• How to disable or Lock down WordPress user account after Invalid Login attempts?

    WordPress is the one most popular community driven CMS with thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your website into anything that you can imagine. As told by our Author Ramya Santhosh, because of its huge popularity, the need to secure WordPress website has become highly important. To remind,…

  • Access Microsoft Office 365 for Free – Student Advantage program

    Starting from this December 1, 2013, educational/Academia around the world that license Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus for their faculty, can now provide access to Office 365 ProPlus for students at no extra cost. Student Advantage program, launched by Microsoft will be benefited by students across 35,000 institutions…

  • How to disable annoying Retweets from any user on Twitter? [Quick Tip]

    Do you receive lots of retweets from any user on Twitter? Well, it is quite easy to mute such users. By doing so, you will be able to keep your timeline clean & simple. There are plenty of applications that allows you to adjust Twitter settings, but such changes will…

  • How to hide the DNS Server’s software name and its version? [DNS Security]

    It’s a good practice to hide DNS server’s software name and its version information from resolvers. These information can assist hackers to perform DNS attack. In one of our recent article, we told how you can use dig command to query remote DNS version information and in the same article,…

  • How to identify remote DNS server’s software name and its version?

    As we started writing more about DNS, our readers started asking more queries. One of our regular reader Mr. Fedrick sent us query as below I know the IP address of DNS server running on our office network, but is it possible to get more information about it? Such as…

  • Google Nexus 5 poped-up for a while on Play Store pricing at $349

    Have you been waiting for Google’s next generation Nexus phone? You might see it soon at your favorite shops. It means, the launch of Nexus 5 is confirmed by its brief appearance in Google Play Store pricing at $349. Yes, only a brief appearance,  but was quickly removed and replaced…

  • Should you enable Recursion on your DNS? It’s vulnerable!

    Whenever you visit a webpage in the internet, you are using DNS to get its address. Most of you might be aware of what is DNS, and how it works and for others there is a simple tutorial explained by Techglimpse. In case, if you are planning to setup DNS…

  • Could you believe it? Nokia works on Multi Touch screen Smartwatch

    Nokia, the latest company to enter the smartwatch business after Pebble, Casio, Samsung and Apple. The company is planning for a multi screen smartwatch, could you believe it? According to the reports posted by U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Nokia has been awarded a patent to work on multi touch…

  • China’s Vivo Xplay 3S will be the first smartphone to have 2K HD display

    Well, the world is waiting to see the first smartphone that will have more pixel resolution than iPad. Yes, the smartphone called “Vivo Xplay 3S” with 2,560 x 1,440 pixels will be easily the world’s first smartphone to have 2K HD screen. According to the reports, the smartphone is an 5.5…

  • How to Password protect Data and Wi-Fi on your Android? Internet Lock App

    Sometimes you might want to lock Data or Wi-Fi on your Android device. If you are looking to password protect internet access on your device, then an app called “Internet Lock” worth checking. Developed by an senior XDA member msappzcreated, Internet (Data/Wifi) Lock lets you set a password to protect…

  • Flash Custom Kernels on your Android using Universal Kernel Flash App

    Have you rooted your Android device and willing to flash a custom kernel? Universal Kernel Flash App from an XDA developer frapeti can do the rest. The app provides a convenient GUI that hides all the complexities involved while using command line tools for flashing kernels. According to the developer,…

  • How to disable Google’s Shared Endorsement Ads? – Quick Tip

    Google makes money, of course they provide free service and they want to cash out from it. Nothing wrong with it, but showing your profile, picture, comments, your likes to public is not something everyone would agree. Recently, Google started showing a blue navigation bar indicating about the changes in…

  • How to Install and Configure Bind to Setup your DNS Server?

    If you are a regular reader of Techglimpse, then you might have read our previous articles about DNS, its types, how it works, difference between authoritative and recursive servers. We also showed you how to identify the DNS server IP address configured on your windows and Linux machines and how to analyze…

  • Apple’s new Spaceship campus Model – Awesome pictures

    Checkout these awesome pictures of Apple’s new Spaceship campus. The company proposed its new campus project to Cupertino in 2011 and the project idea was conceived by Steve Jobs. The campus scales around 175-acre site, which is to be called as “Apple Campus 2.0” and will begin by 2015-2016. The…

  • Apps are crashing on your iPhone 5S? You are not alone!

    Do you find apps on iPhone 5S keep crashing? Then you are not alone says the reports from Crittercism. According to the reports from the mobile performance management platform, the new iPhone 5S crashes twice as often compared to the new iPhone 5C and iPhone 5. iPhone 5S has a…

  • 10 Find Commands to improve your file search in Linux [Basics]

    In continuation to our tutorials on Linux basics, today I’ll show you 10 Find commands that will improve file search in Linux. Ok! Here we go, 1. How to find or locate a file in current directory? find . -name filename.txt Note: dot(.) after find denotes current directory 2. How to…

  • How to add a progress bar to copy and move commands in Linux?

    If you are copying or moving bigger file or folder in Linux, then you might want to know the progress of the job. The default copy (cp) and move (mv) commands doesn’t come with a progress bar feature. So while copying or moving any files, you will only see the…