January 2007

Windows Vista logs into India

January 31, 2007

Windows Vista is being officially released for home users in many countries. In New York, they hired acrobats to display the Windows logo, In Australia, they had skywriters grab attention, while in Agra they had dancers perform in front of the Taj Mahal, and all this to try and get PC users the world over [...]

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Fix UTW plugin to avoid tag loss !

January 31, 2007

Ultimate Tag Warrior, one of the best plugin’s for WordPress is broken on WordPress 2.1. Yesterday I noticed that some of my popular posts were showing “No Tags“. These popular posts were among the few lucky posts in my blog which receive some comments. It turns out that the comments themselves were the culprits which [...]

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FlyakiteOSX – Get a Mac Look and feel on XP

January 31, 2007

Some time back I patched the Windows Uxtheme.dll and installed a nice looking theme called BlackMesa. I got bored with that theme and decided to install a Mac theme. A search for the same lead me to a software called FlyakiteOSX. FlyakiteOSX is not just a theme, its a complete transformation pack (30 MB download) [...]

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vi/vim Graphical Cheat Sheet

January 28, 2007

Every time I try to edit a file in Unix using vi, I end up corrupting the file rather than “editing” it. To get out of the mess I resort to q! command which helps me to exit from editor without saving the modifications. Incidentally this command (q!) happens to be one of the most [...]

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Launchy – Out of Beta

January 27, 2007

Launchy is a free, must have windows utility for people who want to use more of keyboard rather than the mouse. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes! To know more about launchy, read my previous post here. If [...]

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.1

January 26, 2007

Two days back I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 and as mentioned in my earlier post, there are lot of new features added to 2.1 release. I saw many blogger’s mentioning the “AutoSave” feature as the highlight of the release. As far as I know “AutoSave” would be the least useful feature for regular blogger’s since [...]

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Unix – Make Directory Tree in a Swipe

January 22, 2007

If I wanted to created a directory tree say /first/second/third this is how I used to do it, till now. $ cd /$ mkdir first$ cd first$ mkdir second$ cd second$ mkdir third$ cd third Today I learnt that you could do this in a single swipe using the -p option! mkdir -p first/second/third And [...]

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WordPress 2.1 RC1

January 20, 2007

WordPress Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for download here. Some of the new features in 2.1 include Efficient database code, faster than previous versions Autosave Tabbed editor Lossless XML import and export for moving between WordPress blogs WYSIWYG spellchecker Search engine blocker for private blogs You can set any “page” to be the front [...]

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2Mbps from Airtel

January 20, 2007

BSNL recently introduced 2Mbps broadband bandwidth and I believe many BSNL users are getting constant/min 700Kbps bandwidth. Airtel will probably soon be offering 2Mbps bandwith from next month i.e. Feb 2007. This news is based on the feedback I got from few of my friends who got this confirmation from the Airtel Customer Service ! Anbody else [...]

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Searching in Digg

January 19, 2007

Digg is one of the best sites to look for quality content and hence is one of the places I “search” (other than Google) when I need to find quality links for a particular keyword. However more often than not, when I search in Digg, I end up with this screen ! First of all [...]

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