Archive for December, 2006

Google Launched Patent Search

With over 7 million patents to search from, the site makes it very easy to search through filed patents. People who will love this kind of service from Google would be mostly lawyers, architects and companies who make products.
Each search for patents would result in a page with result representing an individual patent. The title [...]

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Windows Resource: Free Utility to view all connected USB devices

[USBDeview] is a freeware utility that will show you information about all the currently connected USB devices to your system. The utility is small in size [under 45k] and is packed with lot of information.
Some of the important information about the connected devices that it can show are:

Device Name
Device Description
Type of the Device
Connected Status. [If [...]

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Easy Web Development with Firebug Add-on for Firefox

If you haven’t come across Firebug yet, you are missing a lot of good things that Firefox can do for you.
Firebug is an amazing Firefox add-on that lets you edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. The entire add-on is under 300k in size and offers the following features.

One [...]

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Minimum System Requirement for Microsoft Vista

As per the update on Microsoft’s Windows Vista Capable and Premium Ready PCs page, the minimum hardware requirement to happily run Vista is as follows:
Processor - At least a 800MHz processor. I recommend 1GHz processor.
Memory/RAM - At least 512 MB of memory. If your GPU uses shared memory, you should look at increasing it to [...]

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DivShare lets you Upload and Share Anything!

[DivShare] is a free file hosting service that does not require any registration to upload files. You can virtually upload any type of file to site and share it with your friends.
How does DivShare works?
This is how the service works in 4 simple steps:

Identify the file on your PC, that you want to upload.
Upload the [...]

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FREE, Auto-Expiring and Anonymous Phone Number to Protect your Privacy

While surfing the net today, I came across a nice, free and auto expiring phone number service from [craigsnumber].
The following are the important features of this free service from craigsnumber.

The phone number expires in 1 Hour, 1 Day or 1 Week.
The temporary number will actually redirect all the calls to your personal phone number.
Since the [...]

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Apache mod_rewrite Examples

One of the many sophisticated and powerful modules in Apache is mod_rewrite. It’s used for URL manipulation, also known as URL rewriting. It’s very powerful but very complicated in nature. Beginners may find it a little difficult to understand it the first time but people with knowledge of regular expressions will love its ease [...]

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