Archive for 2010 April

  • Django SocialAuth Fix Google Email Open id attribute exchange

    2010
    28
    Apr

    Django Social auth is a package that enables login to your django website with Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Twitter. Allowing authentication from 3rd party websites which supports open authentication helps users easy to register to your website without filling too much details. Easier signup makes more registrations and helps you cover your django web hosting charges Grinning . The package is managed at github here, but it does not have a stable release yet.

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  • Boot Time comparison Sony Vaio CW series VPCCW26FG versus E series VPCEB16FG

    2010
    25
    Apr
    1

    This video compares boot time of two sony vaio laptops. Sony Vaio E series versus the Sony Vaio CW series (VPCCW26FG vs VPCEB16FG).

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  • Sony Vaio Battery Care utility Download

    2010
    16
    Apr

    Sony Vaio Batter care function free download

    Sony Vaio Battery Care Function utility is a sony vaio utility which helps improve battery performance by limiting maximum capacity to 80% of the full capacity.

    Read more about Sony Vaio Battery care function in How to Enable Battery care function on Sony Vaio to improve Battery life.

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  • How to Enable/Disable Battery care function on Sony Vaio to improve Battery life.

    2010
    16
    Apr

    Sony Vaio Battery care function increases your battery life time and battery back up in the long run by limiting the max capacity of the battery to 80% or 50%. This means the battery would only be charged to 80% in each charge-discharge cycle. The backup would be lower in the beginning, but in the long run average battery backup would be more. Thus the battery capacity is not utilized fully.

    Battery life will be about 80% of the one of the fully charged battery, however, this mode prevents battery degradation and is more effective if you usually use the computer with battery power.

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  • Power plans missing - Restore power plans on Windows 7

    2010
    14
    Apr

    Power saver plan on Windows helps you to give longer battery backup by reducing performance of certain hardware components like processor, graphics card, wireless network card etc and turning off devices which are not used. One sudden day my power saver option went missing on my sony vaio running Windows 7. Since the battery backup is drastically reduced when the power saver option is missing, I had to desperately find a fix and here it is :

    The default power plans available in Windows are :

    • Power Saver
    • Balanced
    • High Performance

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  • How to change root admin user password in Drupal ?

    2010
    09
    Apr
    1

    In order to reset the root or superadmin password on a drupal system, login into the database by looking at the settings.php. You can use phpMyAdmin or any other MySQL utilities like SQLYog, or MySQL command line.

    Run the following query to reset the password.

    UPDATE users SET pass = MD5('password') WHERE uid = 1

    The user id of administrator is always 1.
    Password field in drupal is stored as MD5 of the actual string password. So running the above query would set your password as password of the superadmin user.



  • Connecting Laptop to TV using HDMI Port

    2010
    05
    Apr

    Connecting laptop to tv using HDMI Port HDMI or High Definition Multimedia Input is a new technology to connect Multimedia devices like laptops, DVD Players and TVs. HDMI is capable of upto 10 Gbps transmission of High Definition Videosin Full HD Resolution (1080p). Unlike other ports that connect to screens like VGA, SVideo, the advantage of HDMI is that a single cable connection carries both the audio and video channels.

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  • Cygwin: Clear screen command, How to clear the screen ?

    2010
    05
    Apr

    Clear screen on cygwin

    Some one may be wondering where is the clear command on cygwin. If we type either 

    cls

    or 

    clear

    we would be shown bash: clear: command not found. So there are many fancy ways to clear the command line prompt, but the one I liked the best is

    Ctrl + L

    Simple, just press Control + L on the keyboard and your command line prompt cleans up.
    Smiling



  • Sony Vaio CW VPCCW26FG EDID (Extended display identification data)

    2010
    02
    Apr
    1

    Extended display identification data (EDID) is a data structure provided by a computer display to describe its capabilities to a graphics card. It is what enables a modern personal computer to know what kind of monitor is connected. EDID is defined by a standard published by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). The EDID includes manufacturer name and serial number, product type, phosphor or filter type, timings supported by the display, display size, luminance data and (for digital displays only) pixel mapping data.

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  • CodeIgniter: Use GET Parameters for OAuth or Facebook

    2010
    02
    Apr
    1

    Codeignitor destroys your GET parameters, because it does not use it, however for applications that use OAuth, Facebook Applications or Facebook authentication using Facebook connect, GET parameters are required.

    In order to retrieve GET parameters from Code Ignitor, first we have to change the config.php, uri_protocol to PATH_INFO,
    this solves 404 Errors with GET parameters on Codeigniter

    /*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| URI PROTOCOL

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