One of the new additions in Windows Vista is the new Preview Pane.
The Preview Pane can be activated in Explorer by navigating to Organize » Layout » Preview Pane.
Using the Preview Pane you can browse readable views of various documents or, with media files, preview a few seconds of content.
This becomes extremely useful if you [...]
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I just received my new Dell Laptop today and it came preloaded with Windows Vista.
The first thing I noticed (and ofcourse which I knew about) was the User Account Control.
User Account Control is a brand new feature in Windows Vista that lets all users to run in normal user mode without administrator privileges; something that [...]
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I always wondered how Mark had those small yellow posts over at Weblog Tools Collection. It was only after a while that I realized that they are what are called Asides.
Asides as the name goes is something aside your normal content. I use the asides to link to to posts on which I don’t want [...]
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This tutorial is for those of you who have the cPanel as your hosting control panel. cPanel’s File Manager is a very powerful and versatile tool to use to upload your website. A very useful feature offered by it is the ability to extract zip, tar and gz archive files. This article with guide you [...]
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cPanel (most control panels actually) provides you with phpMyAdmin which is what we will use to backup our mySQL database.
Though you can backup your complete database at one go, I recommend making two backup files, one containing the Structure and the other containing the Data.
Why? Simply because your structure will usually remains same (unless you [...]
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How To: Install mod_security takes you through the installation of mod_security, the web application firewall for Apache.
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/linux_unix/Super_Easy_Upgrading_WordPress_Via_Shell’;
The word is already out that WordPress 2.1.1 is severely vulnerable and you have to upgrade to WordPress 2.1.2 to keep your blog safe.
Since the release of 2.1 we have seen two upgrades in little over a month and upgrading WordPress can be a real pain in the neck. It becomes really bad [...]
This is a really old Gmail hack which I’m sure many of you may be either aware, or are already practicing.
Those of you aren’t aware, Gmail allows you to create unlimited email accounts by using the plus sign.
e.g. if you’re email address is username@gmail.com you can create addresses like username+techtites@gmail.com, username+ajay@gmail.com username+someothersite@gmail.com and so on.
You [...]
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Over at Weblog Tools Collection, I’ve written some Tips for Theme Authors.
Few points that I have covered are:
The importance of having a theme page to distribute your theme
The importance of having individual posts about the theme
Effectively using the Theme Viewer
Explaining the contents of your theme to the users
These are ofcourse to be considered in addition [...]
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about:blank as many of you will just open a blank page. By default Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera are set to open up a webpage on connecting to the internet.
Most of the time you won’t be interested in opening that default page. The result is unncessary wastage of bandwidth. This gets severe if you are [...]
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