Increasing your company's online visibility

Although everyone know that the number of online users are increasing day by day, many small, medium and quite a few large companies failed to grasp their hold of marketing share online. Having a marketing platform on the internet is quite rewarding.

To overcome such back drops, one can always try for some proffessional help to promote their site or products online with minimum fees. Discountclick.com is one such website which provides you with Professional SEO Services, Ad Serving Service, List Management Service etc. A dedicated SEO consulatation & Search Engine Optimization is certainly going to boost the visibility of such companies in the online world. Online tools and stats reports about the usages, visibility, response time etc about your site speaks out the usability and interest of the online users to your site so as precautions and needed steps can be implemented to acquire potential customers' to try out your product or services.


Pay Per Click Management, Keyword Analysis, Link Building Services, Non Reciprocal Link programs and so on are some of the much needed areas a company needs to focus on to maintain a position in the online  market. So, I suggest you try some professional hand on such matters and let them put the efforts to promote your products or services... or if you find it below your mark, you can always discontinue the service (but i bet you'll see the difference!!).

Adding a gadget by URL in Google Wave

It's a real simple and real easy thing to add a gadget by URL in google wave... however, i'm writing this post because i've come across some people who asked me how to do it??

Google Wave, because of it's rather new concept, architecture and working, a lot of users are confused how to use it?? An IM plus an email platform plus media sharing platform plus social networking and more.. it's just enough to make a non geek freak out!!

So here's what you've to do to add a gadget (it's just a series of clicks):

You can create an entire new wave (it's like a new message taken as a whole) yourself or reply to a wavelet  (it is a part of a wave similar to a part of the chat lines while chating with your friends online) another waver. The following shows a wavelet. You can click on the blue rounded-corner rectangle below to reply to a wavelet.

When u do that, you are in 'edit mode', then you'll be able to see the toolbar (blue wavy line in below pic),

then click the 'Add gagdet by URL' tool from the toolbar (encircled in red in above pic). U'll be able to see a pop-up, as below,

Now, add the gadget URL there, it's that simple

Googling for 'Google wave gadgets" will return a lot of useful URL gadgets, or you can try out Google Wave Gadget.

Online Tutor

Everyone very well know that mathermatics is one great subject yet hard to tackle properly if we are not clear with the concept behind. We all had, at some point of our life, been to high school, and we know how tough it could get. Specially while we are deal with algebra, almost every student finds it hard to handle mathermatics properly.

The truth, however is, Mathematics is fun!! It has almost every other subject of study under it's shadow, say physics, chemistry or statistics etc. And so that you can enjoy palying around with mathermatics, I suggest you this site, TutoVista.com which i came across recently. It's a leading online tutorial website offering every subjects for a mere monthly fee. From the algebra help, algebra 2 help and algebra word problems sections, you can get help on any algebra problems you faced. As a whole, for any math problems or math word problems, you can get all the math answers online through TutorVista.

 The interesting part is that, every help is available online, so that you don't have to waste your time traveling across your city to get to a tutor. More interestingly, you do have a chance to test the service before making the payments through their demo classes as well.

Gold: the best way to preserve your assets

I was wondering about some way to preserve the assets one has. If someone, a millionare, an individual or a company, wants to preserve it's asset, what do they do?? In this world where there is no certainty of a stable economy, a market crash or raising tensions between countries, is there any surety that the asset can be preserve to the best of it's value??

What, do you think, is the best thing to do then??

The Answer is Gold. Sites dealing with Gold Coins or Aurum advisors could be some place where you can find information on how to protect your assets, preserving in the form of the Gold Metal in uncertain world. The Aurum Advisors online resource for gold coin and gold bullion acquisition at http://www.goldcoinsgain.com makes it a know-it-all topic for assets aquisitors to preserve their assets in the form of Gold Coins. Gold, is the ultimate form of preserving one's asset, the best metal for any individual, family, or institution to preserve their assets. A handful of selected team and expert Gold Coins or Aurum Advisors, which are among the finest precious metal asset managers can be seen at the site. Assuring gold being a valuable part of any investor's investment strategy, Gold Coins Gain guarantee the Gold under your own protection. All the gold coins you receive are guaranteed and authorized by a third party grading service that makes it sure that it is worth it!

