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Watch Cricket World Cup 2011 Online

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:11:00 +0000

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Merry Christmas.!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:50:00 +0000

Copy Data Automatically From Flash Drives

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:22:00 +0000

USBFlashCopy is a Windows based small software to backup data automatically from flash drives and storage devices. I think this is very useful tool with varies aspects. It runs on two modes, basic mode and silent mode. Basic mode is free, but if you want to use silent mode you have to purchase it.

Once installed, you must configure its settings. This runs on both 32 bit and 64 bit version. Try it yourself. Download - USBFlashCopy

Six Sri Lankan Cricketers nominated in 'GREATEST ODI TEAM OF ALL TIME'

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:43:00 +0000

'GREATEST ODI TEAM OF ALL TIME' is an ICC event (online poll) to celebrate 40 years of ODI Cricket. They have nominated 1940 players and you can select your dream team among 48 players. There are six Sri Lankan cricketers in this nominated list.

This is my team:

Select your dream team (before 2 January 2011). Go to GREATEST ODI TEAM OF ALL TIME
Enjoy CRICKET!

New Facebook Profile Pages

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:29:00 +0000

Did you try out the new Facebook profile pages? They are now available to use.
This is my new Facebook profile.

Try out yourself and use all the new features. It is awesome....
go to http://www.facebook.com/about/profile/

Reload your web page with 'ReloadEvery'

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:03:00 +0000

'ReloadEvery' is a Firefox add-on that can be used to relaod(refresh) your web pages automatically with specific time periods.

To add this add-on to your Firefox browser go to tools -> add-ons and search for 'ReloadEvery' then install the add-on and restart your browser. you are done.

You can use this add-on for many purposes. (Specially downloading from external servers).
Download ReloadEvery
Try it yourself.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Groups and Fixtures

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:04:00 +0000

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 will take place From 19th February 2011 to 2nd April 2011 and first match to be played between India and Bangladesh on 19th February. This is the tenth world cup in cricket history. All Matches(49 matches) will be played in Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh. (not in Pakistan). Groups are:

Fixtures:

Date Teams Venue

Saturday 19 Feb Bangladesh v India Dhaka

Sunday 20 Feb              New Zealand v Kenya                                 Chennai
Sunday 20 Feb            Sri Lanka v Canada                                       Hambantota
Monday 21 Feb                Australia v Zimbabwe                                       Ahmedabad
Tuesday 22 Feb    England v Netherlands    Nagpur
Wednesday 23 Feb           Pakistan v Kenya Hambantota
Thursday 24 Feb               South Africa v West Indies New Delhi
Friday 25 Feb                   Australia v New Zealand    Nagpur
Friday 25 Feb Bangladesh v Ireland    Dhaka
Saturday 26 Feb Sri Lanka v Pakistan                                         Colombo
Sunday 27 Feb                 India v England Kolkata
Monday 28 Feb               West Indies v Netherlands New Delhi
Monday 28 Feb    Zimbabwe v Canada Nagpur
Tuesday 1 Mar                 Sri Lanka v Kenya    Colombo
Wednesday 2 Mar    England v Ireland    Bangalore
Thursday 3 Mar    South Africa v Netherlands                               Mohali
Thursday 3 Mar    Pakistan v Canada    Colombo
Friday 4 Mar    New Zealand v Zimbabwe                                Ahmedabad
Friday 4 Mar    Bangladesh v West Indies Dhaka
Saturday 5 Mar    Sri Lanka v Australia    Colombo
Sunday 6 Mar India v Ireland    Bangalore
Sunday 6 Mar                  England v South Africa    Chennai
Monday 7 Mar    Kenya v Canada    New Delhi
Tuesday 8 Mar                Pakistan v New Zealand    Pallekele
Wednesday 9 Mar           India v Netherlands                                           New Delhi
Thursday 10 Mar             Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe    Pallekele
Friday 11 Mar West Indies v Ireland Mohali
Friday 11 Mar    Bangladesh v England Chittagong
Saturday 12 Mar              India v South Africa     Nagpur
Sunday 13 Mar    New Zealand v Canada Mumbai
Sunday 13 Mar Australia v Kenya Bangalore
Monday 14 Mar              Pakistan v Zimbabwe Pallekele
Monday 14 Mar              Bangladesh v Netherlands                                  Chittagong
Tuesday 15 Mar              South Africa v Ireland Kolkata
Wednesday 16 Mar         Australia v Canada                                             Bangalore
Thursday 17 Mar             England v West Indies    Chennai
Friday 18 Mar                 Sri Lanka v New Zealand    Mumbai
Friday 18 Mar                 Ireland v Netherlands    Kolkata
Saturday 19 Mar             Australia v Pakistan                                             Colombo
Saturday 19 Mar             Bangladesh v South Africa                                   Dhaka
Sunday 20 Mar               Zimbabwe v Kenya    Kolkata
Sunday 20 Mar               India v West Indies                                              Chennai
Wednesday 23 Mar    First quarter-final    Dhaka
Thursday 24 Mar            Second quarter-final Colombo
Friday 25 Mar                Third quarter-final                                                 Dhaka
Saturday 26 Mar            Fourth quarter-final                                               Ahmedabad
Tuesday 29 Mar First semi-final                                                      Colombo
Wednesday 30 Mar        Second semi-final Mohali
Saturday 2 April             Final Mumbai

