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These days, bloggers are almost heralded as mainstream media – they are treated princely, wined & dined and given exclusive privileges to events & products. There is no denying the strength a blogger can possess. Someone once compared a pastor of a church with a blogger. He estimated that a pastor needs 20-30 staff to help run a church that spreads its message to a congregation of 2,000 people, once a week. In comparison, an average blogger can reach an … Continue reading
There is no denying that Facebook is one of the hugest things to happen in this century for the online world. Knowing that, it is crucial we harness this knowledge for ourselves to increase traffic to the sites we own. Riding on the “Like” functionality that is spreading like wildfire all over the Internet, here’s an instruction guide on how to get it onto your WordPress blog (if you’re not using WordPress, I’m sorry… but there’s definitely similar guides to … Continue reading
I guess it’s about time to upgrade the facade of the website. I’ve not been blogging too much, but a truckload of traffic comes via YouTube for Hackintosh write ups and for searches on how to clean the Ikee virus! And thus, a new chapter for thebackpackr.com unfolds – I vow to blog more regularly and talk about topics that will really be relevant for those interested in anything creative, technology and business. Any feedback or suggestions you’d like to … Continue reading
Project 365: take a photo a day and share it with the world. Use any camera (or phone) to achieve a simple photo blog of your life.
Join in, pick up your camera (or your phone) and let’s start documenting the life around us through the lens. Then, share it with the world. It’ll be fun! Continue reading
Are you plagued by horrible internet connectivity, and do you keep getting errors like this one, when you try to upgrade your WordPress blog? I kept getting the same error over and over again, and decided there’s a better way of overcoming this problem. Thanks to Nazham, he had some pointers on his blog to share on how you can edit the file (/wp-admin/includes/file.php) and modify this line: $response = wp_remote_get($url, array(’timeout’ => 30)); to increase the timeout to something … Continue reading
Some days, I surf the web and realise there is hardly any fresh and original content that is churned out by some bloggers. If I surf the more popular websites like TechCrunch or Engadget, then browse some of the tech blogs, you realise the stories are somewhat a variant of what is published on the aforementioned sites. Oftentimes, I feel there has been a death of new content and many just try to hop onto the bandwagon of another site, … Continue reading
I’ve been reading quite a lot about WordPress 2.7 (named Coltrane) and how it is a major upgrade over all the past 2.6 releases. I felt I needed to do the necessary upgrade and keep abreast with things. I do know of some people who have BROKEN their WordPress blog installations after an upgrade, so please, PLEASE do backup both your database and your web files BEFORE you embark on this project. Then, spend some time reading the official WordPress … Continue reading
I’ve been commenting on blogs for awhile now and wondered how these people just seem to have their pictures pop-up everywhere. Surely they can’t have uploaded their pictures onto every person’s blog, right? Duh, stupid question! Anyhow, the answer is really simple – get a GRAVATAR. That stands for GLOBALLY-RECOGNIZED-AVATARS. WOW… what a great idea. So here I am traipsing over to www.gravatar.com (incidentally, they share the same database as WordPress, and if you have a WordPress account, you can … Continue reading
Now that you’ve got your blog installed, what do you do next? You don’t want your blog to look like a plain Jane one, so get cracking, and select a happening design theme, download it and install. Here’s an introductory chat about themes and plugins. This clip does not cover the process of installing themes, but here’s a video clip by Steve Dougherty that illustrates in step-by-step form how to do it. As for installing plugins, you could take a … Continue reading
Plugins for WordPress are created to enhance your site and add extra functionality to it. For instance, you might want to have the ability to allow your readers to rate your posts, or to create an image gallery, or get WordPress to do your laundry (yeah rite!). Most plugins are free – a good place to start downloading them from is http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ Step-by-step walkthrough to install a WordPress plugin 1. Download the plugin you wish to install. Unzip it on … Continue reading
Here lie my thoughts: that of an entrepreneur, media-junkie, gadget-junkie, photographer, videographer, once-PC-user-but-now-Mac-user and husband. 
