I know most of you know that Google Reader is gone and still open up the browser typing in reader.google.com and hitting enter only to be getting an unfamiliar screen. Well to get back the feeds you can’t live without follow the following instructions: 1. Download the back up of your XML files which you can get from Google TakeOut …
Techy Friday
Woke up this morning with a Techy feeling, good thing AlGhanim has a 24 hour store 🙂 FYI the SSD and RAM were from Amazon, DHL open at 10 and I was there at 9 so I passed by Alghanim :):):):)
Internet Detox
Its been quite a few days since I have used my computer, lots going on, and i’m constantly out, usually back at home at around 10pm where I would be so exhausted that I wouldn’t even think about using my computer. Same with Whatsapp, Instagram and all my emails. Its been quite a few days of internet Detox, only occasionally …
The Technical Side of Blogging – Part 3 : Make Your Blog Load Faster
Making your site load faster is one of the key things you should focus on! Visitors hate sites that take forever to load, and site ranking engines take the load time into consideration when ranking the website overall. Lets get to it: 1. Remove, disable, uninstall unwanted/unnecessary plugins: Some plugins require so much data to be fetched from the database that they make the site …
Great offer on DSLR Camera Bag!
I always wanted a camera bag that would fit my laptop or at least my ipad with all my lenses inside and I wanted it for a fair price! The other day i was with my wife and kids at Geant Hypermarket in 360 Mall and found this great bag for a good price (or at least i think its …
The Technical Side of Blogging – Part 2: Using Spam Filters
Spam filters in a blog are as important as your AC filter. If you don’t have it you’ll have all sorts of trash and ads and spam messages in your comments. Wouldn’t that mean you’ll have a lot of comments? Ofcourse it will show as if you have 100’s of 1000’s of comments, but all of them will only generate …
The Technical Side of Blogging – part 1
The past two days I’ve been looking for ways to make 7ajidude faster and more optimized so that we can ensure that the site loads faster and performs better overall. As most of you know we’ve changed web hosts a couple of times, and the performance of the website is affected on the location of the host, the uplink provided by the host and the …
Spam emails in your inbox after plugin updates?
We use the Akismet Spam filter on our blog, as well as the FS Contact form, and lately we were getting so much Spam in our inbox which was quite odd and it only happened after updating some outdated plugins. The fix was simple, apparently a new option to pass on Spam that was stopped in the contact form to the email was enabled, …
Dusty Outside? Stay home and Learn something!
Everyone noticed by now the amount of dust thats just increasing hour by hour. Visibility is low, its not worth going out ang getting covered up with sand. What I recommend you do is not waste that time infornt of a telly and learn something new! I’ve decided to update and increase my knowledge on Photoshop CS6, so I wont …
The UGLY Truth
Today was one of those days where it hit me! “i’m not the old me any more”. I don’t really care about my weight or how I look, I’ve been taking breaks from my obligations as a writer in this blog. I’m not covering as many events as I used to and i’m not going to the gym. Time? I’ve …