As promised this weeks video guide is “How to Backup your website”.

We backup all server’s websites every Tuesday night to our offshore servers, but if you would like to keep a .zip copy of your contents on your home computer.

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A common support question on Limebox is “How do I get more views to my website?” well .. over the next few weeks we will be giving you helpful tips to improve your search engine listings.

This week we are focusing on a Singapore website ping.sg which is a meta blog for Singapore bloggers. It aims to create a comprehensive and thorough database for blog entries written by local bloggers and/or with local interest. ping.sg also aims to create online community for Singapore bloggers to interact and gives every single blogger the same chance to stand out above the rest.

So if you have an interesting blog and would like the Singapore community to be apart of your blog, make sure you get your website listed on ping.sg

More updates to come ..

International business continues to look good for Google, as their search engine attracted the biggest chunk of search share in April.

Google has long extolled the virtues of doing business internationally. It may have taken longer than the company liked to grow in the broadband-friendly Asian market, but they seem to be on track to becoming the dominant search player.

Local search engines might disagree with that, yet the latest figures comScore made available indicate otherwise. In Asia for the month of April 2008, Google picked up 39.1 percent of the searches made there.

Yahoo fared well in Asia, running second to Google with 24 percent, while China’s Baidu grabbed 16.7 percent of search market share.

Korea’s NHN Corp, operators of Naver.com, was the only other engine to pull in over a billion searches in April, drawing 1.178 billion of them for the month. Microsoft trailed NHN and fifth-place Alibaba.com in the list.

The most activity came from China and its burgeoning Internet class. Over 82 million people in China performed 6.2 billion searches, comScore said.

It’s not always a good idea to try experimental features; gosh knows enough final products aren’t remotely stable.  But a few new things have been made available within Blogger in Draft, and they’re definitely worth checking out.

First is the option to make Blogger in Draft (”a special version of Blogger where we try out new features before we release them to everyone”) your default dashboard.  That should save you from either typing a longer-than-normal URL or losing access to the new features.

Next, a redesigned post editor deserves credit for making things easier to look at.  It also promises to make image handling a less frustrating experience, and certain missing features (such as spellcheck and video upload) are already in the works.

Perhaps the most important update, though, is the introduction of an embedded comment form.  Even if new pages and pop-ups get the job done, right below the post is where comment forms truly belong.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to approve lifting restrictions on the classification of domain names, allowing for new customized Web addresses.

A unanimous vote by ICANN members at a public meeting in Paris paves the way for businesses and individuals to adopt domain names based on any combination of letters. Previously domain names had been limited by geography.

“This was an extremely successful meeting that will be remembered as a milestone in the development of the Internet,” said Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN’s Board Chairman. “New generic Top Level Domains and Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) will open up the Internet and make it look as diverse as the people who use it.”

ICANN also approved top - level domain names in scripts including Arabic, Cyrillic and other non-Latin scripts. It passed a resolution to eliminate domain tasting, a practice of using the grace periods to register domain names in bulk to see which ones are profitable.

The new domains could cost as much as $100,000 to register, and will require a large amount of resources to maintain.

ICANN said it would begin accepting applications for new domains in April of 2009, with the first expected to be in operation by the end of the year. The system is open to anyone, but applicants have to have a “business plan and technical capacity” to be eligible.

Disputed domains will be auctioned to the highest bidder, but in some cases intellectual property law may help a business acquire a name. ICANN will be able to reject a domain on “morality or public order” grounds where it would then be decided by an international arbitration committee.

The largest top-level domain is .com, with 71 million addresses, followed by .de, the country code for Germany, with 11.2 million and .net, with 10.6 million. The fastest growing is .cn, for China, with 10.5 million addresses.

Google is delaying the roll out of its mobile phone hand sets until the end of the year.

The firm was planning to ship mobile phones based on its Android software in 2008. The Wall Street Journal reported that carriers were reporting problems meeting the schedule set by google. The paper said that Android had not won support from large mobile-software developers. It said sources reported issues including difficulty developing progams while Google makes changes as it finishes its own software.
The firm has deals with China Telecom, T-mobile and Deutsche Telekom.

Red Hat has announced extensions to its Linux Automation strategy with the addition of Enterprise Identity, Policy and Audit (IPA).