The Gold metal, being the most stable metal in terms of its value, is prefered by most. This makes gold the best... and now I understand what to do if I've some extra assets!!

html xhtml and css @web articles

As a web developer, you need to understand basic knowledges on html, xhtml and css to begin creating a page of your own. Web-articles.info carries a whole lot of articles on html, xhtml and css which are among the best articles for someone learning this scripting languages.

The site carries numerous articles where some of them explains basic steps on many frequently use methods or "how to do it" in plain simple way. Whether you are a beginner or an expert looking for some understanding of how a certain thing is achieved using html, xhtml or css, html xhtml and css @web articles has a lot to tell you. Going through the articles, you will be able to combine the worlds of html, xhtml and css. Topics on "how to use html flexibly", "Anatomy of an XHTML Document", working with Cascading Style Sheets and so on are described in details.

Articles are added regularly and there is a growing numbers of tutorials in the category as well as other categories available on the main home page of the website. The interesting part is that, if you need a daily fresh updated content for your website in any category available, web articles offers free fresh content for your website.

Of all the articles at web articles, the "anatomy of an xhtml document"by albert lichtblau is one cool article. As the articles quotes

The transition from HTML to XHTML will come with a fair number of bumps. While later chapters introduce tools to help you get past those bumps – and figure out where they come from – this chapter examines what's going to change and demonstrates a few strategies for handling those changes. Along the way, we visit the ghosts of browsers past and explore problems that exist in current browsers. In turn, you discover how prepared and unprepared various tools are for XHTML.

Visual Design and Usability

Visual Design and Usability are two factors web developers and web designers need to focus with. The two factors are the two ends of a scale, the more you try to add usability, the visual design can be compromised; the more attractive the website is, the less user friendly it may become. www.articlecity.info has a good article on web visual design and Usability.

Some usability gurus have traditionally expounded that developing a web site should be focussed on the usability, not the outlook. However, as opposing these views, User experience designers and Information architects have argue that, since human have the tendency of an extremely short "attention span", an attractive Visual design is essential to lure users making them stay on the site for a longer time.

Patrick K's article on Visual Design and Usability describes the how the two views exist together depsite being the different ends of the scale. A site with a minimalistic visual design is the major design scenario prevailing in the UX design world these days. A website loaded with graphics and animation may be attractive although losing usability functions or taking up more time in loading while a minimalistic website may look dull, however providing the necessary details or information the website is meant for.

For a better improvement in the fusion between usability and visual design, developers/designer has now been using Prototyping tools to create wireframe models of website outlays. This helps in determining the looks of the website in a proper way even before its development.

Web Directories

A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_directory

As the above suggests, a web directory is a directory in which websites are linked in a categorized manner. Before listing, the websites are reviewed manually and are listed in the right categories.

There are various web directories available across the internet these days but not all are as reliable as some of the well known web directories such as DMOZ, Yahoo directory etc. The major essence of a Web Directory is that, they are maintained by a group of reviewers, that it these lists are maintained manually. This is the main reason why seach engines focusses on websites listed on a well known web directory than a website which is not listed. As a result, a web directory is SEO friendly.

Many web directories offer web developers or website owners to submit there website online, after which they review it and approve it accordingly. Most well known web directories ask for a nominal fee for inclusion in the directory. Many web directories may ask you to put a backlink of the directory website anywhere on the website you are submitting for your website to belisted in the web directory. Very few offers free web directory listing submission. Online tools are also available where the website owners are required to submit the website details on their website and these websites in turn submits the details to hundreds of directories...and once again, these websites may charge you according to the submission type you want or may do it for free!!