Enjoy yourself with WORLD CUP.

Use 'Adobe SendNow' to Share Laege files

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:31:00 +0000

'Adobe SendNow' is a file hosting system (like Rapidshare) that introduced from Adobe. It is like a Web Service. You can use this service to share large files (like 100MB) with your friends easily.

To use this service, you can go to their web service and click "Send large files now" and if you have not Adobe account then you can create new account. Then you can select files from your computer to share and add your friend's emails and send. That's all. Your friend can download the file easily without creating any accounts in Adobe. You can add a message, if you want to send with file. Adobe free account is limited to 100MB with single file sharing and if you want more you can go to Premium. Try it yourself.

Go to Adobe SendNow

JustUnfollow - Twitter....

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:02:00 +0000

'JustUnfollow' is a website, that you can use to check Twitter users who don't follow you back in your following list and then you can unfollow them easily if you wish.

First you have to enter to 'JustUnfollow' site using your Twitter account and authorize the JustUnfollow. Then you can see 'Non- Followers' and also your 'Fans'....

Then you can select and delete simply by clicking "Unfollow".
Try it yourself.

Changing favicon in Your Blogger Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:38:00 +0000

You know many web sites have their own favicon and it is an unique small icon from site to site.
like this:

Twitter

Facebook

Google

And you know Blogger default favicon is:

Today, I am going to tell you a very simple way to change this default favicon in your Blogger Blog. First you should log to your blogger account and select your desired blog you want to change (if you handle more than one blog) then go to "Design" and press "Edit HTML".

Then you have to find </head> tag in your HTML code. (You can use ctrl + F)

Then paste the following code below the tag.

<link href='http://www.keepandshare.com/userpics/m/a/l/a/karm/2009-09/ss/malaka-75166131.jpg' rel='icon'/>

REMEMBER YOU SHOULD REPLACE ABOVE RED LINK WITH YOUR FAVICON LINK.

AND THAT LINK SHOULD BE PUBLIC ONE. OTHERWISE IT WON'T APPEAR. You can use "keepandshare" or another one for that.

Then save your template. and view your blog. that's it. Try it yourself.

Congratulations Sri Lanka!

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:29:00 +0000

Today is very happy day to all Sri Lankan cricket fans, because our Sri Lankan cricket team won first series against Ausis in Australia. I think all the players did their job very well to the team to get this. Sanga, Mathews, Mali, Upul, Dili, Thisara, Randiv, Murali and all, well played. We are proud of you. We have very positive hoping about WC2011 now.

Today's Match Summery - Cricinfo and Scorecard
*pics from cricinfo

Open web pages in Firefox from another browser

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:23:00 +0000

Sometimes you may use different browsers to browse different web pages, because of that screen resolution problems of some web sites. Today, I am going to tell you an easy way to do that with Firefox. There is a Firefox add-on to open web pages from other browsers easily.

First you have to add 'Open With' add-on to your Firefox browser. it is free. Then restart the browser and go to add-on and 'Open With' options. Then make all drop down lists like below.

that's all. Try it yourself.
Download Open With

Track dead pixels on LCD monitors

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:43:00 +0000

Sometimes, when you purchase used LCD monitors (even brand new), you do not usually check the dead pixels and no way to do that also. But there is a small free application called 'InjuredPixels'.

Using this, you can check easily dead pixels. I think it is very useful to you. try it yourself.

Download InjuredPixels

How to save your Firefox bookmarks permanently?

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:31:00 +0000

If you use Firefox as your default web browser in your computer then definitely you might use bookmarks facility. I am not going to describe here about bookmarks because most of you guys are familiar with this and you know when we use them it’s very easy to navigate to any web page without typing web URL or without searching again and again. But you know if you wish to uninstall browser permanently from your computer or if browser crashed accidentally then your bookmarks are also crash with browser. But you can save these valuable bookmarks permanently by using Delicious. Its a Firefox add-on and using this add-on you can import your already existing bookmarks and new bookmarks directly to the Delicious site.

first you have to add Delicious with your Firefox browser. Then you want to create an account in Delicious web site or you can login using with existing account like FB. But I recommend login using a new account is secure than using Existing accounts because you have to provide your passwords for that. To add Delicious add-on go to Tools –> add-ons and search for Delicious. After adding Delicious add-on restart the browser.

