Archives for December 2007

2 ways to give Christmas Look to FireFox Browser

Holiday season is around the corner with Christmas and New Year celebrations. In case you are FireFox Browser users, how about giving holiday look to your browser? You will feel the zeal and happiness even when you are surfing Internet with 'holiday' look of your browser. That

‘Knol’ Google’s Wikipedia Killer, is it?

[Update - Knol has been discontinued as of May 1, 2012] After Google's Q&A debacle, Google has quietly launched upcoming knowledge portal called 'Knol'. Concept is very similar to hugely popular Wikipedia of user generated content. Though one can also feel little vibes of popular

3 File Splitters to Send/Store Large files with ease

How to stuff in a 2MB file in a floppy disk? How to squeeze 1 GB file to a CD disk? Well, technical both tasks are impossible. However, there is a work-around which can allow you to stuff 2MB file in 2 floppy disks. Similarly a 1GB file into 2 CD disks. Best way to stuff in bigger files

How to measure objects on Computer screen?

We see number of objects on computer screen, which changes regularly with change of user action from keyboard/mouse. Ever wanted to measurethe size of various objects on computer screen with good accuracy? If yes, then here is an easy way to measure anything on your screen. 'JR

Download New & Improved Google Toolbar 5

Google has announced the latest version of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. Google Toolbar 5 aims to bring in some new improved features that can help in better and efficient browsing experience. Following are the key new features of this release: 1. Custom buttons with support

Make 80X15 sized badges using Online Button Maker

80×15 sized buttons, also known as 'antipixel buttons'are used by number of websites as a badges on their site, which are further used by site users on their repective sites or blogs. You can easily make such buttons or badges on the fly, like this.. This is possible using

Word of the Year 2007 goes to w00t – Joy, triumph

w00t has been declared 'Word of the year 2007' by Merriam Webster. w00t means expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all). similar in use to the word "yay". For example: w00t I won the game! Gaming community must be cheering at this selection as w00t finds

Going WordPress Way, Movable Type Goes Open Source

Why is Wordpress Blogging/content management system so popular? Yes it is Free, but most importantly it is open source. Anyone can download and modify code as per requirements. This has resulted in number of improvements in this software and of course huge community offering different

Wrap Text around any Shape using CSS Text Wrapper

Tired of editing code to warp text around a logo? If answer is tiring YES, then you need CSS Text Wrapper to do such task on a fly. Besides wrapping text on rectangular shapes, you can do same magic for curves, zip-zag and much more. How to use? Well, using this CSS Text wrapper is

Turn Colorful Google Logo Black&White in Single Click

Now here is some fun in the middle of the week. I am sure you are familiar with Google homepage with big, colorful Google logo in the middle. You can turn that logo to Black and white with single click. How? Well continue reading... Open Google homepage or click here. Then type:

Orkut make Scrapbook private viewed by friends or all

Now you can scrap your heart out, without whole world knowing it on Orkut. Till now, whatever you scrap was accessible and read by everyone on Orkut, not anymore. With introduction of new privacy feature, your scrapbook can either be read by your friends or by all depending on settings you

Turn Aero Feature ON or OFF in a Single click

AERO gives that glassy effect in Windows Vista. This takes lot of resources and sometimes tend to slow down the system. There are situations when you want to turn OFF this feature to optimize performance for some quick work to be done. On the contrary you would like to turn ON this