If you are a website owner, for a start you should try submitting your website to SEO friendly web directory or free web directory which will help you in increasing the visibility of your website to major search engines. Increasing visibility on search engines definitely means an increase in the number of potential customers from your website.

Open Innovation, the future

Innovation, the key thing to bring changes, making the developmental process for this society existing, is the major talk these days. Every company is now getting an innovation department or something more or less the same.

"Open Innovation", as Henry Chesbrough, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, coined describes a growing number of initiatives by companies to reach beyond their own walls to use talent and ideas from others. Open Innovation is supported by various Companies seeking for the fruit from the mass to solve challenging problems with simple and elegant ideas where anyone can participate. InnoCentive, a Waltham (Mass.) company spun out from Eli Lilly (LLY) in 2001 is one of the company running online to recruit Innovators who could be anyone..even you.

The key thing is that, these companies are tapping ideas from the mass to bring out changes in the world. Who know, maybe the idea you propose today becomes the world of tomorrow. The challenges ranges from Physics, Chemistry, Science, Engineering, a greener earth and so on. Non-Profit organizations raised challenges, and we, the general people, who have ideas proposed their ideas and you are rewarded if your idea turns out to be the next big thing!

Take a look yourself at Innocentive, the places where innovators are groom. See the various sections and the pavillions to find the right topic you are interested at. Open a project room for the challenge you want to participate, make your proposal. Wait for the result.

Open Innovation: let's make a change!

Hacking Websites

Disclaimer: Any damage/damages which may occur or arise using the information or by gaining knowledge through this particular post provided here lies solely on the person performing the act. I'm not responsible for any damage/damages of the same. What is written here, is provided solely on informational purpose.

Even dreamed of Hacking a website? Ever wonder how to get into ones website and deface it?

Well dream it.. there's no harm in doing that; but don't practice it (Are you confident enough about hiding your traces behind?).

Words be, lemme tell you a few live hacks done through SQL injections. You can try right now as it works (by the time this post is written) but CONSIDER doing it at your OWN RISK. What i'm telling here is more of a Ethical Hacking; that means, know that it can be done the way I'm explaining here, and find out how to protect from being a victim yourself.

It's simple. Most people think Hacking is for the master coders only, which rather is wrong. Of course some knowledge are required and depending on the level of security, one can break through any system. HACKING into a system can be minimize but you CAN'T guarantee a 100% secure system.. as there is always a way!!

So now, here are some sites which lack some serious security measures:

Uttar Pradesh technical University website -

http://uptu.ac.in/ (To login, goto login on the top right, go to college login, and then choose VC)

Red Fm 93.5 website -

http://myredfm.com/ (To login Goto http://myredfm.com/admin)

What the web developer of these sites have done is, they forgot, or don't know how to use a escape string function (in PHP language). I won't go into details just for the sake of the laymen. They don't know or haven't implemented certain measure to exclude certain characters from being input by the user. When a site asked for a username & password, what happens is that, the code checks the username to the username existing in the database and compare with the password in the same row with the user input password. If both the conditions returns TRUE, then the user is shown the next password protected page.

Look at this: "1' or '1' = '1". Put the above in the username as well as the password field (without the double quotes). Here we formed an always TRUE condition as 1 always equals to 1. Or you can change it '2' = '2' or anything else. Now press enter and voila, you are at the backend of those sites. You can change anything from the backend.

The Missing Gmail Labs Feature

Google has done a lot to improve its emailing features and User interaction through the Labs module. However, I strongly felt that the gmail labs lack one 'mundane' feature which everyone needs and would be happy to include with; and that is - an urgency rating system.

If you are one person who uses the email service frequently to communicate, you perhaps must have come to notice that the rating system is extremely essential.

What Google can add to its labs feature is a 5 options rating module, say something like the one shown on the right. The module is suppose to rate the urgency of the email.