Let’s see how we can import our existing bookmarks to the Delicious.

Go to Bookmarks –> Organize Bookmarks or press ctrl+shift + B . then it will appear following window.

Then select your bookmarks and click Import to Delicious. you are done. You can check in Delicious site if you have any drought.

Then when you bookmark pages by pressing ctrl + D (New Bookmarks), it will appear this window and then you can save your new bookmark directly in Delicious.

then you can check your bookmarks by visiting http://delicious.com site. Try yourself.

If you use Chrome as your browser then add Chromicious extension.

video guide to print web pages without Links and Titles

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:15:00 +0000

You know sometimes when we print web pages directly from a browser, normally it'll print with all the Links and Titles in each and every pages that unwanted and useless. This small video shows how to remove those Links and Titles from your printouts by customizing your browsers. I think this will be very helpful to you all! Try yourself.
*Video was made by Lifehacker.com.

Track size changes of files and folders

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 05:34:00 +0000

IF you want to track size changes with files and folders in your computer then “Size Matters” is very useful for that and it is a free software tool. You can track size changes of files and also size changes of folders and important thing is you don’t need to install this because it has a portable version that means it is very easy to use.

I think this is very useful in a network system to track every machine in the network because you can set refresh time with this and also useful for personal computers that use more than one users. Try yourself.

Download Size Matters.

An Useful Document Converter

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:32:00 +0000

Sometimes when you deal with documents especially in MS office you may perhaps want to convert your documents into another file format (E.g.: .doc to .pdf or .docx to .doc etc...) because of some reasons. Then you might want a good document converter to do that.
There are lot of converters in the Internet we can find majority are not good and not facilitate our needs completely and some of them are not free.

Doxillion Document Converter is a free document converter which I found from Web that can use to convert documents easily with any format like we discussed in first chapter.

What you should do is just download the Doxillion Document Converter and then install it in your computer and then you can convert your documents simply.

You can convert documents with file types of:

.docx
.doc
.pdf
.html
.rtf
.txt

This converter is free software and it works with Windows XP, Vista and also 7.

And I used this with XP and it worked very well.

Download Doxillion Document Converter

Do you know about 'clickCEOP' on Facebook?

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:31:00 +0000

Finally Facebook provided an option for their users to add 'clickCEOP' tab in their profiles.

You know sometimes you had to face with some troubles in your Facebook profile because some bad wall posts and other unwanted things by unknown persons or parties.

'clickCEOP' is the solution for that and you can protect with these unwanted activities with this facility.
Try yourself. Bye. clickCEOP

And If you want to know about CEOP.

Send E-mails with 100MB Attachments.

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:54:00 +0000

Hello! After long time I am writing my blog. (I says that always.:D). This time I am going to tell you about an email service in Yahoo. You know we can send emails to others with maximum 10MB attachments earlier. But we can now with more than 10MB. You know these days lot of free email service companies like Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail, they have big competition between each other to improve more features with their email services to attract more public to their web sites than others. Because of that Yahoo started new service with their email service that anyone can send emails with more than 10MB attachments. Actually it is 100MB. We can attach files up to 100MB size as attachments. How nice.

Let's see how we can do that. First of all you have to log into your Yahoo email account. after that you can see bottom of left hand corner there is a link called ".io Attach Large Files" under Applications section. then click the link. then you have to agree with their free license by clicking "I Agree".

then it'll appear the application.

Now click the "Get Started Now" button.

After that you can add your files by clicking "Select Files" and then click the "Upload and Compose E-mail" button to upload files.

then you can send your email with attachments to anyone. Still don't you believe?. Try yourself. Bye. see you again. ( And one thing I have to tell you, I am not going to promote Yahoo Mail here. I am only sharing new things with others.)

Later we'll discuss about this "DROP.IO".

Hello Friends.....

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:59:00 +0000

After few months, I'm Writing my blog today. Actually I'm not going to write special thing 4 u, but it is special........because its very happy after very very long time I talked with her...My heart says talk with her talk with her again and again..I don't why....................................

How to convert code (C# to VB and VB To C#)

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:57:00 +0000

From this post I am going to introduce you about a very interesting free plug-in to Visual Studio IDE (2005 or 2008) (From codeplex). I think this plug-in is very useful for .NET developers who use both VB and C# for their application development. From this plug-in we can convert our source code from C# to VB and also VB to C#. How nice.

