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13 Most Important Things to do When Changing the Wordpress Theme

People love Wordpress not just because it is open-source, but for the flexibility it offers. The whole design of the website can be changed by just changing the THEME through the admin panel. But the most important thing to note here is, it is not as simple as it sounds. You are supposed to take [...]

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[Tiny Tip] Get Task Manager Directly on click of Ctrl+Alt+Del

This is a small tutorial on how to get the Task manager directly on click of Ctrl + Alt + Del buttons on Windows. Alternatively, I will also tell you how to get the admin menu options instead of task manager on clcik of Ctrl + Alt + Del. 1. Go to Start –> Control panel. 2. [...]

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[Tiny Tip] Reading the CSS File of a Website

When I first wrote a Tiny Tip last week, I was apprehensive about how the geeky friends of techpp.com would take it. But Techniqueal’s comment put my apprehension to rest. He summed up my intentions beautifully - It is most effective to initially weigh the topics to blog about. blogging about too techie stuff almost all [...]

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[Tiny Tip] Skip User Accounts Screen in Windows Vista

I am sure many geeks would have given a silly look after reading the title, indicating its such a simple thing to do. But this blog is NOT only for geeks. One of the avid reader, Binoy George, who happens to be one of the very first RSS subscriber of Technically Personal was asking me [...]

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[Timepass Tip] Run Websites From Windows Calculator

First of all, I suggest you to skip this post unless you are utterly jobless! If you still wanna know more, here is a tip to open Websites from Windows Calculator in XP / Vista (using IE) Here is how to go about it - Open your MS Calculator. This is normally found in Start –> All [...]

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[How to] Test if Your ISP is Throttling your Torrent Speed

ISPs are increasingly deploying a variety of middleboxes (e.g., firewalls, traffic shapers, censors, and redirectors) to monitor and to manipulate the performance of applications like peer-to-peer and Torrents. Most ISPs do not reveal the details of their network deployments to their customers. This knowledge is important to help users make a more informed choice of [...]

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[How to] Add “Save as PDF” Button to your Website?

If you are wondering how you can make your website or blog visitors save the web articles as PDF documents, then you must check out PDF online. You just need to add a small JavaScript snippet in the blog templates, visitors can click the “Save Page as PDF” button and the current web page will be [...]

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PHP Redirection of Old Pages

You can use a simple PHP script to redirect a user from the page they entered to a different web page. One reason you may want to do this is that the page they are trying to access no longer exists. Using this method, they can be seamlessly transfered to the new page without having [...]

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