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Hide your email address with tinymail 2008-09-18 18:32:20 If you are in the habit of leaving your email address
on various forums or other websites, you may be already getting huge spam emails. But if you can’t refrain from dropping your email address on those sites, tinymail can help you. It works somewhat like tinyurl. You enter your email address and it generates [...]
Few Windows Vista Tips 2008-09-18 18:19:46 ‘RUN command’ on start menu.
Well, one of the first thing that a new Vista
user will notice is that there is no ‘Run’ command in the start menu. Of course, WinKey+R brings up the RUN command box, but if you want it back to the Start Menu, here ‘s how to do it.Right click on [...] Read more:Windows
How to Open Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2007 Files in Older Office Versions 2008-09-18 18:09:18 Are you still using an office version older than MS Office 2007? If yes, chances are you have come across MS Office 2007 files which will not open in your older version of office. In office 2007, Microsoft has changed the file formats belonging to MS office suite entirely and hence an office version older [...] Read more:Excel
, PowerPoint
Make Firefox look like Chrome 2008-09-17 05:00:41 Like the look of Google Chrome
, but still wanna use firefox? Well You cna just make your firefox look like Chrome. Just install the Chromifox theme for firefox and make your firefox look like Google Chrome.
View Screenshots and Install here Read more:Firefox
Google Chrome About Pages 2008-09-16 04:48:06 Ok! Just wanted to fill this up to make up the first ever post. But tell you what am running short of time. So here’s just a quick list of GoogleChrome
about pages which lets you view various stats and information regarding the browser and some of them are just for fun (like the [...] Read more:Pages
Hi Everyone 2008-09-16 03:41:04 Well, at last!
After months of pondering over the pros and cons of getting my own domain and starting a blog, I have finally dumped my blogspot blog and got a blog on my own domain today. But wait, may be I will still maintain the blogspot blog for some more time as I am not [...]
Difference between the double quote and single quote in php 2008-11-10 15:47:34 The beginners in PHP tend to use the double
quotes and single
quotes at their will. However, they are quite different in nature and should be used accordingly. I won’t go into the technicalities about the differences between the two; instead this post tries to outline the differences between the two in a simple manner [...]
PHP Functions : isset() 2008-11-09 17:41:49 This PHP function basically checks whether a variable is assigned a value or not. If a variable contains a value isset() returns TRUE else it returns FALSE.
The following code will return TRUE as a value of “1” has been assigned to the variable $avariable before isset() is called.
<?php
$avariable = 1;
if(isset($avariable))
{
echo("variable assigned a value!");
}
?> Read more:Functions
Displaying multiple lines in Messagebox in VB.Net 2008-11-09 17:24:58 You probably have noticed that when working with the MessageBox.Show method in VB.Net if the message string is too long it gets displayed but it is a single line stretched across your screen with no line breaks. You can make this long message displayed in a more friendly manner by using line breaks. Take a [...]
Open a URL in the default browser in VB.Net 2008-11-09 16:42:38 To open a URL in the default browser
in VB.Net you can use the Process.Start method. For example look at the following code
Dim strURL As String
strURL = ""
Process.Start(strURL)
This code will open the Url () in the default browser of the system.
PHP Functions : die() 2008-11-09 09:33:38 If you are new to PHP chances are you may have come across (and been confused by) the function called “die()”. Well it’s a simple function which prints a message and exits the current script when executed. It is equivalent to the “exit()” function. This function is mostly used for error handling.
<?php
//open a file
fopen ("thefile.txt", [...] Read more:Functions
Download Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008 For Free 2008-11-08 16:08:37 Microsoft Office Accounting Express
is an accounting package that works with other office applications. Now you can save some money and download the Office Accounting Express 2008 for free. Yeah, and with no strings attached. Get more details about the application here and download it for free here. Read more:Download
, Microsoft
Download Free Hi-Res Watercolour Photoshop Brushes 2008-11-07 18:06:15 Fudgegraphics has released yet another set of Watercolour Photoshop
Brush Set. This set consists of a total of 14 hi-res brushes (with resolutions ranging from 1597px up to 2500px.) You can view details and download the brushes here. Read more:Download
Songbird 1.0 Release Candidate 1 available now 2008-11-07 17:46:38 Songbird, the open source web media player which has been in beta for a long time is ready with its first release candidate. Songbird 1.0 ReleaseCandidate
1 features a lot of imporvements with respect to performance, stability and user interface. Read more:available
, Songbird
Firefox Hits 20% Market Share in the worldwide Browser Market 2008-11-04 18:32:58 It’s party time for Mozilla. Firefox
has for the first time hit 20% market share in the browser market (according to Net Applications). Nice to see Firefox grow. Another interesting thing to observe in the near future would be how Google’s chrome browser and IE 8 affect Firefox’s growth.
