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Add a user to a group under Linux operating system 2009-01-21 10:09:00 One can use useradd or usermod commands to add a user to a group. useradd command creates a new user or update default new user information. usermod command modifies a user account i.e. it is useful to add user to existing group. There are two types of group. First is primary user group and other is secondary group. All user account related information is stored in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /et Read more:Linux
How to get domain name from URL using javascript. 2009-01-21 04:33:00 Use following javascript function to get domain
name from URL.function fnGetDomain(url) { return url.match(/:\/\/(.[^/]+)/)[1];}For ex: <script language="javascript">fnGetDomain(" will return "mail.google.com"
A multi-user blog system in PHP - Bluetrait 2009-01-19 07:54:00 Blog systems are now very popular and there are plenty of solutions to implement blogs. "Bluetrait" allows the one or more users to login and post articles that are stored in a database. Currently it supports storing posts in MySQL and SQLite posts.It supports post categories, comments, comment spam filtering, generating RSS feeds, trackback handling and plug-in extensions.Download Here!Ref:
Get the contacts of friends of different e-mail providers and social networks - Open Inviter 2009-01-19 07:34:00 Retrieving the contacts of users is often used by social networks and similar sites to get viral by attracting the users' friends."Open Inviter" is the solution. It can be use to get the contacts of friends of different
e-mail providers and social networks.It can access the Web services servers of different networks to retrieve the contacts of friends of a given user.Each network is accessed by th
How to apply TinyMCE editor only to specific Textarea? 2009-01-19 01:02:00 By default, TinyMCE applies to every textarea of a HTML page. There is a way to make it only load on like <textarea id="mceEditor">.just add the attribute 'editor_selector' in tinyMCE.init . The value for this attribute is a css class name which should be used in the textarea where you want to apply editor.For ex:tinyMCE.init({ mode : "textareas", theme : "simple", editor_selector
Edit whatever you want on any page - Images, Texts 2009-01-11 02:07:00 Open any web page, clear the address bar, and paste the code:javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0;and hit enter. Feel free to edit whatever
you want on the page. With Firefox, you can even edit and save the modified pages to your computer.
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Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site - Yahoo! DN 2009-01-05 10:45:00 Minimize HTTP Requeststag: content80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. Reducing the number of components in turn reduces the number of HTTP requests required to render the page. This is the key to faster pages.One way to reduce the number of components in th Read more:Speeding
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40 Tips for optimizing your php code 2009-01-04 11:09:00 1. If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of 4. 2. echo is faster than print. 3. Use echo's multiple parameters instead of string concatenation. 4. Set the maxvalue for your for-loops before and not in the loop. 5. Unset your variables to free memory, especially large arrays. 6. Avoid magic like __get, __set, __autoload 7. require_once() is expen
New change theme feature in Orkut 2008-06-03 13:52:00 Recently Orkut
has added new feature
called - "change theme". Now you can make your orkut profile reflect your mood for the day or change the theme to match the current season.They recently began rolling out 12 themes to a percentage of Indian users, and these themes should be available to all Indian users by the end of this week. Orkut is currently testing this new feature, and if users will like
Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta Launched 2008-06-02 03:30:00 Yahoo! Messenger
9.0 Beta was launched on 30th May 2008. Some of the cool features...1. Instant message with one friend, or conference in a bunch2. Send text messages (SMS) to friends' mobile phones for free*3. Join a chat room to meet new friends while you discuss your favorite topics4. Use the built-in media player to watch web videos and view photos with friends5. Show your style with emoticons Read more:Yahoo
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Debugbar - firebug for IE, IETester, Companion.JS - Javascript debugger for IE 2008-06-01 22:27:00 Lots of web developers love Firebug in FF, but it's hard to debug anything in IE or No proper debugger tool is there for IE. Today I came across a debugger tool for IE - DebugbarIt's an Internet Explorer plug-in that brings you new powerful features.- DOM Inspector: View DOM Tree and modify tags attributes and css attributes on the fly to test your page- HTTP Inspector: View HTTP/S request to chec Read more:Companion
Startup City Bangalore - Summary of various talks 2008-06-01 04:18:00 Last Saturday (24th May), I attended the startup city at NIMHANS convention center, Bangalore
. The event was organized by The Smart Techie Magazine & sponsored by Sun, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo and a host of other companies. The idea was to promote the start up culture, share experiences, network with VCs and see cool startups in Bangalore who were demoing their products. have summarized some of th Read more:Startup
