January 2010
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November 2009
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September 2008
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Best of the Best: The Hive Five Winners [Hive... →
August 2008
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Abhinav Bindra wins 10m air rifle gold
Abhinav Bindra won India’s first ever individual Olympic gold medal on Monday with a thrilling come-from-behind victory in the men’s 10 metres air rifle event.
Party time guyz :D
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Get reminders on your mobile trough SMS or Voice...
SMSlife.in is a cool new startup allowing you to “send free SMS – Voice - Xpressions and more”. It offers alerts and reminder services for mobiles through SMS and voice call. Thus it can be used as an alarm or a simple reminder service to get things done.
Using the alert feature you can save the Birthday and Anniversary alerts so that you don’t miss them again. The wishes will be sent to your...
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SQL Injection - Is your site protected from it ?...
Little time back we had written on how to hack BSNL Dataone accounts (the National Internet Backbone) and how to save your own account. Today we will like to discuss about a little exploit which is quite common on the sites using SQL. The trick is called SQL Injection.
What is SQL Injection ?
SQL injection is an attack in which malicious code is inserted into strings that are later...
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Cheat online games and exams - [How To]
R. MAK. shares a nice plugin for Firefox called Tamper Data. What Tamper Data does is it can track or modify http/https requests.In simple words, when we play flash games or take tests on web (which uses javascript), it posts a http requests containing the score. Using the Tamper Data extension we can edit that information to whatever we like.
How to use it:
Install the extension.
Goto the the...
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ImageChef - Express yourself instantly with photos...
Earlier we had shared about some sites which provided the best photo effects online in one click. ImageChef is another very similar service, which is more concentrated on the text effects and frames.
The catalogue is quite good with a large inventory. One can even use them for visual poetry.
Overall a ImageChef is a nice service truly worth a look.
ImageChef - Customize Photos, Clip Art
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15 must-have Firefox tricks
Stumbled Upon some great tricks for firefox which would make your browsing experience much faster and secure. One of the best tricks was enabling the pipelining feature in Firefox.
Speed up Firefox with pipelining
Here’s a simple way to speed up Web browsing with Firefox — turn on its hidden pipelining feature. When you turn on pipelining, you send several requests to a Web server...
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Display lyrics of your favourite song...
LyricsPlugin is a cool plugin for Windows Media Player and Winamp.
Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically. Oh, and if lyrics is not found, you can add it yourself :)
The...
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XRAY :: for web developers →
Found this cool bookmarklet which displays the information for any element on any web page.
1) DRAG the XRAY to your bookmarks bar
XRAY
2) Load any web page 3) Hit the XRAY bookmark 4) Click elements on the page to XRAY them
However if your want indepth information about the elements and code for web development, try Firebug.
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development...
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Sunday Timepass - Music Videos
Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
The Eye of the Tiger - Rocky
These are one of my favourite songs. Gets the adrenaline flowing :D .
Love the line “…condition grounded, but determined to try.”
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“If you’re good at something, don’t do it for free.”
– Joker in The Dark Knight
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Display random feed items – [How To]
FeedBurner has a nice option of BuzzBoost which republishes the feeds as HTML. It would have been better had there been an option of random items.
However, one can use Yahoo! Pipes to get that done. Here is how:
Goto the Random Feed Pipe
Put in your RSS Feed Address (eg. http://feeds.feedburner.com/fullyfaltoo )
Run Pipe
and there is your list of random feed items :D (very simple -...
July 2008
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Graph Paper Theme (Remixed) - [Tumblr Theme]
DEMO | Download
Here is a nice 3 column fluid theme for Tumblr (yeah, I am currently using it too :P).
The original Graph Paper Theme was created by Heather. I decided to add up a sidebar for some extra features. Some changes brought about are:
Added a new Column
Made the theme fluid
Added support for tags
Changed the footer style
Added search feature
and many others I don’t...
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WatchHow To Make and Play with Fire Balls - Video
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How to Cram for a College Exam →
How to Cram for a College Exam If you haven’t cracked a book before now or if you just want to be as prepared as possible, cramming the night before an exam is a must. This how-to will guide you through the process.
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What are the Chances Your Marriage Will Last? -...
The “What are the Chances My Marriage Will Last?” Equation: Garth Sundem, author of GeekLogic created his own equations to determine 1. What are the Chances My Marriage Will Last? 2. Should We Get Married? and 3. How Many Kids Should we Have?
The “What are the Chances my Marriage Will Last? is based on an 11,000 person study by the CDC that explored factors that help and hurt a marriage’s...
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Get the best photo effects online in one click (NO...
PhotoFunia is addictive and fun. It offers more than 50 photo-effects at a mouse click. You can be anything you wished to be, a celebrity, with your photo on billboards or on top of the magazine covers.
Though there are other similar services too like Dumpr but none are as good as PhotoFunia. The imaginations are endless and the inventory is continuously increasing. Apart from this, PhotoFunia...
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Shut Down your computer in less than 5 seconds
Very often it happens during the power cuts, that we want to squeeze out every second from the UPS. Other times the computer is taking unknowingly long and we are tempted to avoid the proper shut down.
Abhijeet shares a trick which is probably the the simplest one and also the fastest way to shut down your pc .
