Archive : Tips n Tricks

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,...

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...

I recently got a scrap in my orkut profile. It looked like total rubbish coz the language it was written in was totally unknown to me. Google’s Translation service is very good and I thought of decrypting the scrap through Google Translate. Once I reached Google Translate,  I pasted the entire...

You ever wanted to sing on a mic?? I did, but I was (am!!) too reluctant to do so in a public stage. Aah, so in fact I never did it..  until.. So now we are going to redirect the voice from your microphone to your speakers. Sounds cool na? And no additional software is required. Right click on the...

Yesterday my friend sent me a link to a video in his site. I saw the video as streaming and I liked it. I just wanted to keep a copy of it in my collection. So as usual I went to keepvid, my favourite YouTube grabber site. But I couldn’t download the video because the site was not supported. Well...

Most of us keep more than one email id. We may be keeping one for personal communication, one for business communication etc. But it is really difficult to keep up with multiple email ids. You have to check all these ids for any incoming message or to send any mail from those. But now with gmail, you...

There is a simple way by which you can block any site from being accessible from your computer. There is a file called “hosts” located at C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetc. Now open that file in Notepad. This file is used to map domain names with IP addresses, locally within your computer. So...

Hey, since my first installation of wordpress, I love this publishing platform very much. But there was something that didn’t make me very happy, that was the confirmation email. When a new user registers in a wordpress based blog, a confirmation email is sent to him. But the email says that it...

It was Indian independence day and all of my classmates (including me) decided to change our orkut profile pictures to the indian tricolor (flag). But some were reluctant since they just liked their profile pictures and had no copy of it with them so that they could reinstate it once the independence...