Paul Cézanne’s 172nd birthday google doodle

Today google celebrates Paul Cézanne’s 172nd birthday and the new Google Doodle is showing different letter of “Google” based on Still Life painting. Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
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How to fix “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”

The core automatic upgrade feature in worddpress was added with version 2.7. During the automatic upgrade WordPress places a file named .maintenance in the blog root folder. In that time the vistors will see the message Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute. If your automatic upgrade process failed and your site still shows the “vistors will see the message Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” message.just delete the .maintenance file.

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Makar Sankranti Google Doodle

Today google celebrates the Makar Sankranti and the new Google Doodle is showing 7 Kites with Google written on it. Makar Sankranti marks the transition of the Sun into Makara rashi (Capricorn) on its celestial path. Traditionally, this has been one of many harvest days in India. Sankranti is celebrated all over South Asia with some regional variations. It is known by different names and celebrated with different customs in different parts of the country.
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Joomla 1.6

Joomla 1.6 is officially released and ready for download. Joomla is an open source content management  platform powering millions of websites and applications. According to W3Techs, Joomla powers 2.6% of the web  and holds 11% of the CMS market. Joomla 1.6 delivers new features to end-users and site administrators  including:
Finer access controls
A user-defined category structure
Installation improvements a
Expanded language support

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How to Remove WordPress Dashboard Widgets (also from screen options)

If you login to your wordpress admin area ,you will see some useful (or maybe useless) dashboard widgets. It is a useful feature in single author blogs. By default,you can  turn off any dashboard widget using the “Screen Options” tab at the right top of the admin area. In multi-author blogs it leak some important details to other users. Example:incoming links,recent coments, right now, recent drafts etc.

To completely remove wordpress dashboard widgets (Dashboard quickpress widget,incoming links widget,Recent comments widget,Right Now widget,Dashboard Plugins widget,Dashboard Recent Drafts widget,Dashboard primary widget,Dashboard secoundary widget)
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How to secure multi-author wordpress blog

Secure wordpress is a wordpress plugin, it increases the security of your multi-author wordpress blog.

Some of its feature are

Removes error messages on login-page.
Removes the wordpress version except in admin.
Removes wordpress version in admin area for non-admins
Adds index.php plugin-directory (virtual)
Removes Really Simple Discovery link in wp_head of the frontend.
Removes Windows Live Writer.
Removes core update for non-admins.
Removes plugin update for non-admins.
Removes theme update non-admins.
Removes version on urls from scripts and stylesheets onyl on frontend
Block bad queries
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WordPress.com Stats

According to wordpress there are over 32 million WordPress publishers as of December 2010 and 16 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com plus 16.7 million active installations of the WordPress.org software.numbers are for WordPress.com hosted blogs only.
According to Quantcast, over 260 million people worldwide visit one or more WordPress.com blogs every month, and they view over 2.3 billion pages on those blogs each month.
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Tagxedo – Create Tag Cloud with Styles

Author’s Description: Tagxedo turns words,famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

How to create tag clouds

1.Go to tagxedo.com

2.Click the Start Now button.
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