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NiharsWorld Blog now on Imagination Theme !

Few days back, I informed you that I Want to Change My Blog Theme. I had also asked for suggestions. Lot of loyal readers had given their suggestions. I was happy to see the response. From that day onwards, I was on the look out for a new theme.

As i was hunting down for a theme, I went through a lot of sites. But, I finally decided to go for Imagination Theme from CSS Jockey.

Big thanks to Shankar Bakshi ’s post where i came to know about Imagination Free Theme.

Its a beautiful and stylish theme. Its free and has got lot of settings that can be set from Dashboard.

Free Imagination Theme Features

  1. Plug & Play – No Programming Knowledge Required
  2. Comes with 9 preloaded Color Schemes
  3. Customize the Interface to make it unique
  4. Built-In Twitter, Flickr and Entrecard Widgets
  5. Built-In Feedburner RSS Integration
  6. Widgets Ready & Plugins Compatible
  7. W3C Valid & Cross-Browser Compatible
  8. Fully Documented Admin Options
  9. Compatible with WordPress MU (Multi-User)
  10. Standalone processing without interfering with default WordPress tables
  11. All this and lot more, absolutely Free!

After downloding the theme, it took me two full days of tweaking to CSS and migrate some of the things that i was using in old theme and wanted to use in this theme as well.

Imagination Theme with 9 Color Schemes

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Try you hands on Microsoft Office 2010 for Free

After Windows 7, Microsoft will be launching Microsoft Office 2010 in July.

If you want to try out Office 2010, then you can try your luck to be one of them to try the Microsoft Office 2010 Tech Preview.
Microsoft Office 2010
The registrations are already opened. You can get register for the invite at Microsoft Office’s Technical Preview Registration page..

Office 2010 will come in two versions. One for 32-bit and other for 64-bit OS.

For Windows XP Users: You need to upgrade XP to Service Pack 3 (SP3) if not upgraded. Download XP SP3 ISO.

MS Office 2010 Countdown Movie

Watch this short Movie about Office 2010

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Friday Night Links Party – 15 May 2009

Friday Night Links Party @ NiharsWorld

Friday Night Links Party @ NiharsWorld

This is Second Friday Night Links Party for May 2009 at NiharsWorld.

In this party drinks links will be served. Click here to check previous Friday Night Links Party @ NiharsWorld

I recommend you to share any good posts which you have recently read and have benefited from or nominate your own post. Just post your comment here giving some details.

Friday Night Links Party – 15 May 2009

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How to Remove Wordpress Meta Generator tag

I was reading an excellent post How to Stop Your WordPress Blog Getting Hacked. In that, the author has listed out different ways on how you can stop your Wordpress Blog getting hacked.

The second point in that post is to “Remove Meta Generator Tag”. This tag reveals the Wordpress Version you are using. This is the reason to remove that tag.

As instructed, i headed to header.php of my current theme and looked for the following line to remove it.

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.7" />

I was surprised to see that line was not there but, it was getting generated when i view the source of my Blog.

I then found a way to Remove Wordpress Meta Generator tag.

If you look the contents of header.php carefully, you will find a function call wp_head() just before tag. This is the function which is adding Wordpress Meta Generator Tag.

Our aim is to remove that tag from getting generated by wp_head() function.

Following steps are to remove meta generator tag in wordpress:-

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How to Find Broken Links, Missing Titles, Image alt text with Xenu’s Link Sleuth tool

Jonny from Jonnys Blog left a comment few days back on my Previous Post Broken Links Remover – A must Wordpress Plugin. He mentioned a freeware tool that can check all the broken links of any website. I took a look at that freeware software. It is a great tool to use for all the webmasters.

Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a freeware tool to check Broken Links of your website. It uses multi-threading to scan broken links. Hence, it is very fast compared to any other link checking software. Given the URL of the website, It can come up with all the broken links withe the details like title, type, size etc. It does all this pretty quickly.

How to use Xenu’s Link Sleuth

  1. Download and install the program
  2. Run the program and enter the URL of the website which you want to check
  3. Now it will check for all links like normal links, images, backgrounds, style sheets, scripts and java applets.
Find Broken Links of any website. Image Credit :  Xenu's Link Sleuth

Find Broken Links of any website. Image Credit : Xenu’s Link Sleuth

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