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How to create a contact form for blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:55:00 +0000

Many professional web sites and even personal blogs sometimes have a contact form on their site. These forms are generally made using PHP, ASP, CGI etc and is possible only if your site is hosted on your own web server. Since Blogger is just a blogging platform and does not give users access to the...

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Put the CapsLock key to better use with CAPshift

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:29:00 +0000

The CapsLock key on the keyboard is the only single key which gives us more trouble than help. You finish typing a document only to realize that you had accidentally hit the Caps key half a page earlier! %^##%$@ ... With CAPshift you will never have to worry about accidentally turning on the caps...

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Thumbnail Expander for Firefox - Get full sized images on mouse hover

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:50:00 +0000

Thumbnail Expander is a Firefox extension that displays the large version of images when you hover the mouse over thumbnails. No need to click on thumbnails to display the enlarged version of images. Instead, simply hover your mouse over a thumbnail to see the full image, and move your mouse away...

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25 beautiful icon sets for Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:12:00 +0000

After getting a good response from readers for 20 (most) beautiful themes for Windows XP, I decided that I should showcase some of the most beautiful icons to go along with these themes. Choosing the icons turned out to be a lot harder than I had thought. There are so many beautiful sets and I know...

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How big a hole can you make on Earth?

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:33:00 +0000

Ever wondered what will be the size of the impact crater when an asteroid or a comet hits the Earth? With Impact Calculator you can find it out. Choose the size of the projectile, angle of impact and velocity. Select the material of the projectile. Porous rock and dense rock will simulate an...

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Automatically correct typos in URL with URL Fixer

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:23:00 +0000

If it hadn't been for auto-correct, my emails, my reports and my blog would have been littered with hundreds of "teh" and "downlaod"s. But what about the address bar? How many times have you typed the wrong URL and wondered why the damn page won't open? Here is a solution for...

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Download Folder Marker Home for free (only today)

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:13:00 +0000

Today Give Away of the Day is giving away a software called Folder Marker Home. I liked this software so much that I thought you shouldn't miss this opportunity. As you probably know, that Give Away of the Day gives away a new software everyday that has to be downloaded and installed within a...

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Disable Windows Page file, save your hard disk

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:09:00 +0000

There are lots of myths and confusion surrounding Windows page file, for instance, this utter rubbish "thumb rule" that the page file should 1.5 times the amount of physical memory. Then there is the question of whether to use the page file at all. The page file is intended to serves as a...

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Circle Dock - The open source circular dock for Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:21:00 +0000

At an ongoing programming contest at Donation Coder, one participant has developed this beautiful circular dock called Circle Dock. He explains: The idea behind Circle Dock is that the dock should appear where your mouse is instead of you having to move your mouse to the dock like with other...

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Visualize Del.icio.us bookmarks with FavThumbs

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:46:00 +0000

A lot of web applications seems to be going the visual way. That's what web 2.0 is all about, after all. Glossy and flashy. Anyway, the latest one to join is FavThumbs, which takes your plain blue hyperlinked del.icio.us bookmarks and converts them into visually appealing screenshots. A...

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Create Word Art with Wordle

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:12:00 +0000

Wordle is a web site that allows you to create "word art" from text that you type into a box. You can also enter a URL of a site. Wordle will then collect words from the URL or the words you typed and create beautiful cloud patterns out of it. The clouds give greater prominence to words...

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Follow live cricket matches on Cricket Nirvana's Cricket Center

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:49:00 +0000

Cricket Nirvana's Cricket Center is more than just a ball by ball update scorecard. Cricket Center is a desktop application powered by Adobe AIR, that brings you not only real time ball by ball updates but live streaming videos and Video on Demand of matches featuring India, as well as some...

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Automatically create shortcuts to removable (and fixed) drives on your desktop

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:58:00 +0000

If you have noticed, that Windows and Linux uses two different approaches of dealing with removable drives like a pen drive or a DVD. Windows has the auto play function where a small window pops up whenever you insert a removable media, giving you various options to open it. Linux distros on the...

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SUPER - The only multimedia converter you will ever need

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:18:00 +0000

SUPER, Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer, is a free all-in-one multimedia converter. SUPER supports an embarrassing number multimedia file formats, allowing conversion to and from any of the supported formats. If you have SUPER you need not use any other multimedia converter. Let...

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How to turn any website editable with just one line of code

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:56:00 +0000

Do you want to edit other people's website? Is that possible? Yup, but only on your screen. All you have to do is visit the site you want to edit and then copy the following code and paste it in the address bar and hit enter. javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true';...

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Get thumbnail previews on search results with Google Preview

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:07:00 +0000

Google Preview is a wonderful little plugin that inserts a small thumbnail preview of the web sites into Google and Yahoo search results pages. So you get a preview of the page even before you open it. This can save you lots of precious time because often some items on the search results page looks...

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Firefox Extension Aging Tabs - Fades color of unused tabs

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:52:00 +0000

Here is an amusing extension for Firefox. If you are in the habit of opening dozens of tabs in Firefox and then forget about some of them, then Aging Tabs will help you identify which tabs your aren't paying attention to. The tabs that you haven't clicked on for some time will gradually fade to the...

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Monitor folders for unwanted changes with Spy-The-Spy

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:32:00 +0000

If you think that you are protected because you use an up to date anti virus application and anti spywares and such security tools, you might be mistaken. There is no security software that can give you complete protection. Viruses often slip through anti virus programs and anti spywares often fail...

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Giving away domain PICLICIOUS.ORG

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:34:00 +0000

I own a domain piclicious.org, but I'm not using it. So I have decided to give it away, for free! If you want to grab this domain, just leave your name and email, using the form below, and tell me what you intend to do with it and why you should have it. That would make this a bit interesting!...

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Orbit - The round dock for Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:42:00 +0000

Orbit is a free application launcher similar to Apple's Dock or Rocketdock, but with a difference. Orbit is round. The program, instead of taking up space on screen, it stays hidden and only shows up whenever you call it. Orbit appears around the mouse showing shortcuts, folders, links to web...

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How to embed a comment form beneath your blog post in blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:01:00 +0000

If you have been following the latest developments in Blogger or reading this blog, then you must have read about the new feature in Blogger in Draft that allows you to embed the comment form beneath your blog post, similar to Wordpress. This is something Blogger users have been asking for years,...

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How to display more than 5 recent posts in blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:15:00 +0000

Blogger, for some unknown reason, restricts the number of recent posts that can be displayed on your blog to just five. Obviously, we aren't happy with that restriction. So I'm going to show you how to display more than five recent posts in your blog. For this we will use one of Feedburner's...

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Read stories later with readbag

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:32:00 +0000

Those who used the Read it later Firefox extension knows how useful that is. Readbag is ten times better, the best thing is of course, it isn't tied down to a particular browser. Often when we are surfing the net we come across numerous interesting articles that we would like to read, but just...

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Periodic Table Explorer - Your new chemistry teacher

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:28:00 +0000

I suppose you have already studied the periodic table at school. It is a table where all elements known to man are arranged according to their atomic number and used as a quick look-up table for information such as atomic weight, whether it is a metal or non-metal or alkali and so on. That's the...

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20 (most) beautiful themes for Windows XP

noreply@blogger.com (Kaushik) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:54:00 +0000

Do you know what I hate the most about Windows XP? It's look. It's painful combination of blue and green. So one of the first thing I do after every Windows install is patch the Uxtheme file so that I can apply a visual style of my choice. I hope you are not using the default theme, are you? The...

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