Google loses patent ruling | The Journal Gazette

Google loses patent ruling | The Journal Gazette: "Google successfully argued that the patent owners had waited too long to file the infringement suit. Google said Vringo and its predecessors knew of Google’s publicly disclosed method of filtering ads as early as July 2005 yet didn’t file the lawsuit for more than six years.

Lycos, a pioneer in search engines that once rivaled Yahoo as most popular search site, is now owned by India’s Ybrant Digital,"

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Yesware: Get Notified When Your Sent Emails Have Been Viewed

Yesware: Get Notified When Your Sent Emails Have Been Viewed: "Have you ever impatiently waited for a response to one of your emails? What makes the wait worse is that you do not know whether or not the recipient has checked your original email. Here to help with that by tracking your email and letting you know if the recipient has seen it, is a service called Yesware."

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Wordpress – Retrieve author/user details from Post ID

Wordpress – Retrieve author/user details from Post ID: "It can be accomplished by the_author_meta() function or get_the_author_meta() function.You will need call this function in your theme or plugin, through a hook
the_author_meta() –> Outputs the data, just like echo
get_the_author_meta() -> holds the value in value.
The below function, retreives user details like…
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function author_details($post_ID)  {
$auth = get_post($post_ID); // gets author from post
$authid = $auth->post_author; // gets author id for the post
$user_email = get_the_author_meta('user_email',$authid); // retrieve user email
$user_firstname = get_the_author_meta('user_firstname',$authid); // retrieve firstname
$user_nickname = get_the_author_meta('nickname,$authid); // retrieve user nickname
}
The following list of user fields you can retrieve using this function."

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10 Useful Wordpress User Interface / Dashboard Hacks!

10 Useful Wordpress User Interface / Dashboard Hacks!: "Further wordpress shows total counts of all posts (pending, published, all, drafts) present in the entire blog. This is totally unacceptable and it may present a security risk. You dont want to reveal entire list of blog posts to your users. The solution is to show posts, submitted by the user who is currently logged in and remove all post counts etc.. This is the key to design a best user interface.
Note: I have designated the default user role as “contributor” when they register. You may want to change this, depending on what user role you set, for example author.
This code will only show posts submitted by author/user, who is currently logged in:
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//user specific posts in admin area
function posts_for_current_author($query) {

if(current_user_can('contributor') && is_admin()) {

global $user_ID;
$query->set('author',  $user_ID);
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'posts_for_current_author');
This post will hide the number counts in brackets:"

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Assigning DNS Names to Create a Domain Hierarchy

Assigning DNS Names to Create a Domain Hierarchy: "Because DNS is the predominant name system on the Internet, DNS names are globally recognized and have well-known registration authorities. Active Directory clients requesting to log on to the network query DNS to locate domain controllers.

In Windows NT 4.0, the domain locator was based on the network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) Name System (NBNS), and domains were identified with NetBIOS names The server-based component of NBNS is called the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) server. NetBIOS names are simple, single-part names, and the NetBIOS namespace cannot be partitioned. In contrast, DNS names are hierarchical, and the DNS namespace can be partitioned along the lines of the hierarchy."

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DNS explained - The Domain Name Servers by Indichosts.net

DNS explained - The Domain Name Servers by Indichosts.net: "Here is another example:
A friend or associate of yours can somehow see your new website and you can not. This is most likely because his ISP's DNS servers are able to get the information at that time, where your ISP's DNS servers can not. Huh?!?

Here is yet another example:
What if you inadvertently provide the wrong nameserver information to your registrar such as entering one DNS server correctly but the other wrong? In this case, you would have experienced these problems right up to and well beyond the 72 hour propagation period. You'll have to update that information again and wait another 72 hours. Ouch!

Here is a neat one:
You are transferring your hosting to a new WHP. During propagation you are working on development of some pages in your website. But you notice that when trying to view your most recent changes, they appear and then vanish or they don't appear at all."

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DNS explained - The Domain Name Servers by Indichosts.net

DNS explained - The Domain Name Servers by Indichosts.net: "Contents of a DNS record:

Domain Name

Your actual domain name

'A' Record

Indicates which DNS server is the authority

'MX' Record

The mail server that accepts mail for your domain

Time-to-Live

DNS record expiration (in minutes)

For the purposes of this article we will focus on the domain name, the ‘A' record (or your WHP's DNS servers).

6. The Propagation Process

As we said before, your domain registrar is the one responsible for publishing your domain name at the root DNS level. When it is published it is placed into a directory that is broadcast out to primary DNS servers around the world. The primary DNS servers broadcast out to secondary DNS servers and so on and so forth."

Somebody Please Tell Me How To Set Up a Few Name Servers?

Could the true secret lie, in the dedicated IP????

He quietly asked to no one in particular.....