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Hi folks, today we are going to write a simple, yet useful jQuery plugin. The plugin we write is named The jQuery Placeholder plugin. The problem:- A very useful feature that was introduced in HTML5 was the ‘placeholder’ attribute [W3C Spec] for forms. The placeholder attribute lets us specify...

Here is a quick tip for ya. To run multiple instances of Firefox at the same time, do the following. Linux 1. Run this command in Command Terminal : firefox -p -no-remote 2. The Firefox profile manager will open and ask you to choose the profile you want to use. If you already have more than 1 profile,...

1. TorButton Complete anonymity is not possible on the internet. Tor is the next best thing available. Tor is one of the best privacy softwares available. Tor is recommended by EFF, who is the biggest advocate of online privacy. TorButton will make it easy to make firefox use Tor. Though it is the best...

Here is the list of the top 5 free anti-virus softwares. The statistics and rankings are collected from all over the web, especially from security related user communities and download sites such as download.com and softpedia. Why spend money when you can get top class virus protection just for free....

This is an amazing video that points out the ingredients to succeed in Web 2.0 business. The song itself is very interesting and I felt like humming along with it. If you have the slightest amount of geekness in you, you will LOVE this. Let me know what you think through the comments. The video is by...

Here is a super funny video. It shows a typical dad asking computer questions to his son. I’m sure you can easily relate him to your dad, mom or grans. Watch and comment. :p Incoming search terms:funny computer questionssuper funny computer safetysuper funny Questionsfunny computer securityfunny...

Hey guys, a lot of people (well, not so much ) have asked me what Firefox addons am I using. Here I’m compiling a list of my 25 favorite Firefox addons. I cannot even think of surviving a day without most of them. 1. AdBlock Plus This is the first addon I always install when I freshly installs Firefox....

Hey guys, ever wanted to see how Gmail looks in iPhone? Well, look below. I don’t own an iPhone, and definitely the window size in the above screenshot is wider than an iPhone. Here is what I did. Step 1: Installed the Firefox addon called User Agent Switcher. Step 2: Switched my user agent to the...

How many of those people you know doesn’t have a Facebook account, or an Orkut or MySpace account? I won’t be surprised if you say your 90yr old grandmother is tweeting or your 3yr old brother is playing mafia wars in Facebook With the ever increasing participation of people in social networking...

Once again Google has proved that they are the number one webmail. Almost all the webmail services – GMail, YahooMail,Windows Live Mail…. – are using HTTPS for logging the users in. i.e., if you are using firefox, you will see a bluish glow in the left end of the address bar when you...