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Playing Online Slot Games is Fun !

Slot games are one of the most popular online games. Almost every online casino provides online slots. One of the most popular online games, slots can be found in almost every online casino. A huge variety of slot games are available online. Easy to use and offering huge entertainment, they are fun playing.

Considerations that are important while playing the online slot games are the choice of games, bonuses, and jackpots. Wherever the game is played, learning about the rules and regulations offered by the provider of the game would be the prime concern for the player.

Before entering the phase of playing the serious slot games online, it could be good practicing on one of the free online games available in plenty on the web. Practice makes one perfect and playing free games would help refining the player’s gaming skills and could provide a platform for moving on to something more serious.

Strategy making is very important for gaining success while playing online slots. Basic objectives of strategy building would be reduction of the house edge and increasing the winnings, while playing the slot game. Learning about various bonus offers, jackpots, ratings and bankroll management would be important for any newcomer to the game.

Online gaming often requires downloading of software. Dispensing with such requirements makes the game easier. Many sites providing slot games online allow direct playing facilities by simply logging on to their sites even without any registration.

Since slots game is commonly misunderstood, it is necessary to learn about the changes that have taken place in the gaming world during last three decades. All slot games have RNG (Random Number Generators). Key to all slot games, it cannot be altered in any way by the players. Combination of numbers is the factor determining the winner in the game. All combination of numbers however does not provide equal winning chances. Thousands of non-winning combinations are there, but when the player hits a near-miss it will mean that the slot is about to pay.

Patience and endurance pays in this game

My first web portfolio

The web portfolio of Mujtaba Ahmed

The web portfolio of Mujtaba Ahmed

Today i’ve launched my new website and my first web portfolio.

You can check it out here: www.dynamicguru.com/mujtaba/ .

The site is one of my best works till date and is the first site of mine to use ajax and is powered by jQuery. The site uses awesome jQuery effects for page transitions. Also it has validated XHTML 1.0 Strict markup. Check it out and tell me in the comments what you think about it?

Why not to rely on free web hosts?

I launched Scrapground.co.cc around an year ago when Orkut enabled html scraps. The site was my first project as i had just taught my self css and php. It featured an online “scrap creating tool” which designed your scrap in 40 different html templates and all you had to do was copy and paste the code given below any template into your friends scrapbook. The site was hosted for free at www.x10hosting.com and had a free .co.cc domain. It worked fine untill i moved to India and stopped logging in into my hosting account frequently, i got suspended a couple of times for inactivity and last week i found out to my surprise that my hosting account had been terminated for inactivity!!! I lost both of my sites as i didnt have a backup of it on my local machine!!! :(

The lesson i learnt were : Never rely on free webhosts and if you cant do without a free host Take regular backup of your site so even if you are kicked off the hosting service you can still quickly switch to another free host.

There are even more reasons as to why free hosts are highly un-reliable, like:

  • Limited or low bandwidth
  • Limited or very less web space
  • Frequent server downtimes
  • No or limited customer support
  • Lack of freedom/ restrictions
  • Search Engines ignore you

.htaccess – A quick guide

.htaccess , Whats is it?

According to Apache:

.htaccess files (or “distributed configuration files”) provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. A file, containing one or more configuration directives, is placed in a particular document directory, and the directives apply to that directory, and all subdirectories thereof

‘Directives’ usually refer to the commands that are contained in the .htaccess files, which control or modify your server’s various behaviours. Many free and paid web hosts permit you to change and modify your .htaccess files but remember if you have a website running on Yahoo Geo Cities,Goolge sites or freewebs then this article is meaningless for you cause they dont allow access to .htaccess files

What can you do with .htaccess?

.htaccess can be used in many different creative ways , but its most common usage is for:

  • Setting up custom 404 error pages
  • Enable/Disable directory browsing
  • Change default homepage for a directory
  • Block certain users from accessing your site
  • Block specific refferers
  • Prevent certain files from being viewed
  • Block Hotlinking

How to create one?

Create a text file from any text editor, Note Pad,Text Pad and save it as .htaccess ( remember the period before htaccess and no .txt extension ).
Upload it in your home directory…The rules in .htaccess file apply to all the sub directories in your files directory

Doing some cool stuff

Now here comes the real thing…
To enable your server to use a custom 404 file not found page for broken links or URL typos…
include the following code in your .htaccess file:

#The page notfound.html should be in the same directory as your .htaccess ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html #Alternatively you can specify just raw html to be used instead of a page ErrorDocument 404 "<h1>yikes! that  page passed away a while ago...</h1>"

Enable / Disable directory browsing

Options +Indexes
## Block some specific file types from showing
IndexIgnore *.avi *.mp3 *.pdf


Change directory homepage

##the pages are used in order
DirectoryIndex myhomepage.html index.html index.php

Block some users from accessing your site

<limit GET POST PUT>
order deny,allow
deny from 202.54.122.33
deny from 8.70.44.53
deny from .hackers.com

allow from all
</limit>

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Cheers and happy blogging! :)