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Yahoo Glue Pages Launches In India 2008-05-08 22:01:00 What are Glue Pages
?Glue Pages unite your Classic Search Results with visual information from the best sites anywhere on the Web.Yahoo
has launched Glue Pages Beta in Yahoo India
. Glue Pages are specialized pages that contain an enhanced visual search result page, for select search queries. The search results that trigger the special "Glue Pages" run across searches in health, sports, entertainmen
How to mount external ntfs USB in RHEL? 2008-04-18 02:16:00 Follow the steps to mount
external ntfs USB in RHEL or in any linux system.Get your kernel version: uname -r2.6.9-42.ELsmp (For my RHEL).................Install the package downloaded according to your kernel version-ntfs/rpm -ivh kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.9-42.ELsmp-2.1.20-0.rr.10.0.i686.rpm................./sbin/modprobe ntfs (as root).................cat /proc/filesystems.................Check vol
YAHOO! TO CONDUCT LIMITED U.S. TEST OF GOOGLE’S ADSENSE FOR SEARCH SERVICE 2008-04-09 21:54:00 Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced today that it will begin a limited test of Google Inc.'s AdSense for Search service, which will deliver relevant Google ads alongside Yahoo!'s own search results. The test will apply only to traffic from yahoo.com in the U.S. and will not include Yahoo!'s extended network of affiliate or premium publisher partners. The test
4 years completion of Gmail 2008-04-01 07:21:00 Google has chosen April Fool's Day to announce some of their actual products. This marketing strategy is used to make people think that the product is a hoax and spread the word around, and then to surprise them when they realize that it is real.Shortly before midnight on March 31, 2004, Google announced the launch of Gmail
. Some believed it was a hoax, because free web-based e-mail with one gigab
Google's 2008 hoaxes 2008-04-01 07:15:00 Google has a tradition of perpetrating April Fool's Day hoaxes, which generally have an intellectual sense of humor.In Gmail, Google featured information for an update called "Gmail Custom Time"; a feature that would allow its users to send emails back in time. While composing a message, a button labeled "Set Custom Time" would allow one to send the message a specific interval in the past, as well Read more:Google
Google and Virgin announce Mars expedition and colony - a hoax by Google 2008-04-01 07:13:00 Google and Virgin
Group today announced the launch of Virgle Inc., a jointly owned and operated venture dedicated to the establishment of a human settlement on Mars."Some people are calling Virgle an 'interplanetary Noah's Ark,'" said Virgin Group President and Founder Sir Richard Branson, who conceived the new venture. "I'm one of them. It's a potentially remarkable business, but more than that, Read more:Google
, expedition
Yahoo! Shine launched on 31st Mrach 2008, for women 2008-04-01 04:55:00 Yahoo! Inc. yesterday announced the launch of Yahoo! Shine
, a new website for women that aims to provide the information most relevant to their daily lives. The site offers nine categories ranging from Fashion & Beauty to Parenting, and will feature content from many of the most popular lifestyles publishers, including Condé Nast Publications and Hearst Corporation. Additionally, a new editorial Read more:Yahoo
Yahoo! india maps in local languages 2008-03-19 21:37:00 Check out the new "Vernacular" tab & render maps in nine languages: Hindi, tamil, malayalam, telugu, kannada, gujarati, oriya, bengali and punjabi.If you are north Indian and trying to see the map of Bangalore. You have only two options now - English and Kannada! That is not of much help at all. Who are the target audience for this feature - only the people living in that particular area? I would Read more:Yahoo
Google bomb 2008-03-10 04:30:00 A Google
bomb (also referred to as a 'link bomb') is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions.Because of the way that Google's algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is created
Export data to a CSV file using MySQL command prompt 2008-03-10 04:17:00 SELECT tableColumnName1, tableColumnName2 INTO OUTFILE '/path/to/file/data.csv' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM tableName;Access DeniedEven if you have been granted the SELECT privilege, you will still need to be granted the FILE privilege, or else access will be denied. Some architects will only grant this privilege to the root user. Another reason that you Read more:MySQL
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Yahoo! Announces Open Search Platform 2008-02-26 01:56:00 Yahoo will soon be allowing third parties to enhance the Yahoo Search
experience. The new platform, codenamed “SearchMonkey” and officially called Open Search Platform
, will consist of a set of APIs that allow third parties to modify search results on Yahoo by adding images, structured data and additional deep links.The altered results can contain far more information than the current link and Read more:Yahoo
Byindia.com for sale on eBay - min bid $500,000 (around Rs. 2 crores) 2008-02-22 07:59:00 Byindia.com was acquired by Web2Corp in August 2006.The minimum bid for site starts at $500,000 (around Rs. 2 crores), and the auction closes on Feb 29th. There’s an alexa comparison with AOL.in, MSN India, Oneindia.in and Sify on the auction page.ByIndia was launched primarily as a search engine, and claimed to be India’s Baidu. They later evolved into a social networking and search site.Acco