There are various giant sized internet companies namely, Apple, Google and Microsoft. Each of them have their own philosophy or business strategy too. Some companies would just explore new niches and develop it and bring innovation to it. Like Apple did with Smarthphone. Some companies would do nothing and keep showing demo videos of their [...]
About Imran Jafri
Hello my name is Imran Jafri, I am the Editor and founder of Maboot Mag. I am extremely passionate about Web design, UX and GUI. I love to play with PHP, javascript and Wordpress. Of course I am a MAC and using Ubuntu as my secondary OS. That's all.
How to sell websites on Flippa and How they are valued
Making money through PPC or CPM ads is pretty common way of monetizing websites. However more recently, Flipping websites is becoming more popular. Where you buy a small website and put efforts on it and sell it later for higher price. Or alternatively, you build a website from scratch, establish it and sell it to [...]
Web Development as a Business in Pakistan
Recently I had the chance to attend the Seminar at EVSLearning, where I have also taken admission to learn some basic web development. It was for the first time, I got a chance to have a glimpse at the web development scene or software house business in Pakistan. Our Tutor (Mr. Ali Malik) quickly jumped [...]
An Introduction to PHP – Chapter 1 PHP Introduction and Basics
We are going to start an interesting series on this blog. That would help the users to learn PHP, an easier and quicker way. This article is the first piece of this series. Our first Chapter is ‘ PHP Introduction and Basics ‘, in this chapter we will discuss, the origin and history of PHP [...]
Sync folders to Dropbox on Ubuntu with right-click context menu
There is barely anyone on the Internet who has not used Dropbox, one of the most popular online cloud storage, data synchronization services on the internet, used by millions of users across different OS platforms and devices. However it still lacks the ability to Sync any folder on your computer, just by right-clicking on it. At present [...]
CSS3 Punch Button
Here is a fine example of CSS3 ‘Punch’ Button by Chad Mazzola. There are plenty of others on his site. However I have only picked up the Punch Button to demo on this site. Below is its source code.
WordPress: Remove brackets around Category Post counts
I am not sure, if below snippet of code is useful for average WordPress users, However, It would come in handy for a lot of WordPress designers. By default when you display the WordPress Categories with count, it wraps the count the with brackets i.e ” (12) ” – And there is barely any way [...]
Are you investing in a scam or a start-up?
Following Posterous acquisition by Twitter, my trust and faith in all the new and young startups that popup everyday at TechCrunch or PandoDaily, is lost. And I have really been pondering, what could be the purpose of a startup, that apparently does not have a solid “revenue model”. Are they just a scam to grab [...]
Twitter acquires Posterous, strange?
The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn’t be happier about bringing our team’s expertise to a product that reaches hundreds of millions of users around the globe. Plus, the people at Twitter are genuinely nice folks who share our vision for making sharing simpler. – Posterous Blog Today I woke up [...]
Microsoft demos High-Performance touch screen, would they sell it too?
On Demo it looks pretty nice, so nice that I want to throw my iPhone and iPad in the trash bin right away. But hey! haven’t we all seen the demo videos before of ‘ Courier ‘ which was believed to change our life. Therefore I am little skeptical, and barely give any fuck to [...]
Enable or Disable All Comments on WordPress at once
Here is a small snippet of MYSQL queries that would enable or disable comments on all of your wordpress posts at once. Instead of enabling or disabling comments one by one on each, which could be little time consuming if you have got too many posts. This first query will disable comments, and second one [...]
Techcrunch wasn’t a blog, It was a niche, which has shattered.
There are zillion of Tech Blogs, but what’s so special about Techcrunch? Techcrunch wasn’t merely a blog. It was also a niche. Which was discovered by Michael Arriginton, just like, Christopher Columbus discovered America. There is barely any day, when I don’t hear the news of drama taking place on the Techcrunch. Either one is [...]
Google Plus Is ‘a Virtual Ghost Town’
It turns out Google+ is a virtual ghost town compared with the site of rival Facebook Inc., which is preparing for a massive initial public offering. New data from research firm comScore Inc. shows that Google+ users are signing up — but then not doing much there. Visitors using personal computers spent an average of [...]
Did I just coin the new term ‘MFG’ Made for Google ?
MFA or Made for Adsense has been around for the long time. The sites that primarily are made for milking pennies and dollars from Google’s online publisher program ‘Adsense’. But guess what, the web has grown out of it. MFA websites were mainly small un-branded websites run by Individuals or in other words sploggers. What [...]
Google would never understand what Microsoft has not figured yet
Aren’t you surprised that people are still writing blogposts about Google+? Anyway only effect that Google+ had on me is, that I have quitted using facebook. Not because I switched to Google+ because I feel, this whole thing is crappy. I can not keep up with this sh*t anymore. I am now sticking to Twitter, [...]