What one usually does is read the email he or she receives first, and so the last email you sent, even though it is urgent, could be read last. It's kind of a FIFO arrangement. You can mention in the subject line, the degree of urgency but there is a better way to do that.

You can simply send a 'Someone's Dying' rated email. The subject line will appear in the corresponding color and one will identify it as soon as he sees the subject, (everyone reads the subject to the mails they received..don't they?).

Someone's Dying:
This is an email of the greatest priority. You rate this when there is and extreme need for the recipient to read the mail as soon as possible.

Finish your Coffee:
This are normal emails. The recipient reads it as when he feels like reading.
Most emails should fall in this category.

I'm Feeling Lucky:
It is a Google style rate. The recipient reads it as he wants. You can rate this when you think the email is really interesting.

Actions Required:
You give this rating when the recipient needs to perform some Actions; as the likes in which site administrators sent to its users to inform the change in its privacy policy and the users need to accept it before continuing using.

No Reply:
This is an email sent when you don't need a reply but want to inform the recipient.

How I'd been these past few days

It's been some time since i posted my journals here. Basically, I've been busy with a lot of stuffs. Shristi 2009, the annual techno-management fest of NERIST is about to start from 6th to end on the 8th of April 2009.

As the site developer and administrator of the official Shristi site, www.shristi.org, I'd been pretty busy keeping it up with the requirements. The Shristi Open Rubik's Cube event which is going to be held at an international level is one such awaited event; and the workshops given on Robotics by the the Professional Mumbai based Robotics firm, Technophilia and the workshop on Ethical Hacking and information Security under Kyrion, a Delhi based hacking club were magnificient. I gained much knowledge from the workshops delivered by Kyrion and today, there is going to be a small competition on live hacking and am hoping for a good outcome.

Moreover, the annual Magazine of NERIST, the Altius 2009 (Vol VIII) has just been done with the graphics and design part has already printed and about to be released on the start of the Shristi 2009. It took me around 3 days to complete the whole graphics, designs and layouts for the magazine.

Apart from that, shortly from now, I'll developing a complete site for the BioInformatics center newly opened under the Department of Forestry, NERIST.

Embarrasing Google Street View images

Google was forced to remove hundreds of pictures from its street view mapping service within hours of its launch facing complaints from people who said that the system breached their privacy.

The street view gives 360-degree views of 25 cities and towns allowing users to take virtual tours from their computers or mobile phones. The initial laumch hit hundreds of thousands of visitors when it began on thursday; but google faced a deluge of complaints from homeowners and members of the public shown by its cameras, who demanded that photographs be taken down.

Blogger (including me!!) and internet sites posted embarrasing scenes captured by the service. Among the pictures removed were a man vomiting on a pavement, one leaving a sex shop and another entering a sex shop; another guy being arrested. These images were blacked out later with the message: "This image is no longer available". However, street view users were able to travel a few meters down the road and turn the camera back to see the same people from a different angle.

Google spent more than a year coveing 22,000 miles to collect images with car-mounted cameras (one such car can be seen in the photo a the top of this article). Some people complained that viewers could zoom into the open windows of their homes which is a sole matter of privacy intrusion.

The company promised to remove any pictures to which individuals objected. "We put tools in place to allow people to remove images quickly".

For more funny Street view images, goto www.telegraph.co.uk.

Apple iPhone 3.0 software update

Come June, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will rejoin after his extended medical leave (The cancer case was one of the rarest kind of which there is a cure and fortunately he's cured). That is when we will be geting our 3.0 software upgrade for the iphone free of cost and for the iPod touch for $9.95.
Short of Jargon, Apple will give developers the tools to make better iPhone Applications, but what will the users get?

Here's the list of the key benefits out of a 100 Apple says the iPhone 3.0 update will give.

