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Hello my name is Jeff, I am the Editor and founder of Maboot Mag
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Execute PHP in WordPress text widget

Execute PHP in WordPress text widget

By default, WordPress text widget only allows to execute the HTML code. If somehow you need to run PHP code in the text widget, you would have to add below snippet of code to your theme’s functions.php file – There are no other settings required. After you have put below code in functions.php file of [...]

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Pure CSS Speech Bubble

Lately I have been learning a lot of CSS stuff, because I prefer to use ‘pure’ CSS whenever possible instead of images. Indeed this blog is also a place for me to share whatever I learn ;}. Today I learned how to create pure CSS speech bubble without the use of any image thanks to [...]

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Google’s game with webmasters

Google’s game with webmasters

his is in reference to Google’s last year and current changes to its algorithm or ranking factors to ensure the quality of the content on the Internet. Well, there is barely anyone who won’t appreciate better user-experience, top quality sites in SERP and filtering out the Junk or spam sites and discouraging stacking of the ads above the fold. [...]

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Adsense Tips are totally discouraged by Google’s Webmasters guidelines

Adsense Tips are totally discouraged by Google’s Webmasters guidelines

f you have been following both Google Adsense tips and Google Webmaster guidelines or tips emails. You would realize that most of the time, they are contradicting each other. What is even more ironic, that some users got their Adsense banned just for following their own tips. For instance Adsense tips encourage users to place [...]

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Fix: Internal Error in Ubuntu 11.10 Software Center when installing Google Chrome

Fix: Internal Error in Ubuntu 11.10 Software Center when installing Google Chrome

There is a known bug, which displays Internal Error, when installing Google Chrome on Ubuntu 11.10 – Apparently this bug was fixed, I was able to install Chrome with and without encountering this bug. As I installed the Ubuntu 11.10 at least five times in the last couple of days using WUBI. Bug Description: Double-clicking [...]

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How to enable FastCGI for a WordPress site hosted on Dreamhost

FastCGI is now enabled by default on Dreamhost right?. But It does not mean it’s rendering the pages for your WordPress blog automatically. In order to get FastCGI to render pages for your WordPress site on Dreamhost you have to make below changes to your .htaccess file and create a .fcgi script. It’s little time [...]

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YOGGRT – One ad per page Network for Awesome Advertisers and Creative Publishers

YOGGRT – One ad per page Network for Awesome Advertisers and Creative Publishers

It’s been a while since I reviewed any service. Anyway, today I am gonna review a very aspiring Advertising Network, Yoggrt. It’s a new One-Ad-per-Page (I am a Publisher and a Customer of Buysellads, However this post isn’t motivated by any incentive, it’s purely out of my love for them) service by popular Advertising network Buysellads, [...]

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Klout is Imperfect but It’s the next big thing.

Earlier Alexia from TechCrunch wrote an article ‘ Nobody gives a damn about your Klout Score ‘, and she basically has criticized the Klout algorithm that determines one’s Klout score or how influential one is. Klout’s pervasive problem is that the deeper among us are never going to judge anyone based solely on some arbitrary decimal score. Especially when that decimal [...]

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