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Pantheon has been my choice for Drupal hosting since it's BETA days, and this blog is still hosted with them. The good news is their excellent platform is now available for Wordpress too, the no-frill, simple to use, hosted heaven is very developer friendly with separate development, staging and live website environments for your Drupal/Wordpress websites.

Pantheon PaaS has everything to run Drupal websites with best performance and since Wordpress demands the same, support for Wordpress has now being offered to users. The Pantheon dashboard simplifies management of multiple websites and allows the admin to do all sorts of technical management and maintenance tasks with ease.

For advance users, Pantheon already offered the excellent command-line tool Terminus based on "drush" (The standard Drupal Shell) for managing services, and now they have rewrote it as an stand-alone tool, borrowing a lot of ideas from wp-cli in the process to support WordPress platform.

Ever Heard Of Subwoofer Orgasm?, I guess not - but there's a treasure of such videos on YouTube and they are popular. You simply need to search for “bass orgasm,” or “subwoofer orgasm” on Youtube and you will be amazed to see the numbers of video results it comes up with. The videos show attractive women sitting in cars and being brought to orgasm by "waves" coming out from the "Super Bassy" sound systems. Here are the best ones for you, right after the "Read More" link below.

FirstCry.com is a well-known online portal for shopping of baby products, the portal claims to be "Asia's Largest Online Shopping Store for kids & baby products" but their practices are something one would expect from a cheap, second-class eCommerce website. The internet is filled with complaints and horror-stories of doing business with them and after discovering the "cheap coupon tactic" used by them I am pretty much sure their policies and intentions are not honest, do keep reading below their trick is exciting.

While every other eCommerce portals in India is offering discounts, free-shipping, cash-on-delivery and free return pickup to lure maximum customers aiming to create a long-term relationship, FirstCry has taken a completely different approach where they do false advertising marketing coupon-codes offering discounts but adds or increases shipping-charges magically as soon as one applies them (discount-codes) as shown below. I am not sure what to call this malpractice, but this "coupon fraud" wastes users time where they are surprised by shipping-charges at the last moment of checkout as soon as they use the discount-code which was used to lure them into shopping. As shown in the example below the shipping charges for same cart magically increases as soon as a discount coupon-code is applied.

In the second example below, the consumer is first lured into buying more (minimum value) to get FREE shipping but is slapped shipping-charges when a coupon-code is used.

Similar to Opera Turbo technology, Google Chrome features an "data compression proxy" for Android and Apple iOS mobile-devices which when enabled opens a connection between the user phone and optimization servers running in Google's datacenters relaying all non-encrypted HTTP requests over this connection. The SSL secured proxy connection performs intelligent compression and minification of HTML, JavaScript and CSS resources which are not essential to render the page. These optimizations, combined with gzip compression for all resources, DNS lookups from proxy and images converted to WebP with resulting sizes upto 80% smaller provides huge bandwidth savings and resulting in faster web-browsing experience.

This feature is not available for Google Chrome Desktop users, however a free Chrome extension now allows users to get the same savings on their desktop computers. The extension sends all HTTP (but not HTTPS) traffic through Chrome Data Compression Proxy server, which utilizes SPDY protocol to speed up web browsing. Users can check bandwidth savings by visiting chrome://net-internals/#bandwidth and can disable compression-proxy by clicking the green bolt icon from the toolbar.