1) Cut, Copy and Paste across all applications. (When this annoucnement was made, thunderous applause greeted prompting synics to ask why peoople were clapping for a feature that every mobile phone already has!!)
2) Forwarding SMSes and the ability to delete multiple messages at one go.
3) MMS, I isn't quiest necessary, but with QR code it can be used to sell tickets. QR codes store addresses, URLs and other informations that can appear in magazines, business cards, on advertisements and tickets. The code can be generated by a phone application and sent to a user as an MMS. This again is scanned using a mobile phone to permit entry to converts, movies among other things.
4) Spotlight. OS X Leopard's search facility will be added to the phone. I always hated swiping through seven or eight pages to find the app I wanted to run. With spotlight I'l get there in a jiffy.
5) Turn by turn GPS navigation. If your city is not mapped properly by google you can download third-party maps like map my india.

6) Support for Bluetooth stereo headphones.
7) Exchange files and contacts over Bluetooth. Songs will be excluded.
8) Instantly hook up with another Bluetooth phone and start playing games. No pairing is required.
9) You can now type your emails in landscape mode. This gives you more space between keys and lessens the chances of hittin the wrong alphabet. You can type fater this way.
10) Parental Controls. Parents can now ban sites and videos that they do not want their children to watch.
11) Better streaming of videos. The iPhones will adjust playback depending on your internet speed. So you'll get uninterrupted streaming.
12) Tethering. You can use your iPhone as a modem to get onto the Internet.
13) Voice Memo. You can record your letters and mail them and even attach contacts.
14) Sending contacts to others.
15) Attach multiple photos in an e-mail. Currently you can attach only one picture.
16) Search your e-mails. If it is not found on the phone it will search the server too.
17) Subscriptions. This will allow you to buy new levels of games through the application. You'll be able to buy magazines, books and even newspapers through the Kindle 2 app that is already available in teh Apps Store.
18) Push. Instead of running applications simultaneously, draining battery life, audio and text alerts will be pushed into the closed app.
19) Medical Apps will alow you to measure your blood sugar levels through an adaptor and even track your blood pressure.
20) With the freedom given to developers the iPhone can be turned into a control panel for practically any piece of electronics you can plug it into. This will allow users to pair the phone with a set os speakers to turn the screen into a digital equalizer. And oh yes, just shake your phone to shuffle your songs. Remember it's and iPod too!!

Portable Google Chrome 2.0.169.0 Beta

Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. Google Chrome is a browser with intuitive and innovative User interface design with sophisticated technology that makes the web faster, safer (although IE is above in security list for now), and easier. The One Box for Everything ideology makes it possible for your
to type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages; will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

A portable application can be run from a removable drive (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc) on any Windows computer without installation. You will carry the program with settings on removable drive and don't modify settings on
host computer.

Extract (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root) and run ChromePortable or ChromiumPortable. If you want to add parameters, start in incognito mode, delete cache or allow multiple instances: edit Chrom*Portable.ini.
Extract Plugins (with a PortableApps folder at the device's root): Flash 10.0.22.87 & Gears 0.5.8.0.
Settings of installed Chrome should be preserved.

Internet browser (more infos) without installation.

Download Portable Google Chrome Beta on RapidShare (7.9 MB) (md5:bdd46b84b00941e8048c90a695afb137)
Download Portable Chromium on RapidShare (8.0 MB) (md5: a6a886a36edbac16feba44d81bad2319)
Download Portable Chrome Final on RapidShare (7.5 MB) (md5: 056dc3ae922f50f6b6042d02745bc943)

Download Plugins on Zone-DL (2.5 MB) (md5: d8dff930fcabd2536eb536228d35e9e2)

Download Portable Chrome Final on Share1t (7.5 MB)
Download Portable Google Chrome Beta on Share1t (7.9 MB)
Download Portable Chromium on Share1t (8.0 MB)
Download Plugins on Share1t (2.5 MB)

And if you want the PC version of Google Chrome, Download : Google Chrome 2.0.169.0

Results in Acid3 Test :
Chrome Beta & Chromium: 100 %
Chrome Final: 79 %

My Name in Google Results

1. Today, I happened to look up googling my own name and see what the result is like. I find some sites which is quite irrelevant with me, or rather some sites which I've no or little connection or actually have forgotten for long. Truth be told, I'd been inactive with spock but the spock page still shows up the second in my result list. The first of course is this blog only, the 3rd (LinkedIn), i just opened my account 2 days back there, and much of the rest sites below are developed by me (excepting Flickr, Facebook and MIT of course!). One disappointed is that Google doesn't show my own Facebook page, instead showing my friends page.

