Nepalese Technology Navigator
We can assume safely that even though our (most Nepali’s) passwords are simple and not that much lengthy, they are safe somehow. The reason being most of us use roman Nepali characters as our passwords which, in most of the cases, are not English dictionary words – letting us behind the target of hackers. But there are things we need to learn about good passwords and bad passwords.
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If you have been using WordPress, then you might have been in love with the pretty feature of WP that allows you to install WordPress in its own installation directory. This comes handy when your site homepage is different from the directory of WP installation as illustrated here. There are many benefits of doing this, the most important being optimized and better management of website files and folders. You might want to implement this feature in Joomla as well. However, sadly Joomla CMS doesn’t come handy with this feature even though we want to keep our site files uncluttered from rest of our hosting directory files. [Read more...]
Even though Joomla is a popular Content Management System (CMS) used by millions of websites, upgrading from one one version of Joomla to another is still not systematized by the Joomla or Open Source Matters! (the company behind this popular CMS.)
Upgrading Joomla refers to elevating in Joomla’s minor version – for example from 1.5 to 1.5.x while Migrating Joomla refers to elevating from Joomla v1.5 to v1.6 (so called major version). The next major release will be Joomla version 2.
Upgrading and migrating Joomla is not that easy as is with WordPress (world’s most popular blogging client now used as a powerful CMS). The Joomla Wiki Page (documentation) has a long and complicated process, you can read here Upgrading 1.5 from an existing 1.5x version. However, here is the easiest way to upgrade Joomla 1.5 existing version to Joomla 1.5.x using Update Manager for Joomla and migrating from Joomla 1.5 (latest 1.5.x) version to Joomla 1.6 using jUpgrade – both free components for Joomla! In two series, you can update from your 1.5 Joomla to 1.6 version.
Google has finally has launched the 2-step verification authentication method for increasing the security of your Google Apps accounts which they initially released for Gmail services. Now that the famous 2-step verification is available for all editions of Google Apps for Apps users, once the domain administrator has enabled the feature in their Google Apps control panel. 
For those using Google Apps Standard Edition (free version) and not yet been able to get the 2-step verification, you can request for the service. First lets discuss, what is 2-step verification?
2-step verification is a security feature implemented by Google for its services which helps to protect the user’s Google account from unauthorized access, mean even if someone else who knows your account’s password. So, 2-step verification prevents (if not, tries to do so) password cracking, stealing or gesticulating by implementing verification codes.
Toshiba's fastest SDHC Memory Cards
While Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) cards are getting more popular and replacing the Secure Digital (SD) memory cards, Toshiba has announced the world’s fastest SDHC memory cards. SDHC cards overcome the storage capacity limited to 4 GB in SD cards to as much as 32 GB till now. [Read more...]
