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How to Play Snake, Vertical Space and Watch Star Wars in Notepad!

Posted: January 6th, 2009, 12:13am CST by Soumya

Yes you heard me right. You can now play Snake (one of the most popular games in the history of video and mobile gaming), vertical space and watch Star Wars (ASCII) nowhere but in Notepad. Zachtronicsindustries has developed these games and multimedia works for you. The Starwars pops up with a fake error message at first. [...]
How Windows 7 Outshines Windows XP and Vista

Posted: January 5th, 2009, 4:57am CST by Soumya

We have always been up-to-date with Windows 7. After the disgusting experience with Windows Vista, the whole world has high hopes with the next and what looks to be a very promising version of Windows Operating Systems. So if these articles weren't enough for you to keep up with, Here is an article by Thom [...]
How to Browse the Internet without Any Browser

Posted: January 5th, 2009, 4:38am CST by Soumya

Absurd may the title look, but it is true. In the battle of browsers and who gets ahead of others, two types people may find this very suitable. One who doesn't use internet too often but for some casual works and to have a browser is a luxury for him. The other who have tried [...]
5 Examples of jQuery Navigation at its Very Best

Posted: January 5th, 2009, 3:27am CST by Soumya

In this genre when 95% of the web-designers use Actionscript, Flex, and Flash in general. here are some of the most stunning and impressive collection of 5 sites that use jQuery to make the navigation clean, sharp, and elegant. These sites use the framework to do more than just add gracious effect. There are these [...]
How to Backup an Entire Browsing Session in Firefox and Re-build it as Installable File

Posted: January 5th, 2009, 2:07am CST by Soumya

Just to give you the poor man's Weave experience, here is a pretty useful add-on for Firefox 3, FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension). It allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up — It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now [...]
How to Speed-up Firefox Significantly with tmpfs!

Posted: January 5th, 2009, 1:35am CST by Soumya

Firefox, statistically the most popular browser in the world has a lot that is to be explored still. Though we have regularly fed you to better your firefox experience, the resource-hungriness of Firefox has always been under question. So here is a tip to speed up your firefox experience by many folds. Its a moderately [...]
How to Compress CSS Files Using PHP without Renaming

Posted: January 5th, 2009, 12:55am CST by Soumya

IF you are using a stylish and feature rich environment for your website, then your CSS files must have reached its limit of annoyance for you. So how can you compress CSS diles using PHP? You can. Here is a simple trick to do that. On top of it all when you do it for [...]
How To Prevent Your Twitter Account from Being Hacked

Posted: January 5th, 2009, 12:27am CST by Soumya

Twitter, with its increased popularity have obviously been at the dark sight of crackers. They try phishing to manipulate your account and also hijack your twitter profile to irritate your followers too. That may seriously harm your reputation and credentials though you were never aware of such issues yourselves. The scammers put up websites that [...]
Our Week Pick: 5 Interesting Gadgets You Shouldn’t Miss

Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 7:06am CST by Soumya

In the recent past, Gadgetophilia has brought you numerous collective topics on gadgets. While bringing you the best of the lots, its very easy to leave out some interesting and cool gadgets because of the sheer number of new ones produced every week. So we have decided to release an article every week which will [...]
How to Use Mac Fonts on Ubuntu

Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 5:40am CST by Soumya

Mac fonts are lucrative to say the least. But what if you are a Linux user? Can you use their fonts in your good ol' Ubuntu? Preferably yes. Here is a very useful but simple article to download and install these Mac fonts to your Ubuntu and use them. The Fonts AppleGaramond Aquabase LITHOGRL Lucida Grande Lucida Mac lucon MacGrand Process Open up a terminal [...]
How to: Install and Use MS Office 2007 in Linux

Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 5:33am CST by Soumya

Amongst the very few irreplacable products that Microsoft Windows have come up with, Microsoft Office 2007 is one very close to it. It has so many features and standardized options that I can not think openoffice as an alternative to it. While you may find it easy to download and install MS Office 2007 in [...]
Google Native Client - A Detailed Discussion

Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 3:15am CST by Soumya

Native Client is an open-source research technology for running x86 native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps. Google Native Client is the recent project by Google to give you a technology that will help you improve upon your web application [...]
10 Creative Tips to Improve Yourself on Twitter

Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 1:23am CST by Soumya

Twitter, the revolution at micro-blogging, has been popular in various aspects of social networking. While the initial idea was just to connect to people, with time it has remained the same but only the magnitude has become very large scale. Now professionals, personal friend seekers, students and almost every one is attached to twitter for [...]
How to Disable Direct Root Login to Secure Your Network

Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 7:09am CST by Soumya

Root login is perhaps one of the very few vulnerabilities that Linux operating system faces. A person can hack into your system as a root user easily and can play with security settings. This guide will show you how to disable it so you can still login as root but just not directly, reducing the [...]
Top 10 Gadgets for Golfers

Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 6:48am CST by Soumya

Hello golfers and golf enthusiasts. The other day while watching Tiger play, suddenly it came to me that golf can actually accomodate plenty of gadgets if searched for and placed appropriately. So today, what I am gonna do is to give you a list of top 10 gadgets for golfers. After reading this, I don’t [...]
How to ‘Watch’ Over Your Linux System Automatically

Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 4:34am CST by Soumya

There is a very useful but rarely used command in Linux, watch. While those of you who know about it are surely aware of all the easy works it does for you, I want to tell it to them who didn't know about it. watch literally watches over what you intent to use it for. [...]

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