Archive for the 'internet' Category

BJP using Adsense Ads to promote its candidate in Delhi

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has started using Google Adsense Ads (the kind you see on this blog) to promote its candidate for Delhi’s chief ministerial position, Professor Vijay Kumar Malhotra properly known as V. K. Malhotra. I came across one such ad while browsing BCMTouring Forums, here is a screenshot of that ad (click to [...]

Rapidshare shuts its door for BSNL and MTNL subscribers!

Since yesterday, people who use BSNL and MTNL internet connections aren’t able to access Rapidshare.de, a popular file sharing site. If one tries to access rapidshare, the following error message is shown: Massive RapidShare hack attempts detected. IP block 59.170.0.0 – 59.189.255.255 blocked. Please call your internet provider. There are also reports that ips from [...]

Step by step guide on how to start your own blog

This is part one of the two parts how to guide, in which I am going to show you, how you can start and run your own blog and make it a success. In this part I am going to discuss about why you should start your own blog, what you should blog about, whether [...]

Are you afraid of online transactions?

Today I got a call from a friend of mine, he was thinking of taking his business online, which meant using his credit card online to purchase hosting and various other things. However having heard horror stories of online credit card fraud he was obviously a bit apprehensive of using his credit card online and [...]

Google search using image verification to verify searchers!

Yes that’s right, google search is using image verification to verify if a human searcher is searching for a particular search term. The search term that I had used was klr650 using the google search bar extension of Mozila Firefox and it landed me on this page! Here are the contents of the page We’re [...]