Blogging in 2016

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Its been tricky for me to find time for blogging this year, as I’m not investing as much time as I used to in blogging and updating my instagram feed, due to taking on some personal business projects and working on some of my own hobbies as well as relearning some web development t00ls  as Its been quite a while. Unfortunately some …

Akismet is Down!

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This morning I woke up to my phone receiving tons and tons of emails, one after the other. I decided to check the status of Akismet (one of the best spam blocking engines for wordpress), on the blog we weren’t able to connect to the server, Akismet’s website and blog don’t mention any outages, however the website : http://status.automattic.com/9931/136079/Akismet-API specifies that there …

Aggregator or Rip-off ?

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There’s a new website in Kuwait, which understands aggregators all wrong, and might mess up some website SEO’s because of the copy-paste nature of his website without referring to the host/original site what so ever.  Its nice for aggregators to share your content, but when they don’t refer to your site what so ever and build their content based on …

Project X – The Video is Finally Here!

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For those of you who don’t  remember Project X, it was a Blogger’s cooking competition that took place a couple of months back! The Video they made is Finally here!      Check out Our coverage posts of the event here : Project X encouraged me to Start Cooking ! A Fun cooking Project by the name of “X” ! …

Google Reader lovers, its not the end of the world!

DudeBloggers, Education, General, Internet, Review 4 Comments

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 …

The Technical Side of Blogging – part 1

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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 …

We Are BACK! عدنا

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At last, we managed to fix the RSS and some encoding issues that we had! It took us quite some time but here we are. We are now officially : We’ll  be returning some of the widgets we had on the right tomorrow morning, as i’m kinda looking for altenatives to what we already had. The most important thing for …