Here is the trick:
1: Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to go to the Task Manager .
2: Click...
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King of all - The Dark Knight (#1 on IMDB)
User Rating: 9.4/10 Top 250: #1
“The Dark Knight” has left everyone behind the race (including The Godfather, The Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars…) and reached number one place on IMDB.
I curse myself for not having watched the movie yet. The reviews are tempting:
An imperishable, spectacular and chaotically-brilliant movie. The Dark Knight possesses the essence that should...
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Pen Drive does not open - [Fix]
It is not very uncommon to get an “Open with” dialog on opening the pen drives. Often it is understood that this is due to a virus or an spyware. Most of the times it is true, but sometimes a simple error in the autorun.inf (hidden inside the pen-drive) file can also cause this problem. Virus or not, lets see what is the easiest solution.
1) Goto Run (Start»Run OR Win Key + R)
2) Type...
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The life of an Entrepreneur - by Vijay Rayapati →
Vijay Rayapati shares his experience on how his startup has failed and how he went bankrupt. It is a beautiful article and must be read by anyone who is going to run a startup or wanting to become an entreprenure.
“People who learn from their own experience are wise and those who learn from other’s experience are wiser”.
Read the complete article to save yourself and start...
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WatchRead the mind of your friends - Mind reading Trick Revealed
I loved this one :D.
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WatchDefy the Laws of Gravity - Magic Trick Revealed
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iBibo allows free calling from Phone to Phone...
iBibo has introduced a new feature which allows its users to make free Phone to Phone calls. One has to register at ibibo and invite friends to start calling them for free. The calls are preceded by and followed up with advertising messages.
How does it work
After clicking the “Call now” button you will get a call on your mobile phone
Where after we will connect you to mobile number...
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Email Etiquette: Openings and Endings [Tips]
The emails have become a part of our daily life, and a good email speaks for itself. We are taught, how to write a letter but there is a no structured formula for emails.
BBC shares some tips on “netiquette”. Some of them are summarized below:
Emails are invariably of an informal nature, so informal language tends to be the norm.
Openings (common examples) -
Hi, Roger, Hello Roger, Dear...
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WikiLook : Dictionary right under your mouse...
Are you one of those who likes to read much online but hates to open a new tab and search for an unknown word’s meaning each time ? WikiLook is the solution then.
WikiLook is a nice Firefox extention which allows you to see the defination of a word from dictionary without requiring to open a new tab or window.
How to use: 1. Press Shift 2. Move mouse pointer just a bit, still...
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Unscramble, find, rhyme or define that word!
It is not uncommon to find oneself in a “play with words” situation. Some time we need to find the rhyming words for a poetry or just unscramble the letters to form a word. Unscramble makes this work easier.
Some other good services offered by Unscramble are:
CROSSWORD FINDER
Just enter the word with ‘?’ to indicate missing letters and it will tell you the word.
FIND
Enter the letters of...
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Turn off Laptop's LCD screen - [How to]
In desktops the monitor can be easily tuned off by the button provided for it. However, it can be a complicated task to turn off the laptop’s screen while leaving the processes carry on.
Here is the solution:
Using Power Management Option
One can easily set the option to switch off the screen after the specified time under the “Power Management Option” found under the screen savers tab...
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What Should I Read Next? →
Are you a bookworm ? Here is a nice website which can provide you with quick suggestions on what to read next. Just put in the name of the last book you read and get the list of suggestions.
What Should I Read Next
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Workplace angel, Software to keep you fit →
Are you one of those who have to spend a major part of their time in front of computers ? Do you feel strain and disorders ? Well, Technospot.net shares some a nice software which can keep you fit.
The software has the ability to remind you about short breaks, long breaks, some stretching exercises, etc.
Know more about it »
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Now recharge your mobile online - ApnaBill
ApnaBill.com is a cool new startup allowing you to recharge your mobiles online. It supports most of the networks for the prepaid recharge coupons.
What I like about it is no sign-up is compulsary for the recharge, allowing you to reacharge quickly and easily.
No one no longer needs to go to a nearby pan shop to get the recharge coupons.
via pluggd.in
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When broadband refuses to work - [Tips]
Though the ISPs like BSNL/MTNL , Airtel, Sify etc in India offer high speed broadband connections, they still face some downtime/technical issues. Recently the servers of BSNL broadband (in North) had a breakdown because of which the sites refused to open on many computers. Airtel recently started blocking certain sites (including blogspot) due to certain privacy reasons. There are solutions to...
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Jaxtr allows International calling for just 43...
Inflation may be on a high in India, but the calling rates are cheaper than ever. Jaxtr, a well known Voip service now allows intenational calling in India for the rates as low as 43 paise by providing a local number to root the international calls.
This Phone-to-Phone calling option is currently the cheapest for Indians.
Check out the press release for more informatio: jaxtr - press releases
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Success Soul » Warren Buffett’s 7 Secrets for... →
Shilpan at Sucesssoul shares the “7 secrets for living a Happy and Simple live” given by the hero of most people - Sir Warren Buffett.
Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule. No. 1 - Warren Buffett
The top two secrets are about living a simple life:
Find happiness in simple pleasures.
I have simple pleasures. I play bridge online for 12 hours a week. Bill...