First you have to install this plug-in to your IDE. To do that go to codeplex site and download the plug-in (this is the link - C# to VB.NET VB.NET To C# Code Convertor). Then install it in your machine (it is very easy to install it. double click the setup.exe and continue the setup and finish). Then open your Visual Studio IDE and open your form or code you wish to convert. Then right click on the coding space and you can see bottom of the menu there is an option called 'CSharp to VB' (if you use C# code) or 'VB to CSharp' (if you use VB code). Like below:

Then click it. That’s it.
See you again...

free blog templates

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:04:00 +0000

I just changed my blog template to this. I got this template from Ourblogtemplates site.

I thought I should share this site with others who want free templates to their blogs because it has lots of attractive free templates. If you want a free template go to the site and download.

How to add delicious to your Facebook profile?

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:42:00 +0000

We all know we can store our browsers' bookmarks in delicious. There is an option to share your contents and notifications with Facebook in delicious.
First you should log in to your delicious account and then go to the Settings.

Then click 'Facebook Application' link that positioned under Bookmarks category. And click the Add button. After that you have to log to the Facebook and you have to allow this application in Facebook. This application is an SSL enabled one. Then click the ‘Or you can add an exception…’ link in apeared page and click Add Exception button. After that click on the 'Get Certificate' button and click 'Confirm Security Exception'. Now you almost completed. Then you can edit some options if you want.

What is Selective Twitter Status?

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:01:00 +0000

Selective Twitter Status is a Facebook application that can be used to update your Facebook status from Twitter. Special thing is, in this application you can choose which tweets you want to update Facebook status.
First go to the Selective Twitter Status application in Facebook. If you can't find it, search for the 'Selective Twitter Status'. Then Selective Twitter Status fan page will appear. Then click the Go to Application. After that you can see the application like following.

Then give your Twitter username in the text field and click the Save. Actually you are done now to this step. Now you can use any tweets you post that end with #fb to update your Facebook status or you can perform some settings in this application. You can allow #fb tag anywhere in the tweet and you can include a link to your Twitter profile below each Facebook status. To do these go to Settings and tick the two check boxes and click the Save Changes. Hope you’ll enjoy this!

What is Cholesterol?‏

noreply@blogger.com (Malaka) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:09:00 +0000

I received this through an email. Then I thought to write a post about this to share with others. I think this is very important thing we must care.

Cholesterol is a type of fat made in the liver and found in animal foods. Cholesterol is needed for important body functions. Such as, building cell walls, protecting nerves and making hormones.

There are two types of cholesterol.
THE GOOD (High Density Lipid - HDL)
THE BAD and the UGLY (Low Density Lipid - LDL)

A higher level of HDL is needed to carry LDL from the BLOOD back to the
LIVER to be ELIMINATED from the body. If there is a higher level of LDL cholesterol in the BLOOD this may: cause high blood pressure, raise your risk of heart attack, raise your risk of stroke, cause the kidneys to fail. Cholesterol is broken down into LDL which is needed by the body cells. Once the cells are satisfied the unused LDL remains to become what is known as blood cholesterol. The main danger of high blood cholesterol is that fatty plaques may form which will decrease the diameter of blood vessels. This leads to a restriction of the flow of blood and oxygen to the tissues of the body.

If an artery supplying blood to the HEART becomes blocked you may have a
heart attack.

If an artery supplying blood to the BRAIN becomes blocked you may have a
Stroke.

If an artery supplying blood to the kidney becomes blocked you may suffer
kidney failure.

What causes high blood Cholesterol?
The main causes are eating too much high saturated fat. i.e. fat found in butter and dairy products, cakes biscuits and take away foods, being overweight, not exercising.

What can you do to lower your cholesterol?
You can eat more:
Fruits and vegetables.
Oily fish (tuna, mackeral and herring).
Skinless chicken.
Fibre rich foods, e.g. oats and wholemeal bread.

You can eat less:
Fried take away fast foods.
High fat dairy products and eggs.
Saturated fats and oils.
Biscuits, cakes and pastries.

You can use:
Unsaturated margarine instead of butter.
Unsaturated oils (olive oil) instead of lard.
Low fat cooking methods: steaming, grilling and microwaving.

You should:
Make exercise a part of your day. (Walking is good).
Not smoke
Drink more water.

THE LINK BETWEEN BLOOD CHOLESTEROL LEVELS AND HEART DISEASE IS CLEAR. STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT IF AN AVERAGE MAN CAN REDUCE HIS BLOOD CHOLESTEROL BY ONLY 10% HE CAN REDUCE HIS RISK OF HEART ATTACK BY UP TO 50%.