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About Vineesh Mohan

A Technical Support specialist with strong customer service and good communication skills. I live in the city of Cochin, which known as the Queen of Arabian Sea.

What is an Extended Validation SSL Certificate ?

SSL certificates are a core security reassurance tool to create trust online. An Extended Validation Certificate (EV) is a certificate used for HTTPS websites and software that proves the legal entity controlling the website or software package. The EV Certificate


How to fix SSH connection issue from WHM

If you are unable to connect to a cpanel server via ssh using port 22, resetting the ssh configuration port to alternate one will fix the issue. For doing that, login to your whm on non secure port (2086) and


How to install Apache MySQL and PHP on Cent OS 6.6

Following tutorial describes how to install Apache MySQL and PHP on a Cent OS based server. First we need to identify the version of OS using on the server. For that, login to the server as root user and run


Spam Support Tickets in WHMCS

I was getting a lot of spam tickets in my WHMCS Support Ticket System. When I checked the settings (in WHMCS under Setup > General Settings > Security tab), Captcha Type is set to reCAPTCHA (Google’s reCAPTCHA system), but the


Yahoo acquires photo app developer Cooliris

Yahoo has acquired a startup photo app-maker company Cooliris that was initially known for creating 3D wall for navigating photos and other media content. Cooliris is mostly known as the developer of a photo-aggregation app of the same name. It’s


Regin, new computer spyware, discovered by Symantec

The leading computer security experts Symantec says it has discovered one of the most sophisticated pieces of malicious software on Windows PCs across the globe, that appears to be used for spying and data collection. The bug, named ‘Regin’, the


Google’s Chrome Beta coming with new Bookmark Manager

Google introducing a new Bookmark Manager feature with its beta version of Chrome. As per the sources, the new feature will be rolled out in the coming weeks. With the new feature, you’ll be able to select an image and


Chinese developers can now sell paid apps in the Google Play Store

A few hours back, Google announced that, they will now allow developers from China to release paid apps for Android users via Google Play store. The update covers 130 international markets. This is a great news for the global Android


IBM launches new email service ‘Verse’

Tech giant International Business Machine Corporation (IBM) has launched a new e-mail application ‘Verse’ for enterprises that integrates social media, file sharing and analytics to learn a user’s behavior and predict interactions with coworkers. A number of new innovations such


Twitter search now indexes every public Tweet

Twitter has announced that it’s making its entire public tweet archive searchable to everyone. Previously it had only made the archive accessible to select partners. From a blog post by Twitter search infrastructure engineer Yi Zhuang: Twitter’s search engine will