Not so techie

Promising Question Answer open source software:Question2Answer

2012-10-01T11:15:00.001-07:00

You are great fan of yahoo answers and may be thinking of starting some sort of question answer site around your area of interest. There are many free and paid scripts to run a question and answer site. Today at this blog I am going to discuss about one of such open source script Question2Answer.

Question2Answer is totally free question answer software based on PHP and MySql. A very clean interface. Easy to install and operate. Even a non techie can run site based on this script. Easy integartion with popular blogging sofware like wordpress.You can run standalone Question answer site or add additional question answer facility to your blog or website.
Provide custom facility for pages and widgets. Easy themeing. A nice script to try.

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Generate cool css3 buttons for your website

2012-03-16T07:05:00.000-07:00

Getting cool pure css based buttons for your blog or website is not so typical now. Here today I will tell you about this cool website css3button.net .

Here you can select various button designs from huge selection list and can modify various attributes. You can also check out huge sample list of buttons.

Website provides HTML and css codes for the designed button which you can copy in your website or blog. Website also provides quick link URL to just use you button directly in your site.

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Basic System related command in Red hat Linux

2012-03-10T20:48:00.002-08:00

Here I am sharing some of the very useful linux commends to view system informations:

date :Show the current date and time.
uptime: show current uptime.
w: display who is online.
whoami: To check the logged in user.
finger username: To display information about username.
cat /proc/cpuinfo : To see the CPU information.
cat /proc/meminfo: To see the memory information of your system.
df -h : show disk usage
du : To show directory space usages.
uname -a : To show kernel information of your redhat linux.
man <command>: To show the manual for <command> (man cat)
cal : To show the months calendar.
which app: To show which application will be run by default.

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Some Basic Linux Files commands

2012-03-10T20:40:00.000-08:00

I am presenting some basic linux commands which is very useful for the newbie:
(1) Files related commands

ls -l :List files in current directory using long format.
ls -al :List files in current directory with hidden files.
ls -F :List files in current directory and indicate the files types.
rm name :Remove a file or directory called name.
rm -rf name :Remove all directory and subdirectory under name directory.
cp filename /home/dev :Copy the file called filename to the /home/dev directory.
cat filename :To display the content of file named filename.
more filename :To display file named filename one page at a time, when u want to proceed to next page use the spacebar.
head filename :To display the first 10 lines of the file called filename.
tail filename :To display the last 10 lines of the file called filename. (tail -f file: output the last 10 line contents of file named file.)
touch filename :To create a file named filename.
mv file1 file2 :Rename or move file 1 to file2 if file2 existing directory, moves file1 into files2.

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Must have firefox addons for web designers and developers

2012-03-07T05:38:00.000-08:00

Every trade has its tools. So is the web designing and developement. Here I am sharing some of the very useful firefox addons to help you be more productive in your web desiging process.

1. Firebug : Firebug top the list. It sits at bottom of your taskbar. By right clicking on any webpage you can inspect any element of the page be it div , CSS , Color or any thing. You can literally change the look of any page and see the change loccally on you computer.

2. Web developer : It is simmilar to firebug but can inspect the page in some different style. Both addons are complementry to each other. A nice addon to have.

3. ColorZilla : Many a time you wish to know what color scheme this page is using. for picking colors on page this addon is very handy.

4. Pixle Grabber : In course of your desinging you need to get sceenshots of pages or little slice of particular area of page then this addon is very helpful you can save the images to you computer.

5. Font Info : This addon is helpful when you need to know what font has been used on any webpage.

This is not the complete list of addons, there may be many more. If you have used any addon let us know through your comments.

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Convert any document to pdf with this small and totally free software

2012-02-21T06:45:00.001-08:00

For various reasons you may wish to convert your word document to pdf file. As Pdf files are more portable and can easily be circulated on web. You don't need to purchase any costly software as there is this small and totally free software doPDF . This will install a virtual pdf printer. That means any document you want to convert to pdf just give print command and select doPDF as printer. It will not print your file on paper but give pdf file as output.

With this you can print webpages to pdf too.

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Three wordpress widgets which will make your life easy

2012-02-10T07:06:00.000-08:00

Well you are new to wordpress blogging software and wish a versitility in display of contents. Like you could wish if i have ability to place wigets in posts and pages just like sidebars, wish to display wigets on not all pages but selectively and want your own or WP php in posts,pages,sidebars. So here are three widgets those will make your life easy.

Widget Logic
This plugin gives every widget an extra control field called "Widget logic" that lets you control the pages that the widget will appear on. Like you want a particular widget which appear on home page only you can simply put logic is_home() in extra field. more detail and widget itself can be found at Widget logic page

WP page widget
This plugin will help to put widget area on any page or post by simple short code. then you can easily put any widget in that area. WP page widget can be downloaded from wordpress site.

PHP code widget
Normal text wiget let you put any arbitry text/html in sidebars or any widget area but with PHP code widget you can put any php in that widget. Very helpful for custon content display.

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Microsoft safety scanner : A portable antivirus

2011-11-20T23:36:00.001-08:00

Microsoft offer a portable (small size) antivirus microsoft safety scanner with latest virus definations which you can user to scan any computer affetcted with virus . This programm does not require installation. and your PC is not required to be connected to internet for updating as it comes with latest defination.

It can run on any Window OS(XP,Vista,Win 7). and absolutely free. But only catch is downloaded file can only run for 10 days. To run after that you can redownload it with latest definations .

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Plugin review :Theme check

2011-11-15T06:54:00.001-08:00

You are a theme developer and wanna ensure that it meets all the standards . There is simple plugin for this purpose Theme check.

A simple and easy way to test your theme for all the latest WordPress standards and practices. A great theme development tool!

although this plugin claims not to be perfect but certainly reduce lot of the testing time and help the developers make their theme suitable for most of the situations .

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How to greet first time commentor with a special message on wordpress blog

2011-11-15T06:22:00.001-08:00

To greet you first time commentor on your wordpress blog. what are steps involved.
simple two steps:
Step 1
download comment redirect plugin
Activate it
Step 2
make a special page with desired massege for first time commentors.
now link that page in comment redirect plugin configuration page.
it is done

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