Archive for February, 2007

February 27, 2007

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February Release: 20 Websites You Wouldn’t have Known About

Here is a list of 20 web sites that I found while casually surfing the Internet and I think they could be useful to you in some or the other way. 1. Timeticker.com – An excellent online tool for finding the current time in different countries and various time zones. Though there are other online websites for finding this out but this one is one of the simplest to use. 2. OpenLinuxRouter – Are you a small, medium size or

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Posted in: General | Internet

February 26, 2007

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Browse the Web in a Different Way with Swarm

Swarm is a tool that shows you the websites that people are visiting at this moment. Swarm does this by gathering anonymous information about websites people visit using a tool bar installed in the browsers of people using Swarm. It has a graphical map with literally hundreds of websites all connecting to each other in some way and is continuously updated as people keep browsing through different websites. Most often visited sites and also the sites gaining popularity are drawn

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Posted in: General | Internet

February 24, 2007

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Send a Handwritten Note to Anyone in Australia

You can send a handwritten note to anyone in Australia for free. Yes, you can send handwritten notes right from Internet, no need of writing anything or sending it through postal service. All you have to do is connect to Take Note, a free service by STAEDTLER, type in your note and address of the person whom you wish to send the handwritten note. That’s it! Take Note will take care of the rest. They will provide paper and pencil,

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Posted in: General

February 24, 2007

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How To: Create Your Private Network on Internet

Did you know that you can create your own, private and secured network over the Internet? Your private network can have its own members, password, applications, you decide who joins it and not only that, it’s free. We are talking about an application called Hamachi which is in fact a Virtual Private Networking application enabling you to create your own private network over the Internet. Before we get to know how it works, let’s see its features: Ability to run

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Posted in: Internet

February 22, 2007

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Smooth Upgrade to WordPress 2.1.1 in 8 Steps

Yesterday night I decided it was time to upgrade my WP installation to the latest version and I did not wait for any longer to start working on it. The entire upgrade process took less than 20 minutes and it was trouble free, mostly because I maintain a log sheet of changes that I keep making to the WP and theme files and knew what to backup and which files to update. Here is a list of task items that

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Posted in: WordPress

February 22, 2007

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How To: Replace the Product Key of XP

There are many reasons because of which your copy of Windows XP may be flagged as a pirated copy and you may wish to change or replace the existing product key of XP with a legitimate one. Microsoft has a Product Key update tool using which individual users can update or replace their product key with minimal ease. How to use the Windows Product Key Update Tool? 1. You should first download the product key update tool from Microsoft’s website

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Posted in: Windows

February 21, 2007

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How To: Create and Restore Registry Backups of Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista

It’s a tool that we must have before we will ever need it for our disaster recover operations. Both as End users and Corporate users, we often run into issues with our Windows systems where we need to either perform System Restore or restoring a copy of registry from backup would fix the issue. But did we ever take that backup? Or, do we know how to create and restore registry backups? Users who are not so tech savvy will

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Posted in: Microsoft Vista | Tools/Utils | Windows






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