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Windows Update KB971033 goes live to Kill Pirated Windows 7

Joseph — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:15:52 +0000

Serious update to all the Windows 7 users who use the non-genuine copy. Microsoft has released a WAT (Windows Activation Technologies) update targeted to kill non-genuine/pirated copies on Windows 7. KB971033 KB971033 update detects validation errors, activation exploits and tampering attempts made to the important Windows 7 system files. Counterfeit copies of Windows are likely to [...]

Lengthen Shortened URLs with LongURLPlease

Joseph — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:12:43 +0000

Shortened URLs are not uncommon these days. With services like Twitter where you have text limitations, you have no other choice than shortening the URLs just to save some space. But, not everyone is ready to click on shortened URLs, thinking that it would lead to objectionable or phishing sites as they won’t know the [...]

Turn Google Buzz Off!

Joseph — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:42:58 +0000

Google Buzz, that found its debut in social networking a week back, has been buzzing people with notifications when a person comments on a buzz of yours (or even when your tweets are fetched). Now if you just don’t want to get your inbox flooded with buzz notifications, here’s an how-to for the same.

SiteGround Valentine Hosting at only $2

Joseph — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:10:32 +0000

After Holiday Hosting for $20.99/year last Christmas, SiteGround, now has a Valentine Hosting offer for only $2 giving you the same features of the usual $9.95 hosting. The usual $9.95/month Web-hosting packed with Unlimited Space, Bandwidth and domains is now available for $2/month tagged with a free domain of your choice, which totals to $24 a [...]

PayPal India Personal Payments – Solution

Joseph — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:57:10 +0000

While PayPal is a trusted and a widely used payment processor, it has now created a lot of frustration among its Indian users, especially those users who initiated transaction in the past couple of days.

Safely Test-drive Themes on WordPress

Joseph — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:54:22 +0000

While switching a theme in your WordPress blog, it’s quite obvious that you’ll put your blog down to maintenance, do all the back-stage work (widgets, tweaks) and finally activate the theme, so your visitors won’t notice your blog’s design being broken if they happen to visit right in the middle of your work. Though the [...]

Love Twitter & DOS? Here’s Quitter

Joseph — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:16:53 +0000

A DOS-based Twitter client for all the geeks/nerds out there

Shorten URLs, the longer way! Binged.it

Joseph — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:50:43 +0000

After TinyURL, Bit.ly and Goo.gl, Microsoft is up with it’s very own URL Shortening service, naming it ‘Binged.it’ (inspired from Bing.com). It isn’t available for the public now, but is used internally and is common among Microsoft employees, and will soon be public. But what really puzzles is why do we still need another URL Shortener? [...]

The Best of OpenSource Portable Applications

Joseph — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:41:07 +0000

With Flash Drives with higher data rates & high capacity, you can store virtually anything – starting from your holiday photos to PowerPoint presentations, starting from Applications to Operating Systems. Here is a list of the best of OpenSource Portable Apps, starting from simple utilities to 3D modelling applications, categorized. But before that, Why should you choose [...]

Get Notified when someone Unfollows you on Twitter

Joseph — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:31:30 +0000

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 [...]

Resizing Images – Windows Vista & 7

Joseph — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:06:13 +0000

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 [...]

Tracking your Blog Visitors

Joseph — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:58:08 +0000

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 [...]

Pixie – Lightweight Portable Color Picker

Joseph — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:28:24 +0000

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 Pixie is a lightweight, portable standalone EXE application of a mere 10KB in [...]

7 Free Christmas Templates [Joomla]

Joseph — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:21:04 +0000

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. Merry Christmas Preview | Download Warm [...]

Maintenance Splash Page [WordPress]

Joseph — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:35:43 +0000

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 [...]