Software

Apple mac OS X, preview of a PC

I just got this new Apple Macbook Pro, and was looking to share some of my files on the Windows laptop to the new Mac when I stumbled on this.

That's very …
Windows 7 Fix Laptop Turning on Automatically

Somedays your laptop seems to wake up before you and be ready at the boot screen/logon screen, and you're wondering if the laptop is possessed by viruses or daemons, Fear not we …
Bypass Screen lock on Xorg-1.11 Debian

This is a scary bug in Xorg-1.11 in which by pressing a certain key combination the screen locking process is killed. I.e, you can by pass the password authentication used in lock …
Google Nexus S Wallpaper Size

Best resolution for Nexus is 960px x 800px

Check out the sample wallpaper for nexus s sized to 960px by 800px.

Aspect ratio of wallpapers for the Google Nexus S android phone …
Less CSS Compiler for Windows (lessc.exe)

LESS is a language that helps CSS Designers to write better manageable and extensible CSS style sheets.

Current less compiler called lessc is only available for the *nix platforms, which can compile …
How to Access Stock Quotes Realtime through Google Finance

Google Finance is a product of Google, that tracks everything related to the Stock market and manage your Portfolio etc. It has access to realtime data of various stock exchanges around the …
uTorrent 2.2 uTP means slower downloads

uTorrent which was recently acquired by BitTorrent has a new feature called uTP which stands for Micro Transport Protocol

µTP or “micro-Transport Protocol” is a new protocol from BitTorrent, Inc. that is …
PyFacebook Download Python Facebook API Library

PyFacebook is the official Facebook API Library written in Python. It is maintained in github, I have attached a snapshot of the master trunk zip file with this post.
Turn on Bluetooth/Wifi on Sony Vaio CW Series

Sony vaio comes preloaded with a utility called Vaio Smart Network, which controls the power status of the Wifi and Bluetooth radios. This is enabled only when the Wireless button on the …
Installing Putty SSH Client on Nokia E63

This post is about installing an SSH client in Nokia E63 (E63 ssh) with a Symbian S60 OS (3rd edition).
Download the Putty client for Symbian S60 from SourceForge at this link …
Select random rows from a table in MySQL

In order to select a random row from MySQL, we can order the rows by a random number and then pick the first row.
SELECT * FROM node ORDER BY rand() limit …
Django SocialAuth Fix Google Email Open id attribute exchange

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 …
Sony Vaio Battery Care utility 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 …
Power plans missing - Restore power plans on Windows 7

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 …
How to change root admin user password in Drupal ?

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

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

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 …
CodeIgniter: Use GET Parameters for OAuth or Facebook

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 …
Install Wireless Wifi drivers on Sony Vaio CW on Linux Ubuntu

Out of the box Ubuntu 9.10 wireless/wifi did not work on my Sony Vaio CW Series (VPCCW26FG), The following error message is shown on start up and on dmesg command.
```
Could not …
```
PERL: How to remove an element from hash or array?

In order to remove an element from the array or hash, we have to use the delete keyword on perl. Using the delete keyword on the key of the hash or array …
Resolve Net::MySQL Hang problem if the database result has only 1 row or is empty

Net::MySQL is a simple MySQL perl Client to connect to MySQL servers. But Net::MySQL hangs if your result set is having just one row.

Sample Net::MySQL code
#!/usr/bin/perl use Net::MySQL; $mysql = …
Solve Write Permission Denied on Files Windows 7

Windows 7 file attributes and earlier versions of windows such as XP or 98 is very different. The difference is notable if you use NTFS file system which has more security features. …
Free Light weight Social media sharing javascript for Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, Digg and Reddit

Social Media Buttons or buttons that help you share the content on bookmarking websites such as Stumble Upon, Reddit or Digg or social networking Websites such as Facebook or Twitter. Adding the …
Error Installing PERL modules "unrecognized command line option -fstack -protector"

unrecognized command line option "-fstack-protector" error usually comes on Cygwin when installing PERL modules. For example when installing the DBI module or DBD::MySQL perl module, the following error comes on cygwin : …
Sprintf Function in Python

The printf or sprintf function is used to format strings in PHP and C programming constructs. sprintf in php returns the formatted string whereas printf just prints the output. $variable = sprintf("%d …