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how to become an effective speaker
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Came across this article on how to become a good speaker. I thought whatever the article said made sense. Posting it verbatim for you guys: Click me to know more »
How to download new firefox 3.0
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008The latest firefox 3.0 is finally available for public downloads. I just tried to get on to firefox.com, but the server was down…looks like too many hits brought the server down…i expected better from them, but, on second thoughts, they can scale up their hardware just to support more concurrent users for one day…doesn’t make too much of business sense… Click me to know more »
How to edit wordpress/joomla files on an unix/linux server
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Do you use a content management open source like wordpress or joomla to manage content on your web page? Do you find it cumbersome to edit the theme files using the wordpress admin panel. What if you want to edit the non-theme php files on your linux server? Click me to know more »
How to recover deleted files on a PC
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Just “Shift Deleted” your (or somebody else’s) whole day’s work by mistake. Don’t worry…Undelete Plus is here for you. Click me to know more »
Make firefox faster
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Its human nature to want more. In the dial-up days, broadband was an expensive dream. How we wished to get onto broadband for that dream speed. Now with everyone on broadband we still want more. We want better. We deserve better…How about squeezing a bit more out of firefox.
Follow these simple steps to load most pages faster.
- Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit <enter>.
- Enable pipelining by altering the values of the following parameters to:
- network.http.pipelining - true
network.http.proxy.pipelining - true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests - 8 - With pipelining disabled, the browser makes one request at a time. But on enabling pipelining by altering values as aforementioned, the browser will make 8 requests at a time which the broadband connection can handle.
- Right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
- Follow these steps and feel the difference!!!
Trace Your Data Packet Route
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008We type a web address in the browser and wait for the web page to load. But do we ever wonder about the route that all the data packets to finally land into our browser?
You can actually trace the packet route and the hops from router to router using the following command.
1. Open the command prompt of your PC. (Open up Start > Run. Type cmd in the Open textbox.
2. In the command window that opens up, type tracert <web address> and hit enter to get the route to reach that web address.
eg. Type tracert www.aajkacopypaste.com to get the route to aajkacopypaste.com.
3. You can type tracert /? to get more options.
Be a better google searcher
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Here are some syntax basics as well as advanced tricks for searching with Google.com:
- A quote/ phrase search can be written with both quotations “like this” as well as a minus (or dot) in-between words, like-this.
- Google allows 32 words within the search query (some years ago, only up to 10 were used, and Google ignored subsequent words).
- You can find synonyms of words. E.g. when you search for house but you want to find “home” too, search for ~house.
- Google has a lesser known “numrange” operator which can be helpful. Using e.g. 2000..2006 (that’s two dots in-between two numbers) will find 2000, 2001, 2002 and so on until 2006.
- Google’s “define” operator allows you to look up word definitions. For example, define:nasa yields “National Aeronautics and Space Administration” along with many more explanations.
- You can also enter what is nasa for similar results.
- Not all Googles are the same! Depending on your country, Google might forward you to a different version of Google with potentially different results to the same query.
- For some search queries, Google uses its own search result
advertisement system to offer jobs. Try entering work at google and
sometimes, you find job offers straight from Google. - Google doesn’t have “stop words” anymore. Stop words traditionally are words like “the”, “or” and similar which search engines tended to ignore. Nowadays, Google includes all of your words, even the former stop words.
- You can use the wildcard character “*” in phrases. This is helpful for finding song texts, let’s say you forgot a word or two, but you remember the gist, as in “love you twice as much * oh love * *.”