You must have seen the tabbed interface on several professional blogs. The same is also present on this blog in the sidebar to the right. In fact, I’ve had this running on this blog as well as my personal blog for a long time now, where I displayed post details.
How fast is your internet connection? If it is as slow as mine and you blog regularly, then you will understand the necessity of doing something to speed up the loading of pages of your WordPress Administration area. Fortunately, WordPress comes inbuilt with this support.
Jeffro raised a point of reformating your blog for WordPress 2.7. I’ve been blogging with WordPress since late 2003 and have been the blog software go through tonnes of upgrades.
I use Pidgin as my primary chat client. Pidgin allows me to login to MSN, Yahoo!, Google as well Google Hosted accounts all at once, thus ensuring I don’t have too many clients running at the same time to fulfil my chatting needs.
How to prevent MSN Spam in Pidgin (Tutorial Thursday) Read Post »
If you are using Windows, the number of shortcuts that Windows presents you is phenomenal. You even have the option to create your own shortcuts to launch applications. Here are ten shortcuts that can improve productivity: Windows Key + R Open the Run window Windows Key + F Open the search window Windows Key + E Open Windows Explorer Windows Key + 1, 2, …
Ten must-use Windows Shortcuts (Windows Wednesday) Read Post »
Last year, as part of our admissions team duties, we were required to send out prospectus to students all over India. These ranged from a minimum of fifty envelopes to over 150 at a time. During a promotion campaign we printed around 90,000 labels!
Creating Custom Labels in Microsoft Word 2007 (Tutorial Thursday) Read Post »
If there is one thing I really don’t like to hear is any sound when I am starting up the computer. Windows Vista doesn’t allow you to customize the startup sound and you are stuck with the same version. Well, I chose to disable it.
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Having installed Windows Vista SP1, the probablity of you removing it is rather bleak. However, when you install SP1, Vista gives you the provision of removing it, in case you choose to do so in the past. This is done, by keeping the old files that were replaced by the SP1 update.
Making Windows Vista SP1 permanent (Windows Wednesday) Read Post »
The title of the post is a bit of a misnomer because the SUMIF function in Excel does not allow you to have more than condition. Excel 2007 introduced the SUMIFS function which allowed for multiple conditions. However, if you are using any version prior to Excel 2007 or if the persons who will be using your Excel workbook will be using a version prior to Excel 2007, then the SUMIF function will throw up an error.
I came across Vista’s new Hybrid Sleep feature yesterday when I was busy. What is Hybrid sleep? Hybrid sleep is a low-power sleep state that can help protect your open programs and documents while your computer sleeps.
People using Google Personalized Homepage would be well aware that you can add pages, read feeds and lots of other stuff. Recently the folks at Google introduced a brand new feature to make your homepage look even better, viz. Themes.
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.
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