We first started our blog in Blogger and later transferred it to WordPress platform. Soon after that we have seen an improvement in web traffic and earnings. However, we noticed a drop in traffic from websites where we had submitted our old .xml feed. As you all might know, the feed URL in a Blogger blog is  blogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml or blogname.com/atom.xml (for custom domain). For a WordPress blog, the full blog feed URL is  blogname.com/feed. There are two major problems that would affect a transferred Blogger blog in this case. It will lose those readers subscribed to old feed address and also the traffic from blog directories where the .xml feed had submitted. Post Feed Redirect URL feature in Blogger is useful only in saving the subscriber list – the location of the atom.xml will remain 404 in WordPress.

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Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 9 beta, the upcoming version of the most popular web browser in the world. We are totally impressed with the features of Internet Explorer 9. It’s lightweight, fast and easy to use. The efficiency of the IE 9 can be improved by using a set of keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts in Internet Explorer 9 and Internet Explorer 8 are almost the same. Here we have compiled a list of most commonly used shortcuts that will work with Internet Explorer 9.

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Speed of a web page is now an important factor for getting better search position in Google.com results. Getting higher speeds is usually impossible for WordPress blogs on a shared web hosting account if there are a lot of static images, files, plugins and streaming media hosted on the server,  and if thousand of people are accessing them at the same time. The concept of CDN is very simple.  A CDN takes copies of CSS,  images, JavaScript, video-audio streams of the blog  in different network locations worldwide and sends it to the users near to that location.  So ultimately, the shared web hosting server handles only the database queries and loading HTML and other important files. Thus the overall experience of the user and the health of the server improves by making use of the CDN network. Recently, we purchased a MAXCDN account to use it with Techknowl.com and a few other WordPress blogs in our network. MAXCDN works perfectly in combination with W3 Total Cache Plugin for WordPress.  Here in this article we will tell how can add a CDN in WordPress blog with MAXCDN step-by step.

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Symantec released the final version of the most popular security software in the world, Norton Internet Security 2011. Symantec Norton 2011 Internet security is a complete security suite designed for both offline and online protection of Windows based computers. This Advanced Plus certified software product could be a good competitor for Kaspersky Internet Security 2011, Bitdefender Internet Security 2011, Panda 2011 and other upcoming security software releases of the year. NIS 2011 comes with the basic antivirus, antispyware, firewall, antispam, antibot modules and an advanced behavior and cloud based detection technologies. We are currently running a Hotfile premium account promotion in our blog. Today we are announcing another promotional offer, giving you one year valid Norton Internet Security 2011 product key and serial number for free. All you need is to comment here with your email address and tell us why you need NIS 2011.
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Recently, we upgraded techknowl to use it with MAXCDN content delivery network. The MAXCDN service has complete compatibility with WordPress and is one of the cheapest CDN available for bloggers. The addition of a CDN to wordpress is pretty much simple. However, it’s simpler with a plugin called W3 total Cache. Apart from the easy CDN integration, W3 total cache includes several features that will improve the speed and response of a WordPress blog. Earlier we were using WP Super Cache plugin -along with a combination of a few other plugins for our caching requirements. Now we have uninstalled all those plugins and migrated to W3 total cache plugin and MAXCDN service.

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Apple iPhone and iPad use a special Micro Sim card slot. The Micro Sim card in iPhone 4 saves the unused space and  also prevents the quick unlock of the phone from the official carrier. The size of normal Mini Sim card is around 15mm x 25mm. Whereas the size of the Micro Sim card used in iPhone 4 is  only 12mm x 15mm. We can cut the normal Sim card to Micro Sim card manually by using a scale and cutter.  However, the process should be very precise to avoid damage to the Sim card. As an alternative method, there is an iPhone 4 Sim  cutter, which makes it easy to cut mini Sim card to Micro Sim card exactly as required. The package of the product also contains two Sim card adapters in case if the user needs to switch back to Mini Sim mode.

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