Nintendo Wii vs XBOX 360, is there really a comparison ?

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posted on February 17, 2010
Nintendo Wii vs XBOX 360, is there really a comparison ?

Hey People, Planning to buy a game console and trying which one should you buy when there are many options available.The most common questions while deciding your new gaming console can be: Which one is value for money ? Which has better graphics ? Above all which one is better ? What .....

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How to disable or enable Google buzz

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posted on February 17, 2010
How to disable or enable Google buzz

Hi All, Google buzz is now available for everyone and is almost enabled in every Gmail Inbox. But just like my brother there are many others who do not like to have their Gmail inbox buzzing. For some people Gmail should be just a web application for sending & receiving emails and hence they want to turn off or disable Google Buzz. Well its pretty simple to do so, all you have to do is just log into Gmail and point to its footer. In the foo.....

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Publish updates automatically on facebook fan page via site feeds

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posted on February 14, 2010
Publish updates automatically on facebook fan page via site feeds

Some of you might be struggling hard to make it work and some already have this working. But lot of people have lately asked me on how to publish updates automatically to a facebook’s fan page. You can publish your site’s feeds automatically to your profile page and as well as on your business/f.....

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Change default php.ini values using .htaccess

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posted on February 12, 2010
Change default php.ini values using .htaccess

Hey Folks,   As you might be knowing that php.ini is the configuration file for the PHP and resides at the server. It contains all the options/settings for the PHP language. There are instances you need to change these options. In local environment you can change these settings very easily b.....

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Check username availability and validation using ajax,php

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posted on February 7, 2010
Check username availability and validation using ajax,php

So you are creating a signup form and you want to create a fancy looking username validation Ajax script. I know that looks fancy when you signup for Gmail or Yahoo mailbox, instead these kind of validation are now on every signup form. We are going to create this simple script using Javascript, A.....

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Switch your user agent to iphone in Mozilla firefox

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posted on February 5, 2010
Switch your user agent to iphone in Mozilla firefox

This post is completely for developers, unless and until if you are really keen to know what User agent is and why does one has to switch it ? So you started developing and website/blog and it has a capability to do some extra stuff for different type of browsers. For instance if your website is goi.....

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Alternative to overflow:hidden for wrapping divs

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posted on February 5, 2010
Alternative to overflow:hidden for wrapping divs

I bet, you might have struggle a lot to get this simple solution if you are here via google search. There are instances when two divs in parallel have dynamic content and it becomes difficult to keep their height equal. One of the hack is using overflow:hidden, which might not be valid in some cases.....

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Transfer database from one host to other using mysqldump and shell

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posted on February 3, 2010
Transfer database from one host to other using mysqldump  and shell

Transferring your blog or web site from one host to another can sometimes be very cumbersome if not troublesome. There may be instances when you get stuck at few points and one of the major loop hole is to transfer data from one host to another. Most of us use browser based user friendly phpmyadmin .....

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Twitter disables flash widget temporarily

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posted on January 24, 2010
Twitter disables flash widget temporarily

Twitter being the brightest star in the social networking arena is vulnerable many threats. In the recent threat sensed by the company they had to disable the twitter flash widget which is used to display user updates on their web site or blog etc. This decision was taken on 23rd jan, 2010 in an int.....

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Treat any file as PHP in Netbeans

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posted on January 23, 2010
Treat any file as PHP in Netbeans

You love coding in Netbeans and you find it pretty uneasy when it does not function the way you want it to. That was the same with me when I started development in drupal and I was unable to associate the .module as PHP in my favorite editor Netbeans. However with little play around with options .....

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Magic methods in PHP

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posted on January 19, 2010
Magic methods in PHP

PHP has lot of magic stored in it. Magic methods in PHP is one way to witness it. These methods are executed automatically on certain event or situation. The function names __construct, __destruct, __get, __set etc are known as magic methods in PHP classes. That means these function names are reserv.....

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How to shorten and get stats of a URL from bit.ly API using PHP

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posted on January 16, 2010
How to shorten and get stats of a URL from bit.ly API using PHP

Hey Geeks, So in the era of shortening URLs you lost the track what users are coming from where and what is the original source of traffic. Well there is nothing to worry since bit.ly keeps track of all your URL which are shortened by its API. Bit.ly not only shortens the long URL of your webpage.....

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