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Recover your GMail password via SMS

Recover your GMail password via SMS
A lot of time we forget our passwords and try to recover it using the same old technique where the service provider send new password to an email address that we have registered earlier with them. Security question is also an option to recover password where user set a security question ...

Writing Functions in Shell Script

Writing Functions in Shell Script
Have you ever written a huge Unix script and thought you would have divided this script into pieces of reusable code? Well don't worry. You can create functions in unix shell script and make reusable code and call the function from your unix code.Hello World Function in Unix shell script First let us see a simple ...

Reducing Memory usage in Firefox

Reducing Memory usage in Firefox
I have been using firefox browser for a while now. Although I never had any issue with this browser, I just hate it when it starts hogging on memory and eats up almost half of the RAM.Following are few tweaks that you can perform on your firefox browser to reduce its memory usage.1. Remove unnecessary ...

How to Choose a Hosting Provider

How to Choose a Hosting Provider
Everyone looking to get quality web hosting will quickly notice that it is somewhat of a jungle out there. The web hosting market is literally crammed with different web hosting providers promising this and that. As it is extremely important for you get along with your provider it is crucial that you do some research before settling upon one. Finding out what features and ...

21 very useful htaccess tips & tricks

21 very useful htaccess tips & tricks
Apache web servers have a great way to manipulate information using .htaccess files. .htaccess (hypertext access) is the default name of a directory-level configuration file that allows for decentralized management of web server configuration. The .htaccess file is placed inside the web tree, and is able to override a subset of the server's global configuration; the ...

Textarea Resize JavaScript: Resize textarea using jQuery plugin

Textarea Resize JavaScript: Resize textarea using jQuery plugin
Have you ever used textarea in your UI design to get text from user? (Ofcourse you must) :) You must have specified rows and cols attribute to define the height and width of the textarea, or by using CSS. By whatever mean you create your textarea, the width and height of the textarea is fixed. What ...

HTML 5: The new HTML kid on the block!

HTML 5: The new HTML kid on the block!
Hope you all have heard that behind-the-scene progress of the new version of HTML, is cruising through. There are some good news for those preachers of web standards who give importance to the semantically correct web.With the the new version of HTML (HTML 5), still gazing towards the recommendation stage (the specification is not yet complete and ...

Hiding an Extension

Hiding an Extension
Windows of this era provide a feature that by default hides extensions of files. They choose to display the filename alone – minus the extension. This “feature”, as per Microsoft, is supposed to “reduce clutter in folder windows”.It cropped up first in XP and was added in all subsequent versions including Vista as well as the upcoming Windows 7.Many of you who store a ton of ...

Analyze website using online Website Analyzer Tools

Analyze website using online Website Analyzer Tools
Website analyzing and optimizing has became one of the key task that a webmaster has to perform in order to make the website run efficiently. By analyzing your website you can identify the problems related to loading time, size, keyword effectiveness etc.A lot of online website analyzing tools are available that can be used freely ...

Creating Customized Search Plug-ins for Firefox or IE7+

Creating Customized Search Plug-ins for Firefox or IE7+
Some folks may need to search some of their "special-interest" sites. Me being a World of Warcraft fanatic, I’m talking about sites like Thottbot, Wow-armoury etc.Till now, the options for that special search were thus: 1. Visit the site you want to look-up and then search 2. Google and then rifle thru the results looking for that one site 3. For the more geeky ones, ...
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