April Fool Posts

April 1st is fools day and we cannot believe what’s true. I just visited Darren’s Blog and found a post that Problogger has launched Pay Per Tweet. Its a April Fool post. You can find many posts on different blogs, be sure that you are not fooled, yup its just for fun

Public toilets in Switzerland

I received an email with some information about public toilets in Switzerland.

When you look from outside, it looks like this

When you go inside you see this

 

 

Upgrade your wordpress blog to stable 2.5

Wordpress has officially released the stable version of Wordpress 2.5 series. I just upgraded this blog to the stable version. My version was 2.5 RC-1 which was the first in the 2.5 series.

How to Upgrade?

The upgrade process is as simple and same as we did before.

Step 1 - Download the latest stable version of Wordpress

Step 2 - De-activate all your plugins and put your site Offline

Step 3 - Unzip the downloaded latest version and FTP it to your server replacing all the files

Step 4 - Visit http://yourblogurl.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php

Step 5 - Follow the instructions, Your database needs to be updated

Step 6 - Activate your plugins

Done

Getting data from Google Cache

What is Google Cache?

Google takes a snapshot of your web page while crawling through your web pages and stores as a back up. So we can say, that Google even backs up your data and can be used to get back some important data if you have lost. For example, you lose all your data from your server and you want to see a page, you just need to do the following

Go to Google.Com

In the search box, just type site:yourdomain.tdl

You will get all your indexed pages listed. Go to the page that you need and click on the cache link which you will find under the snippet on the search result page of Google

You will be able to see your page as its stored on the Google Sever.

Can you imaging the number of pages that Google has stored on its server?

Bank of Maldives

Bank of Maldives is the only local bank in Republic of Maldives. There are other banks like State bank of India, Habib Bank, HSBC bank, etc in Maldives, but they do not have more than one branch. I am not sure if there is any restriction to open more than one branch for foreign banks in Maldives. Bank of Maldives has many branches in Male’ the capital of Maldives as well as in remote islands. The bank is fully computerized and provide almost all the banking services needed for the citizens and business establishments in Maldives.

History of Bank of Maldives

Bank of Maldives, shortly called BML commenced its operation on 11th November, 1982 and was inaugurated by the President of Maldives. The bank was started as a joint venture between the Government of Maldives and IFCI bank Dhaka. Now IFCI no longer has any shares of Bank of Maldives, but its now a public limited company with a capital of 36.5 million Maldivian Rufeeya. The bank became public in the year 1993 and still its the same.

Branches of Bank of Maldives

There are three branches in Male’, the capital of Maldives, namely Majeedhi Magu branch, Market branch and the Main branch. It also has a branch at the Male’ International Airport and Villingly, an island nearby Male’. There are a total of 17 branches for Bank of Maldives.

Services of Bank of Maldives

Retail Banking

Loans and Advances

Trade and foreign banking

Card centre and electronic banking

Online banking includes, billpay

Salary Handling

There are many big business establishment in Maldives and they need the best services. State bank of India was established much before of Bank of Maldives, but the services at SBI needs a lot of improvements. I have not seen any foreigner working in Bank of Maldives, but the service and facilities and excellent. Maldives need good banking service as there are many new resorts coming up in Maldives.

You can visit the official website for Bank of Maldives for more information

Vacancy for Specialist Doctors in Maldives

We are urgently needing a full time Specialist Doctor (Gynaecologist and MD Physician) who is interested for a long term contract (Minimum 2 years) to work at a private clinic in Maldives. The doctor should have minimum 3-5 years of experience and should be able to do Ultrasound scans. If you are interested please email your resume to jobs@amdc.com.mv

We expect the candidate to join by 15th of April

We will be providing you with more information about the package, terms and conditions. Please note that this is a direct employment and we do not entertain any recruiting agencies.

How to use windows live writer effectively

Every software has its own pros and cons and the to make use of all the features are very important if we need to use the application effectively. Most of us use many application, but many do not know about all the features that an application has. I  have been using Windows Live Writer for some time now. There are lots of features available for this application and if we use it, this is an excellent application or I could say a must have application for a blogger.

You can download windows live writer first and install it. This is 100% free and this is updated automatically with windows update

Once you install it, you need to do the set-up as an normal application. Once installed just open the application and the first thing to do is to configure you blog. You can configure any number of blogs. WLW supports almost all the popular blogs like wordpress, typepad, blogger, blogspot, etc.

Adding a new blog to windows live writer

Just go ahead with the instruction to add a new blog and follow the instruction. You will need to provide the URL of your blog and the login credential.

Once the account is set-up the theme is updated to the live writer and you can view the web layout along with normal layout, HTML view and web preview.

This is the snapshot which I had done when I was writing this post.

This is the side pane of the windows live writer. You can find lots of links which are very useful. You can insert an image, hyperlink, tag, table, code, video, map and lots of features as you see.

Creating a new post

Creating a new post is very simple, just click on new and select the write weblog if you have configured multiple blogs.

Saving a post as draft on to the web server

You can publish the post directly or save as draft to you local drive or even post as draft to the web server. You can find the save draft button on the toolbar

Saving images using FTP

If you have problem in saving images to your web server, you can use the FTP feature

1. If you use Writer with more than one blog, on the Weblog menu, select the blog that you want.

2. On the Weblog menu, click Edit Weblog Settings.

3. On the Images tab, click Upload images to an FTP server, and then click Configure FTP.

4. Complete the following settings:
# FTP hostname: The name of your FTP server.

# Username and Password: The user name and password for your FTP account.

# Publish images into this folder: Include the full path to the folder on the FTP server. To find the path, click the Browse button.
# URL of image publishing folder: The web address of the folder where people can view your images. The address should start with http://, not  ftp://.
# Click OK, and then click OK again.

 

Tags Feature

You an insert different tags using the tags feature. You can even create custom tags. By default, you can see wordpress, technorati, buzznet, etc.

Selecting the category

You can find the list of categories inside the category selector, which at the bottom of the page. You can even add new category from your windows live writer.

You can do almost everything that you do when you do a post by using the default posting page of a wordpress blog.

Plugins

You can install the necessary plugins by clicking on the add plugin link which you can see on the right bottom of the screen. You will be take the plugin gallery, just select the needed one and click install. Restart the application and you will find it in the plugin list

You can browse through the WLW Plugins Gallery for some good plugins that you would like to use

Hyperlink Glossary

This is something which I use much. You can save the links in the glossary. Just go to Insert Hyperlink after selecting the text that you want to add a link. If you have already saved this link to the gallery, then you will find the saved information inside the pop-up window, just click ok and the link is added.

Other Features

1. Spell checks
2. Automatic updates
3. Pinging

Windows Live Writer is an excellent tool if you know how to use it.

Greenary of One & Only Kanuhura

The freshness of One & Only Kanuhura, Maldives. The resort is maintained well with lots of greenery.

Chicken Stew

One of my favorites, The Indian Recipes are my weakness

Ship Near Male’, Maldives

I had taken this picture of a small ship which was anchored near Male’. I was traveling from the Airport to Male’

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