Tips & Tricks
Use Yahoo, MSN Messenger & Gtalk without the software
Over the past month, I’ve had trouble going to internet parlours to check my mail and use the instant messenger. What was more annoying is the fact that most of them did not have the IM’s I used and if I installed any, it would be removed after reboot !
Thats when I remembered that about [...]
What is a RSS feed ?
One of the first things that visitors notice on visitng a blog would be the RSS icon or something that says “Subscribe to our RSS feed”. Bloggers and tech savvy visitors know about it but its amazing how many people ask me what RSS is. So this post is dedicated to them.
RSS (RDF Site Summary) [...]
Fastest Way to Drop EntreCards - EntreCard Opener
There have been quite a few posts out there about how to open EntreCard sites fast. This one definitely has got to be the fastest and most efficient.
I have written a small script that can open a new EntreCard site on pressing the Win+Z button.
[ Download the script ]
For all you coders out there, here [...]
How to find lost email password in Outlook Express
I have been using Outlook and Outlook Express to access my mails. Since I use the remember passwords option, I forgot my password for a very important email account. There was no option to reset the password, so this is the freeware I used to find it.
RockXP is a tool that allows you to retrieve [...]
4 Programs you didn’t know existed on your computer
Most of us are very familiar with Windows XP and have explored almost all the programs that come default with XP. Here are four programs you most probably didn’t know existed on your computer.
Private Character Editor
There is an accessory program called the Private Character Editor included with Windows XP that is quite obscure and little-known. [...]
List of 90 Blog Ping Services
Ping services let search engines and blog directories know that you have updated the content on your blog. This allows them to index the new content when the ping is received.
The more services you ping the more likely you are to get traffic from those sources. Here is the ping list I have been using [...]
Use Google Docs to convert a document to PDF format
PDF format is widely preffered while sharing documents because its securable, compact and able to compress large files and it ensures that there will be no compatibility issues.
There are a few programs that are capable of converting document to PDF format and most of them are paid software.
Well the easiest way is to use Google [...]
CommentsMailer - Show your commentors that you care
On this blog, I reply to every genuine comment but I am sure that most people will not come back to that post to read the reply. Even regular readers will come to read the new posts and forget about any questions asked via a comment on a previous post.
The solution to this has been [...]
40+ smilies in Wordpress !!!
Did you know there are more than 40 smilies that can be used when posting or commenting on a Wordpress blog !
You can use the simlies by typing the code in a post or comment and wordpress will automatically replace the code with the associated smiley.
Here is the list of smilies I have found. The [...]
Vista Readyboost - Twice the RAM with just a USB Drive
The best way to improve a computer’s performance is by adding more RAM. With a lot of memory applications can run without accessing the hard drive. We all know that RAM is not cheap. So, what is the next best thing to getting more RAM ?
Microsoft introduced Readyboost in Windows Vista which works with Superfetch. [...]
