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No matter what you are doing, it is always very important to backup your data. If you have ever lost your work, you probably know how bad it is, to start over again to take same steps.
Same goes for your blog. If you are blogging, you have probably heard the saying “content is king“. So, how do you protect your content against a server crash*? Nothing is more valuable than your content. Thus, it is a good idea to periodically back up your posts. In this article I am going to explain how to back up your blog entries

Matt Cutts, works for the quality group and he leads Webspam team in Google. Cutts got in to search in 1999. He is well-known in SEO community and he is one of the co-inventors listed upon one of the most well-known patent filings from Google, involving search engines and web spam.
As well as being known as head of Google Search team, he also appears a lot in webmaster world with his articles in his blog and interviews. Few days ago he wrote a post

It’s that time again folks, the weekend is right ahead and I’m looking forward to have some fun. Regular readers of gabfire have probably noticed that I don’t post much on weekends. But what about you? Do you keep posting or you only prefer to put an eye and check if everything is alright on weekends?
Here in this post you will find 4 applications that might be very useful those are Xenu’s Link Sleuth, Bodocus (a comprehensive lis of online doc movies), eSnailer and SkreemR

Random Image widget
Display a random image from a directory located on the web server.
Level2Categories 2
Allows you to create a relationship between User Levels and Categories, so only users with a defined level will be able to post on a chosen category. Its useful if you want to reserve a category only for Editors or Administrators (or whoever you choose) to post on.
jQuery Lightbox
Used to overlay images on the current page.
IP City Cluster
The IP City Cluster Plugin generates a geographical cluster map based on where from people access you website (or to be precise: based on the IP they got from their provider).
kPicasa Gallery PHP4MOD
This plugin displays your Picasa Web Galleries in a post or in a page simply by creating [...]

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Most people are unaware that when they delete files from recycle bin, they are not actually deleting them permanently. Files you have previously deleted are not really removed from your PC and they can easily be seen and retrieved.
Your PC contains lots of personal data such as passwords, address book, personal emails and few things that you wouldn’t like to share with others. If you want to render your files unrecoverable, you need to use a file shredder. To hit shift+delete doesn’t entirely removes files from your hard drive, although it will only remove the file from the root index.
Furthermore files that you have deleted still remains and kept in a hidden area on your hard drive and they can [...]

There might be many reasons why your site does not appear in search engine results. One reason of that is to keep same content in multiple URL’s.
There are several reasons why search engines don’t like duplicate content. One is that to keep quality in results. They don’t like to show same pages on their search results. Another reason that they don’t want to use theirs resources to index pages those has similar content.
Wordpress is a very powerful product, but it is not very search engine friendly. If you are a Wordpress user, there will be somethings to do in order to avoid duplicate content problem. When you write an article, your content goes to be published in your index file [...]

RocketDock is an application launcher (for Windows 2000 and higher) that provides a dock similar to that in the Mac OS X Aqua GUI. It has very nice interface to drop shortcuts on for easier access and organize. The dock is also compatible with Windows Vista, and is able to show live updates for the windows that are minimized, like in Mac OS X, and live thumbnail updates on the task bar in Vista.
It is compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y’z Dock skins. RocketDock is compatible with and borrows from Stardock ObjectDock’s publicly published Docklet API.
From the official site, this is a list of features

Minimize windows to the dock
Real-time window previews in Vista
Running application indicators
Simple drag-n-drop interface
Multi-monitor support
Supports [...]

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SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF)
SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) is an Ajax powered modal dialog contact form. It is built on the jQuery JavaScript library and uses the SimpleModal jQuery plugin.
Simple Captcha
A CAPTCHA for your comment system to prevent unwanted spams. Prevent automated spams by bots and most important naughty peoples. It’s simple and yet secure.
Collapsing Archives
This is a relatively simple plugin that uses Javascript to make the Archive links in the sidebar collapsable by year.
Collapsing Categories
This is a very simple plugin that uses Javascript to form a collapsable set of links in the sidebar for the categories. Every post corresponding to a given category will be expanded.
Embed QuickTime
Embed QuickTime helps you embed QuickTime movies to play directly in your posts, instead [...]