Facebook have been well known for sharing web pages. Due to this reason, it has been a favorite place of bloggers. I felt pity for Orkut, which don’t have such options. But now orkut, under Google has entered this field with more and more facilities.

Today when i was browsing through my friends profiles, i stunned to see the pic of one of my friend and his blog on the ad-section of my page. I thought that he had started to use adwords. But it was then i realized  the cool ‘promote it’ button in it. It was an ‘Promotion’ created by him.

I just came across a online tool called Intodit to create a Wiki on just about anything. This is quite useful to create documentation or have a group working on a project to create a reference guide for some day in the future.

It can also be used for non-professional needs like creating a wiki for a city or even on a hobby. Wiki is a great way to learn as you can also involve other people with similar interests to add to the wiki and make it more comprehensive.

I think Google should “Google” for a Good name before using it – Yeah! Recently Google launched its new programming language called “Go“. Controversy arises here, Google should have researched better while choosing the name of their New programming language..

Go! vs Go

Can you find the difference between the above two words ? Yes! you’re right, An Exclamation mark differentiates both but it definitely not enough for that purpose. Now let me tell you what does the both refer to ..

If you want to access to your MS Office files which were created years back then you should think again because now all the MS Word applications save the file in a new format called as DOCX and this is the same reason if you edit or create a new MS Word file now you cannot access the same on your older versions of MS Office like Microsoft Office 2000, 97 & 2003. In order to access these newer versions of files you need to convert them to compatible versions using different options. Here is a small list of the same.

In the past few weeks, I’ve tested a few blogging platforms for the launch of techworkshop.org, and right now, I hesitate between 2 alternatives: WordPress and Textpattern. I’ll be fooling around with both in coming weeks to familiarize myself with them. I have now been running WordPress for a week or so, and I must say that I am quite impressed by its ease of installation. Running a local version of your blog is very useful because it lets you fool around with themes and plugins to your heart’s desire without having to risk breaking your live blog.

Here’s a little guide that will help you install and run WordPress locally on your XP box in less then 10 minutes:

1- Get XAMPP lite for Windows. Choose the exe version, and install it at the root of your C drive.