15 Jan 2010
Get Notified when you’re Unfollowed on Twitter
Though Twitter notifies you when someone follows you, it’s pretty lazy to send out notifications when you are unfollowed. And if you are a Twitter freak, you will never expect your followers to unfollow you. Here’s a simple solution to find out who unfollows you, that takes no more than a minute and a couple
14 Jan 2010
Quickly Resizing Images in Windows Vista & Windows 7
For Windows XP, Microsoft has its own Image Resizer Power Toy available here. But if your OS is one among those that were developed later, say Vista or the new comer Windows 7, don’t expect the same old Power Toy to work. Microsoft hasn’t thought of developing a similar Power Toy for Vista/7, so lets
28 Dec 2009
Tracking your Blog Visitors
So you have a blog with great content, optimized for search engines and ready to get exploding traffic? But how do you know which of your articles are most liked by your visitors, and how many unique visitors and impressions your blog gets daily? To track these, you’ll have to feed your blog with few
26 Dec 2009
Pixie – Lightweight Portable Color Picker
Whether you are working with Photoshop, or altering your AdSense colors, or the HEX color codes in your CSS or simply playing with colors, you’ll always need a color picker that helps you find RGB / CYMK / HTML Hex color codes
24 Dec 2009
7 Free Christmas Templates [Joomla]
Christmas, in few hours from now. If you are looking to dress up your site with Christmas/Holiday-season templates, here are free Christmas templates for your Joomla-based site(s), by SiteGround & DesignForJoomla. SiteGround regularly offers free themes for Joomla, WordPress, Mambo and many other CMSes, also provides hosting for your WordPress, Joomla powered site.
19 Dec 2009
Maintenance Splash Page [WordPress]
Though WordPress is the best for Blogging, it lacks few features by default. For instance, Joomla helps you show a Maintenance page with just few clicks, but WordPress doesn’t. Similarly, you can’t set ‘unpublished’ status to categories in WordPress if you temporarily want hide a category. Luckily WordPress’ repository has got over thousands of plugins
09 Dec 2009
A free alternative to ZoneAlarm
You should’ve already read my article on Basic Security for your PC where I recommended ZoneAlarm Free. But due to its incompatibility with Windows 7 when I tried a month back, I had to look for an alternative. The latest version (ZoneAlarm 9.1.007) released a few days back is compatible with Windows 7. After a
07 Dec 2009
Update your Twitter via SMS at No Extra Cost
A month back, Twitter and AirTel joined hands to offer Twitter via SMS, and the service was available exclusively to Bharti AirTel customers. Moreover, customers were charged premium rates for every SMS. SMSTweet, available at smstweet.in, is a free service, where you’ll send your tweets to a 10-digit Tata Indicom number, so you end up
05 Dec 2009
Google Dictionary with Multiple Languages
After Google Wave, Chrome OS and Public DNS service, Google is now up with its own Dictionary. Available at google.com/dictionary, this dictionary service can be a perfect and a worthy alternative to the old guys – Dictionary.com, thefreedictionary.com and Answers.
04 Dec 2009
Google’s Site Performance & Public DNS
Google has today announced the start of its Public DNS (Domain Name System) that is expected to give you a faster web experience, linked to the recently announced Site Performance – a Google Labs feature and a part of Google Webmaster Tools. Site Performance, a Google Webmaster Labs tool helps webmasters know the performance of
02 Dec 2009
RockBox Installation
Before proceeding with RockBox installation, make sure you have all the following. Hardware: Sansa USB Cord Software: WinZip – Download Sansa Downloads: Firmware – Download Fonts – Direct Download Bootloader – Direct Download
02 Dec 2009
Sansa & Rockbox : Things to Know
This post covers the terms you should know before proceeding with RockBox installation. Firmware : A firmware is an Operating System, or in simple terms, it is a software that could make Sansa work. A Firmware has everything fed into it, be it a codec or a response when a key is pressed, the firmware
02 Dec 2009
What is RockBox and Why?
RockBox is a Free and OpenSource jukebox Firmware for Portable Players from SanDisk, Apple, Olympus, Cowon, Toshiba, Archos and iRiver. The tutorials given here are for SanDisk Sansa MP3 Players. They are personally tried by me and tested safe. Just make sure you follow the tutorials properly for a safe installation of RockBox firmware. Why
01 Dec 2009
Turn Off your LCD with just a click
There may be times when you just want to listen to some music on your laptop and want to turn off the LCD to save battery life. But, sadly, not all laptops have a button to turn of LCD, and when you close the lid, your laptop simply goes to sleep mode. So you end
28 Nov 2009
New Google Search UI
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