The Linux firm has also opened the Red Hat Network Satellite code base to facilitate community-driven enhancements for systems management.

Red Hat Enterprise IPA, and the related technology purchase of the code base of open source identity integration provider Identyx, cuts costs and improves operational efficiency while ensuring compliance, risk reduction and business enablement, according to Red Hat.

The firm now provides centrally managed identity capabilities, single sign-on services, high-availability directory services, an access control framework and synchronisation with LDAP, Active Directory and other data stores.

“Delivering on the promise of any application, anywhere, anytime across physical and virtual infrastructures requires integrated, secure management of users, systems and applications,” said Katrinka McCallum, vice president of Red Hat’s Management and Security business.

“Dynamically allocating resources and providing efficient user access to systems and services as the IT landscape changes requires tightly integrated control systems.

“With Red Hat’s management and security solutions spanning the operating system, virtualisation, grid frameworks, middleware and SOA, Red Hat is rapidly advancing Linux Automation.”

Incorporating the Identyx code base enables Red Hat Enterprise IPA to provide virtual directory services that allow organisations to deliver a unified view of identity across multiple sources.

Red Hat also announced the open sourcing of the Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite code base, available under the GPLv2 and known as Project Spacewalk.

RHN Satellite is a systems management solution that allows customers to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux content updates, including system grouping permissions and scheduling, within their firewall.

The solution also performs systems provisioning, update and monitoring, across physical and virtual servers.

The total number of PCs in use today has broken the one billion mark says Gartner.

The analyst house has calculated the installed base of PCs grows by around 12 per cent a year. If this continues then the number of systems will reach two billion by 2014.

“Whereas mature markets accounted for just under 60 percent of the first billion installed PCs, we expect emerging markets to account for approximately 70 percent of the next billion installed PCs, “said Luis Anavitarte, research vice president at Gartner.

“Emerging market governments are also increasingly committed to reducing the digital divide by promoting PC use among their citizens through a variety of means, including providing PCs directly to the less affluent.”

Geographically mature markets in the US, Europe and Japan contain just 15 per cent of the world’s population but account for 58 per cent of the installed base of PCs. However, continually falling PC prices and better wireless communication will drive adoption in developing markets.

However, this is coming at a price to the environment. Gartner warns that not enough PCs are being recycled and this is damaging the environment.

“We forecast just over 180 million PCs — approximately 16 percent of the existing installed base — will be replaced this year,” said Meike Escherich, principal research analyst at Gartner.

“We estimate a fifth of these, or some 35 million PCs, will be dumped into landfill with little or no regard for their toxic content. It will become an even more pressing issue, especially in emerging markets, as the number of retired PCs grows with the continuing expansion of the PC installed base.”

Source : Vnunet

Each week we are going to release 1 cpanel video which will help you take full advantage of our Cpanel Control panel interface.

This week Its : How to setup a email address in Cpanel

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Firefox 3, the recently released open source browser from Mozilla, has claimed that over 8 million copies of the software were downloaded on Download Day. The company stated early that their goal was to surpass the initial release of Firefox 2, at 1.6 million downloads in 24 hours, and hit 5 million downloads. The goal of the marketing campaign is to set a Guinness World Record for most downloaded software in a single day. A few days have passed and, barring the server downtime that plagued users for a few hours, the results look promising for Mozilla’s world record attempt. According to the official Mozilla blog, Firefox 3 easily cruised past 5 million user downloads. “We exceeded 8 million downloads in our 24 hour period,” the blog states. Downloads were tracked from 11:16am PDT on June 17th to 11:16am PDT on the following day.

The next step in the process is for Firefox 3 to be certified by Guinness World Records. To help get their audit logs in order, Mozilla has brought on two external judges: Paul Vixie, of the Internet Systems Consortium, and Corey Shields, of the University of Indiana’s University of Information Technology Services. Once the two judges and Mozilla feel confident that their download logs are in order, they will be handed over to the people at Guinness World Records for verification. If the attempt is verified, Firefox 3 will be the first recipient of the most software downloaded in a single day record. The process of having a record certified by Guinness can take two different paths. If Mozilla chooses not to expedite the service, the results will be released in four to six weeks. On the other hand, if the company opts for Fast Review, the results could be available in three days from the time the logs are submitted.