More details here & here. Read more:Market
, Market Share
, Share
35 Best Tools for Writing Online 2008-12-14 14:18:12 Another of Mashable’s useful lists. Check it out for the 35 Best Tools
for Writing Online it lists across categories like Word Processing, Blogging, Microblogging, Jotting Ideas, Social Networking, Jobs and Employment Resources, Book Fairs/Shows, iPhone Apps etc. If you are a blogger or freeelance writer, don’t miss it.
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P2P right in your browser! 2008-12-14 14:12:42 Limewire is the premier choice when it comes to P2P file sharing. But here’s a new tool which enables P2P file sharing right in your browser
. LittleShoot lets you search and download files via P2P networks from within your browser. All you need to do is to download and install a browser plugin which you [...]
Face recognition functionality in your laptop? It just doesn’t work! 2008-12-05 17:55:23 Feel secured with your laptop’s face recognition functionality? Well think again! According to BKIS, a Vietnamese Internetwork Security Center, vulnerabilities in laptops’ face recognition features lets anyone log into your laptop easily with a special photo of the legitimate owner and that even at the highest authentication level.
CNet has a detailed review on it, if [...]
IE losing grounds to Firefox 2008-12-05 17:39:37 Internet Explorer is losing grounds. Well no news there, we’ve seen this trend for quite sometime. IE is losing market share while alternative browsers like Firefox
has been gaining rapidly. The introduction of Google’s web browser Crhome makes the scene more complicated and more heartbreaking for IE. Techradar reports that Firefox has edged past the [...]
Motorola released MOTOROKR EM35 2008-12-05 17:31:03 With the new Blackberry Storm and Nokia N97 this might not be as exciting, but Motorola
has released their new handset MOTOROKR EM35. It has a 2.2-inch QVGA display, 3.1MP camera, memory that can be expanded up to 32GB. Get more details on it here.
How to turn off youtube’s embedded search bar 2008-12-05 17:24:28 off late youtube has been adding a search bar to almost every embedded
videos. Want to get rid of them? Well, help is here - Just go through this page to knwo how ot get rid of that search bar.
Professional CodeIgniter : Learn CodeIgniter 2008-12-01 17:42:39 CodeIgniter is one of the most popular framework for PHP. It makes developing websites with PHP much easier and less painful than developing in plain PHP. Though there are considerable amount of tutorials for CodeIgniter all over the web, nothing can still take place of a good book. “Professional CodeIgniter” by Thomas Myer is a [...]
Nikon D3X has arrived 2008-12-01 16:52:51 The much awaited 24.5 megapixel DSLR from Nikon
, the Nikon D3X has arrived officially. Priced at $7,999.95 it main highlights are :-
Extreme resolution 24.5-megapixel FX-format (35.9 x 24.0mm) CMOS sensor
Nikon EXPEED image processing technologies
138 MB Processed NEF (RAW) 12 or 14 bit image files
Low noise ISO sensitivity from 100 to 1600
Two Live View shooting modes
Continuous [...]
Oops! Britney Does it Again! 2008-12-01 16:22:02 Love her or hate her, Britney
Spears has topped the list of Yahoo’s most searched term yet again. Here’s the list of the top 10 most searched term in yahoo for the year 2008.
1.Britney Spears
2.WWE
3.Barack Obama
4.Miley Cyrus
5.RuneScape
6.Jessica Alba
7.Naruto
8.Lindsay Lohan
9.Angelina Jolie
10.American Idol
Michael Phelps tops the list of most searched Olympians, Miley Cyrus tops t Read more:Again
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