2. pTAM

   my works · RSS Syndicate; Top Return to top. © 2008 pTAM. Grid Focus by 5thirtyone.com. Converted by Blogger Buster. Hacks by Pritam Pebam.
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SIBI Online Music Player : Concept

SIBI Online Music Player (Alpha):

1) What is SIBI?

SIBI is a new generation Online Music Player. The main concept lies in its portability and user friendly aspects.

In SIBI, users can upload their own mp3s on the SIBI server, create their own SIBI playlists, manage their uploaded files and listen it through the SIBI online player from their home PC or Mac, PMPs such as the Ipod, or through their mobile devices which supports the required platform.

2) Why SIBI?

SIBI is different, or in fact the first of its kind. It is NOT an online Radio Player.

It is different because users can upload their own music collection on the server and access it from anywhere on this planet (of course when you are connected!!). It can be imagined as the Winamp combined with your hard drive online.

Many people usually have a wide collection of music in their PC or Mac, which usually of course, exceeds the capacity of a common PMP (say of 4gb or 8gb, I myself have a collection of more than 90gb!!) and almost everyone hears music while on the travel, on the way to college, on the way to his friends place and so on; but none have the time or the patience to choose out his favorite ones to be uploaded in his 4g or 8gb PMP. No one likes to sit down and make a new collection of his mp3s which will squeeze in his PMs Memory capacity and at the same time includes all his favorites. As a person’s music collection grows over time to time, he may have a lot of albums that he may like to carry around with him but which is not possible because:

• Low Memory capacity of PMPs (Large Memory PMPs cost a fortune!)
  
  
• Doesn’t have time to sit and pick out the ones he like; or to be precise, hardly if anyone is asked what are their favorite ones, he’ll be able to say just a few out of his huge collection. The truth is, the brain doesn’t give out like a printed list saying, ‘Here’s the list you would want to put in your PMP’… pardon us, we are HUMAN!!
  
  
• But when you are on a journey, say a cross country tour, you won’t want to carry your laptop or PC over to everywhere you go, but the PMP, sure is meant for that time and moreover, you won’t know which type of songs you are going to listen during the journey; it depends on the place you visit, or the people you meet or it could be anything.
  

Bottomline: You do not know which one to put around. You just want to listen to it when you feel like listening to it.

3) Challenges to bring SIBI into production?

i) Users have to be provided a large online storage area, say 50gb for the start.

4) Purpose for SIBI?

SIBI provides users the ability to listen their favorite music anywhere, everywhere without any unwanted extra efforts, provided he has a supported connection on his PMP.

5) Monetization. 

SIBI is targeting to grab the music market. On the SIBI main page, ads for new album releases or monetized services related to music can be displayed so that users can buy them. (refer the UI design section). To increase sales, displayed new album should be displayed by finding out the user’s favorite band or music which can be known by checking out the most played songs in his or her playlist. By checking what type of songs the user uploaded, such as which bands, which region of the world the user belong, displayed new album info can be on the basis of user interest which increases the chances of sales.

SIBI USER INTERFACE: Updating.

© SIBI Music Player, 2009

Windows: Generic Win32 Service Error

I've come across this problem myself and I tried googling a lot and found out a few methods to fix this problem but, the interesting part is that NONE works. 

