments

Tips And Tweaks For The New Windows Live Writer Beta – Part OF Windows Live Wave 3.0

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Windows Live Writer (WLW) is a visual blog editor for Windows. It integrates with most blogging platforms (WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger, and others), allowing you to see how your posts will appear in your blog’s theme, even when you’re offline. It isn’t just another text editor. As a former Notepad coder, I was drawn to WLW as I began to use more photos and embedded content in my WordPress blog. In this post you will get a glimpse of  some new basic features and ‘tips and tweaks’ to make a better Windows Live Writer experience.

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By Asad 2 Comments

How To Monitor Or Change The Temperature Of Your Computer

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Is your PC getting toasty or is your motherboard melting? Okay, I’m exaggerating, but if your components are reaching a potentially damaging temperature, I recommend that you use SpeedFan. This program monitors and reports the temperatures inside your PC using the built-in sensors on the processor and motherboard.

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A Sneak Peek On Different Social Bookmarking Services

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Blogging is fun, no doubt. But besides from writing blog posts {or entries} one has to promote his site if he wants to be a popular blogger. Traffic for blogs come usually from three ways.

The first and most emphasized one is ‘Organic’ source. Organic means natural, it is natural in a way that people come to your site by typing in keywords in the search engines like Google, yahoo, ask.

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By Nakodari 4 Comments