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I have got 2 year Free hosting on DreamHost

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:00:00 +0000

I have started a new blog Techkumar.com on DreamHost server, which is Free for two years including domain registration and unlimited web space. So if you like I can add email subscribers to the new...

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Twitter tip: How TwitterFox makes Tweeting an easier task

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:18:00 +0000

There are so many Twitter clients for managing tweets and most of them are coming up with nice features. But do all these clients save time while you are on Twitter? I find more and more blog post...

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Twitter tip: Make use of @hashwordpress to reach more people

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:49:00 +0000

Recently i stumbled upon a Twitter account which make use of hashtags to track down all tweets on WordPress. The tweets are not made by human, but TwitterFeed. These tweets are tracked down by...

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Twitter tip: Get preview of ShortURL metrics in TweetDeck

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:56:00 +0000

Popular Adobe Air application TweetDeck has some nice features in its beta release. One of them is Preview of ShortURLs. Actual tweet: Preview of ShortURL with metrics: This intelligent preview...

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Access and Manage Yahoo Mail inbox using any Touch Tone Phone

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:04:00 +0000

y!Vmail is a hack that allows people to connect to their Yahoo Mail accounts using any touch tone phone(general landline telephone). y!Vmail figures out which emails are important, and reads them...

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Reverse image of outside world

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:04:00 +0000

Do you know when light enters a dark room through a small hole, it projects the reverse image of the scene outside the room. Creating a Camera Obscura. (via Flickr)© Hariharakumar for...

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Make your Yahoo account recovery process easy just by updating account info

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Yahoo says it is serious about its users privacy and asking its Yahoo Mail users to update their account info to make it easier to recover account when they forget or lose password to sniffers. ...

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Preview Yahoo Mail inbox directly inside IE8

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:57:00 +0000

Yahoo designed Yahoo-optimized version of IE8 specifically for its mail users which comes with cool feature called the Mail Web slice. This gives signed-in users a quick preview of their inbox within...

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Photobucket tip: Upload images on the fly while browsing

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:53:00 +0000

Photobucket does not include FTP feature for free user. With no other utility for uploading images, other then uploading images from the Photobucket sites, these days its hard for users to login to...

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Disposable/Temporary email services

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:50:00 +0000

With no standard methods to stop spam it has become compulsory for every internet user to go for alternative services like disposable email. Choosing the right service gives mails to stay for longer...

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Impress Twitter Followers with Twitter DMer

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:07:00 +0000

In the recent months many blogs and websites have conducted giveaway contests for reader and twitter followers. Its a nice trick to increase blog readership as well as Twitter followers, as some ad...

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Archive, search CDs and DVDs with Visual CD

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:53:00 +0000

I have GBs of data so i maintain a collection of backup CDs and DVDs which contains mostly downloaded stuff from internet that includes applications, software, movies, video clips…so on. With all the...

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FeedDemon Hack: Add 20+ bookmarking site links to SendTo menu

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:39:00 +0000

Note: This hack works well in both latest beta version 3 as well as in FeedDemon old version 2.7. We all know that FeedDemon is the best desktop feed reader. A new beta version 3 came out with lot of...

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Display series of posts with In Series WordPress plugin

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:06:00 +0000

I have seen many blogger who write series of posts and some times they forget to display links to other posts in that series. Even if they want to display links they have to search for each post in...

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How to disable/stop Mcproxy.exe in Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:03:00 +0000

If you are using McAfee anti virus on your system you already know that your system resources are being eaten up by Mcproxy.exe background process, especially when you are browsing. Mcproxy.exe is a...

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Read Top Magazines for Free in your Favorite Browser

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:02:00 +0000

You can read latest issue of popular magazines like PC Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Mac World, Reader’s Digest, Popular Photography, etc up to 23 magazines for free. Zinio offers free access...

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How to check PageRank in Chrome browser

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:54:00 +0000

Usually we check Google PageRank of any webpage with the help of Google toolbar. There are addons for some browsers to do this. Now, how to determine the PR of any web page in Google Chrome? ...

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How to find the expiry date of LPG gas cylinders

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:16:00 +0000

Most of us don't know that LPG gas cylinders expire and we accept whatever cylinder we are given. These expired gas cylinders are known for gas leaks and accidents. So please be cautious at the time...

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Shorten long Twitter messages/tweets to fit in 140 characters limit

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:16:00 +0000

If you are Twitter user you already know how hard it is to send long messages. Even re-tweeting a message received from somebody else who has long username makes you think twice. Every single...

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Get back those lost unread/offline messages in Yahoo messenger

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:38:00 +0000

Some times chat messengers may crash when you login, or simple freezes and log out when you are on slow internet connection. The immediate result is you may lose offline messages. Here is a small...

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How to detect if it is two-way mirror or not in trail rooms

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:29:00 +0000

You may have seen two-way mirrors in movies and ads. Where police use this mirror for interrogating criminals. Two-way mirrors are also used in daycare, so parents can observe their children at play...

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Yahoo adds IM & SMS feature to its mail

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Yahoo! is adding IM & SMS feature to both new and classic versions of mail. But we have seen this feature in Gmail from years back and recently webcam feature rolling out for Gmail users. ...

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Microsoft will now fix it for you

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:17:00 +0000

Did you ask anyone or simply thought “why can't Microsoft just fix this for me?”. Everybody who uses Windows would have thought that. There are some simple things in Windows that we did...

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Edit Grub boot menu to set Windows as default OS

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:55:00 +0000

When you install Ubuntu on your Windows system the first thing you will notice after reboot is the new Grub boot loader shows boot list with Ubuntu selected as default operating system. If you want...

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Free beautiful WordPress theme from InstantShift

noreply@blogger.com (Harihara Kumar) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:29:00 +0000

Are you starting a WordPress blog? looking for premium like free template to use for your blog? then here is good news. InstantShift is giving away premium like beautiful WordPress template for free...

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