With this error, your audio, your networks, the graphics; all are affected. Your audio devices will not be shown in the devices section, your internet will not work and one thing for sure is that, you'll be really pissed! The error seems to be caused by some old version of HP printer drivers. Microsoft has release updates for Windows XP sp2 but the problem still continues with SP3. (Haven't tried with Vista)

I read about a few other methods other than the WORKING one I've given here, and that includes software updates or patches from Windows and HP; but as I'm using a new enough software, the patch didn't work. 

Anyway, here's the steps for Manual fixing, which is by far the best:

1. Open Registry Editor: Start>Run and in the box type: regedit and press OK.

2. Find "TransportBindName”. (Edit>Find or Ctrl+F) It may take a few mins to search. (You can look for it yourself at the location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\NetBT\Parameters)

3. Double-click on that value and delete the default value in the box and press OK.

4. Find the value “EnableDCOM”, located at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole

5. Double-click on that value and set the value in the box as ‘N’ which currently maybe set as ‘Y’.

6. Close the Registry Editor and restart your computer.

I think this will solve your problem.

Shristi.org: the Series of hurdles

I've been approached to build and launch the the website for the Techno - Management Festival of my university. I've designed and developed a couple of websites on my own and so it wasn't a big deal, or at least i thought so, for me at FIRST. Things however, have been going pretty weasy and confusing with various hurdles and problems i've to face which are quite unexpected and uncool.

The very first hurdle was when znetindia.com took 3 days to process my domain registration order. The second one came when i found out that znetindia doesnt bundle DNS control with the domain registration; and for which i've to activate an extra addon for the domain paying extra money. The third was the unfriendly user interface structure of the znetindia account manager area (if you are a starter, i bet you won't be able to find out where you should change your nameserver if your are changing your hosting service to some other service provider!). The fourth was when i realise that the TTL values for the DNS at znetindia was quite huge, which means any update in the DNS, A, MX, CNAME, NS, TXT etc will take time for its propagation. This happened when i mistyped the NS records and then i realise i mistyped it, i had to change it and for the change to propagate, i had to wait the whole day.

Later when everything from the domain point of view is working, unfortunately, my PC breaks down... or at least i thought so, coz later on i found it was my wireless modem problem. As an engineering student, and in the CSE branch, i use to do a lot of stuffs on my PC and it is not uncommon that i install a fresh copy of Windows a couple of times every month. This time, i'd already formated my PC 4 to 5 times since my semester starts, and that would be from the 1st week of Jan and i've already made it by heart the serial number to my copy of the windows. For development purposes, i've created a lot of complex structures, programs and databases that i don't want to lose but i'd to compromise some to make my PC working again.

Now, everything is set, the site is up (www.shristi.org, though still under active construction) and i'm using joomla cms for a quick built. A problem which i'd never faced before arises to my joomla hosting then. At the same hosting company, with the same apache, php and mysql configuration, i'm hosting another joomla website and it's not showing any problem but however in this website, problems after problems showered. I'd the problem fixed temporarily although it's not the best way to fix the problem.

The Joomla problem was that, whenever you try to upload/ install a component/ plugin/ module/ template etc, you got an error message "Warning! failed to move file".

This happens because of certain settings and file permissions on your joomla host. There are methods to overcome this problem but they are not the best yet known. For some, setting CHMOD to 777 for the" public_html/tmp" file seems to work but for others it's far from solving. Some solved it by disabling the FTP layer at joomla, but some solve it by just changing the temporary path "public_html/tmp" to "public_html/temp" or the vice versa. Other ways to solve includes giving the php file more space changing the php.ini, which requires contacting your hosting company. The best method, however, seems to be disabling the php "Safe Mode", which also require you to contact your hosting company.

For now, as my works need to be completed in a short period, i'd changed all the files/folders concern to 777 giving permission to change and execute to all while making the installation and then changing back to the normal CHMOD file permission after the installation is over; leaving no ways for hackers to poke their nose in. If you are having this problem, u can do it as i've done as it is the simplest and will always solve it regardless of the FTP, php.ini, apache or any other settings.

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Anyway, let me see if there're any other problems that are gonna pop up in front of me..