2008 November - Technically Personal!

Archive | November, 2008

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Finer Points of Shared Web Hosting

30. November 2008

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Last month, I had written about the Hosting woes I was facing. To be frank, I must say it was my fault that I did not read through the finer prints of the Terms and Conditions I signed before buying the hosting account with my web-host. Over the past 1 month, after researching enough, I [...]

[How to] Decode an Encoded PHP Script in Wordpress Themes

29. November 2008

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I adore Wordpress themes! And I like to download and test the themes (free ones) frequently. Few days back I bumped across a plugin - TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker) which checks for any malicious code in the Wordpress themes present in /wp-content/themes folder. When I ran TAC today, I found that couple of the themes I [...]

Send Free SMS to India, UK and Other Countries

28. November 2008

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Update: As predicted, my-cool-sms has turned to be a premium service. But Ramachandran has suggested another website OOSMS providing free SMS to most of the countries worldwide. The downside is, you have to signup for the service and all messages will be accompanied with ads. Though the registration process is straight forward, I am apprehensive about [...]

[Tiny Tip] Save Battery Life of Your Digital Camera

26. November 2008

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I am not going to tell you something which you are not aware of. I am just collating all the tips on how you can save and enhance the battery life of your Digital camera. So go ahead and Bookmark this page for your reference! 1. Most of the cameras these days come with “Auto Power [...]

MorphThing - Easiest Way to Morph Yourself

25. November 2008

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Morphthing is all about FUN! I had come across quite a few “online morph tools” in the past few months, but none of them were so cool, accurate and easy as MorphThing! This is a mindless but funny online tool suitable for wasting your valuable time! Just pick the faces of any two celebrities and morph [...]

FREE 6 Months Subscription for ESET NOD32 Antivirus

24. November 2008

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There you go!! Umpteen number of times I have mentioned on this blog how big a fan I am of NOD32! The reason being it is the simplest and the lightest Antivirus / Security Suite I have ever used. It is absolute no-nonsense antivirus software which does the job as good as any other AV [...]

Now, Google Powered BitTorrent Search Engines

23. November 2008

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This isn’t a good news at all for Anti-Pirates out there. We all know how tough it is to maintain and scale up to the ever increasing demand to search the torrent files on the world-wide-web. Two new websites, V0rtex and TorrentTab have come out with an approach to scale up to the ever increasing [...]

PC Magazine - One Year Subscription for Free

21. November 2008

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As reported by NYTimes, Jan 2009 will be the last time the print edition of the famous PC Magazine will be rolled out. And here is a chance for you to quickly grab one year free subscription of the DIGITAL EDITION of the magazine. All you have to do is click on this link and fill [...]