Posted by abhishek on July 18th, 2010
Everyone on the web is updating to the latest & the most secure technologies with Twitter being the most hyped one as it upgraded from basic Authentication to the more secure oAuth. Earlier people had to risk their Twitter login credentials if they wanted to use some external Apps that gave them more control over their Twitter profile. Twitter would now be removing the basic Auth to fully support oAuth. As Twitter describes oAuth is:
OAuth is an authentication protocol that allows users to approve application to act on their behalf without sharing their password. More information can be found at oauth.net or in the excellent Beginner’s Guide to OAuth from Hueniverse.
To read the rest of the article proceed to 1stwebdesigner by clicking here or on the link below. This was my 3rd article that got published there, so with that I am getting a little bit experienced 
Hope you enjoy reading!!
Posted by abhishek on July 8th, 2010
On of the main reason why I use WordPress is its flexibilty, because you can do whatever you want with it. From making it a full-fledged CMS to customizing its feeds you can do almost everything with it. These days when people don’t have time to visit individual websites each day to check new content, feeds have come a long way to being one of the most handy things as people just prefer to subscribe to feeds as they can be read anytime and it just minimizes the possibility of missing something. Yet, many top blogs/websites have feed content which doesn’t appeal visually {I admit!, even my website’s feeds don’t appeal}. As WordPress offers some of the most exciting features in its live interface, it gives you the power to use almost all of those features in your feeds too. Today, we’ll learn to integrate the Post Thumbnail feature {that WordPress offers} to our Feeds so that they look even more nicer.
Posted by abhishek on June 28th, 2010
There are times when blog owners/admins want to give a message (like changing feed URL or about a special giveaway only for them) to their blog’s feed subscribers and don’t really want to show it on their blog or to the direct traffic. There’s a simple trick/hack you can use to achieve that! In today’s simple trick you’ll learn to do that.
Posted by abhishek on June 26th, 2010
JQuery is fast gaining popularity on the Internet and some big-name companies have started implementing it on their websites as it is easy to use and offers a vast variety of effects for the users. As the title suggests, today we’ll be building a simple sidebar which will consist of the JQuery dropdown effect for the sub-links of a category (in this case sub-category) or a page (and here sub-page). So let’s go!
Posted by abhishek on June 22nd, 2010
WordPress 3.0 released last week with lots of new user-friendly features but most blogs/websites using WordPress are facing a unique problem. The problem being the incompatibility of current WordPress themes to the latest WordPress package which has been named ‘Thelonious’ this time. To overcome this problem there have been a few posts around with some of them getting lots of hits across the internet. To accommodate all the new features, your theme needs to undergo some changes. Today, I’ll be introducing the way I used to make my theme compatible to WordPress 3.0. So let’s get started!
Posted by abhishek on June 7th, 2010
Gravatar or globally recognized avatar is a service for providing globally-unique avatars for different applications. It was started by Tom Preston-Werner but it’s now owned by “Automattic”, the company behind WordPress. This is the main reason why this service is free and is available to be used on PHP applications other than WordPress. Today, there are a number of people using this service. That’s where Gravatar adds to the comfort of people because using it you can use the same avatar for different websites without even uploading an image to the website………………………
This article was originally written by me on 1stwebdesigner. Click on any one of the links below for further reading:
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/how-to-implementing-gravatar-in-your-php-application/
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Posted by abhishek on May 22nd, 2010
Last week, on of my article got published on 1stwebdesigner. It is on updating Twitter remotely using PHP + Twitter API. I have lately been been busy since the last 2 weeks with some crucial things so couldn’t tell you about this!
You can head-over to my article on 1stwebdesigner through the link below:
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/how-to-update-twitter-using-php-and-twitter-api/
Both the links above point to the same page so click on anyone of them. Thanks and get ready for some new tutorials on TutorialsWalk
Posted by abhishek on May 9th, 2010
In this Photoshop quick-tip you’ll learn to make a good-looking & a professional Favicon in less than two minutes. I’ll be showing you the way I made the current Gravatar & Favicon for TutorialsWalk. So let’s get started without wasting anytime!
NOTE: For this tutorial, I would be using Adobe Photoshop CS4
Posted by abhishek on May 8th, 2010
Since Twitter came to existence there have been many attempts to clone the micro-blogging giant but twitter seems to be unmatchable! The main reason of its success is its API which lets a developer do anything. Commonly PHP/MYSQL is used to use the API offered by twitter. With the Twitter API you can update your Twitter statuses remotely, search the latest tweets for a keyword, grab someone’s or your latest Tweets and many other innumerable things. But today, you’ll learn to implement the simple search API to search the tweets for a specific keyword remotely (from another website or host) using PHP. So lets get started!
Posted by abhishek on April 17th, 2010
We all know that WordPress is the most commonly used blogging platform as it offers an unlimited number of features and is free. The only big disadvantage that it possess is the default username that it automatically chooses for administrators while installation. From the security point of view, it is not recommended to keep the administrator username as “admin”. However, WordPress 3.0 (coming up in a few days) solves this problem, but this tutorial might still be helpful to those who use the older version of WordPress. There are a couple of ways which can be used to change the “admin” username.
NOTE: I’ll be using the WordPress installation on my localhost for this tutorial.
