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How to get mac address of WLAN in Nokia phones
Hey Folks, Wonder how do you get your handset’s physical address (or MAC address) ? Yeah it is needed at times, I used it to add it in my internet modem’s allow list. MAC is nothing but the physical address of wireless LAN card which is present in your mobile phone and one cannot change it. I
Read Full PostChoose which mails to download for offline use in gmail
Most of us use the Google’s offline feature to read emails. This is a life saver when you got no access to network. This feature works when you have Google Gears extension installed for your browser. You can also use applications like Google Reader in the offline mode to read the RSS feeds when yo
Read Full PostChm (Compiled Help) files not opening in Microsoft Vista or XP
You have downloaded a help file or manual and instead of helping you , it made you search on - “how to open a chm file?” . Well certainly this problem is faced by many and usually we assume that the downloaded file is corrupted or is incomplete. Apparently there can be several other reasons too.
Read Full PostAjax powered city state Dropdown
Hey Geeks, Many of you have already gone through a simple javascript example script, which lets you swap elements from two select boxes. I posted this blog post few months back. In this post I am going to show you, how you can use ajax to populate a dropdown, on the basis of value selected i
Read Full PostHow to add widget to blogger
Hey Folks, Web 2.0 is pretty fancy with sparkling widgets, modules, plugins all around. Undoubtedly most of us are happy Wordpress users, but there are some people who still want to use their blogger account and continue to blog there. They face trouble getting latest widgets, as not many develo
Read Full PostHow to schedule emails using Microsoft Outlook
Heya Folks, Most of us use Outlook Express for our work Email and few others use it for their personal accounts as well. At times you may need to schedule some emails to be sent later in the day. Or you might want to write certain emails and schedule it in such a way that all of them should not b
Read Full PostInstall Adobe Air and Tweetdeck in Ubuntu/linux
Hey Folks, Wonder how to install your favourite Tweetdeck on Ubuntu or other Linux distros. Yes, I can understand you want this powerful twitter application in Linux as well. To install Tweetdeck follow the below mentioned steps : 1) Download AdobeAir framework from http://get.adobe.com/air
Read Full PostUsing Twitter for Monitoring Trending of your Brands
Hey! Hello. Yes, we all know how useful Twitter can be with the real-time search thingy. And it's also great for knowing what has catched the world's fancy lately. But there is a bit of a snag with Twitter. It doesn't provide you with tools for following the trends. So, say I am someone interes
Read Full PostKnow your IP address
Hey Folks, Some of you might be wondering how to check an IP address. Well there are different ways to know your IP address. Some get to know it via ipconfig (for windows) and ifconfig(for linux), while some try to right click on the network icons in the system tray and check the status in their
Read Full PostHow to change theme for Destroy twitter
Hi there, Wondering that how can you use those beautiful themes which are displayed in the Destroy Twitter's theme section ? After I wrote review about Destroy Twitter lot of my friends and visitors starting use that client and actually liked it very much. Some of them tried to create beautiful t
Read Full PostHow to make a Chess based Website Design in photoshop
Hi all, In this tutorial we learn some basics of website designing while trying to make a chess-based theme/template for a website or a blog. I will start coding this design as soon as I finish with this tutorial. What we will make is this: Note that this tutorial more about Photoshop t
Read Full PostHow to Install Unavailable Firefox 3.5 Addons
The biggest handicap about using Firefox 3.5 right now is the lack of availability of some of our most loved addons.Yes they are being migrated to 3.5 fast, but yet why wait for them, when you can use them right away? Yup! With a little hack, you can fool your Firefox to believe that the addon is
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