AbhiTech

SplinterNet Allows P2P Microblogging over Bluetooth

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:54:22 PST

SplinterNet is a new project that allows P2P microblogging over bluetooth to avoid government censorship. It's currently in beta and available only as an Android application. This server-less...

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QuickTip: How To Prevent Google Analytics From Tracking Your Visits in Wordpress

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:46:18 PST

Google Analytics is the web's most favorite tracking application used by millions. They are also rolling out real-time analytics. But if you're the admin of a site and you're testing several features...

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Freebie: Social Port WordPress Plugin

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:55:58 PDT

SocialPort is a social-media Wordpress plugin that lets readers easy access to social-media bookmarking sites. It's just like bookmarking buttons — but what makes it stand out is that it adds a fixed...

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HOW-TO: AJAX Search Suggestions in Input Fields

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:23:49 PDT

Today we are going to create AJAX search suggestions inside input text fields. This is different from AJAX Auto-suggest or AJAX Live Search. The idea is simple — we are going to show the user...

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PulsePro Vote Component with Admin Panel

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:11:07 PDT

It's been almost a month since I released a premium version of PulseLite — the open source PHP AJAX Voting component. It has got plenty of features. The documentation lets you integrate this...

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Freebie: Clean AJAX Contact Form

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:01:11 PDT

Building on top of the AJAX Contact Form and modifying one of Wufoo's elegant forms available at the gallery, I made a more secure, easy-to-install AJAX Contact Form with more features. It's...

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How to Create an AJAX Contact Form with reCAPTCHA

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:35:56 PDT

Today we are going to create a nifty contact form powered by AJAX and reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA, now acquired by Google, was a project by Carnegie Mellon University that aims to stop bots from spamming...

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Highlight Rows of Table Using jQuery

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:04:52 PDT

It’s been couple of months since I made a jQuery plug-in that lets you highlight rows of a tale. This feature is similar to GMail’s “Select Mails” option. The plugin has two components — you can...

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Install Multiple Applications in One Go with Ninite

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:51:26 PDT

The worst part about installing a new operating system on a hard-drive is installing the required applications once the OS is installed and functional. Not only you have to download each of the...

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Manage Your Distractions and Get Things Done in your IM

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 09:01:25 PDT

So, you have a lot to do everyday. You start your day by making a list of things you have to do on that day. All through the day, your mind comes across many ideas (or tasks) which need to be done....

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Create Up-Down Voting in Your Web-application with Pulse Lite

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:18:57 PDT

It’s been more than two years since I posted a simple tutorial on Thumbs Up Thumbs Down Voting with PHP, MySQL and jQuery. That post receives the second most page-views on this blog. People created...

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Create Your Own Cartoon Avatars for Free

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:50:35 PST

You must have come across many online avatars that resemble the person, but with a twist — it’s a cartoon and not the original photo of the person. It looks cool and — even more — it lets you stay...

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Enable or Disable Form Elements with jQuery Plugin

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:08:00 PST

Over the last weekend I developed a nifty jQuery form plug-in, which lets you interact with various form elements based on user inputs. The item is up for sale at CodeCanyon for $3. You can check out...

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Capslock Hack: Use Capslock to Search the Web and More

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:40:56 PST

On a standard US keyboard layout, Capslock is probably the least used key. Most people use the shift key to type in uppercase letters. Google’s own netbook, the Cr-48 has replaced the capslock key...

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How to Download Songs from Last FM

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:41:34 PST

LastFM is the Facebook of music. You can discover and listen to new music, find “real” people who listen to the same kind of music as you do. You can even “scrobble” songs (much like a Tweet, except...

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AbhiTech is Now Technabled!

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:57:38 PST

It’s been 5 years since this blog started. First it was by the name “Cyberbuff’s Blog” and later by “AbhiTech”. It was crying for a makeover. So, I thought about buying new domain and giving it a...

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India's $35 Tablet PC

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:56:27 PDT

The minimum amount of money an iPad can cost you is $499. But if you don't bother about the high-end features iPad provides and you just want to browse the net, then forking out $499 is not a good...

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5 Common Misconceptions about Evernote

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:02:05 PDT

Evernote is probably the best and the most popular note-taking application on the web. Evernote recently reached 3 million users which is a great news for Evernote fanboys (and fangirls). But even...

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6 Striking Features on New Digg

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:15:29 PDT

Digg has launched an invite-only preview of its newest user-interface designs that it will be launching for the public later this year. Apart from little changes here and there, these are some of the...

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Free Calls from Skype to Qualifying Countries for the World Cup

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:06:58 PDT

Skype, the most popular VoIP service provider, is offering a month of free calls from Skype to any number around the world, to celebrate 2010 Fifa World Cup. This offer is valid for 30 countries...

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11 PHP Voting Scripts and Tutorials

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:08:14 PDT

Ever since I wrote the tutorial on Reddit-style Voting With PHP, MySQL and jQuery, I get around 300 visitors everyday with keywords like "php voting", "jquery votes", "jquery vote up down", "php vote...

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Record Skype Calls for Free with iFreeRecorder

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:58:42 PDT

Skype is an award-winning IM platform that is hugely popular for making calls to other Skype users and phones across the world. A lot of the companies regularly buy Skype Credits to make calls to...

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Code Faster HTML with Zen Coding

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:11:45 PDT

Do you code in HTML? Does the sight of lines of HTML makes you sick? Do you want to speed up your workflow? If "Yes!" is the answer to any of these questions, then you must try Zen Coding — a...

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How to Add Facebook's Like Button to Your Site

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:08:19 PDT

Facebook recently launched the "Like" button feature, in a bid to gain more access to sites. This new feature enables users to share content with only one single click. The links to the pages will...

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Google's Experiment with Twitter: FollowFinder

noreply@blogger.com (Abhisek) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:03:50 PDT

Google is testing a new service called FollowFinder to find similar users on Twitter. The product is currently in beta — you can try it in Google Labs. After the launch of real-time search results,...

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