Archive | November, 2009

New Google Search UI

28 November 2009

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Google has been continuously revamping its Search Engine and is now up with a new, totally different UI. Be informed that the new UI is not available for the public until the end of holidays this year, in other words, it will feature starting next year, but here’s a JavaScript hack that’ll reveal the new [...]

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Are you a Google Multitasker?

27 November 2009

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UPDATE: This site is no longer available due to copyright issues. For all Google G33Ks out there, here’s a site that helps multi-task Google. Aptly named GoogleGoogleGoogleGoogle, this site loads 4 instances of ‘Google Search homepage’ in 4 different iframes with which you can do up to four searches at the same time. Here’s a [...]

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Deleting a Virtual Hard Disk [Windows 7]

25 November 2009

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My previous post should have helped you learn to create Virtual Hard Disk Drives. Now if you don’t find the use of a Virtual Drive you created, you can easily remove it. Here’s how. Before you proceed, be sure to take a backup of files you have in your virtual HDD. (if needed) Open Disk [...]

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Create Virtual Hard Disks [Windows 7]

24 November 2009

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Have you ever wished you had an extra Disk Drive to set aside your documents, files, etc.? This is one of the new features of Windows 7, that helps you create Virtual Disk Drives, similar to your Hard Disk drives. If you are not a Windows 7 user, you can always use TrueCrypt, a freeware [...]

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Create Shortcut to ‘All Users’ view in Task Manager [Windows 7]

18 November 2009

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When you open the Task Manager in Windows 7, you’ll only be presented with processes that run under your user account, even if you are an administrator. The process list includes few System processes. And you’ll have to click the ‘Show processes from all users’ button every time to view all running processes and that’s [...]

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Make System Restore use Less Drive Space [Windows 7]

18 November 2009

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System Restore is a part of your Windows Operating System that was debuted in Windows Millenium and helps recovering your files and settings from previous copies. But this can eat up your drive space, similar to Dr.Watson. If it eats up way too much of your hard disk space, here’s the solution for it. Tweaking [...]

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Mashable’s 2009 Open Web Awards Voting starts today

18 November 2009

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After nominations and over 92K+ ReTweets and 900+ Facebook shares, Mashable’s 2009 Open Web Awards voting starts today. Nominations were made available via Facebook & Twitter though November 15, 2009. From today, November 16 2009, the voting begins and ends on the 13th December this year. Winners will be announced two days later, December 15 [...]

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Add ‘Open with Notepad’ to Context Menu

17 November 2009

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When I come across files with unknown extension, I prefer to open it with Notepad. The same when it comes to files like PHP, HTML, CSS and the likes. Adding a context menu option, to open with notepad, helps you quickly open up files without having to go through the long ‘Open with’ way, obviously [...]

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Eliminate Comment Spammers [WordPress]

14 November 2009

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A best solution to prevent spammers from commenting is to have a CAPTCHA or Math-based verification as spam bots fail to pass through the verification. A simple solution would be a math-based verification wherein a commenter is asked only to answer simple math questions. Here's a post on how to prevent spammers from posting on your blog.

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Download Facebook for Sony Ericsson [Java Application]

14 November 2009

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Facebook for Sony Ericsson, a J2ME application by Sony Ericsson that helps keep you connected to Facebook, update your status messages and view your friends’ updates (news feed), packed with few mid-end Java phones.

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