Decrease Bootup time by removing unwanted Startup Applications from Ubuntu

Just like any other Operating System, Linux also loads a number of unwanted applications at the startup. This normally reduces the system bootup time. But here is a nice little tool that lets you remove unwanted entries from the startup. Read more

How to make free calls to Mobile & Landlines in India

Here comes a nice little trick with which you can call to any mobile number or landline phone within India for free. No hidden costs, no buggy VoIP softwares, it is absolutely free. Read more

How to preview Illustrator .AI files as thumbnails in Windows Explorer

The CS series of Adobe Illustrator doesn’t allow you to view .ai files as thumbnails in Windows Explorer, previously it was enabled but Adobe stopped developing this function. Nevertheless, here is a simple workaround for viewing .ai. files as thumbnails. Read more

Learn Adobe Flex in a Week – Free Video Training

64px-Flexicon Adobe Flex, as we all know is a collection of technologies released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross platform rich Internet applications based on the proprietary Adobe Flash platform. So if you are interested in learning some basic concepts of this future technology then go ahead & check out the free Flex in a week program by Adobe. Read more

How to preview Photoshop PSD files as thumbnails in Windows Explorer

You got a number of Photoshop Files (.psd) on your drive which you want to sort out, as some of these files are unwanted & they are clogging space on your drive. It is a cumbersome task but still you can follow these two techniques -

1. Open each file in Photoshop & check whether it is needed or not.
2. Delete the files according to the file names.
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Securing your Wordpress Blog

Wordpress generally do not allow you to change the default ‘admin‘ username, this is a big security issue as a hacker’s work is reduced to just brute force the password as he knows the username is always ‘admin‘.  Though, there is a workaround to change the password directly in the database. We will use phpmyadmin to alter the database. Just log in to you phpmyadmin account & select your wordpress database from the drop down menu on the left side. You will be presented with something like this…

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Opera & Custom Search

After Internet Explorer & Firefox, Opera is the third most widely used browser in the World.Opera is popular because it adds some additional functionalities within a browser, such as, integrated mail client, widgets etc..One of the feature provided by Opera is custom search.To add a Custom Search in Opera just follow these steps: Read more

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